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  • Officials ask court to send Kennedy cousin back to prison

    Officials ask court to send Kennedy cousin back to prison

    Political and Legal 01/26/2018

    Connecticut officials are asking the state's highest court to revoke Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's bail and send him back to prison, reminding justices it has been more than a year since they reinstated his murder conviction.The chief state's attor...

  • Florida man back at Supreme Court with 1st Amendment case

    Florida man back at Supreme Court with 1st Amendment case

    Political and Legal 11/10/2017

    The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a First Amendment case brought by a Florida man who previously won a landmark ruling from the justices on whether his floating home was a house, not a boat subject to easier government seizure under laws t...

  • Trump nominates White House lawyer to important court seat

    Trump nominates White House lawyer to important court seat

    Political and Legal 09/08/2017

    President Donald Trump has tapped one of his own White House attorneys for a judgeship on one of the most important federal appeals courts, opening the door for confirmation hearing questions about the legal controversies that dominated the first sev...

  • France: Court finds topless photos violated royal’s privacy

    France: Court finds topless photos violated royal’s privacy

    Political and Legal 09/07/2017

    A French court ruled Tuesday that photographers and gossip magazine executives violated the privacy of Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge by taking and publishing photographs of the former Kate Middleton sunbathing topless.The court in a Paris subu...

  • Mental health court established for offenders on probation

    Mental health court established for offenders on probation

    Political and Legal 08/23/2017

    A specialized court has been established in Pinal County to give defendants with mental problems an alternative path and keep them out of the criminal justice system.Presiding Judge Stephen McCarville signed an administrative order last month calling...

  • Young leaders of massive 2014 Hong Kong protests get prison

    Young leaders of massive 2014 Hong Kong protests get prison

    Political and Legal 08/23/2017

    A Hong Kong court sent young activist Joshua Wong and two other student leaders to prison Thursday for their roles in huge pro-democracy protests nearly three years earlier, in the latest sign that tolerance for dissent is waning in the Chinese-ruled...

  • Kentucky governor, attorney general clash before high court

    Kentucky governor, attorney general clash before high court

    Political and Legal 08/23/2017

    Kentucky's Democratic attorney general warned the state's highest court on Friday that the accreditation of the state's public colleges and universities would be at risk if they don't take his side against the Republican governor.But an attorney for ...

  • Federal court's agenda has topics that draw Trump's ire

    Federal court's agenda has topics that draw Trump's ire

    Political and Legal 08/07/2017

    The nation’s largest federal court circuit has clashed repeatedly with President Trump over the past six months, and the agenda for its annual meeting is not shying away from topics that have stoked the president’s ire.Immigration, fake n...

  • Trump repeats criticism of court that halted 1st travel ban

    Trump repeats criticism of court that halted 1st travel ban

    Political and Legal 07/23/2017

    President Donald Trump is once again taking aim at a federal appeals court district that covers Western states, saying he is considering breaking up a circuit that is a longtime target of Republicans and is where his first travel ban was halted.Yet i...

  • New Mexico Supreme Court won't restore funds to Legislature

    New Mexico Supreme Court won't restore funds to Legislature

    Political and Legal 07/16/2017

    The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request to override budget vetoes, leaving negotiations about how to solve the state's budget crisis — and restore funding to the Legislature — in the hands of the governor and lawmakers...

  • Newest justice joins high court amid competing caricatures

    Newest justice joins high court amid competing caricatures

    Political and Legal 04/09/2017

    Somewhere between the Republican caricature of the next justice of the Supreme Court as a folksy family guy and the Democrats' demonization of him as a cold-hearted automaton, stands Neil Gorsuch. Largely unknown six months ago, Gorsuch has seen his ...

  • Florida Legislature at "Open War" with State Supreme Court

    Florida Legislature at "Open War" with State Supreme Court

    Political and Legal 03/23/2017

    The Republican-dominated Legislature's tense relationship with the state Supreme Court is hanging over this year's legislative session as lawmakers take up two bills to deal with the aftermath of court rulings that Republicans don't like. One of them...