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Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons
Headline Legal News 06/19/2024Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.The boy band singer-turned-solo st...
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Ippei Mizuhara sports betting case: Shohei Ohtani interpreter pleads guilty
Headline Legal News 06/05/2024As an interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara was supposed to bridge the gap between baseball star Shohei Ohtani and his English-speaking teammates and fans as the duo traveled from Southern California to ballparks across the U.S.Instead, Mizuhara exploited the ...
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Supreme Court gives homeowners another chance in escrow dispute
Headline Legal News 06/02/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday gave homeowners another chance to force Bank of America and other large banks to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts.The court unanimously threw out an appeals court ruling in favor of Bank of America, which has ref...
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Trial turns testy as Trump lawyers try to pique fixer-turned-witness
Headline Legal News 05/23/2024After approximately five weeks, 19 witnesses, reams of documents and a dash of salacious testimony, the prosecution against Donald Trump rested its case Monday, handing over to the defense before closing arguments expected next week.Trump’s tea...
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Top UN court orders Israel to halt military offensive in Rafah
Ethics 05/20/2024The United Nations’ top court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave. Although Israel is unlikely to comply with the ord...
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Supreme Court: CFPB funding doesn't violate Constitution
Legal Events 05/17/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the CFPB is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court and...
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Korean Air Pilot Jobs - Korean Air's competitive pay awaits you
National News 05/10/2024Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.&r...
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Trump faces prospect of additional sanctions for violating gag order
Headline Legal News 05/05/2024Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president.A visibly i...
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Retrial of Harvey Weinstein unlikely to occur soon, if ever, experts say
Legal Events 05/01/2024A retrial in New York of disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein won’t be coming to a courtroom anytime soon, if ever, legal experts said on a day when one of two women considered crucial to his rape trial said she wasn’t sure she w...
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Court will decide if Trump has immunity in election interference case
Headline Legal News 04/26/2024Supreme Court arguments have begun over whether former President Donald Trump can avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.The justices on Thursday took up for the first time whether a former preside...
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Court questions obstruction charges brought against Jan. 6 rioters and Trump
National News 04/17/2024The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. But it wasn’t clear how the justices would rule in a case that ...
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What to know about abortion in Arizona under the near-total 1864 ban
Legal Events 04/12/2024The Arizona Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday to prepare to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions, drastically altering the legal landscape for terminating pregnancies in a state likely to have a key role in the presidential...