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X announces suspension of Brazil operations, alleging ‘censorship orders’
Legal News Headlines 08/15/2024Social media platform X said Saturday it will close its operations in Brazil, claiming Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest its legal representative in Brazil if they did not comply with orders.X is removing all re...
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Hearing in Karen Read case expected to focus on jury deliberations
Daily Legal News 08/09/2024Defense attorneys for Karen Read are expected to argue Friday that two charges in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend be dismissed, focusing on the jury deliberations that led to a mistrial.Read is accused of ramming into John O’Ke...
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Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court
Opinion 08/05/2024Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a U.N. court to join South Africa’s lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the foreign minister said.Turkey’s ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish legislators, sub...
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Court filings provide additional details of the US’ first nitrogen gas execution
Politics 08/01/2024A corrections officer who helped carry out the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution said in a court document that the inmate had normal blood oxygen levels for longer than he expected before the numbers suddenly plummeted.Another court documen...
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Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect Monday
Daily Legal News 07/26/2024An Iowa judge has ruled the state’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, preventing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from be...
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Court dismisses lawsuit over Tennessee’s anti-drag show ban
Legal News Headlines 07/21/2024A federal appeals court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows, reversing a lower court ruling that deemed the statute unconstitutional and blocked its enforcement in part of ...
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Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison
Legal News Headlines 07/17/2024Albania’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a verdict of the lower courts keeping a former elected mayor from the country’s Greek minority in prison after he was convicted of buying votes.A Supreme Court statement said that it upheld the ver...
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Trump lawyers press judge to overturn hush money conviction
Daily Legal News 07/14/2024Donald Trump’s lawyers are imploring a New York judge to overturn his hush money conviction and dismiss the case, arguing his historic trial was “tainted” by evidence that shouldn’t have been allowed because of the Supreme Cou...
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Special Education Lawyers in Connecticut - Maya Murphy, P.C.
Opinion 07/10/2024Joseph Maya and the attorneys at Maya Murphy, P.C. practice a range of areas of the law including education and special education law,Parental awareness of a child’s special needs is the best way for the child to exceed expectations and achieve...
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Giuliani Disbarred in N.Y. for Wrongdoing During Trump’s 2020 Campaign
Daily Legal News 07/07/2024Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in New York on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.The Manhattan app...
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What to know about the Supreme Court immunity ruling
Litigation Reports 07/01/2024The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday in former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case makes it all but certain that the Republican will not face trial in Washington ahead of the November election.The Supreme Court did not d...
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Israel’s high court orders the army to draft ultra-Orthodox men
Political and Legal News 06/26/2024Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coal...