Recent Updates
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Indiana attorney general argues suspension doesn't oust him
Criminal Law 05/16/2020Lawyers for Indiana’s attorney general are arguing he has the legal right to remain in office even while serving a 30-day suspension of his law license for groping four women. The arguments filed Friday with the state Supreme Court come after R...
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Black robes or bathrobes? Virus alters high court traditions
Criminal Law 05/01/2020The coronavirus pandemic is forcing big changes at the tradition-bound Supreme Court. The justices will hear arguments this month by telephone for the first time since Alexander Graham Bell patented his invention in 1876.Audio of the arguments will b...
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Texas clinics ask Supreme Court to abortions during pandemic
Criminal Law 04/12/2020Abortion clinics in Texas on Saturday asked the Supreme Court to step in to allow certain abortions to continue during the coronavirus pandemic.The clinics filed an emergency motion asking the justices to overturn a lower-court order and allow aborti...
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Court lifts part of order blocking Texas abortion ban
Criminal Law 04/10/2020A federal appeals court on Friday partially rescinded a lower-court order that had largely blocked the enforcement of an abortion ban in Texas during the coronavirus pandemic.By a 2-1 vote, the three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appea...
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Missouri county sued over jail time for unpaid court costs
Criminal Law 02/03/2020A Missouri man at the heart of a state Supreme Court case that overturned what critics called modern-day debtors’ prisons is back in jail and suing the local officials who put him there. Warrensburg resident George Richey, 65, is one of two Mis...
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Court to look anew at health care law birth control rules
Criminal Law 01/15/2020The Supreme Court will consider allowing the Trump administration to enforce rules that allow more employers to deny insurance coverage for contraceptives to women.The justices agreed Friday to yet another case stemming from President Barack Obama&rs...
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Bill Cosby sex assault verdict upheld; spokesman lashes out
Criminal Law 12/04/2019Bill Cosby lost his bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction Tuesday, as an appeals court upheld the verdict in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.In its ruling, the Superior Court affirmed the right of prosecutors to call other accuser...
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Supreme Court to take up gun case today
Criminal Law 11/22/2019The Supreme Court is turning to gun rights for the first time in nearly a decade, even though those who brought the case, New York City gun owners, already have won changes to the regulation they challenged.The justices’ persistence in hearing ...
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Court sides with Congress in battle for Trump’s bank records
Criminal Law 11/14/2019A federal appeals court in New York on Tuesday upheld the legality of congressional subpoenas seeking President Donald Trump’s banking records but said sensitive personal information should be protected.A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circu...
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Israeli held for illegally entering Jordan appears in court
Criminal Law 11/10/2019An Israeli man detained in Jordan has appeared before a state security court where he was charged with illegally entering the country and possessing drugs.The 35-year-old Israeli pleaded guilty on Monday to entering Jordan illegally but denied the ot...
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The Latest: EU Parliament to be flexible on ratifying Brexit
Criminal Law 10/21/2019An influential Brexit expert at the European Parliament says the legislature might even meet in an extraordinary plenary next week if that is what is needed to push the Brexit deal through.The EU parliament is awaiting approval for the Brexit deal in...
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Supreme Court rebuffs Alabama officer charged with murder
Criminal Law 08/07/2019The Alabama Supreme Court refused Friday to intervene on behalf of a Huntsville police officer charged with murder in a 2018 shooting, sending the case back to circuit court for a potential trial.The justices turned away an appeal by officer William ...