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  • Pakistan court adjourns case of British woman's murder

    Pakistan court adjourns case of British woman's murder

    Class Action News 09/17/2016

    A Pakistani court on Saturday adjourned the case of a British-Pakistani woman's murder until Sept. 23 to give police more time to finalize charges against her father and ex-husband, who are accused of slaying her in the name of honor, police and lawy...

  • Sotomayor calls job on high court blessing and curse

    Sotomayor calls job on high court blessing and curse

    Class Action News 09/12/2016

    Serving on the U.S. Supreme Court has been both a blessing and a curse and reaching decisions is harder than she ever expected, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday during a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The court's first Hispanic ju...

  • Appeals court: Week of early voting shouldn't return to Ohio

    Appeals court: Week of early voting shouldn't return to Ohio

    Class Action News 08/24/2016

    A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld an Ohio law that trims a week of early voting in the swing state, reversing a judge's decision that had restored the time. Democrats had challenged a series of Republican-backed voting changes they claimed di...

  • Obama rebukes Poland over paralysis of constitutional court

    Obama rebukes Poland over paralysis of constitutional court

    Class Action News 07/07/2016

    rebuking a right-wing government that has paralyzed the constitutional court and taken steps to control state run media. Obama said he shared his worries with Polish President Andrzej Duda in a one-on-one meeting before the opening of a NATO summit i...

  • Senate confirms district court judge for New Jersey

    Senate confirms district court judge for New Jersey

    Class Action News 07/06/2016

    The Senate has confirmed President Barack Obama's nominee for the U.S. District Court for the district of New Jersey. The vote was 92-5 on Wednesday for Brian Martinotti, who has served as a judge on the Superior Court of New Jersey since 2002. Obama...

  • Bollywood filmmaker challenges censoring of drug-abuse film

    Bollywood filmmaker challenges censoring of drug-abuse film

    Class Action News 06/09/2016

    A Bollywood film producer took his row with India's censor board to a court Wednesday, challenging dozens of cuts and changes to a film that depicts the menace of drug abuse in the northern state of Punjab. Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalini said in ...

  • Supreme Court to swear in large group of deaf lawyers

    Supreme Court to swear in large group of deaf lawyers

    Class Action News 04/13/2016

    Mobile phones ordinarily are strictly forbidden in the marble courtroom of the nation's highest court, but the justices are making an exception next week when roughly a dozen deaf and hard-of-hearing lawyers will be admitted to the Supreme Court bar....

  • Oklahoma prosecutors allege abuse before boy's disappearance

    Oklahoma prosecutors allege abuse before boy's disappearance

    Class Action News 04/11/2016

    An Oklahoma couple arrested in the 2006 disappearance of their 9-year-old nephew had beaten the boy until he lay motionless on a couch and then threatened the boy's brother into repeating a rehearsed story to authorities, prosecutors allege in an aff...

  • Ole Miss ex-student pleads guilty to tying noose on statue

    Ole Miss ex-student pleads guilty to tying noose on statue

    Class Action News 03/25/2016

    A former University of Mississippi student could face up to a year in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to placing a noose on the school's statue of its first black student. Austin Reed Edenfield waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a misdemea...

  • High court seems skeptical of mandatory public union fees

    High court seems skeptical of mandatory public union fees

    Class Action News 01/19/2016

    The Supreme Court appears ready to deliver a major setback to American unions as it considers scrapping a four-decade precedent that lets public-sector labor organizations collect fees from workers who decline to join. During more than an hour of ora...

  • Court: Therapy dog didn't sway jury against sex offender

    Court: Therapy dog didn't sway jury against sex offender

    Class Action News 10/27/2015

    A therapy dog used to calm a testifying young victim did not influence the jury during the trial of an Ohio man who was convicted of having sex with a minor and providing drugs to another, an appeals court ruled. The Akron Beacon Journal reports the ...

  • McConnell, Cruz urge court to reject gay marriage

    McConnell, Cruz urge court to reject gay marriage

    Class Action News 04/07/2015

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz are among 57 Republicans in Congress who are calling on the Supreme Court to uphold state bans on same-sex marriage. The congressional Republicans said in a brief filed a...

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