Recent Updates
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Most virus-related restrictions lifted for Kentucky courts
Daily Legal News 05/18/2021Kentucky’s Supreme Court has ended most coronavirus-related restrictions for the state’s court system effective immediately, Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. said Tuesday. The high court entered administrative orders eliminating most heal...
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Judge: Pretrial release OK for man accused in Capitol riot
Daily Legal News 05/14/2021A judge has ruled that one of two Oregon brothers accused in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will be released from custody Friday to a third-party guardian, where he will be on home detention and GPS monitoring pending his trial. U.S. District J...
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UK lawyer fined for defying Heathrow court ruling embargo
Daily Legal News 05/11/2021A British lawyer and climate campaigner was fined 5,000 pounds ($7,070) on Monday after being convicted of contempt of court for a tweet which broke an embargo on a U.K. Supreme Court judgment over Heathrow Airport’s expansion.Tim Crosland, a d...
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Europe’s human rights court finds fault with Polish tribunal
Daily Legal News 05/07/2021The European Court of Human Rights said Friday that Poland’s top court violated a local company’s right to fair trial because a judge on the review panel handling its case had been irregularly appointed to the tribunal.Law experts in Pola...
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Supreme Court rejects defendant’s appeal in 2015 slaying
Daily Legal News 04/21/2021The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the life prison sentence given to a man who plotted the slaying of his ex-girlfriend, a 22-year-old Rapid City woman. Jonathan Klinetobe pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in a deal with prosecutors ...
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Judge: Boston exam schools admissions policy ‘race-neutral’
Daily Legal News 04/17/2021A federal judge has upheld a temporary admissions policy at Boston’s elite exam high schools, ruling against a parents group that said in a lawsuit it discriminated against white students and those of Asian descent.“This court finds and r...
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Capitol stormer who wore ‘I Was There’ shirt to stay in jail
Daily Legal News 04/01/2021A federal judge refused Thursday to set bail for a Texas man who was wearing a T-shirt that said, “I Was There, Washington D.C., January 6, 2021,” when he was arrested on charges he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.U.S. Judge Carl Nicho...
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Appellate court arguments set for Charleston church shooter
Daily Legal News 03/29/2021Attorneys for the man sentenced to federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation are set to formally argue that his conviction and death sentence should be overturned.Oral arguments have been set for...
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Court upholds woman’s $1.8M award in NJ Transit bus attack
Daily Legal News 02/17/2021In a closely divided ruling, New Jersey’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a $1.8 million jury award for a woman who was struck on the head with a bottle while riding a New Jersey Transit bus. The 4-3 decision affirmed that NJ Transit, a publi...
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Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Melton to step down
Daily Legal News 02/12/2021Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold D. Melton announced Friday that he is stepping down on July 1.Melton said in a statement that he doesn’t yet know what he’ll do next, but that he is exploring opportunities “for the next se...
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Justices: California can’t enforce indoor church service ban
Daily Legal News 02/08/2021The Supreme Court is telling California that it can’t bar indoor church services because of the coronavirus pandemic, but it can keep for now a ban on singing and chanting indoors.The high court issued orders late Friday in two cases where chur...
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Supreme Court sides with Germany in Nazi-era art dispute
Daily Legal News 02/03/2021The Supreme Court is making it harder for a multimillion-dollar lawsuit involving centuries-old religious artworks obtained by the Nazis from Jewish art dealers to continue in U.S. courts.The court ruled unanimously Wednesday in a case involving the ...