Recent Updates
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Court: Airline’s workers can’t sue as class in pay dispute
Legal Events 12/19/2019American Airlines workers at Newark’s airport who claim in a lawsuit they’ve been shorted on overtime pay can’t sue as a class, a federal appeals court ruled this week.The three-judge panel’s decision published Tuesday reverse...
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Justices to take up dispute over subpoenas for Trump records
Legal Compliance 12/14/2019The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear President Donald Trump’s pleas to keep his tax, bank and financial records private, a major confrontation between the president and Congress that also could affect the 2020 presidential campaign.Argume...
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Court says Arkansas must count eye law referendum signatures
National News 12/12/2019The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state must count thousands of signatures that were submitted in favor of holding a referendum on a new law expanding the procedures optometrists can perform.In a 4-3 ruling, justices said election of...
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Court to hear resentencing bid in Arizona death penalty case
Law Reviews 12/10/2019The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal Wednesday by an Arizona death row inmate who is seeking a new sentencing trial, arguing the horrific physical abuse that he suffered as a child wasn't fully considered when he was first sentenced. The appeal...
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Fallen rights icon at UN court for Rohingya genocide case
Legal Events 12/04/2019Twenty-eight years to the day after Aung San Suu Kyi’s husband and sons accepted her Nobel Peace Prize while she remained under house arrest in Myanmar, the former pro-democracy icon appeared in a United Nations court ready to defend her countr...
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Georgia courts urged to require sex harassment training
Law Firm News 11/27/2019A committee of judges has recommended that all Georgia courts require judges and court employees to participate in sexual harassment prevention training at least once a year.A Georgia Supreme Court news release says the Ad Hoc Committee to Prevent Se...
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Supreme Court leaves Kentucky’s ultrasound law in place
Headline Legal News 11/24/2019The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before abortions. The justices did not comment in refusing to review an appeals court ruling that upheld the law. Enfo...
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Hong Kong court reinstates mask ban ahead of elections
Legal Compliance 11/22/2019A Hong Kong court that had struck down a ban on face masks at protests said Friday that the government could enforce it for one week, as police readied for any unrest during keenly contested elections this weekend.The High Court granted the temporary...
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California court invalidates law requiring Trump tax returns
Law Reviews 11/20/2019President Donald Trump does not have to disclose his tax returns to appear as a candidate on California’s primary ballot next spring, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday.The law, the first of its kind in the nation and aimed squa...
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Suu Kyi to lead Myanmar team contesting genocide court case
National News 11/17/2019Myanmar said Wednesday its leader Aung San Suu Kyi will head the legal team contesting a genocide case filed against it in the International Court of Justice over the crackdown on Rohingya Muslims two years ago that set off their exodus to Bangladesh...
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Court’s Conservatives Seem to Back Trump on Immigration
Legal Events 11/13/2019The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seems prepared to allow the Trump administration to end a program that allows some immigrants to work legally in the United States and protects them from deportation.There did not appear to be any suppo...
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Bolivians urge US court to restore $10M verdict on killings
Legal Events 11/12/2019Bolivians asked a U.S. appeals court Tuesday to restore a $10 million jury verdict against a former president and defense minister of the South American nation over killings by security forces during 2003 unrest there.Lawyers for a group of indigenou...