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Indian court orders Briton held during copter bribery probe
Legal Issues 12/01/2018An Indian court on Wednesday ruled that officials may hold a British man while they investigate him for alleged bribery in a canceled $670 million helicopter deal between India and an Italian defense company.Judge Arvind Kumar allowed Briton Christia...
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Lawyer for WikiLeaks’ Assange says he would fight charges
Legal Issues 11/16/2018WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not willingly travel to the United States to face charges filed under seal against him, one of his lawyers said, foreshadowing a possible fight over extradition for a central figure in the U.S. special counsel&rs...
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Mixed rulings for Republicans from Kentucky Supreme Court
Law Firm News 11/14/2018In a pair of mixed rulings for Kentucky Republicans, the state Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law requiring a panel of doctors to review medical malpractice cases before they go to court while upholding the state's law banning mandatory unio...
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Malaysia court to resume Kim Jong Nam murder trial on Jan. 7
Breaking Legal News 11/05/2018A Malaysian court on Wednesday set Jan. 7 for two Southeast Asian women charged with murdering the North Korean leader’s half brother to begin their defense, as their lawyers complained that some witnesses were unreachable.A High Court judge in...
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Bahrain opposition leader sentenced to life by high court
Court Watch 11/03/2018A Shiite cleric who was a central figure in Bahrain's 2011 Arab Spring protests was sentenced to life in prison Sunday on spying charges.The ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeals came after Sheikh Ali Salman was acquitted of the charges by a lower c...
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Supreme Court agrees to hear Maryland cross memorial case
Law Firm News 11/02/2018The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a case about whether a nearly 100-year-old, cross-shaped war memorial located on a Maryland highway median violates the Constitution's required separation of church and state, a case that could impact hundreds ...
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Indian court seeks pricing of Rafale jet deal with France
Recent Cases 10/30/2018India's top court on Wednesday ordered the government to provide pricing details of 36 Rafale fighter jets it is buying from France.The court said the government must bring details of the decision-making process of the deal into the public domain, ex...
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Court orders Japan company to pay 4 Koreans for forced labor
Court Watch 10/27/2018In a potentially far-reaching decision, South Korea's Supreme Court ruled that a major Japanese steelmaker should compensate four South Koreans for forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula before the end of World War II.The l...
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EU court orders Poland to reinstate Supreme Court judges
Recent Cases 10/20/2018The European Union's top court ordered Poland on Friday to immediately stop applying a law that lowered the retirement age for Supreme Court judges, forcing some 20 off the bench.The interim injunction from the European Court of Justice also obliges ...
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Georgia high court won't stop vote on creation of new city
Ethics 10/17/2018Georgia's highest court on Monday declined to stop voting in a referendum on whether a new city of Eagle's Landing should be created from part of the existing city of Stockbridge.The General Assembly passed two acts that were signed by the governor e...
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Court picks prosecutor to defend ruling on Arpaio's pardon
Law Firm News 10/11/2018A Los Angeles attorney has been appointed to defend a ruling by a lower court judge who refused to erase the criminal record of former metro Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio after he was pardoned by President Trump.The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monda...
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New campaign seeks support for expanded Supreme Court
Breaking Legal News 10/07/2018A couple of liberal Harvard law professors are lending their name to a new campaign to build support for expanding the Supreme Court by four justices in 2021.The campaign, calling itself the 1.20.21 Project and being launched Wednesday, also wants to...