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  • Top court reviews free speech case of man's anti-police rap

    Top court reviews free speech case of man's anti-police rap

    Political and Legal News 01/30/2017

    Pennsylvania'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...

  • Supreme Court to hear case about party in vacant DC house

    Supreme Court to hear case about party in vacant DC house

    Political and Legal News 01/23/2017

    The 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...

  • Ethics measure backers ask high court to let them join case

    Ethics measure backers ask high court to let them join case

    Political and Legal News 01/23/2017

    Supporters 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...

  • Justice Thomas: Honor Scalia by reining in government

    Justice Thomas: Honor Scalia by reining in government

    Political and Legal News 12/08/2016

    Supreme 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 ...

  • Court: Star Chinese investor pleads guilty in stock case

    Court: Star Chinese investor pleads guilty in stock case

    Political and Legal News 12/08/2016

    A 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 ...

  • French court restores far-right candidate's ties to father

    French court restores far-right candidate's ties to father

    Political and Legal News 11/23/2016

    French 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...

  • Hawaii Supreme Court affirms Maui solar telescope permit

    Hawaii Supreme Court affirms Maui solar telescope permit

    Political and Legal News 11/23/2016

    Hawaii'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...

  •  LA Supreme Court considers teen robber’s 99-year sentence

    LA Supreme Court considers teen robber’s 99-year sentence

    Political and Legal News 09/21/2016

    Louisiana’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 ...

  • Egypt court releases lawyer who defied president

    Egypt court releases lawyer who defied president

    Political and Legal News 08/28/2016

    An Egyptian rights lawyer who had been held in solitary confinement for over 100 days after defying President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was released from jail Sunday on a court order.Malek Adly, who was incarcerated on a rolling series of administrative ...

  • Kansas court upholds death sentence for sheriff's killing

    Kansas court upholds death sentence for sheriff's killing

    Political and Legal News 07/28/2016

    The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence imposed against a man who fatally shot a sheriff during a 2005 drug raid. Kansas hasn't executed anyone in more than 50 years, and Friday's decision in Scott Cheever's case is only the...

  • Court won't reinstate church official's conviction

    Court won't reinstate church official's conviction

    Political and Legal News 07/28/2016

    The first U.S. church official convicted over his handling of priest-abuse complaints could soon leave prison after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed Tuesday that his conviction was flawed. Monsignor William Lynn, who served two cardinals at...

  • Court reinstates rape charges despite delay in indictment

    Court reinstates rape charges despite delay in indictment

    Political and Legal News 07/28/2016

    The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated rape and kidnapping charges against a Cleveland man who argued that a 20-year delay in indicting him was unconstitutional.  In a unanimous decision, the court also ordered an appeals court to recons...