In interviews with Courthouse News, Belarusian lawyers opened a window into the state of affairs this winter in a European nation still suffering the kind of repression that marked Europe’s Soviet past.
Read moreThree law faculty and a human rights lawyer filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Friday, claiming that the government’s sanctions against the Office of the Prosecutor in the International Criminal Court prevents the plaintiffs from providing legal services to victims of atrocity crimes.
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Hong Kong police on Thursday said they arrested 11 people on suspicion of assisting offenders who are believed to be the 12 Hong Kong activists detained at sea by mainland Chinese authorities while attempting to flee the city last year.
Read moreA federal judge in New York “reluctantly” granted Steven Donziger’s request to postpone his contempt trial, set for Jan. 19, to May 10. Donziger helped indiginous Ecuadoreans win a $9.8 billion verdict against Chevron for polluting the Amazon rainforest.
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Dominion Voting Systems ties Sidney Powell’s bizarre claims about a conspiracy hatched by the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to death threats against its founder and this week’s deadly mob at the U.S. Capitol.
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Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested on a new charge under the national security law on Thursday while an American rights lawyer who was detained in a sweeping crackdown was granted bail.
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A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a former lawyer who reported on the early stage of the coronavirus outbreak to four years in prison on charges of “picking fights and provoking trouble,” one of her lawyers said.
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In the same week it was reported that prosecutors are in talks to obtain Rudy Giuliani’s electronic communications, three Giuliani associates sought to have their federal indictments dismissed on the basis that the evidence against them comes from emails that have attorney-client privilege.
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Home Depot asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to overturn an order requiring it to pay $15.3 million in fees and expenses to lawyers who litigated a class action case against the retailer for a 2014 credit card data breach affecting 56 million customers.
Read moreThe law firm Roth & Roth asked the Monroe County Supreme Court on Monday to force compliance by the city of Rochester with national and state health guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Supreme Court was mostly unanimous Thursday in throwing out a challenge to Delaware’s system of keeping the state’s judicial seats split between the nation’s two major political parties.
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The former FBI lawyer who altered an email so that the bureau could renew a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page urged a federal judge Thursday to keep him out of jail.
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In a fitting development for the final weeks of the Trump administration, a white-shoe New York law firm announced Tuesday that it has hired the former federal prosecutor whose high-profile investigations made him an enemy of the White House.
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A State Bar committee on provisional licensure will recommend that the California Supreme Court waive the bar exam for those who scored 1390 or higher on the exam since July 2015, so long as they practice a certain number of supervised hours under a licensed attorney.
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Missouri’s efforts to reduce the time poor criminal defendants must wait for a public defender are commendable but they don’t make the state’s waiting list constitutional, an ACLU attorney said Wednesday during closing arguments of a two-day bench trial.
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Florida prosecutors have dropped armed robbery charges against NFL cornerback DeAndre Baker, saying their case against him was sullied when counsel for three alleged victims tried to secure a payoff for doctored testimony.
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She may not be the one who brought the charges against environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, but the federal judge tapped to preside over Donziger’s contempt trial will have to surmount bias allegations before the extremely rare court-ordered prosecution can begin.
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The California lawyer who for years made sure white supremacist Tom Metzger made payments on a judgment for his role in the killing of an Ethiopian man studying in the U.S. took no money for himself from the case but ended up with something priceless: a son.
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Attorneys fighting to save the only woman on federal death row from execution next month sued the Trump administration on Thursday after coming down with Covid-19.
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Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti will head to trial come April on charges that he defrauded adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
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