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Indian Supreme Court orders house arrest for activists
U.S. Court News 08/28/2018India'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 08/26/2018Israel'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 08/25/2018A 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 08/24/2018West 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 08/23/2018Facing 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 won't remove judge, tells Meek Mill to appeal ruling
U.S. Supreme Court News 08/22/2018The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has denied a motion from rapper Meek Mill to remove a Philadelphia judge from his case after she denied his request for a new trial.The court said Tuesday Mill's attorneys must go through the regular process of appealin...
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Sen. Collins, potential swing vote, meets with Kavanaugh
U.S. Courts Newsroom 08/20/2018Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh met Tuesday with Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a centrist who's seen as a potential swing vote on his confirmation, while Democrats push him to release more documents from his years in the George W. Bus...
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Lawyers will seek to shift blame for warehouse fire at trial
U.S. Courts Newsroom 08/19/2018Lawyers for the two men charged in the Northern California warehouse fire that killed 36 people said Friday they are now preparing for a trial where they will try to shift blame for the blaze from their clients to others, including the building's own...
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Alabama Supreme Court won't move lawsuit against Moore
U.S. Supreme Court News 08/19/2018The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday refused to transfer a defamation lawsuit against former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore by a woman who says Moore molested her decades ago.The court denied Moore's request to have the case heard in Etowah County in...
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California high court rules for immigrant kids in visa fight
News Releases 08/17/2018The California Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for some immigrant children who are abused or abandoned by a parent to seek a U.S. visa to avoid deportation in a ruling that advocates said would help thousands of children.State judges cannot ...
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Court document details moments before fatal police shooting
Legal Networks 08/14/2018Investigators 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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Ugandan pop star, a government critic, faces military court
Opinion 08/14/2018A pop singer and prominent critic of Uganda's government was charged with unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition in a military court on Thursday for his alleged role in clashes in which the longtime president's motorcade was attacked by peopl...