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132 entries in 'Legal Interview' |
2024/03/08
China’s top court, prosecutors report surging cyberscams
2024/03/01
Supreme Court casts doubt on GOP-led states’ efforts to regulate social media
2024/02/19
Ken Paxton petitions to stop Dallas woman from getting an abortion
2024/02/15
Attorney Jenna Ellis pleads guilty in Georgia election interference case
2024/01/04
Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ruling
2023/12/07
Mexico’s Supreme Court lifts 2022 ban on bullfighting
2023/11/02
Donald Trump Jr. takes the witness stand in fraud trial
2023/10/15
Court upholds judge’s finding that Tesla acquisition of Solar City was fair
2023/08/07
Russian court imposes 3- to 6-year sentences for distributing tainted drinks
2023/07/17
Diversify or die: San Francisco’s downtown is a wake-up call for other cities
2023/06/24
Yale student who reported rape can be sued for defamation
2023/04/07
Court rules documents in Sanford case must be unsealed
2023/01/05
South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down state abortion ban
2022/11/15
Man granted new trial in 2006 triple murder freed after plea
2022/11/07
Jackson, in dissent, issues first Supreme Court opinion
2022/10/20
Ohio governor’s race split by pandemic, abortion, gun rights
2022/10/06
W.Va. Supreme Court hears arguments in school voucher case
2022/09/19
Iran faces US in international court over asset seizure
2022/08/14
Appeals court puts Georgia PSC elections back on ballot
2022/08/02
Family loses Supreme Court bid to extend boy’s life support
2022/04/04
Mexico high court OKs preference for state power plants
2021/06/11
Court: Local Wisconsin heath departments can’t close schools
2021/05/19
Brazil police probe environment minister over timber exports
2021/04/23
COVID-19 concerns raised at St. Louis death penalty trial
2021/03/15
Man gets 5 years in prison for arson at Savannah city office
2020/12/08
Raimondo makes historic nomination to state Supreme Court
2020/11/21
Court: Tennessee can enforce Down syndrome abortion ban
2020/11/10
GOP tries again to get high court to ax health care law
2020/10/29
Supreme Court leaves NC absentee ballot deadline at Nov. 12
2020/10/27
High court won’t extend Wisconsin’s absentee ballot deadline
2020/10/11
Supreme Court pick Barrett draws on faith, family for Senate
2020/10/05
High Court Won't Take up Ex-Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis' Case
2020/09/26
Court allows public nuisance suits against 3 Alabama casinos
2020/09/23
Senate GOP plans vote on Trump’s court pick before election
2020/09/17
Flowers, homemade signs by high court in Ginsburg tribute
2020/09/16
'Hotel Rwanda' hero charged with terrorism in Rwanda court
2020/09/14
Court: Trump can end temporary legal status for 4 countries
2020/08/27
Thai court issues new arrest warrant for Red Bull scion
2020/08/15
Arizona landlords ask high court to invalidate eviction ban
2020/06/27
Appeals court orders dismissal of Michael Flynn prosecution
2020/06/15
Court rejects Trump bid to end young immigrants’ protections
2020/06/02
Court to hear arguments on Dayton gunman's school records
2020/05/11
Catholic schools, ex-teachers clash in Supreme Court case
2020/05/09
Blind justice: No visual cues in high court phone cases
2020/03/19
Court affirms conviction in hot-grease injuries to wife
2020/03/16
Court approves PG&E’s $23B bankruptcy financing package
2020/02/14
UK parents lose court appeal to keep baby on life support
2020/01/14
Court reverses $35M verdict against Jehovah’s Witnesses
2020/01/01
Cyprus court finds 19 year-old British woman guilty
2019/11/05
Supreme Court considering whether Trump must open tax returns
2019/09/23
Bulgarian court to eye revoking parole for Australian man
2019/07/20
High court rejects appeal of killer of 4 people in Omaha
2019/07/11
Court to Trump: Blocking Twitter critics is unconstitutional
2019/07/08
Fines, jail, probation, debt: Court policies punish the poor
2019/07/05
Court reviews judge who told woman to 'close your legs'
2019/04/27
Kansas court bolsters abortion rights, blocks ban
2019/04/01
Loughlin, Huffman due in court in college admissions scam
2019/03/13
Detained Saudi women's rights activists brought to court
2019/03/11
Governor says 'no executions' without court-backed drugs
2019/02/06
High court upholds texting suicide manslaughter conviction
2019/02/04
Appellate judge announces run for Supreme Court seat
2019/02/01
Federal court supports man's innocence claim in 1976 death
2019/01/12
California fight on Trump birth control rules goes to court
2019/01/08
Russian court says bobsledder can keep Olympic titles
2018/12/22
A Colorado man of missing Colorado woman in court
2018/12/16
Human rights court rules against Greece in Sharia law case
2018/12/09
Defamation lawsuit against activist continues in state court
2018/12/07
Man accused of killing tourist appears in New Zealand court
2018/12/01
Sri Lanka court orders prime minister to refrain from duties
2018/11/24
Russian court challenges International Olympic Committee
2018/11/21
Court: Reds exempt from tax on promotional bobbleheads
2018/11/16
Lawyer for WikiLeaks’ Assange says he would fight charges
2018/11/14
European court: Russia's arrests of Navalny were political
2018/11/07
Ginsburg, 85, hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall
2018/11/02
Supreme Court agrees to hear Maryland cross memorial case
2018/10/23
Virginia top court to hear 'unrestorably incompetent' case
2018/10/13
New campaign seeks support for expanded Supreme Court
2018/09/17
Sotomayor tells kids: Reading helped me reach Supreme Court
2018/09/13
EU backs ICC after US questions court's legitimacy
2018/08/26
Cities vying for 2020 convention court Democrats in Chicago
2018/07/14
Suspect in 1988 killing of Indiana girl, 8, appears in court
2018/06/18
Court makes no ruling in resolving partisan redistricting cases
2018/06/07
Detroit-area couple in court over control of frozen embryos
2018/04/14
Supreme Court again refuses to hear Blagojevich appeal
2018/04/07
Ohio court to decide if ex-player can sue over concussions
2018/04/02
Court: Government can't block immigrant teens from abortion
2018/03/23
Arkansas wants court to dissolve stay for death row prisoner
2018/01/21
Supreme Court: Water rule suits should begin in trial courts
2017/12/28
Ohio court indefinitely suspends law license of ex-judge
2017/12/21
Court convicts British woman of smuggling powerful painkillers
2017/11/16
German Court: Kuwait Airways Can Refuse Israeli Passengers
2017/11/15
Free Speech Is Starting to Dominate the US Supreme Court's Agenda
2017/11/12
Feds head to court to seek dismissal of Twin Metals lawsuit
2017/06/28
Case of gay couple's wedding cake heads to Supreme Court
2017/06/25
Supreme Court limits ability to strip citizenship
2017/06/19
Court: 'JudgeCutie' nickname doesn't ruffle judicial dignity
2017/06/04
Court sides with towns over utilities in tax dispute
2017/06/02
Trump admin asks Supreme Court to restore travel ban
2017/05/17
Court likely to question if Trump's travel ban discriminates
2017/05/08
Trump tabs Minnesota Justice Stras for federal appeals court
2017/03/05
Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake
2017/02/23
Court: Florida Docs Allowed to Ask Patients About Guns
2016/11/18
Supreme Court stays execution of Alabama inmate
2016/11/01
Supreme Court won't hear challenge to FBI fitness test
2016/10/16
Court hearing on potential Ontario ban of Indians name, logo
2016/10/14
Rights group criticizes Polish law of weakening top court
2016/10/12
Iraq's federal court rules against prime minister's reforms
2016/10/02
Appeals court rules against Kansas in voting rights case
2016/09/12
Court rejects challenge to Michigan's emergency manager law
2016/07/06
Court orders release of Chicago police disciplinary records
2016/07/05
Obama rebukes Poland over paralysis of constitutional court
2016/06/14
Court upholds net neutrality rules on equal internet access
2016/05/04
High court seems poised to overturn McDonnell conviction
2016/02/06
NY court agrees to rehear Ex-Goldman board member's appeal
2015/12/22
ACLU to appeal court ruling in Missouri drug testing case
2015/09/01
Burkina Faso court rejects candidate of former ruling party
2015/08/07
Court: Lawsuit over Arkansas killing by cop may proceed
2015/07/18
Court Halts Execution Of Tyler Woman's Killer
2015/07/09
Appeals court upholds parts of Arizona ethnic studies ban
2015/07/03
Oklahoma court to look at blocking Tulsa grand jury probe
2013/03/24
Court considers Calif. prison mental health care
2012/12/20
Bernard Madoff brother to face victims in NY court
2012/08/31
Ohio man pleads not guilty to Pitt threat charges
2012/01/08
Justices criticize EPA's dealings with homeowners
2011/11/04
Court tosses $43M award against Ford in crash case
2011/10/24
Scott+Scott LLP Announces Securities Class Action Lawsuit
2011/05/25
"The Death and Life of American Journalism" by Robert Mc Chesney
2010/09/22
Penny Stock Risks – Caveat Emptor
2008/12/17
Ill. gov's legal woes worsen as fundraisers defect
2008/10/29
DA: Criminal charges possible in boy's Uzi death
2008/03/06
High Profile Local Law Firms Merge
2008/03/05
Civil Rights & the Hawthorne Police Dept & The LAPD
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China’s top court, prosecutors report surging cyberscams
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2024/03/08 16:21
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China saw large increases in arrests and cases of phone and internet scams last year, according to reports presented Friday to the National People’s Congress that stressed the ruling Communist Party’s determination to safeguard national security and public order.
A report issued by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate said the number of cases of computer crimes including social media fraud jumped 36.2% in 2023 and involved 323,000 people.
The sharp increase likely reflects a doubling down on cross-border computer fraud that has resulted in thousands of people, some of them victims of human traffickers who forced them to work for crime rings in remote areas of Myanmar and other neighboring countries, being returned to China.
Indictments of people for telecoms fraud jumped nearly 67% to about 51,000, the report said.
Overall, arrests surged 47% to 726,000 and indictments were up 17.3% to 168,800, the report said. China’s national congress serves mainly a ceremonial role, endorsing policies set by President Xi Jinping and other top leaders of the Communist Party. It is due to end its six-day session on Monday with approvals of reports by Premier Li Qiang and others that set the party’s plans for the year.
As China marks the 75th anniversary of the Oct. 1, 1949, founding of the People’s Republic of China, the party is stressing its determination to fortify its control and protect national security. |
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Supreme Court casts doubt on GOP-led states’ efforts to regulate social media
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2024/03/01 11:11
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The Supreme Court cast doubt Monday on state laws that could affect how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users. The cases are among several this term in which the justices could set standards for free speech in the digital age.
In nearly four hours of arguments, several justices questioned aspects of laws adopted by Republican-dominated legislatures and signed by Republican governors in Florida and Texas in 2021. But they seemed wary of a broad ruling, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett warning of “land mines” she and her colleagues need to avoid in resolving the two cases.
While the details vary, both laws aimed to address conservative complaints that the social media companies were liberal-leaning and censored users based on their viewpoints, especially on the political right.
Differences on the court emerged over how to think about the platforms — as akin to newspapers that have broad free-speech protections, or telephone companies, known as common carriers, that are susceptible to broader regulation.
Chief Justice John Roberts suggested he was in the former camp, saying early in the session, “And I wonder, since we’re talking about the First Amendment, whether our first concern should be with the state regulating what we have called the modern public square?”
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas appeared most ready to embrace arguments made by lawyers for the states. Thomas raised the idea that the companies are seeking constitutional protection for “censoring other speech.”
Alito complained about the term “content moderation” that the sites employ to keep material off their platforms.
“Is it anything more than a euphemism for censorship?” he asked, later musing that term struck him as Orwellian. But Justice Brett Kavanaugh, seemingly more favorable to the companies, took issue with calling the actions of private companies censorship, a term he said should be reserved for restrictions imposed by the government.
“When I think of Orwellian, I think of the state, not the private sector, not private individuals,” Kavanaugh said.
The precise contours of rulings in the two cases were not clear after arguments, although it seemed likely the court would not let the laws take effect. The justices posed questions about how the laws might affect businesses that are not their primary targets, including e-commerce sites like Uber and Etsy and email and messaging services. |
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Ken Paxton petitions to stop Dallas woman from getting an abortion
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2024/02/19 11:15
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A judge on Friday rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ’s attempts to throw out felony securities fraud charges that have shadowed the Republican for nearly a decade.
The decision by state District Judge Andrea Beall, an elected Democrat, keeps Paxton on track for an April 15 trial on charges that he duped investors in a tech startup.
If convicted, Paxton faces up to 99 years in prison. Paxton, who has pleaded not guilty, appeared in the Houston courtroom for the hearing, sitting at the defense table with his attorneys.
“He’s ready for trial … This thing has been pending for eight years. (The special prosecutors) want to dance. Put on your shoes. It’s time to go. Let’s dance,” Dan Cogdell, one of Paxton’s attorneys, told reporters after Friday’s court hearing.
Brian Wice, one of the special prosecutors handling the case, said it was important that Paxton’s case go to trial because “no one is above the law. And that includes Ken Paxton. And that’s why this case matters.”
During Friday’s hearing, the other special prosecutor in the case, Kent Schaffer, announced he was withdrawing ahead of the trial.
After the hearing, Wice said the two prosecutors parted ways after disagreeing over Schaffer’s push to avoid a trial and instead settle the case through pre-trial intervention.
Wice said Schaffer had recently reached out to Cogdell with the offer for pretrial intervention, which is like probation and would ultimately lead to the dismissal of charges if a defendant stays out of legal trouble.
Wice said he doesn’t believe pretrial intervention would have been appropriate because there would be no admission of guilt and no jail time.
“And without an acknowledgment of guilt, to me, that was worse than a slap on the wrist. That was, gee, let’s get you a cocktail, a hot meal, and breath mint. And that wasn’t going to happen on my watch,” Wice said.
Cogdell said Schaffer had reached out to him about the proposal and he would have been happy to resolve the case without a trial and a dismissal of the charges.
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Attorney Jenna Ellis pleads guilty in Georgia election interference case
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2024/02/15 15:53
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Attorney and prominent conservative media figure Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia, tearfully telling the judge she looks back on that time with “deep remorse.”
Ellis, the fourth defendant in the case to enter into a plea deal with prosecutors, was a vocal part of Trump’s reelection campaign in the last presidential cycle and was charged alongside the Republican former president and 17 others with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law.
Ellis pleaded guilty to one felony count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. She had been facing charges of violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO, and soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer, both felonies.
She rose to speak after pleading guilty, fighting back tears as she said she would not have represented Trump after the 2020 election if she knew then what she knows now, claiming that she relied on lawyers with much more experience than her and failed to verify the things they told her.
“What I did not do but should have done, Your Honor, was to make sure that the facts the other lawyers alleged to be true were in fact true,” the 38-year-old Ellis said.
The guilty plea from Ellis comes just days after two other defendants, fellow attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, entered guilty pleas. That means three high-profile people responsible for pushing baseless legal challenges to Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory have agreed to accept responsibility for their roles rather than take their chances before a jury. A lower-profile defendant pleaded guilty last month.
Responding to a reporter’s shouted question in the hallway of a New York City courthouse, where a civil case accusing him of inflating the value of his assets is being held, Trump said he didn’t know anything about Ellis’ plea deal but called it “too bad” and said he wasn’t worried by it.
“Don’t know anything, we’re totally innocent of everything, that’s political persecution is all it is,” he said.
Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead attorney in the Georgia case, used Ellis’ plea to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the racketeering charges Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis brought against all 19 defendants.
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Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ruling
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2024/01/04 12:11
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Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling barring him from the Colorado ballot, setting up a high-stakes showdown over whether a constitutional provision prohibiting those who “engaged in insurrection” will end his political career.
Trump appealed a 4-3 ruling in December by the Colorado Supreme Court that marked the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was used to bar a presidential contender from the ballot. The court found that Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualified him under the clause.
The provision has been used so sparingly in American history that the U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled on it. Wednesday’s development came a day after Trump’s legal team filed an appeal against a ruling by Maine’s Democratic Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, that Trump was ineligible to appear on that state’s ballot over his role in the Capitol attack. Both the Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine secretary of state’s rulings are on hold until the appeals play out.
Trump’s critics have filed dozens of lawsuits seeking to disqualify him in multiple states. He lost Colorado by 13 percentage points in 2020 and does not need to win the state to gain either the Republican presidential nomination or the presidency. But the Colorado ruling has the potential to prompt courts or secretaries of state to remove him from the ballot in other, must-win states.
None had succeeded until a slim majority of Colorado’s seven justices — all appointed by Democratic governors — ruled last month against Trump. Critics warned that it was an overreach and that the court could not simply declare that the Jan. 6 attack was an “insurrection” without a judicial process.
“The Colorado Supreme Court decision would unconstitutionally disenfranchise millions of voters in Colorado and likely be used as a template to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters nationwide,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in their appeal to the nation’s highest court, noting that Maine has already followed Colorado’s lead. |
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