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A Thai court sentences an opposition lawmaker to 2 years in prison
Litigation Reports 05/29/2024A 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...
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Supreme Court: CFPB funding doesn't violate Constitution
Legal Analysis 05/17/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the CFPB is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court and...
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Litigation Reports 05/09/2024Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.&r...
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Trump faces prospect of additional sanctions for violating gag order
Legal News Headlines 05/05/2024Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president.A visibly i...
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Retrial of Harvey Weinstein unlikely to occur soon, if ever, experts say
Litigation Reports 05/01/2024A retrial in New York of disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein won’t be coming to a courtroom anytime soon, if ever, legal experts said on a day when one of two women considered crucial to his rape trial said she wasn’t sure she w...
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Trump hush money trial: Tabloid publisher David Pecker continues testimony
Litigation Reports 04/26/2024As Donald Trump was running for president in 2016, his old friend at the National Enquirer was scooping up potentially damaging stories about the candidate and paying out tens of thousands of dollars to keep them from the public eye.But when it came ...
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Court will decide if Trump has immunity in election interference case
Legal News Headlines 04/24/2024Supreme Court arguments have begun over whether former President Donald Trump can avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.The justices on Thursday took up for the first time whether a former preside...
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What to know about abortion in Arizona under the near-total 1864 ban
Litigation Reports 04/12/2024The Arizona Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday to prepare to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions, drastically altering the legal landscape for terminating pregnancies in a state likely to have a key role in the presidential...
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The Man Charged in an Illinois Attack That Left 4 Dead Is Due Back in Court
Litigation Reports 04/01/2024A northern Illinois man charged with killing four people and injuring seven others by stabbing, beating and driving over them is expected back in court on Tuesday.A judge in the city of Rockford is expected to consider prosecutors' request that Chris...
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Prosecutors seek from 40 to 50 years in prison for Sam Bankman-Fried
Legal Analysis 03/15/2024FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s orchestration of one of history’s largest financial frauds in his quest to dominate the cryptocurrency world deserves a prison sentence of 40 to 50 years, federal prosecutors on Friday told a federal judge....
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Prince Harry loses a court challenge over being stripped of a UK security detail
Legal News Headlines 02/28/2024Prince Harry ‘s fight for publicly funded protection was rejected Wednesday by a London judge who said the U.K. government didn’t act irrationally when it stripped him of security privileges after he quit working as a member of the royal ...
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Witness at trial recounts fatal shooting of cinematographer by Alec Baldwin
Litigation Reports 02/24/2024Testimony at trial Monday turned emotional and argumentative as an eyewitness recounted the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin during a movie rehearsal and described gun misfires, crew members walking out and a “ludi...