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  US completes deportation of 8 men to South Sudan after weeks of legal wrangling

  Court Alerts 07/06/2025

  Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have now reached the Trump administration’s intended...

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  Court widens court options for vaping companies pushing back against FDA rules

  Court Alerts 06/24/2025

  The Supreme Court sided with e-cigarette companies on Friday in a ruling making it easier to sue over Food and Drug Administration decisions blocking their products from the multibillion-dollar vaping market.The 7-2 opinion comes as companies push ba...

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  Getty Images and Stability AI clash in UK copyright trial testing AI's future

  Court Alerts 06/05/2025

  Getty Images is facing off against artificial intelligence company Stability AI in a London courtroom for the first major copyright trial of the generative AI industry.Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The tr...

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  Military veterans are becoming the face of Trump’s government cuts

  Court Alerts 03/16/2025

  As congressional lawmakers scramble to respond to President Donald Trump’s slashing of the federal government, one group is already taking a front and center role: military veterans.From layoffs at the Department of Veterans Affairs to a Pentag...

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  Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat

  Court Alerts 01/18/2025

  Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will take Marco Rubio ’s seat in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday, making Moody only the second woman to represent Florida in the chamber.Elected as the state’s top law enforcemen...

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  Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract

  Court Alerts 12/21/2024

  Workers 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 12/13/2024

  The 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 10/18/2024

  The 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 09/02/2024

  A 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 08/17/2024

  The 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 08/12/2024

  Social 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 08/05/2024

  A 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 ...