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Democratic governor getting to shape Kansas' top court
Featured Articles 07/29/2019The Kansas Supreme Court's chief justice plans to retire before the end of the year, allowing first-year Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly to leave a bigger mark on the state's highest court than her conservative Republican predecessors.Chief Justice Lawto...
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Meek Mill’s conviction thrown out, granted new trial
National Court News 07/22/2019A Pennsylvania appeals court on Wednesday overturned rapper Meek Mill’s conviction in a drug and gun case that has kept the rapper on probation for a decade and made him a celebrity crusader for criminal justice reform.The unanimous three-judge...
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US appeals court sides with Trump in lawsuit involving hotel
National Court News 07/14/2019A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of illegally profiting off the presidency through his luxury Washington hotel, handing Trump a significant legal victory Wednesday.A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit...
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Italian court rules wrong Eritrean accused of trafficking
National Court 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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Trump asks Supreme Court to unfreeze border wall money
Featured Articles 07/13/2019The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to lift a freeze on Pentagon money it wants to use to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.Two lower courts have ruled against the administration in a lawsuit over the funding. Last we...
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The Latest: Supreme Court blocks census citizenship question
Featured Articles 06/29/2019The Supreme Court is forbidding President Donald Trump’s administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census for now. The court says the Trump administration’s explanation for wanting to add the question was “more o...
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Supreme Court to review Montana school choice program
U.S. Court News 06/29/2019The Supreme Court will consider reviving a Montana program that gives tax credits to people who donate to private-school scholarships. The state’s highest court had struck down the program because it violated the Montana constitution’s ba...
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EU court says Poland's Supreme Court reforms unlawful
U.S. Court News 06/19/2019The European Union's top court ruled Monday that a Polish law that pushed Supreme Court judges into early retirement violates EU law, a setback for Poland's right-wing government but a move welcomed by critics who worried the measure would cause a se...
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High court lets Virginia voting go ahead under redrawn map
U.S. Court News 06/17/2019Virginians will elect members of the House of Delegates using a map seen as favorable to Democrats, according to ruling Monday by the Supreme Court.The 5-4 decision was perhaps telegraphed by the fact that the justice previously allowed election plan...
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Supreme Court sides with Alabama company in patent dispute
U.S. Court News 06/14/2019The Supreme Court sided Monday with an Alabama technology company over the U.S. Postal Service in a patent dispute.The dispute before the justices had to do with U.S. Patent No. 6,826,548. That's the patent Birmingham-based Return Mail has for a syst...
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Utah judge suspended for making anti-Trump comments
Featured Articles 05/26/2019A longtime Utah judge has been suspended without pay for six months after making critical comments online and in court about President Donald Trump, including a post bashing his “inability to govern and political incompetence.”Judge Micha...
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Iraqi court sentences 3 French members of IS to death
Legal Compliance 05/24/2019A Baghdad court on Sunday sentenced three French citizens to death for being members of the Islamic State group, an Iraqi judicial official said. They were the first French IS members to receive death sentences in Iraq, where they were transferred fo...