Recent Updates
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Trump Foundation lawsuit paused until higher court weighs in
Focused Practice 10/25/2018A New York judge on Thursday mothballed a lawsuit over President Donald Trump's charitable foundation until a higher court rules in an unrelated case whether a sitting president can be sued in state court.State Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla...
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Judge: Michael Avenatti must pay $4.85M in ex-lawyer's suit
Legal Review 10/24/2018Porn actress Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti must pay $4.85 million to an attorney who worked at his former law firm, a California judge ruled Monday in an order that holds the potential presidential candidate personally liable in a lawsuit o...
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Supreme Court: Ross can't be questioned in census suit
Legal Interview 10/22/2018The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration to block the questioning of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross about his decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.The unsigned order Monday overrides lower federal courts in New Y...
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Maldives court overturns prison term for ex-president
Politics 10/20/2018A high court in the Maldives on Thursday overturned a prison sentence for the country's former strongman, who had been jailed for not cooperating with a police investigation into allegations he was trying to overthrow the government.The court set asi...
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Court to hear case over ID of Texas execution drug supplier
Daily Legal News 10/20/2018The Texas Supreme Court has reversed itself and granted the state's request to review a case dealing with the disclosure of an execution drug supplier that officials have fought for years to keep secret.The Texas Supreme Court on Friday approved the ...
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Supreme Court hopeful had DWI charge in 2009
Focused Practice 10/18/2018A candidate for the North Carolina Supreme Court pleaded guilty more than nine years ago to trespassing and driving while impaired.The Charlotte Observer reports Republican Chris Anglin was stopped by police in Greensboro in January 2009 and charged ...
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Supreme Court wrestles with case on detention of immigrants
Daily Legal News 10/11/2018The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with a case about the government’s ability to detain certain immigrants after they’ve served sentences for committing crimes in the United States. Several justices expressed concerns with the governmen...
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Kavanaugh to attend White House event, as elections loom
Legal News 10/05/2018New Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is returning to the White House for a televised appearance Monday with President Donald Trump less than a month before pivotal congressional elections.Kavanaugh will take part in an entirely ceremonial sweari...
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Court to explore competency claim of ailing Alabama inmate
Politics 10/01/2018The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in the case of an inmate sentenced to death for killing an Alabama police officer in 1985 but who lawyers say can no longer remember the murder because of stroke-induced dementia.Justices will decide...
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Supreme Court won't hear case over California beach access
Daily Legal News 10/01/2018The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from a California billionaire who doesn't want to open a road on his property so that the public can access a beach.The justices said that they will not take up Vinod Khosla's appeal of a Californ...
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Flake stokes presidential speculation as court debate rages
Practice Legal News 09/28/2018The Republican senator who suddenly sits at the center of the explosive debate over President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick was set to address New Hampshire voters on Monday ahead of a possible run for president.Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake was schedu...
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Bill Cosby's day of reckoning arrives in court
Daily Legal News 09/25/2018The woman Bill Cosby was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting said in a statement released at the comedian's sentencing Tuesday that she has had to cope with years of anxiety and self-doubt that have left her "stuck in a holding pattern."And...