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Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by a 53-47 Senate vote as the first Black woman to serve on SCOTUS. It's a milestone for U.S. and a victory for President Biden, as he seeks to diversify the federal judiciary
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Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, said he would go in for a seventh interview on Wednesday with the Manhattan district attorney’s office pursuing a criminal investigation into the former U.S. president.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a testimony to the Senate Banking Committee that eliminating women's access to abortion would have ‘very damaging effects’ on the U.S. economy
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Britain’s Prince Harry’s lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mirror newspaper over allegations of phone hacking will go to trial in May, a judge at London’s High Court ruled
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California governor Gavin Newsom said that the state will propose an amendment to 'enshrine the right to choose' in the state's constitution, after a leaked draft suggested that the U.S. Supreme Court is set to overturn abortion rights in the country
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The Justice Department's silence about its search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home is a sign of an investigation being run 'by the book,' former federal prosecutors said
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U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff found that Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, did not present sufficient evidence to win a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, in a case seen as a test of longstanding protections for American media
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U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth held top officials at the Washington, D.C., Department of Corrections in civil contempt, after ruling they violated the civil rights of a Capitol riot defendant by impeding his access to medical care
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SCOTUS ruling upending abortion rights protection is at odds with public opinion. About 71% of Americans say decisions about terminating a pregnancy should be left to a woman and her doctor. This includes three-quarters of women and about two-thirds of men
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Judge Timothy Fancourt of London High Court ruled that Prince Harry's lawsuit alleging unlawful information gathering on behalf of MGN journalists between 1996 and 2011 will go to trial in May alongside the Daily Mirror phone hacking case
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump tried to turn the news of an FBI search of his Florida estate to his benefit, citing the investigation in text messages and emails soliciting political donations from his supporters
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Prince Harry is not criticizing Queen Elizabeth or the royal family over a hacking deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers, his lawyer told the court. He is suing NGN for multiple unlawful acts allegedly committed on behalf of its tabloids
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Jury in Ahmaud Arbery trial finds Travis McMichael guilty of malice murder
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The Trump Organization is set to face a criminal trial on tax fraud charges in New York starting next week. The Manhattan district attorney's office in July 2021 charged the Trump company and its then-CFO Allen Weisselberg with defrauding tax authorities
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Justice Department declines to charge ex-FBI deputy director McCabe
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The SEC has made an 'unprecedented' move to keep the names of its expert witnesses under wraps, Ripple Labs said in a filing in the agency's highly-watched case over the cryptocurrency XRP
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Nevada judge rejects Trump's request for immediate order in lawsuit over votes cast at a Las Vegas polling place last Friday-hearing
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Republican Senator Ted Cruz said the Democratic focus on healthcare and other policy issues showed they were not contesting Barrett's qualifications to serve as a justice.
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Jenna Ellis, who was among the high-profile attorneys involved in the Trump campaign’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, has joined Pennsylvania Republican Doug Mastriano’s gubernatorial campaign as a senior legal adviser, the campaign said
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President Donald Trump will bring his floundering efforts to overturn President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory to a court in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, where another legal setback would likely doom his already long-shot prospects
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Queen Elizabeth knew that Rupert Murdoch's newspapers had been spying on her family and their friends, and authorized her staff to 'draw a line' under the issue, according to an email released in a lawsuit by her grandson Prince Harry
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A special grand jury in Georgia probing former U.S. President Donald Trump's alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat there issued subpoenas to Senator Lindsey Graham and Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani
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Using anatomical diagrams and excerpts from videos of the arrest, Dr. Martin Tobin said the medical evidence contradicted Chauvin’s assertion that Floyd may have died from a drug overdose, and that any healthy person would have died in a similar restraint.
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Britain's Prince William settled a phone-hacking claim against Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper arm in 2020 for a 'very large sum' after a secret deal struck with Buckingham Palace, lawyers for the heir's brother Prince Harry said in court documents
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The Vatican's Academy for Life praised the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on abortion, saying it challenged the whole world to reflect on life issues
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Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the Senate as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court in a milestone for the United States and a victory for President Joe Biden
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A U.S. judge questioned whether members of the Sackler family that owned Purdue Pharma abused the bankruptcy system, as she considers whether to overturn a ruling that shielded the Sacklers from liability over the opioid epidemic
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FBI agents who searched former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida this week removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as top secret, DOJ said while also disclosing it has probable cause to believe he violated the Espionage Act
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John McAfee found dead in prison cell after Spanish high court allows extradition, according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo
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Allen Weisselberg, a longtime executive for Donald Trump is expected to be sent to New York's notorious Rikers Island jail after being sentenced on Tuesday for helping engineer a 15-year tax fraud scheme at the former president's real estate company
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Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was sworn in today to SCOTUS, joins the liberal bloc of a court with a 6-3 conservative majority. Her swearing in as Biden's replacement for retiring liberal Justice Breyer came six days after the court overturned Roe
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'He invited us': Accused Capitol rioters blame Trump in novel legal defense
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On this week’s Legal Lookahead: Donald Trump and two of his adult children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, have agreed to testify starting July 15 in a New York state civil investigation into the former U.S. president's business practices
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King Charles' younger son, Prince Harry, who became the first senior British royal for 130 years to give evidence in court, was awarded 140,600 pounds after the judge agreed he had been targeted by journalists working for Mirror Group Newspapers
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A Texas man who joined the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, was found guilty for his role in the attack,
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A federal appeals court judge appointed by former Republican President Donald Trump argued jurists "must not be afraid of being booed" by issuing rulings unpopular with "cultural elites" and people who consider the U.S. Constitution "trash."
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Attorney regulators in California said they have been investigating John Eastman, who represented former President Donald Trump in a long-shot lawsuit to overturn voting results in four states Trump lost in the 2020 election
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The Manhattan district attorney has convened a new grand jury to weigh potential further charges in a case involving Trump Organization, said a person familiar with the matter
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Julian Assange’s partner, Stella Moris, said a media report that the CIA had plotted to kill or kidnap the WikiLeaks founder was a game-changer in his fight against extradition from Britain to the United States
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Prince Harry is seeking damages of up to 320,000 pounds ($405,000) from Britain's Mirror Group Newspapers, court documents released today revealed as the trial of the royal's phone-hacking lawsuit nears its end
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The U.S. Senate was set to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to serve on
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The SEC's in-house judges violate the U.S. Constitution by denying fraud defendants their right to a jury trial and acting without necessary guidance from Congress, the 5th Circuit ruled
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Fox Rothschild has parted ways with partners Alex Kaufman, who was on President Donald Trump's phone call pressuring Georgia's top election official to "find" votes, and his father Robert J. Kaufman.
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Prince Harry fought to take his phone-hacking lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper arm to trial, asking London's High Court to let him rely on an alleged 'secret agreement' between Britain's royal family and the publisher
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Factbox: Broad U.S. support for abortion rights at odds with Supreme Court's restrictions
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Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead guilty today to his role in a 15-year tax fraud — and he could be required to testify against his former employer at trial.
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Black law deans say the expected confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to
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Breaking: Elon Musk said today his $44-billion deal for Twitter was temporarily on hold, citing pending details on spam and fake accounts
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Biden U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson secures Senate votes necessary to win confirmation; vote ongoing
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DOJ has amassed so much video evidence on the assault on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump supporters that it would take almost nine months, running 24 hours a day, to screen it all.
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The U.S. should end its prosecution of Julian Assange, leading media outlets from the U.S. and Europe that had collaborated with the WikiLeaks founder said, citing press freedom concerns
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A judge has set Jan. 3 for the first pre-trial hearing in the Biden administration's case against Microsoft over its $69 billion bid to take over 'Call of Duty' maker Activision Blizzard
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Breaking: New York Attorney General files lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump, family members and Donald J. Trump Foundation -- court filing
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The expected confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court could prompt a greater number of diverse students — particularly Black women — to pursue a law degree. Here's what legal educators predict: 1/5
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'Aquaman' actor Amber Heard testified for a second day today in the widely followed defamation case brought by her ex-husband Johnny Depp, describing times she said he kicked her in the back and injured her nose when he felt jealous
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The DOJ under a court order gave a federal judge a redacted copy under seal of an affidavit outlining evidence that underpinned the FBI's Aug. 8 search of former President Trump's Florida home for classified records he took with him after leaving office
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President Joe Biden nominated abortion rights lawyer Julie Rikelman, who represented the Mississippi clinic at the heart of the
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The DOJ urged a U.S. judge to block a $2.2 billion merger of two of the 'Big Five' book publishers, saying 'competition matters' and said the industry should not be treated differently from others
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Breaking: New York Attorney General's office says it is investigating whether Trump Organization and Donald Trump improperly inflated value of Trump’s assets on annual financial statements, in order to secure loans and obtain economic and tax benefits--court filing
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Britain's Prince Harry, singer Elton John and other individuals have launched legal action against the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper, alleging phone-tapping and other breaches of privacy, a law firm for some of the group said
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Jury selection is set to begin today in the trial of Tom Barrack, the private equity executive and onetime fundraiser for former President Donald Trump, on charges he acted as a foreign agent without notifying the U.S. government
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Trump and two of his children are set to give depositions in New York's investigation of his company's financial dealings. That and more in this week's Legal Lookahead:
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Trump ally Devin Nunes lost the Washington Post defamation appeal. The D.C. Circuit said Nunes 'does not point to a single statement' that was false or defamatory on its face in the February 2020 article about Russia's desire for Trump to win a second term
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SCOTUS endorses two Republican-backed ballot restrictions in Arizona that a lower court found had disproportionately burdened Black, Latino and Native American voters, handing a defeat to voting rights advocates and Democrats who'd challenged the measures
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