Recent Updates
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US Supreme Court ruling in union dues impacts case in Oregon
Criminal Law 07/29/2018An Oregon state employee and a labor union have reached a settlement over her lawsuit seeking payback of obligatory union fees, marking the first refund of forced fees since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in late June that government workers can't be r...
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Man run down, 50 years after killing girl in hit-and-run
Criminal Law 06/01/2018A Vietnam War veteran who confessed five years ago to killing a 4-year-old girl in a 1968 hit-and-run was trying to protect children when a woman drove her car onto a baseball field in Maine during a game, striking and killing him.Screaming bystander...
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Bangladesh Supreme Court upholds bail for opposition leader
Criminal Law 03/25/2018Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a High Court’s decision to grant bail to opposition leader and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who was jailed for five years on a corruption conviction.Lawyers from both sides said the rul...
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Top Pakistani court orders arrest of escaped police officer
Criminal Law 01/26/2018Pakistan's Supreme Court gave police three days to arrest an absconding officer who is involved in killing an aspiring model in a 'fake shootout', a lawyer said Saturday.Attorney Nazeer Mehsud says suspended police officer Rao Anwar did not appear at...
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Court rules Puigdemont must return to Spain for re-election
Criminal Law 01/22/2018Spain's top court said Saturday that Catalonia's fugitive ex-president must return to the country and be present in the regional parliament to receive the authority to form a new government.The Constitutional Court ruled that a session of Catalonia's...
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UK banker back in Hong Kong court for murder appeal
Criminal Law 12/12/2017A British banker sentenced to life in prison for the gruesome slayings of two Indonesian women appeared in a Hong Kong court on Tuesday to appeal his conviction. Lawyers for Rurik Jutting made their case in the semiautonomous Chinese city's Court of ...
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Trump choosing white men as judges, highest rate in decades
Criminal Law 11/10/2017President Donald Trump is nominating white men to America's federal courts at a rate not seen in nearly 30 years, threatening to reverse a slow transformation toward a judiciary that reflects the nation's diversity. So far, 91 percent of Trump's nomi...
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Human rights group accuses Guatemalan courts of delays
Criminal Law 11/10/2017An international human rights group says Guatemalan courts are foot- dragging on high-profile cases and threatening the work of the country's prosecutors and a U.N. anti-corruption commission. Human Rights Watch analyzed eight major cases that have b...
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Top German court strengthens intersex identity rights
Criminal Law 11/07/2017Germany’s highest court has decided that people must be allowed to be entered in official records as neither male nor female, saying in a ruling published Wednesday that authorities should create a third identity or scrap gender entries altogether. T...
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Telescope permit decision appealed to Hawaii Supreme Court
Criminal Law 11/03/2017Opponents of a giant telescope planned for a Hawaii mountain are appealing the state land board's approval of the project's construction permit. Richard Wurdeman, an attorney representing some of the opponents, filed a notice of appeal with the state...
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Ohio court won't hear case in seizure of exotic animals
Criminal Law 10/26/2017Another court has dealt a blow to an Ohio man who is trying to get his six tigers and several other exotic animals back from the state. The Ohio Supreme Court earlier this month said it would not hear an appeal in the case involving the owner of a ro...
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Tennessee church shooting suspect due in court Monday
Criminal Law 10/23/2017The man accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding six others at a Tennessee church is slated for a court appearance. A preliminary hearing for 25-year-old Emanuel Kidega Samson is scheduled for Monday morning in front of a Davidson County g...