Recent Updates
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Supreme Court takes up case over quick deportations
Legal Compliance News 10/14/2019The Supreme Court will review a lower court ruling in favor of a man seeking asylum and which the Trump administration says could further clog the U.S. immigration court system.The justices said Friday they will hear the administration's appeal of a ...
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US Supreme Court to review Kansas’ lack of insanity defense
Legal Compliance News 10/04/2019The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to consider how far states can go toward eliminating the insanity defense in criminal trials as it reviews the case of a Kansas man sentenced to die for killing four relatives.The high court planned to hear argumen...
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Italian court rules wrong Eritrean accused of trafficking
Legal Compliance News 07/13/2019A court in Palermo, Sicily, ruled on Friday that the wrong Eritrean man was arrested and tried as a migrant smuggling kingpin and ordered him released from jail, to the jubilation of international supporters who had championed for years the defendant...
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Kansas tells court broad support is reason to OK schools law
Legal Compliance News 04/08/2019Lawyers for Kansas told the state Supreme Court on Monday that it should sign off on a new law boosting spending on public schools and end a protracted education funding lawsuit partly because the law has broad, bipartisan support.Attorney General De...
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Supreme Court returns to gun rights for 1st time in 9 years'
Legal Compliance News 01/23/2019The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will take up its first gun rights case in nine years, a challenge to New York City’s prohibition on carrying a licensed, locked and unloaded handgun outside the city limits.The court’s decision to hear th...
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Court orders mediation in Maryland desegregation case
Legal Compliance News 01/04/2019A federal appeals court has ordered a fourth attempt at mediation in a long-running dispute over the state of Maryland’s treatment of its historically black colleges.The black colleges say the state has underfunded them while developing program...
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Colorado baker returns to court over 2nd LGBT bias allegation
Legal Compliance News 12/16/2018Attorneys for a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds — a stand partially upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court — argued in federal court Tuesday that the state is punishing him again over his ...
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Supreme Court hopeful had DWI charge in 2009
Legal Compliance News 10/20/2018A candidate for the North Carolina Supreme Court pleaded guilty more than nine years ago to trespassing and driving while impaired.The Charlotte Observer reports Republican Chris Anglin was stopped by police in Greensboro in January 2009 and charged ...
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Court to explore competency claim of ailing Alabama inmate
Legal Compliance News 10/02/2018The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in the case of an inmate sentenced to death for killing an Alabama police officer in 1985 but who lawyers say can no longer remember the murder because of stroke-induced dementia.Justices will decide...
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Zimbabwe court to rule Friday on opposition's vote challenge
Legal Compliance News 08/24/2018Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court said it will rule on Friday after hearing the main opposition party's challenge to the results of last month's presidential election, the first without longtime leader Robert Mugabe on the ballot.Police barricaded stre...
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Lawyers will seek to shift blame for warehouse fire at trial
Legal Compliance News 08/19/2018Lawyers for the two men charged in the Northern California warehouse fire that killed 36 people said Friday they are now preparing for a trial where they will try to shift blame for the blaze from their clients to others, including the building's own...
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The Latest: Trump promises 'great' pick for Supreme Court
Legal Compliance News 07/06/2018President Donald Trump is promising to select a "great" Supreme Court nominee to fill the vacancy of retiring Justice Anthony KennedyThe president said Tuesday at a "Salute to Service" dinner in West Virginia that he "hit a home run" with Justice Nei...