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Mexico breaks diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid
Trial Coverage 04/08/2024The Mexican president has quickly moved to break off diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former vice president who had sought political asylum there after being indicted on corruption charges.In an ext...
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Abortion rights protesters rally in cities around US
Trial Coverage 05/12/2022Abortion rights protesters rallied in cities around the United States on Saturday, vowing to fight to ensure that abortion remains a legal option for women nationwide.Hundreds gathered in Chicago, Atlanta, Houston and other cities days after a draft ...
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Retired judges will hear divorce cases to clear backlog
Trial Coverage 03/22/2022The Maine court system will assign retired judges to divorce proceedings to clear a growing backlog of more than 6,000 cases that have been delayed since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.The program began last week and will assign the former jud...
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Man convicted of fraudulently seeking $13M in COVID-19 loans
Trial Coverage 02/28/2022A Massachusetts businessman has been convicted of fraudulently seeking more than $13 million in federal coronavirus pandemic relief loans, federal prosecutors said. Elijah Majak Buoi, 40, of Winchester, was convicted Thursday of four counts of wire f...
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Democrats sue to overturn new Kansas congressional districts
Trial Coverage 02/16/2022Democrats sued Kansas officials on Monday over a Republican redistricting law that costs the state’s only Democrat in Congress some of the territory in her Kansas City-area district that she carries by wide margins in elections. A team of attor...
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Supreme Court rejects appeal over press access in Wisconsin
Trial Coverage 12/13/2021The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a conservative think tank over Gov. Tony Evers’ decision to exclude the group’s writers from press briefings. The justices acted without comment Monday, leaving in place lower court rulings th...
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UNC may keep affirmative action in admissions, judge says
Trial Coverage 10/19/2021A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina’s flagship public university can continue to consider race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions, rebuffing a conservative group’s argument that affirmative action disadvantages white an...
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Court rules Catholic school wrongfully fired gay substitute
Trial Coverage 09/06/2021A gay substitute teacher was wrongfully fired by a Roman Catholic school in North Carolina after he announced in 2014 on social media that he was going to marry his longtime partner, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn r...
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US moves to cut backlog of asylum cases at US-Mexico border
Trial Coverage 08/20/2021The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed changing how asylum claims are handled, aiming to reduce a huge backlog of cases from the U.S.-Mexico border that has left people waiting years to find out whether they will be allowed to stay in America...
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Australia's highest court to rule on Pell's appeal next week
Trial Coverage 03/22/2020Australia's highest court will deliver its ruling next week on whether to overturn the convictions of Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic convicted of child sex abuse.The 78-year-old Pell is one year into a six-year sentence for molesting ...
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Court blocks ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy on part of US border
Trial Coverage 03/09/2020In the latest twist on a key Trump administration immigration policy, a federal appeals court said it will prevent the government from making asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings starting next week unless the Supreme Court steps in s...
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Top UK court: Johnson’s suspension of Parliament was illegal
Trial Coverage 09/10/2019In a decision that badly undermines Boris Johnson’s authority, Britain’s highest court ruled unanimously Tuesday that the prime minister broke the law by suspending Parliament in a way that squelched legitimate scrutiny of his Brexit plan...