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  • Supreme Court stays execution of Alabama inmate

    Supreme Court stays execution of Alabama inmate

    Legal News Center 11/04/2016

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday night stayed the execution of an Alabama man convicted of the 1982 shooting death of a woman's husband in a murder-for-hire arrangement. Five justices voted to stay the execution of Tommy Arthur as the high court co...

  • Kansas high court justices defend handling of capital cases

    Kansas high court justices defend handling of capital cases

    Legal News Center 11/01/2016

    Four Kansas Supreme Court justices facing a campaign to oust them in the Nov. 8 election say the court has decided capital murder cases on legal and constitutional issues while avoiding politics and emotion. Past high court rulings overturning death ...

  • Israel court says lawmaker Hazan did drugs as casino manager

    Israel court says lawmaker Hazan did drugs as casino manager

    Legal News Center 10/31/2016

    An Israeli court has ruled that a lawmaker from the ruling Likud party had used hard drugs when he ran a casino in Bulgaria, before entering politics. Tuesday's ruling marks another blow to the already dubious reputation of Oren Hazan, who was electe...

  • High court steps into fight on Vanderbilts' Breakers mansion

    High court steps into fight on Vanderbilts' Breakers mansion

    Legal News Center 10/26/2016

    Rhode Island's highest court heard arguments Tuesday in a fight that has pitted dozens of members of the Vanderbilt family against a nonprofit that owns several Gilded Age mansions in Newport. The nonprofit Preservation Society of Newport County want...

  • Grassley: GOP can't stonewall a Clinton Supreme Court pick

    Grassley: GOP can't stonewall a Clinton Supreme Court pick

    Legal News Center 10/20/2016

    Republicans "can't just simply stonewall" nominees to the Supreme Court even if the president making the choice is Democrat Hillary Clinton, says the GOP chairman of the Judiciary Committee in a reaffirmation of the Senate's advise-and-consent role o...

  • Israel's Supreme Court rejects former PM Olmert's appeal

    Israel's Supreme Court rejects former PM Olmert's appeal

    Legal News Center 10/01/2016

    Israel's imprisoned former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faces an additional eight months behind bars after the country's Supreme Court rejected an appeal. Olmert is already serving a 19-month sentence after being convicted of bribery and obstructing ju...

  • Suspected people smuggler charged in Australian court

    Suspected people smuggler charged in Australian court

    Legal News Center 09/29/2016

    An Iranian citizen extradited from Indonesia was charged in a Sydney court on Thursday with attempting to smuggle 73 asylum seekers by boat to Australia. Mohammad Naghi Karimi Azar, 56, on Wednesday became the eighth suspected people smuggler to be e...

  • Court cites racial profiling in tossing gun charge

    Court cites racial profiling in tossing gun charge

    Legal News Center 09/27/2016

    The highest court in Massachusetts on Tuesday threw out a gun conviction against a Boston man in a ruling that says black men who flee when approached by police may be reacting to racial profiling rather than trying to hide criminal activity. In its ...

  • Appeals court delay requested in ex-Virginia governor's case

    Appeals court delay requested in ex-Virginia governor's case

    Legal News Center 07/23/2016

    Prosecutors have asked a federal appeals court to delay action for 30 days on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's corruption case — to allow both sides time to analyze it. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reportsthe U.S. At...

  • High court nominee praises lawyers for helping the poor

    High court nominee praises lawyers for helping the poor

    Legal News Center 04/22/2016

    Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland praised lawyers for their work with low-income Washingtonians Thursday in his first public remarks since his nomination last month. Garland was on familiar turf, speaking at the federal courthouse in Washington, ...

  • Thai court sentences migrants to death in murder of British backpackers

    Thai court sentences migrants to death in murder of British backpackers

    Legal News Center 12/22/2015

    A Thai court on Thursday sentenced two Myanmar migrants to death for the murder of two British backpackers on a resort island last year, in a case that raised questions about police competence and the treatment of migrant workers in Thailand. Human R...

  • Mexico issues first permits for marijuana under court ruling

    Mexico issues first permits for marijuana under court ruling

    Legal News Center 12/15/2015

    The Mexican government on Friday granted the first permits allowing the cultivation and possession of marijuana for personal use. The federal medical protection agency said the permits apply only to the four plaintiffs who won a favorable ruling from...

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