Recent Updates
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Feds: US Supreme Court should turn down 'Bridgegate' appeal
Trial Coverage 05/10/2019The U.S. solicitor general's office has recommended that the U.S. Supreme Court not hear the appeal of two convicted defendants in the "Bridgegate" case, nudging the four-year legal saga of New Jersey's most famous traffic jam toward a conclusion."Fu...
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News attorneys: Opioid distribution data should be public
Trial Coverage 04/30/2019Attorneys for news organizations argued Thursday that the U.S. public should be allowed to see federal data about how prescription opioids were distributed as the nation’s overdose crisis was worsening.They urged a three-judge panel of the 6th ...
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Appellate judge announces run for Supreme Court seat
Trial Coverage 02/01/2019An appellate judge has announced he will run for a spot on the Kentucky Supreme Court days after Justice Bill Cunningham retired.Kentucky Court of Appeals Judge Christopher "Shea" Nickell told The Paducah Sun that he is running in November's election...
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Del. Man Acquitted of Drug Charges Won't Get Seized Money
Trial Coverage 01/02/2019A court has ruled that a Delaware man acquitted of drug charges won't get the thousands of dollars seized in the drug bust back. WBOC media partner the Delaware State News reports that the S...
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Human rights court rules against Greece in Sharia law case
Trial Coverage 12/18/2018Greece violated a prohibition on discrimination by applying Islamic religious law to an inheritance dispute among members of the country's Muslim minority, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Wednesday.The court, based in the eastern French city...
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Indian court orders Briton held during copter bribery probe
Trial Coverage 12/04/2018An Indian court on Wednesday ruled that officials may hold a British man while they investigate him for alleged bribery in a canceled $670 million helicopter deal between India and an Italian defense company.Judge Arvind Kumar allowed Briton Christia...
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EU court adviser: Britain could change its mind on Brexit
Trial Coverage 12/02/2018A top official at the European Union's highest court advised Tuesday that Britain can unilaterally change its mind about leaving the European Union, boosting hopes among to pro-EU campaigners in the U.K. that Brexit can be stopped.Prime Minister Ther...
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Malaysia court to resume Kim Jong Nam murder trial on Jan. 7
Trial Coverage 11/06/2018A Malaysian court on Wednesday set Jan. 7 for two Southeast Asian women charged with murdering the North Korean leader’s half brother to begin their defense, as their lawyers complained that some witnesses were unreachable.A High Court judge in...
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Trump visit stirs debate; massacre defendant in court
Trial Coverage 10/28/2018The man charged in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday, as some members of the Jewish community and others objected to President Donald Trump’s plans to visit, accusing him of contributing to a toxic ...
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Sessions criticizes court order on deposition in census case
Trial Coverage 10/14/2018Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday criticized a court order that allows for the questioning of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on how a citizenship question came to be added to the 2020 census.The court's actions, the attorney general said in a ...
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High court pick Kavanaugh and his carefully constructed life
Trial Coverage 09/01/2018Judge Brett Kavanaugh's life seems as carefully constructed as the Supreme Court arguments he will hear if he is confirmed to the high court. He checks all the boxes of the ways of Washington, or at least the way Washington used to be.He's a team pla...
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N Carolina Supreme Court candidate sues over party label law
Trial Coverage 08/11/2018A North Carolina Supreme Court candidate has made good on his threat to sue Republican legislators to challenge a law finalized over the weekend preventing him from having his party designation next to his name on the November ballot.Chris Anglin fil...