Recent Updates
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Gamers in court for first time after Kansas 'swatting' death
Legal Compliance 06/13/2018Two online gamers whose alleged dispute over a $1.50 Call of Duty WWII video game bet ultimately led police to fatally shoot a Kansas man not involved in the argument will make their first appearances in court Wednesday in a case of "swatting" that h...
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Court gives Spanish princess' husband 5 days to go to prison
Legal Compliance 06/11/2018Judicial authorities on Wednesday told the brother-in-law of Spain's King Felipe VI that he must report to a prison within five days in order to serve five years and 10 months for fraud and tax evasion, among other crimes.Inaki Urdangarin, a former O...
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Swedish court: Ghana international to be jailed, deported
Legal Compliance 06/07/2018A Swedish court has sentenced a Ghana international to 32 months in prison after Kingsley Sarfo was found guilty of two cases of rape of an under-aged girl.The Malmo District Court says the 23-year old Sarfo, a midfielder with top Swedish club Malmo ...
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Woman accused of dismembering roommate appears in court
Legal Compliance 06/07/2018A San Francisco woman looked composed and lucid as she made her first court appearance on Friday on a murder charge accusing her of killing and dismembering her roommate, whose body parts prosecutors say were discovered in plastic bags at their home....
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Top Texas court says condemned inmate not mentally disabled
Legal Compliance 06/06/2018Texas' highest criminal court narrowly ruled Wednesday that a death row inmate is mentally capable enough to execute, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that his intellectual capacity had been improperly assessed and agreement by his lawyer and pros...
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Court upholds Phoenix law over same-sex wedding invitations
Legal Compliance 06/06/2018An Arizona appeals court on Thursday upheld a Phoenix anti-discrimination law that makes it illegal for businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples because of religion.The ruling comes days after the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Colorado bake...
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California high court to rule on social media access
Legal Compliance 05/21/2018The California Supreme Court will decide whether Facebook and other social media companies must turn over user content to criminal defendants.The justices are expected to rule Thursday in a case that has pitted some of Silicon Valley's biggest compan...
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High court to hear challenge to Virginia uranium mining ban
Legal Compliance 05/16/2018The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to Virginia's decades-old ban on uranium mining.The state has had a ban on uranium mining in place since 1982, soon after the discovery of a massive uranium deposit in the state's Pittsylvania Count...
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Bitter, expensive fight for Arkansas court seat to drag on
Legal Compliance 05/16/2018A bitter and expensive fight for an Arkansas Supreme Court seat that drew more than $1 million in outside spending and a flurry of attack ads will drag on for another six months, with an incumbent justice heading into a runoff in November against an ...
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UK court drops charges against Barclays in Qatar fundraising
Legal Compliance 05/11/2018A court has dismissed charges against Barclays relating to its emergency fundraising from Qatar at the height of the financial crisis.The Serious Fraud Office had accused Barclays over a 2008 deal to give to Qatar Holding LLC a $3 billion loan that w...
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Raptors president fined $25K for walking on court to yell
Legal Compliance 05/09/2018The NBA has fined Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri $25,000 for walking onto the court at halftime of Game 3 against the Cleveland Cavaliers to verbally confront officials for reversing a call.The league announced the fine Sunday. It stems from a...
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Ford fined by Australian court for mishandling complaints
Legal Compliance 04/26/2018Ford Motor Co.'s Australian subsidiary has been fined 10 million Australian dollars ($7.6 million) for mishandling customer complaints about faulty automatic transmissions in thousands of cars.The fine in the Federal Court on Thursday equals the larg...