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Court to weigh state’s request to close Carlisle auto show
Courts and the Judiciary 06/21/2020The state Health Department’s effort to shut down a large auto show in central Pennsylvania over claims it represents a risk to the public will be the subject of an emergency hearing, a state court said late Wednesday.The order from Commonwealt...
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Top Manhattan prosecutor leaves job after standoff with Barr
Notable Attorneys 06/20/2020An extraordinary standoff between the Justice Department and Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman ended Saturday when the prosecutor agreed to leave his job with an assurance that his investigations into allies of President Donald Trump would n...
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Trump administration takes Keystone dispute to Supreme Court
Courts and the Judiciary 06/18/2020The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a permit program that would allow the disputed Keystone XL pipeline and other new oil and gas pipelines to cross waterways with little review.Earlier this year, a Montana judge suspe...
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Brazil obeys court order to resume providing full virus data
Courts and the Judiciary 06/11/2020A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered the government of President Jair Bolsonaro to resume publication of full COVID-19 data, including the cumulative death toll, following allegations the government was trying to hide the severity of the pandemi...
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German far-right party wins court case against minister
National News 06/09/2020Germany's top security official violated the rights of a far-right party by posting remarks criticizing it on his ministry's website, the country's highest court ruled Tuesday.The Alternative for Germany party, known as AfD, whose anti-migration and ...
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Black Lives Matter rallies start in Australia amid court ban
Courts and the Judiciary 06/07/2020The first of several Black Lives Matter protests across Australia on Saturday got underway against a backdrop of possible clashes between demonstrators and police in Sydney, after a court sided with police that the gathering posed too much risk for s...
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Supreme Court rules in FOIA case long delayed by lawmaker
Verdicts & Settlements 06/02/2020A group of elected officials in southwest Virginia violated the state's open government law during meetings about dissolving a public library system, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a case long delayed by a lawmaker's use of a privile...
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Supreme Court rejects challenge to limits on church services
Supreme Court News 05/29/2020A divided Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal by a California church that challenged state limits on attendance at worship services that have been imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Over the dissent of the four mo...
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Netanyahu heads to court as 1st sitting Israeli PM on trial
Courts and the Judiciary 05/24/2020Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is lashing out at Israel’s justice system, saying his trial on corruption charges is an attempt to “depose” him. Prime Minister Benjamin spoke Sunday as he arrived at a Jerusalem courthouse ...
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Court upholds ban on in-person church services in California
Courts and the Judiciary 05/24/2020An appeals court has upheld California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ban on in-person church services amid the coronavirus pandemic, in a split ruling that found that government’s emergency powers override what in normal times would be fundamental ...
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Supreme Court blocks House from Mueller grand jury material
Law Firm Marketing 05/20/2020The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily prevented the House of Representatives from obtaining secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. The court’s unsigned order granted the Trump administ...
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Lawyer: Security video in Arbery case may show water breaks
Courts and the Judiciary 05/17/2020A young black man filmed by a security camera walking through a home under construction in December and in February may have stopped at the site for a drink of water, according to an attorney for the homeowner thrust into the investigation of the fat...