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Mexico president blasts 'stratospheric' supreme court wages
Top Stories & Analysis 12/10/2018The Mexican president is butting heads with the Supreme Court just one week into office after judges suspended a law that would cap public sector salaries, one of his key campaign promises.President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused the judges of l...
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Trump lawyer confident he'll win in charity suit
Courts and the Judiciary 12/07/2018Donald Trump's lawyer says he's confident the president's side will prevail in a lawsuit alleging that he used his charitable foundation to further his business and political interests.Trump's lawyer Alan Futerfas said a judge's decision to reject hi...
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Porter County to start new court for mentally ill offenders
Supreme Court News 12/04/2018A northwestern Indiana county is preparing to become just the fourth in the state to operate a court specifically designed to treat the needs of nonviolent mentally ill offenders.Porter Superior Court Judge David Chidester says the county's Restorati...
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Government asks high court to hear transgender military case
Law Journals 12/01/2018The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to issue an unusually quick ruling on the Pentagon's policy of restricting military service by transgender people. It's the fourth time in recent months the administration has sought to bypas...
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New black officers, court officials rethinking US policing
Supreme Court News 11/17/2018Veteran Alabama law enforcement officer Mark Pettway grew up in a black neighborhood called “Dynamite Hill” because the Ku Klux Klan bombed so many houses there in the 1950s and ’60s.Now, after becoming the first black person electe...
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Supreme Court to hear Virginia GOP's districting appeal
Courts and the Judiciary 11/13/2018The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear an appeal by Virginia Republicans who are trying to preserve state legislative districts that have been struck down by a lower court as racially discriminatory.The case involves 11 districts in the Virginia Ho...
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Court fight likely in 10-year-old girl’s homicide case
Law Journals 11/10/2018When a 10-year-old Wisconsin girl was charged with homicide this week in the death of an infant, it was a rare — but not unprecedented — case of adult charges being filed against someone so young.The girl told investigators she panicked a...
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'Magic' campaign lands 17 black women on Houston courts
Supreme Court News 11/10/2018The Houston area's courts are going to be a lot more diverse thanks to a group of 17 African-American women and their "magic."The women, who were part of an effort dubbed the "Black Girl Magic" campaign, all won races Tuesday to be judges in various ...
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Justice Beth Clement leading Supreme Court race
Supreme Court News 11/06/2018Michigan Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Clement is leading a six-candidate field for two seats on the state's highest court. Nearly 95 percent of votes have been counted. The top two finishers get black robes.Justice Kurtis Wilder and appellate lawy...
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Bahrain opposition leader sentenced to life by high court
Law Journals 11/04/2018A 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
Courts and the Judiciary 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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Court orders Japan company to pay 4 Koreans for forced labor
Top Stories & Analysis 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...