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Martin Shkreli cries in court, is sentenced to 7 years for securities fraud
Recent Cases 03/16/2018The smirk wiped from his face, a crying Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud Friday in a hard fall for the pharmaceutical-industry bad boy vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.Shkreli, the boyis...
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Czech top court delays alleged Russian hacker extradition
Legal Issues 03/11/2018The Czech Republic's top court said Tuesday it has delayed the extradition of an alleged Russian hacker until it deals with a last-ditch complaint filed by him.It means that the justice minister can't finalize Yevgeniy Nikulin's extradition until the...
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Cambodian court denies opposition leader release on bail
National News 03/06/2018Cambodia's Supreme Court has denied bail for an opposition leader charged with treason who is seeking to be released for medical treatment abroad.The court ruled Friday that Kem Sokha must remain in pretrial detention for his own safety and because t...
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Former Trump campaign aide Nunberg at court for grand jury
Litigation Reports 03/06/2018A former Trump campaign aide appeared for hours before a federal grand jury Friday, after he defiantly insisted in a series of news interviews just days earlier that he intended to defy a subpoena in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigat...
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Appeals court weighs resuming pipeline project in Louisiana
Legal Issues 03/06/2018A company building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana is asking a federal appeals court to allow it to resume construction work in an environmentally fragile swamp.A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arg...
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California parents face new charges in kids' torture case
Legal Issues 02/22/2018A Southern California couple suspected of starving and shackling some of their 13 children pleaded not guilty Friday to new charges of child abuse.David and Louise Turpin previously entered not-guilty pleas to torture and a raft of other charges and ...
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Pennsylvania congressional map battle lands in Supreme Court
Ethics 02/18/2018A request by Republican leaders in the Pennsylvania Legislature to stop a new congressional map from being implemented is now in the hands of the nation's highest court.The filing made late Wednesday asked Justice Samuel Alito to intervene, saying th...
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Supreme Court declines to take up 'Dreamers' case for now
Legal Issues 02/16/2018The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's highly unusual bid to bypass a federals appeals court and get the justices to intervene in the fate of a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation....
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Organized labor case goes in front of Supreme Court
Legal Events 02/16/2018The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that could deal a painful financial blow to organized labor.All eyes will be on Justice Neil Gorsuch Monday when the court takes up a challenge to an Illinois law that allows unions representing govern...
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Court: Idaho nuclear waste documents won't be made public
Headline Legal News 02/08/2018U.S. officials don't have to provide details about proposed shipments of extremely radioactive spent commercial nuclear fuel to the country's top government nuclear research laboratory in Idaho, a federal court has ruled.The ruling was a major setbac...
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Supreme Court blocks some redrawn North Carolina districts
National News 02/06/2018The U.S. Supreme Court told North Carolina officials late Tuesday they must use some but not all of the state's legislative districts that other federal judges redrew for this year's elections.The justices partially granted the request of Republican ...
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Court allows Pennsylvania to redraw GOP-favored district map
Notable Attorneys 02/05/2018Justice Samuel Alito, who handles emergency appeals from Pennsylvania, rejected the request from GOP legislative leaders and voters to put on hold an order from the state Supreme Court intended to produce new congressional districts in the coming two...