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  • Another key redistricting case goes in front of high court

    Another key redistricting case goes in front of high court

    Legal Events 03/22/2018

    The Supreme Court has already heard a major case about political line-drawing that has the potential to reshape American politics. Now, before even deciding that one, the court is taking up another similar case.The arguments justices will hear Wednes...

  • Martin Shkreli cries in court, is sentenced to 7 years for securities fraud

    Martin Shkreli cries in court, is sentenced to 7 years for securities fraud

    Recent Cases 03/16/2018

    The smirk wiped from his face, a crying Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud Friday in a hard fall for the pharmaceutical-industry bad boy vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.Shkreli, the boyis...

  • Bolivia takes sea access dispute with Chile to world court

    Bolivia takes sea access dispute with Chile to world court

    National Court News 03/16/2018

    Bolivia made an emotional appeal Monday for the International Court of Justice to order Chile to enter talks over granting the landlocked South American nation access to the Pacific Ocean, saying the dispute will remain a source of conflict if it's n...

  • Supreme Court takes up challenge by crisis pregnancy centers

    Supreme Court takes up challenge by crisis pregnancy centers

    Featured Articles 03/16/2018

    The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a free speech fight over California's attempt to regulate anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.The case being argued Tuesday involves information required by a state law that the centers must provide client...

  • Budget bill likely would end Supreme Court email search case

    Budget bill likely would end Supreme Court email search case

    U.S. Court News 03/16/2018

    The budget bill before Congress includes an update to federal law that makes clear that authorities with a warrant can obtain emails and other data held by American technology companies but stored on servers overseas.Passage of the Cloud Act probably...

  • Arkansas wants court to dissolve stay for death row prisoner

    Arkansas wants court to dissolve stay for death row prisoner

    Legal Compliance 03/16/2018

    Lawyers for the state of Arkansas argued Friday that the state prison director has long had the power to determine a death row inmate's sanity and that now isn't the time to change the way it moves the prisoners closer to their executions.The argumen...

  • Czech top court delays alleged Russian hacker extradition

    Czech top court delays alleged Russian hacker extradition

    Legal Issues 03/11/2018

    The Czech Republic's top court said Tuesday it has delayed the extradition of an alleged Russian hacker until it deals with a last-ditch complaint filed by him.It means that the justice minister can't finalize Yevgeniy Nikulin's extradition until the...

  • Cambodian court denies opposition leader release on bail

    Cambodian court denies opposition leader release on bail

    National News 03/06/2018

    Cambodia's Supreme Court has denied bail for an opposition leader charged with treason who is seeking to be released for medical treatment abroad.The court ruled Friday that Kem Sokha must remain in pretrial detention for his own safety and because t...

  • Former Trump campaign aide Nunberg at court for grand jury

    Former Trump campaign aide Nunberg at court for grand jury

    Litigation Reports 03/06/2018

    A former Trump campaign aide appeared for hours before a federal grand jury Friday, after he defiantly insisted in a series of news interviews just days earlier that he intended to defy a subpoena in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigat...

  • Appeals court weighs resuming pipeline project in Louisiana

    Appeals court weighs resuming pipeline project in Louisiana

    Legal Issues 03/06/2018

    A company building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana is asking a federal appeals court to allow it to resume construction work in an environmentally fragile swamp.A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arg...

  • High court: Held immigrants can't get periodic bond hearings

    High court: Held immigrants can't get periodic bond hearings

    National Court News 02/26/2018

    The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigrants the government has detained and is considering deporting aren't entitled by law to periodic bond hearings.The case is a class-action lawsuit brought by immigrants who've spent long periods in custody. T...

  • California parents face new charges in kids' torture case

    California parents face new charges in kids' torture case

    Legal Issues 02/22/2018

    A Southern California couple suspected of starving and shackling some of their 13 children pleaded not guilty Friday to new charges of child abuse.David and Louise Turpin previously entered not-guilty pleas to torture and a raft of other charges and ...