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Rock icon Cliff Richard wins UK High Court privacy case
Politics 07/18/2018British rock icon Cliff Richard has won his privacy case against the BBC for its coverage of a police raid at his home and has been awarded more than 200,000 ($260,000) in damages.Richard had sued the broadcaster for its coverage of the 2014 raid, wh...
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Audit: 'Pervasive lack of accountability' in Kentucky courts
Politics 07/12/2018In 2016, Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts was looking for office space for newly-elected Supreme Court Justice Sam Wright. They got two offers: One would cost more than $59,000 a year and require extensive renovations. The other space w...
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Russian court rules in favor of oligarch in disclosure case
Politics 07/07/2018A Russian court has ruled in favor of a billionaire linked to President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort in an unauthorized disclosure of information case.Oleg Deripaska had filed a suit against Anastasia Vashukevich, a woman who ...
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Retailers hope for certainty as Supreme Court hears tax case
Politics 04/10/2018Retailers are hoping for a resolution this year from the Supreme Court, which hears arguments Tuesday in a decades-old dispute: Whether companies must collect sales tax on items sold in a state where they don't have a store or other building.If the c...
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Malaysia's top court annuls unilateral conversions of minors
Politics 02/02/2018Malaysia's top court in a landmark decision says both parents must consent to the religious conversion of a minor, ruling in favor of a Hindu woman whose ex-husband converted their three children to Islam.M.Indira Gandhi became caught in a high-profi...
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Human rights group accuses Guatemalan courts of delays
Politics 11/20/2017An international human rights group says Guatemalan courts are foot- dragging on high-profile cases and threatening the work of the country's prosecutors and a U.N. anti-corruption commission.Human Rights Watch analyzed eight major cases that have bo...
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Steve Mostyn, Houston attorney and major Dem donor, dies
Politics 11/20/2017Steve Mostyn, a prominent Houston trial attorney and a top Democratic Party donor, has died. He was 46.In a statement, his family confirmed Thursday his death on Wednesday "after a sudden onset and battle with a mental health issue.""Steve was a belo...
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Challenge filed in court to Australian gay marriage ballot
Politics 08/17/2017Gay-rights advocates filed a court challenge Thursday to the government's unusual plan to canvass Australians' opinion on gay marriage next month, while a retired judge said he would boycott the survey as unacceptable.The mail ballot is not binding, ...
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Mental health court established for offenders on probation
Politics 08/17/2017A specialized court has been established in Pinal County to give defendants with mental problems an alternative path and keep them out of the criminal justice system.Presiding Judge Stephen McCarville signed an administrative order last month calling...
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Court likely to question if Trump's travel ban discriminates
Politics 05/17/2017For the second time in a week, government lawyers will try to persuade a federal appeals court to reinstate President Donald Trump's revised travel ban — and once again, they can expect plenty of questions Monday about whether it was designed to disc...
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Conservatives fault Arkansas court for halting executions
Politics 04/23/2017Arkansas' attempt to carry out its first execution in nearly 12 years wasn't thwarted by the type of liberal activist judge Republicans regularly bemoan here, but instead by a state Supreme Court that's been the focus of expensive campaigns by conser...
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Political fights over Supreme Court seats nothing new
Politics 04/03/2017Wondering when Supreme Court nominations became so politically contentious? Only about 222 years ago — when the Senate voted down George Washington's choice for chief justice. "We are in an era of extreme partisan energy right now. In such a moment, ...