Recent Updates
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High court nominee served as ‘handmaid’ in religious group
Featured Legal News 10/10/2020Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served as a “handmaid,” the term then used for high-ranking female leaders in the People of Praise religious community, an old directory for the group’s members shows.Barrett has thus far refu...
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Virus spreads on panel handling Supreme Court nomination
Featured Legal News 10/05/2020Two Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have tested positive for the coronavirus, raising questions about the timing of Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett and whether additional senators may have been exp...
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Trump taps ‘eminently qualified’ Barrett for Supreme Court
Law Journals 09/29/2020President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effor...
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Cuban-American judge from Florida on Trump high court list
Law Journals 09/22/2020A daughter of Cuban exiles who has had a swift rise as a lawyer and judge is on President Donald Trump’s short list to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court.The president said Monday that he does not personally know Barbara Lago...
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
Legal Compliance News 09/19/2020Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer...
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Norfolk courts latest in Virginia OK'd for jury trials
Featured Legal News 09/16/2020One of Virginia’s largest courts will restart jury trials next week, six months after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Tidewater-area judges to halt them. Norfolk Circuit Court is one of four courts statewide that the Virginia Supreme Court has...
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Saudi court issues final verdicts in Khashoggi killing
Legal Outlook 09/07/2020A Saudi court issued final verdicts on Monday in the case of slain Washington Post columnist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi after his son, who still resides in the kingdom, announced pardons that spared five of the convicted individuals from execut...
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1st Black woman confirmed to be justice on NJ high court
Legal Compliance News 09/03/2020The nomination of the first Black woman to sit on New Jersey’s Supreme Court was confirmed Thursday by the state Senate.Fabiana Pierre-Louis, a 39-year-old attorney in private practice and a former federal prosecutor, was nominated by Democrati...
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DeSantis court pick improper, but high court won't undo
Legal Outlook 09/01/2020Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis exceeded his authority by appointing a constitutionally ineligible person to the Florida Supreme Court, but the high court said in a ruling Thursday that it won't undo the appointment.State Rep. Geraldine Thompson asked the ...
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Slovakia court set to give verdict in reporter's slaying
Featured Legal News 09/01/2020A court in Slovakia is expected to issue a verdict Thursday in the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee, a crime that shocked the country and led a government to fall.The state prosecution has requested 25-year prison terms for thr...
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Thai court issues new arrest warrant for Red Bull scion
Legal Compliance News 08/23/2020A Thai court issued a new arrest warrant on Tuesday for an heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune, a month after news of the dropping of a long-standing charge against him caused widespread anger.Assistant National Police Chief Lt. Gen. Jaruwat Wa...
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9th Circuit ends California ban on high-capacity magazines
Featured Legal News 08/15/2020A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday threw out California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, saying the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s protection of the right to bear firearms.“Even ...