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  • Supreme Court rejects Turkish bank’s arguments in Iran case

    Supreme Court rejects Turkish bank’s arguments in Iran case

    Litigation Reports 04/20/2023

    The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Turkish bank’s main arguments for dismissing a lawsuit accusing it of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions, but the court sent the case back for additional review.Halkbank, a bank owned by Turkey, had argu...

  • Court rejects governor’s move to dismiss public records suit

    Court rejects governor’s move to dismiss public records suit

    Litigation Reports 04/16/2023

    The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Gov. Kim Reynolds that seeks to require her office to respond to public record requests.The court in a unanimous decision rejected Reynolds’ argument that her office wasn&rsq...

  • After Nashville, Congress confronts limits of new gun law

    After Nashville, Congress confronts limits of new gun law

    Litigation Reports 04/03/2023

    Nine months ago, President Joe Biden signed a sweeping bipartisan gun law, the most significant legislative response to gun violence in decades.“Lives will be saved,” he said at the White House.The law has already prevented some potential...

  • Esra Jung, Sunnyvale, CA Personal Injury Attorney

    Esra Jung, Sunnyvale, CA Personal Injury Attorney

    Litigation Reports 03/17/2023

    Esra Jung, Sunnyvale, CA Personal Injury Attorney has helped clients recover over $10 million in compensation over 30 years. Trial lawyer with 30 years of experience in personal injury, criminal and general law practice. Expertise in legal research a...

  • Executive gets 15 months in prison in doomed nuclear project

    Executive gets 15 months in prison in doomed nuclear project

    Litigation Reports 03/12/2023

    A former executive utility who gave rosy projections on the progress of two nuclear power plants in South Carolina while they were hopelessly behind will spend 15 months in prison for the doomed project that cost ratepayers billions of dollars.Ex-SCA...

  • German woman risks tougher sentence over Yazidi girl’s death

    German woman risks tougher sentence over Yazidi girl’s death

    Litigation Reports 03/08/2023

    A German appeals court on Thursday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a German convert to Islam who was given 10 years in prison on charges that, as a member of the Islamic State group in Iraq, she allowed a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husba...

  • Hobbs doesn’t plan to carry out execution scheduled by court

    Hobbs doesn’t plan to carry out execution scheduled by court

    Litigation Reports 03/03/2023

    Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs says corrections officials will not carry out an execution even though the state Supreme Court scheduled it over the objections of the state’s new attorney general.The Democratic governor’s vow not to execute Aaro...

  • UK couple to remain jailed after baby’s remains found in bag

    UK couple to remain jailed after baby’s remains found in bag

    Litigation Reports 03/01/2023

    A couple whose disappearance sparked a nationwide search in England were ordered to remain in custody Friday after evidence presented during a court hearing revealed that the remains of an infant were found in a garden shed close to where the pair we...

  • Alabama man charged in quadruple killing denied bond

    Alabama man charged in quadruple killing denied bond

    Litigation Reports 02/22/2023

    A judge has denied bond for a man accused of killing his grandparents, his brother and a family friend in south Alabama.Jared Smith-Bracy, 21, is charged with four counts of capital murder in the deaths Wednesday night in Daphne. He met briefly with ...

  •  Spain orders extradition of British alleged hacker to U.S.

    Spain orders extradition of British alleged hacker to U.S.

    Litigation Reports 02/17/2023

    Spain’s National Court has agreed to the extradition to the U.S. of a British citizen who allegedly took part in computer attacks, including the July 2020 hacking of Twitter accounts of public figures such as Joseph Biden, Barack Obama and Bill...

  • Interior: $580M headed to 15 tribes to fulfill water rights

    Interior: $580M headed to 15 tribes to fulfill water rights

    Litigation Reports 02/03/2023

    Fifteen Native American tribes will get a total of $580 million in federal money this year for water rights settlements, the Biden administration announced Thursday.The money will help carry out the agreements that define the tribes’ rights to ...

  • California Supreme Court dumps triple-slaying death sentence

    California Supreme Court dumps triple-slaying death sentence

    Litigation Reports 01/25/2023

    The California Supreme Court on Monday overturned the murder convictions and death sentence for a man who killed three people and committed a series of other crimes in San Diego in 1985.The court ordered a new trial for Billy Ray Waldon, ruling unani...