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Trump in court as lawyers fight to overturn verdict in E. Jean Carroll sex abuse suit
Law Firm Marketing 09/03/2024Veering from the campaign trail to a courtroom, Donald Trump quietly observed Friday as his lawyer fought to overturn a verdict finding the former president liable for sexual abuse and defamation.The Republican nominee and his accuser, E. Jean Carrol...
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Supreme Court rebuffs plea to restore multibllliou-dollar student debt plan
Courts and the Judiciary 08/31/2024The Supreme Court on Wednesday kept on hold the latest multibillion-dollar plan from the Biden administration that would have lowered payments for millions of borrowers, while lawsuits make their way through lower courts.The justices rejected an admi...
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Court revives Sarah Palin’s libel lawsuit against The New York Times
National News 08/27/2024A federal appeals court revived Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times on Wednesday, citing errors by a lower court judge, particularly his decision to dismiss the lawsuit while a jury was deliberating.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of...
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Venezuela’s Supreme Court certifies Maduro’s claims that he won presidential election
Courts and the Judiciary 08/25/2024Venezuela’s Supreme Court has backed President Nicolás Maduro’s claims that he won last month’s presidential election and said voting tallies published online showing he lost by a landslide were forged.The ruling is the lates...
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Former Rep. George Santos pleads guilty in federal fraud case
Top Stories & Analysis 08/20/2024George Santos, the former New York congressman who spun lies into a brief political career, pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, acknowledging that he allowed his ambitions to cloud his judgment.Santos, 36, is likely to ...
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X announces suspension of Brazil operations, alleging ‘censorship orders’
Courts and the Judiciary 08/15/2024Social media platform X said Saturday it will close its operations in Brazil, claiming Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest its legal representative in Brazil if they did not comply with orders.X is removing all re...
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Hearing in Karen Read case expected to focus on jury deliberations
Courts and the Judiciary 08/09/2024Defense attorneys for Karen Read are expected to argue Friday that two charges in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend be dismissed, focusing on the jury deliberations that led to a mistrial.Read is accused of ramming into John O’Ke...
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Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court
National News 08/04/2024Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a U.N. court to join South Africa’s lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the foreign minister said.Turkey’s ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish legislators, sub...
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Mexican drug cartel leader ‘El Mayo’ Zambada makes a court appearance in Texas
Supreme Court News 08/01/2024Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, 76, used a wheelchair for the hearing before U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso. Zambada, the longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, eluded authorities for decades until a plane carrying h...
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Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect Monday
Courts and the Judiciary 07/26/2024An Iowa judge has ruled the state’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, preventing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from be...
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Court dismisses lawsuit over Tennessee’s anti-drag show ban
National News 07/21/2024A federal appeals court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows, reversing a lower court ruling that deemed the statute unconstitutional and blocked its enforcement in part of ...
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Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison
Legal Events 07/17/2024Albania’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a verdict of the lower courts keeping a former elected mayor from the country’s Greek minority in prison after he was convicted of buying votes.A Supreme Court statement said that it upheld the ver...