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Saudi court issues final verdicts in Khashoggi killing
Law Reviews 09/07/2020A Saudi court issued final verdicts on Monday in the case of slain Washington Post columnist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi after his son, who still resides in the kingdom, announced pardons that spared five of the convicted individuals from execut...
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Slovakia court set to give verdict in reporter's slaying
Civil Rights 09/03/2020A court in Slovakia is expected to issue a verdict Thursday in the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee, a crime that shocked the country and led a government to fall.The state prosecution has requested 25-year prison terms for thr...
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Huawei, ZTE lose patent appeal cases at UK Supreme Court
Legal Outlook 08/19/2020Britain’s Supreme Court has dismissed two appeals by Chinese telecoms firms Huawei and ZTE over mobile data patent disputes.The disputes center on the licensing of patented technology considered essential to mobile telecoms. The patents are mea...
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9th Circuit ends California ban on high-capacity magazines
Civil Rights 08/15/2020A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday threw out California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, saying the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s protection of the right to bear firearms.“Even ...
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Appeals court sides with teen who spoke out against assault
Civil Rights 08/08/2020A federal appeals court has ruled that a lower court was justified in blocking the suspension of a Maine high school student who posted a note in a bathroom to draw attention to sexual assault.Cape Elizabeth schools suspended Aela Mansmann, then a 15...
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Ohio Supreme Court to hear armed school staff training case
Civil Rights 08/05/2020The Ohio Supreme Court will hear a school district's appeal of a ruling that they must provide police-level training to employees carrying concealed weapons.Madison Local Schools voted to allow armed school employees after a 2016 shooting in which tw...
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Court denies AG's bid to halt initiative signature gathering
Legal Outlook 07/24/2020Those backing a plan to put an independent commission in charge of Oregon’s redistricting process will get additional time to gather signatures and a lower threshold to qualify their initiative for the November ballot because of the pandemic, t...
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Given a chance, Trump would push court pick before election
Civil Rights 07/19/2020President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have tried to make it clear: Given the chance, they would push through a Supreme Court nominee should a vacancy occur before Election Day.The issue has taken on new immediacy with the ...
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No peeking, voters: Court keeps Trump taxes private for now
Civil Rights 07/12/2020Rejecting President Donald Trump’s complaints that he’s being harassed, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a New York prosecutor’s demands for the billionaire president’s tax records. But in good political news for T...
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Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schooling
Featured Articles 07/07/2020States can’t cut religious schools out of programs that send public money to private education, a divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.By a 5-4 vote with the conservatives in the majority, the justices upheld a Montana scholarship program ...
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Ohio to U.S. Supreme Court: Keep signature rules in place
Law Reviews 06/27/2020The state of Ohio continued Monday to defend its right to impose normal signature requirements on ballot issue campaigns amid the global pandemic.Uncertainty over the question prompted a voting-rights campaign to suspend its ballot effort last week, ...
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Supreme Court rules SEC can recoup money in fraud cases
Legal Outlook 06/23/2020The Supreme Court on Monday preserved an important tool used by securities regulators to recoup ill-gotten gains in fraud cases.By an 8-1 vote, the justices ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission can seek to recover the money through a pro...