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  • Court revives Sarah Palin’s libel lawsuit against The New York Times

    Court revives Sarah Palin’s libel lawsuit against The New York Times

    Litigation Reports 08/28/2024

    A federal appeals court revived Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times on Wednesday, citing errors by a lower court judge, particularly his decision to dismiss the lawsuit while a jury was deliberating.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of...

  • X announces suspension of Brazil operations, alleging ‘censorship orders’

    X announces suspension of Brazil operations, alleging ‘censorship orders’

    Legal News Headlines 08/15/2024

    Social 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...

  • Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court

    Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court

    Opinion 08/05/2024

    Turkey 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...

  • Court dismisses lawsuit over Tennessee’s anti-drag show ban

    Court dismisses lawsuit over Tennessee’s anti-drag show ban

    Legal News Headlines 07/21/2024

    A 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 ...

  • Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison

    Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison

    Legal News Headlines 07/17/2024

    Albania’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...

  • Special Education Lawyers in Connecticut - Maya Murphy, P.C.

    Special Education Lawyers in Connecticut - Maya Murphy, P.C.

    Opinion 07/10/2024

    Joseph 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...

  •  What to know about the Supreme Court immunity ruling

    What to know about the Supreme Court immunity ruling

    Litigation Reports 07/01/2024

    The 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...

  • Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons

    Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons

    Legal News Headlines 06/19/2024

    Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.The boy band singer-turned-solo st...

  • Ex-Thailand PM Shinawatra indicted for defaming monarchy

    Ex-Thailand PM Shinawatra indicted for defaming monarchy

    Litigation Reports 06/16/2024

    Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was indicted and arraigned Tuesday on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics. He was granted bail.Thaksin is the unofficial power b...

  • Ippei Mizuhara sports betting case: Shohei Ohtani interpreter pleads guilty

    Ippei Mizuhara sports betting case: Shohei Ohtani interpreter pleads guilty

    Legal News Headlines 06/05/2024

    As an interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara was supposed to bridge the gap between baseball star Shohei Ohtani and his English-speaking teammates and fans as the duo traveled from Southern California to ballparks across the U.S.Instead, Mizuhara exploited the ...

  • Supreme Court gives homeowners another chance in escrow dispute

    Supreme Court gives homeowners another chance in escrow dispute

    Litigation Reports 06/02/2024

    The Supreme Court on Thursday gave homeowners another chance to force Bank of America and other large banks to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts.The court unanimously threw out an appeals court ruling in favor of Bank of America, which has ref...

  • A Thai court sentences an opposition lawmaker to 2 years in prison

    A Thai court sentences an opposition lawmaker to 2 years in prison

    Litigation Reports 05/29/2024

    A Thai court on Monday sentenced a lawmaker from a progressive opposition party to two years in prison after finding her guilty of defaming the monarchy in a speech she made during a protest rally three years ago.Chonthicha Jangrew of the Move Forwar...