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  Senate begins final day of Supreme Court nominee hearings

  Litigation Reports 09/04/2018

  Senators began the fourth and final day of hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Friday, but with the nominee finished answering questions the day they seemed unlikely to alter his path to confirmation.Senate Democrats worked into the...

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  Trump taking Supreme Court fight to Montana, North Dakota

  Litigation Reports 09/02/2018

  President Donald Trump is taking the Washington debate over his Supreme Court nominee to the homes of two red-state Senate Democrats this week, elevating Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation as a political litmus test for voters.Trump's strategy aims...

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  Court: Cities can't prosecute people for sleeping on streets

  Court Watch 09/01/2018

  Cities can't prosecute people for sleeping on the streets if they have nowhere else to go because it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, which is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided ...

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  Court extends detention of Cambodian opposition leader

  Notable Attorneys 08/30/2018

  A court in Cambodia has extended by six months the pre-trial detention of Kem Sokha, the leader of the now-dissolved main opposition party who already has been held for a year on a treason charge.One of Kem Sokha's lawyers says the court ruled Thursd...

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  Indian Supreme Court orders house arrest for activists

  U.S. Court News 08/28/2018

  India's top court ordered Wednesday that five prominent rights activists arrested for alleged Maoist links be kept under house arrest instead of police custody until it rules next week on a petition challenging their detention.Police, meanwhile, brok...

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  Israel's Supreme Court sentences tycoon to 3 years in prison

  Recent Cases 08/26/2018

  Israel's Supreme Court has sentenced one of the country's most prominent businessmen to three years in prison for securities fraud.The court ruled Wednesday that former IDB Holding Corp. controlling shareholder Nochi Dankner will begin serving his pr...

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  Plea hearing set for ex-West Virginia Supreme Court justice

  Bar Associations 08/25/2018

  A retired West Virginia Supreme Court justice is now a convicted felon.Menis Ketchum pleaded guilty to a felony count of fraud related to his personal use of a state vehicle and gas fuel card in a scandal that has led to upcoming impeachment trials f...

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  West Virginia House speaker resigns to run for Supreme Court

  Recent Cases 08/24/2018

  West Virginia's Republican House speaker resigned Tuesday to run for a vacancy on the state Supreme Court, fueling accusations by Democrats that an unprecedented move to impeach state Supreme Court justices represents a power grab by GOP lawmakers.Sp...

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  Trump lashes out at his former lawyer after guilty plea

  Recent Cases 08/23/2018

  Facing a growing threat to his presidency, President Donald Trump lashed at his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, a day after the onetime "fixer" implicated Trump in a campaign cover-up to buy the silence of women who said they had sexual relatio...

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  Court document details moments before fatal police shooting

  Legal Networks 08/14/2018

  Investigators say a man fired gunshots into a bedroom wall and pointed a gun at his roommate before he was fatally shot by St. Paul police.A search warrant filed Tuesday by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension contains details about the mome...

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  Immigration cases tossed in fallout from high court ruling

  Legal Solutions 08/11/2018

  Immigration courts from Boston to Los Angeles have been experiencing fallout from a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that has caused some deportation orders to be tossed and cases thrown out, bringing more chaos to a system that was already besiege...

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  Nevada high court gets flurry of filings in execution case

  Trial Coverage 08/11/2018

  Two drugmakers asked the Nevada Supreme Court on Monday to let a state court judge hear arguments before justices take up an appeal about whether the state can use their products for an execution.The companies "and the citizens of Nevada have a subst...