Recent Updates
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Lambert to be sworn in as Supreme Court justice
Legal Issues 01/25/2019A new Kentucky Supreme Court justice will be sworn in to office next week.A statement from the Administrative Office of the Courts says Debra Hembree Lambert will be formally sworn in as a justice on Feb. 4 at the state Capitol in Frankfort. She was ...
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EU top court adviser: Google can limit right to be forgotten
Legal Issues 01/12/2019An adviser to Europe's top court says Google doesn't have to extend "right to be forgotten" rules to its search engines globally.The European Court of Justice's advocate general released a preliminary opinion Thursday in the case involving the U.S. t...
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Kansas abortion foes brace for state Supreme Court decision
Legal Issues 01/10/2019Abortion opponents in Kansas have been bracing themselves for nearly two years for a ruling from the state's highest court that protects the right to have an abortion and potentially upends politics in a state long at the center of the national debat...
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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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Arkansas court hears challenge over reworked voter ID law
Legal Issues 09/16/2018An Arkansas attorney told state's highest court on Thursday it should strike down a law that requires voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot, saying the measure circumvents a 2014 ruling against a nearly identical voter ID requir...
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Trump taking Supreme Court fight to Montana, North Dakota
Legal Issues 09/08/2018President Donald Trump is taking the Washington debate over his Supreme Court nominee to the homes of two red-state Senate Democrats this week, elevating Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation as a political litmus test for voters.Trump's strategy aims...
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North Carolina newspaper asks court to unseal lawsuit
Legal Issues 08/23/2018A North Carolina newspaper has asked a state appeals court to order the public release of a lawsuit involving a car dealership owner charged in South Carolina with molesting a 15-year-old boy during a NASCAR weekend at Darlington Raceway.The Fayettev...
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California high court rules for immigrant kids in visa fight
Legal Issues 08/17/2018The California Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for some immigrant children who are abused or abandoned by a parent to seek a U.S. visa to avoid deportation in a ruling that advocates said would help thousands of children.State judges cannot ...
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Court: Ex-federal immigration lawyer can be sued for forgery
Legal Issues 08/12/2018A U.S. appeals court says a former federal immigration lawyer who forged a document in an effort to get a man deported can be sued for damages. Jonathan M. Love was assistant chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle in 20...
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Audit: 'Pervasive lack of accountability' in Kentucky courts
Legal Issues 07/11/2018In 2016, Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts was looking for office space for newly-elected Supreme Court Justice Sam Wright. They got two offers: One would cost more than $59,000 a year and require extensive renovations. The other space w...
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Hawaii Supreme Court sides with lesbian couple in B&B case
Legal Issues 07/09/2018A Hawaii appeals court ruling that a bed and breakfast discriminated by denying a room to two women because they're gay will stand after the state's high court declined to take up the case.Aloha Bed & Breakfast owner Phyllis Young had argued she ...