Recent Updates
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Judges: End jailing people for unpaid fines in Rock County
U.S. Supreme Court News 11/06/2019When a court case is ending, a judge often lists what a defendant needs to do and know.It can include contacting a probation agent, not possessing a gun or avoiding the use of drugs or alcohol.One routine item usually on the list is paying court cost...
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French court postpones ruling on cement firm Lafarge case
U.S. Supreme Court News 10/24/2019A French court has postponed until Nov. 7 a decision on whether to uphold preliminary charges against French cement manufacturer Lafarge, including "complicity in crimes against humanity."The decision comes as the Paris appeal court on Thursday ruled...
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Arkansas judge: Court to hear 19 adoption scheme cases
U.S. Supreme Court News 10/13/2019An Arkansas judge says his court will decide individual outcomes in 19 adoption cases involving an Arizona official accused of human smuggling.Paul Petersen, a Republican assessor of an Arizona county, was arrested Tuesday and charged with human smug...
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Supreme Court to begin new term: About the top cases
U.S. Supreme Court News 10/07/2019The biggest cases before the Supreme Court are often the last ones to be decided, and the focus on the court will be especially intense in June, just a few months before the 2020 election.President Donald Trump first announced his intention in 2017 t...
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Dutch Supreme Court asked to clarify euthanasia case
U.S. Supreme Court News 09/30/2019Prosecutors have asked the Netherlands' Supreme Court to clarify legal matters in a landmark euthanasia case, saying Thursday they want to lay down unambiguous jurisprudence for the future.The Public Prosecution Service said by instituting "cassation...
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Activist loses UK court case on police facial recognition
U.S. Supreme Court News 09/11/2019A British court ruled Wednesday that a police force's use of automated facial recognition technology is lawful, dealing a blow to an activist concerned about its implications for privacy.Existing laws adequately cover the South Wales police force's d...
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Court rules Rams lawsuit can be heard in St. Louis courtroom
U.S. Supreme Court News 09/10/2019The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that a lawsuit filed over the Rams' departure from St. Louis will be heard in a St. Louis courtroom, a defeat for the NFL team's owner who sought to send the case to arbitration.The court issued its ruling Tuesday...
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Gun-control backers concerned about changing federal courts
U.S. Supreme Court News 08/11/2019California has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, including a ban on the type of high-capacity ammunition magazines used in some of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings.How long those types of laws will stand is a growing concern amo...
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Democratic governor getting to shape Kansas' top court
U.S. Supreme Court News 07/29/2019The Kansas Supreme Court's chief justice plans to retire before the end of the year, allowing first-year Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly to leave a bigger mark on the state's highest court than her conservative Republican predecessors.Chief Justice Lawto...
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Italian court rules wrong Eritrean accused of trafficking
U.S. Supreme Court News 07/13/2019A court in Palermo, Sicily, ruled on Friday that the wrong Eritrean man was arrested and tried as a migrant smuggling kingpin and ordered him released from jail, to the jubilation of international supporters who had championed for years the defendant...
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Trump asks Supreme Court to unfreeze border wall money
U.S. Supreme Court News 07/13/2019The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to lift a freeze on Pentagon money it wants to use to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.Two lower courts have ruled against the administration in a lawsuit over the funding. Last we...
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Oregon city stops jailing poor who can't pay court debts
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/16/2019The eastern Oregon city of Pendleton has stopped jailing people unable to pay fines, a city official said, following the settlement of a federal lawsuit contending city officials were running a debtors' prison.The East Oregonian reports in a story on...