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Lawsuit seeks Confederate statue’s removal from courthouse
Legal Issues 05/05/2021Civil rights advocates sued a Maryland county on Wednesday to seek the court-ordered removal of a Confederate monument from a courthouse lawn on the state’s Eastern Shore, calling it a racist symbol of oppression.In their federal lawsuit, an NA...
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Court rejects appeal by man who killed wife with shotgun
Featured Articles 04/30/2021The state supreme court has upheld the murder conviction and 40-year sentence for man who killed his wife with a shotgun blast in their Windham home.The Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday unanimously rejected Noah Gaston’s contention that COVID...
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Supreme Court to take up right to carry gun for self-defense
Featured Articles 04/26/2021The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense. The case marks the court’s first foray into gun rights since Justice...
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Florida court deals blow to marijuana ballot initiative
Featured Articles 04/22/2021The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a potentially fatal blow to supporters of a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at legalizing marijuana under certain circumstances.The justices ruled that the initiative’s ballot summary is &ldqu...
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Supreme Court rejects lingering 2020 election challenge case
Headline Legal News 04/19/2021The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not hear a case out of Pennsylvania related to the 2020 election, a dispute that had lingered while similar election challenges had already been rejected by the justices. The high court directed a lower court ...
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Supreme Court rejects lingering 2020 election challenge case
Featured Articles 04/16/2021The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not hear a case out of Pennsylvania related to the 2020 election, a dispute that had lingered while similar election challenges had already been rejected by the justices. The high court directed a lower court ...
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Ex-police chief gets 1 year in prison for hiring scandal
Featured Articles 04/15/2021The former police chief of Connecticut’s largest city was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in prison for rigging the hiring process that led to his appointment in 2018.A federal judge in Bridgeport handed down the punishment to Armando ...
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Baltimore financier pleads guilty to prostitution charge
Featured Articles 04/11/2021A Baltimore financier accused of spending at least $90,000 for sex with women, including some of whom he supplied with drugs, has pleaded guilty to a prostitution charge, according to federal prosecutors.Charles “Chuck” Nabit, 64, faces a...
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Capitol stormer who wore ‘I Was There’ shirt to stay in jail
National News 04/02/2021A federal judge refused Thursday to set bail for a Texas man who was wearing a T-shirt that said, “I Was There, Washington D.C., January 6, 2021,” when he was arrested on charges he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.U.S. Judge Carl Nicho...
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Appellate court arguments set for Charleston church shooter
Legal Events 03/29/2021Attorneys for the man sentenced to federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation are set to formally argue that his conviction and death sentence should be overturned.Oral arguments have been set for...
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South Africa’s ex-president should be jailed, argues lawyer
Featured Articles 03/25/2021Lawyers for a commission investigating corruption in South Africa have asked the country’s highest court to jail former president Jacob Zuma for two years for failing to cooperate with its probe. The commission of inquiry into high-level graft,...
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Israel revokes permit of Palestinian foreign minister
Featured Articles 03/21/2021Israel on Sunday revoked the VIP permit of the Palestinian foreign minister after he returned to the West Bank from a trip to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Israeli and Palestinian officials confirmed.The move appeared to be Israeli r...