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Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract
Court Alerts 12/21/2024Workers at seven Amazon facilities went on strike Thursday, an effort by the Teamsters to pressure the e-commerce company for a labor agreement during a key shopping period.The Teamsters say the workers, who authorized strikes in the past few days, a...
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Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance
Court Alerts 12/13/2024The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Wisconsin parents who wanted to challenge a school district’s guidance for supporting transgender students.The justices, acting in a case from Eau Claire, left in place an appellate ruling dis...
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Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case
Court Alerts 10/18/2024The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.The late-night ruling to spare for ...
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A man who attacked a Nevada judge in court pleads guilty but mentally ill
Court Alerts 09/02/2024A man whose courtroom attack on a judge in Las Vegas was recorded on video has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to attempted murder and other charges.Deobra Delone Redden ended his trial Thursday after Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthu...
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Fraud trial of George Santos to begin next month with an anonymous jury
Court Alerts 08/17/2024The fraud trial against former U.S. Rep. George Santos, slated to start in a matter of weeks, is coming into focus after a federal judge ruled Tuesday that jurors will have their identities kept secret from the public.They won’t, however, be re...
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X announces suspension of Brazil operations, alleging ‘censorship orders’
Court Alerts 08/12/2024Social media platform X said Saturday it will close its operations in Brazil, claiming Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest its legal representative in Brazil if they did not comply with orders.X is removing all re...
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Congolese military court hands down death sentence to leader of rebel coalition
Court Alerts 08/05/2024A military court in Congo on Thursday sentenced 25 people, including the leader of a rebel coalition, to death after a high-profile televised trial that started late last month.Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Alliance Fleuve Congo, or AFC, was found ...
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UN court says Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territories is illegal
Court Alerts 07/21/2024The top United Nations court said Friday that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and called on it to end, and for settlement construction to stop immediately, issuing an unprecedented, sweeping condemnation of...
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Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison
Court Alerts 07/17/2024Albania’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a verdict of the lower courts keeping a former elected mayor from the country’s Greek minority in prison after he was convicted of buying votes.A Supreme Court statement said that it upheld the ver...
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Giuliani Disbarred in N.Y. for Wrongdoing During Trump’s 2020 Campaign
Court Alerts 07/07/2024Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in New York on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.The Manhattan app...
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Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons
Court Alerts 06/19/2024Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.The boy band singer-turned-solo st...
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Gardena Employment Law Defense Legal Services
Court Alerts 06/17/2024Law Offices of Albert Chang is a full service law firm assisting and representing business owners in business, employment, and real estate matters with the ability to take a case from inception to conclusion. We are here to listen to you and help you...