Recent Updates
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Trump flexes executive power with unprecedented flouting of lower court rulings
Law Firm News 05/06/2026When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the president's mass deportation effort.Instead, a top Justice Department official insisted the ruling was...
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Romania’s top court annuls first round of presidential vote
Law Firm News 12/06/2024A top Romanian court on Friday annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, days after allegations that Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round.The Constitutional Co...
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Temple prof seeks reinstatement of damage claims against FBI
Law Firm News 02/13/2022A Temple University physics professor who was charged with sharing scientific technology with China only for the case to collapse before trial and be dismissed by the Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Monday to reinstate his clams f...
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Kenya court set to hear petitions challenging repeat vote
Law Firm News 11/12/2017Kenya's Supreme Court is poised to hear petitions challenging President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election in a repeat presidential poll. The court made history when it nullified Kenyatta's re-election in August. It cited irregularities and illegalities in...
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Supreme Court's Kagan says Scalia death forced compromises
Law Firm News 09/06/2017U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death forced the rest of the court to learn how to work together to avoid ties, Justice Elena Kagan said during a stop Friday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kagan spoke for about an hour with UW La...
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Challenge filed in court to Australian gay marriage ballot
Law Firm News 08/11/2017Gay-rights advocates filed a court challenge Thursday to the government's unusual plan to canvass Australians' opinion on gay marriage next month, while a retired judge said he would boycott the survey as unacceptable. The mail ballot is not binding,...
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Court to hear challenge to speed up California executions
Law Firm News 06/06/2017The California Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over a ballot initiative designed to speed up executions that could fundamentally change the way the court handles death penalty appeals. Death penalty opponents are challenging a ballot measur...
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Court of Appeals Judge Elmore won't seek re-election
Law Firm News 05/25/2017A North Carolina appeals court judge said Wednesday he won't run again when his seat comes up for re-election next year. Judge Rick Elmore has served since 2003. The former private practice lawyer from Greensboro was re-elected to a second eight-year...
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Turkish protesters denounce alleged coup plotters at court
Law Firm News 03/18/2017Turkish protesters on Monday demanded the death penalty, abolished in Turkey more than a decade ago, for 18 alleged coup plotters on trial for the killing of a military officer who resisted an effort to overthrow the government. The demonstrators jee...
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Man who escaped from Rhode Island prison to appear in court
Law Firm News 01/06/2017A man who escaped from a Rhode Island prison and was on the run for five days before being captured in Massachusetts is scheduled to make an initial appearance before a federal magistrate judge. James Morales escaped from the Wyatt Detention Facility...
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Nevada high court blocks funding for school choice program
Law Firm News 09/29/2016The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that the state's voucher-style Education Savings Accounts program — seen as the broadest school choice initiative in the country — has an unconstitutional funding mechanism that should remain blocked. Justices issue...
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British court gives 22 life sentences to pedophile
Law Firm News 06/02/2016A court in Britain has sentenced a former schoolteacher to 22 life sentences for child abuse after using his position teaching English in Malaysia to gain access to victims. Judge Peter Rook sentenced 30-year-old freelance photographer Richard Huckle...