Recent Updates
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Trump’s tariffs loom over the economy as shipments from China fall
Recent Cases 05/01/2025American businesses are cancelling orders from China, postponing expansion plans and hunkering down to see what trade policy surprises President Donald Trump plans to spring on them next.The president’s massive and unpredictable taxes on import...
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Korea’s truth commission says government responsible for fraud in foreign adoptions
Recent Cases 03/26/2025South Korea’s truth commission concluded the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated...
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Google to pay $700 million to US states, consumers in app store settlement
Recent Cases 12/19/2023Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had been stifling competition against its Android app store — the same issue that went to trial in another case that could result in even big...
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Supreme Court rejects challenge to California pork law
Recent Cases 05/11/2023The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a California animal cruelty law that affects the pork industry, ruling that the case was properly dismissed by lower courts. Pork producers had said that the law could force industry-wide changes ...
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Kansas court wrestles with barring political gerrymandering
Recent Cases 05/18/2022A top Kansas government attorney argued Monday that congressional redistricting is naturally political and that the Kansas Supreme Court shouldn’t try to decide when partisanship goes too far, only to be chastised by one of the justices for mak...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court adopts GOP-drawn legislative maps
Recent Cases 05/08/2022The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday adopted Republican-drawn maps for the state Legislature, handing the GOP a victory just weeks after initially approving maps drawn by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. The court reversed itself after the U.S. Supreme C...
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Judge told release of Insurance info OK in clergy abuse case
Recent Cases 02/18/2022A federal judge has been told that Archdiocese of Santa Fe records that would indicate how much insurance money is available to help pay a settlement of clergy sex abuse claims can be made public if they are redacted to withhold victims’ identi...
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Different court: Maya Moore dedicated to criminal justice
Recent Cases 09/12/2019Maya Moore startled basketball when she stepped away from the WNBA before the season. She has spent a lot of her time trying to help a family friend overturn a conviction.Jonathan Irons has been incarcerated since 1997, convicted in the nonfatal shoo...
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Court: NFL's Bucs not entitled to damages from BP spill
Recent Cases 05/26/2019A federal appeals court has ruled that the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers is not entitled to damages from BP for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.At issue were the accounting practices the team used to argue that the 2010 spill caused the team's reve...
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Utah judge suspended for making anti-Trump comments
Recent Cases 05/23/2019A longtime Utah judge has been suspended without pay for six months after making critical comments online and in court about President Donald Trump, including a post bashing his “inability to govern and political incompetence.”Judge Micha...
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Court frees acclaimed Russian director from house arrest
Recent Cases 04/07/2019An acclaimed Russian theater and film director was freed from house arrest Monday, a verdict that follows longtime calls for his release from prominent cultural figures worldwide.The Moscow City Court overturned a district court’s decision to e...
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Supreme Court set for case on racial bias in jury selection
Recent Cases 03/17/2019Curtis Flowers has been jailed in Mississippi for 22 years, even as prosecutors couldn't get a murder conviction against him to stick through five trials.Three convictions were tossed out, and two other juries couldn't reach unanimous verdicts.This w...