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4 tribes sue over Oklahoma gambling compacts with 2 others
Legal Issues 08/01/2020Four Oklahoma tribes are asking a federal court to void gambling compacts between the state of Oklahoma and two other tribes ? agreements that the Oklahoma State Supreme Court recently invalidated.The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Citizen Potawato...
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Supreme Court rules SEC can recoup money in fraud cases
Legal Issues 06/23/2020The Supreme Court on Monday preserved an important tool used by securities regulators to recoup ill-gotten gains in fraud cases.By an 8-1 vote, the justices ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission can seek to recover the money through a pro...
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Unanimous Supreme Court throws out ‘Bridgegate’ convictions
Legal Issues 05/02/2020A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the convictions of two political insiders involved in the “Bridgegate” scandal that ultimately derailed the 2016 president bid of their ally, then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.The ju...
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Court lifts part of order blocking Texas abortion ban
Legal Issues 04/10/2020A federal appeals court on Friday partially rescinded a lower-court order that had largely blocked the enforcement of an abortion ban in Texas during the coronavirus pandemic.By a 2-1 vote, the three-judge panel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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Court affirms conviction in hot-grease injuries to wife
Legal Issues 03/17/2020The Mississippi Supreme Court has affirmed the conviction of a man who injured his wife by dousing her with hot grease after she said she was planning to leave him.Justices handed down a unanimous decision Thursday in the appeal of Kendall Woodson, 4...
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Bill Cosby sex assault verdict upheld; spokesman lashes out
Legal Issues 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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N Carolina legislative districts set for 2020 as appeal ends
Legal Issues 11/11/2019North Carolina's legislative districts are set for the 2020 elections after the state Supreme Court refused on Friday to fast-track a redistricting appeal. That decision led the plaintiffs who successfully sued based on partisan bias claims to end th...
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US Supreme Court to review Kansas’ lack of insanity defense
Legal Issues 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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Court: First Amendment protects “hate group” label
Legal Issues 09/15/2019A federal judge has ruled that a liberal advocacy group has a First Amendment right to call a Christian ministry a hate group for its opposition to homosexuality.U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson, in a 141-page decision issued late Thursday, threw o...
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Court calls US enhanced interrogation techniques torture
Legal Issues 09/05/2019A federal court in San Francisco has taken the unusual step of using the word "torture" to describe the treatment of a Palestinian man while he was in CIA custody following the Sept. 11 attacks.The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals used the word in a 2-...
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SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Gender pronouns part of LGBT fight
Legal Issues 08/18/2019Dozens of legal briefs supporting fired funeral director Aimee Stephens at the Supreme Court use “she” and “her” to refer to the transgender woman.So does the appeals court ruling in favor of Stephens that held that workplace ...
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Mexico high court to Health officials: Regulate medical pot
Legal Issues 08/15/2019Mexico’s Supreme Court has ordered the country’s Health Department to set regulations complying with a law allowing medical use of marijuana and derivatives.The law took effect in June 2017 but has yet to be put into practice.The high cou...