Recent Updates
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Trump, Biden lawyer up, brace for White House legal battle
Daily Legal News 10/24/2020President Donald Trump’s and Democratic rival Joe Biden’s campaigns are assembling armies of powerful lawyers for the possibility that the race for the White House is decided not at the ballot box but in court. They have been engaging in ...
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Health care law on line at court, but is it likely to fall?
Daily Legal News 10/13/2020To hear Democrats tell it, a Supreme Court with President Donald Trump’s nominee Amy Coney Barrett could quickly get rid of the law that gives more than 20 million Americans health insurance coverage. But that’s not the inevitable outcome...
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High court nominee served as ‘handmaid’ in religious group
Daily Legal News 10/09/2020Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served as a “handmaid,” the term then used for high-ranking female leaders in the People of Praise religious community, an old directory for the group’s members shows.Barrett has thus far refu...
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High court reinstates S. Carolina ballot witness requirement
Daily Legal News 10/06/2020The Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a requirement that South Carolina voters using absentee ballots in November’s election get a witness to sign their ballots.Democrats had sought to have the requirement put on hold because of the coronaviru...
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High Court Won't Take up Ex-Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis' Case
Daily Legal News 10/05/2020The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that allowed a lawsuit to move forward against a Kentucky clerk who was jailed in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.The high court said Monday it would not take the cas...
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Supreme Court to stick with arguments via telephone, for now
Daily Legal News 09/17/2020The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will start its new term next month the way it ended the last one, with arguments by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic and live audio available to the public.With 87-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ...
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WikiLeaks’ Assange to fight US extradition bid in UK court
Daily Legal News 09/09/2020WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to fight for his freedom in a British court after a decade of legal drama, as he challenges American authorities’ attempt to extradite him on spying charges over the site’s publication of secret U.S...
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Alaska Supreme Court rules bonding plan is unconstitutional
Daily Legal News 09/05/2020The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday rejected as unconstitutional former Gov. Bill Walker’s proposal to use bonding to pay Alaska’s oil and gas tax credit obligations. The court, in a written ruling, said the plan, which was approved by the...
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California justices toss death penalty for Scott Peterson
Daily Legal News 08/29/2020Scott Peterson’s conviction for killing his pregnant wife will stand, but the California Supreme Court on Monday overturned his 2005 death sentence in a case that attracted worldwide attention. The justices cited “significant errors&rdquo...
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Huawei, ZTE lose patent appeal cases at UK Supreme Court
Daily Legal News 08/26/2020Britain’s Supreme Court has dismissed two appeals by Chinese telecoms firms Huawei and ZTE over mobile data patent disputes.The disputes center on the licensing of patented technology considered essential to mobile telecoms. The patents are mea...
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Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence
Daily Legal News 08/05/2020A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases.A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Cir...
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Malaysian ex-PM Najib arrives in court for graft verdict
Daily Legal News 08/03/2020Ex-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak arrived at court Tuesday for a verdict in the first of several corruption trials linked to the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund.The outcome is widely seen as a test of the rule of l...