Recent Updates
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International court orders reparations for Congo attack
Political and Legal News 04/03/2017The International Criminal Court on Friday awarded symbolic reparations of $250 each to nearly 300 people who lost relatives, property or livestock or suffered psychological harm in a deadly attack on a Congolese village in 2003.Judges also awarded c...
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Supreme Court won't hear Ohio man's Amish hair-cutting case
Political and Legal News 02/24/2017The U.S. Supreme Court won't review the case of the Ohio leader of a breakaway group that was accused in hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish.Defense lawyers challenged the constitutionality of the federal hate crimes law and how a kidnapp...
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German court excludes Jewish brothers from Auschwitz trial
Political and Legal News 02/15/2017A German court has excluded two elderly Jewish American men from joining the trial of a 96-year-old former Auschwitz SS medic, because their mother was not killed in the death camp's gas chambers during the time covered in the indictment.Hubert Zafke...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear open meetings case
Political and Legal News 02/15/2017The Wisconsin Supreme Court is to hear arguments in a case that could give school boards and other governmental bodies a way around the open meetings law.The case up for argument Wednesday focuses on whether meetings of a committee created by employe...
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Top court reviews free speech case of man's anti-police rap
Political and Legal News 01/30/2017Pennsylvania's highest court is reviewing the conviction of a Pittsburgh man for making threats against police in a rap song after he was charged with drug offenses.The Supreme Court on Monday said it would take up an appeal by Jamal Knox, who argues...
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Supreme Court to hear case about party in vacant DC house
Political and Legal News 01/23/2017The Supreme Court will hear a case in which people arrested for having a party in a vacant house sued police for violating their constitutional rights and won.The justices said Thursday they will review lower court rulings in favor of 16 people who g...
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Ethics measure backers ask high court to let them join case
Political and Legal News 01/23/2017Supporters of a voter-approved government ethics overhaul are asking the state Supreme Court to allow them to join a lawsuit challenging the initiative filed by Republican lawmakers.South Dakotans for Integrity, a political committee that supported t...
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Justice Thomas: Honor Scalia by reining in government
Political and Legal News 12/08/2016Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is calling fellow conservatives to continue the work of the late Justice Antonin Scalia to keep the power of the courts and other branches of government in check.Thomas tells 1,700 people at a dinner in honor of ...
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Court: Star Chinese investor pleads guilty in stock case
Political and Legal News 12/08/2016A Chinese court says a star securities trader who was arrested following last year's stock market collapse has pleaded guilty to insider trading and manipulating share prices. The court in the eastern city of Qingdao said in a statement Tuesday ...
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French court restores far-right candidate's ties to father
Political and Legal News 11/23/2016French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen thought she had cut the political cord with her controversial father by expelling him from the far-right party he founded, but a court ruled Thursday Jean-Marie Le Pen still is the National Front's honorary...
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Hawaii Supreme Court affirms Maui solar telescope permit
Political and Legal News 11/23/2016Hawaii's Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed a permit to build a solar telescope on a Maui mountain. The ruling denies a challenge by a group seeking to protect the sacredness of the summit of Haleakala (hah-leh-AH'-ka-lah). The University of Haw...
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LA Supreme Court considers teen robber’s 99-year sentence
Political and Legal News 09/21/2016Louisiana’s Supreme Court is considering whether recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings about juveniles convicted of murder mean a juvenile robber’s 99-year sentence is unconstitutional.Alden Morgan is now 35. He was 17 years old when he held up a couple ...