The Supreme Court on Monday held a federal appeals court may hear the claims of two men seeking to have their removal proceedings reopened decades after they were deported for committing drug crimes.
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A federal judge put the House lawsuit for President Donald Trump’s tax returns on hold Friday. Unlike other cases across the country that have ground to a halt, however, this stay relates not to the coronavirus pandemic but to another subpoena facing appellate scrutiny.
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A three-judge panel in the Ninth Circuit Tuesday considered whether a U.S. federal court has jurisdiction over negligence and wrongful death claims brought by hundreds of U.S. sailors exposed to radiation while rendering humanitarian aid in Fukushima, Japan, following a 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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The D.C. Circuit rejected a bid by Whole Foods on Tuesday to winnow a potential $200 million class action over employee bonuses.
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Warily reigniting a lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s tax returns, a federal judge warned the parties Thursday that the separate battle to subpoena White House counsel Don McGahn could waylay the case.
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The Supreme Court on Monday vacated a ruling out of Puerto Rico that set payment and seizure orders over a disbanded pension plan for Roman Catholic school employees.
Read morePeabody Energy Corp. sued the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, claiming it is not subject to its jurisdiction in environmental complaints, in Kanawha County Court.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit gave the Trump administration a cool reception Tuesday as it attempts to quash a lawsuit by Congress in the funding fight over the president’s long-promised border wall.
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Arguing before the highest court of the United Nations, a representative for Equatorial Guinea challenged France’s prosecution of a vice president for the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa.
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A lawsuit California Congressman Devin Nunes filed in Virginia against California-based media giant McClatchy will live to see another day after a judge called Wednesday for more discovery on personal jurisdiction.
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The Ninth Circuit waded into a thorny jurisdictional dispute Wednesday over whether federal or state law governs a spate of city and county lawsuits against oil and gas giants like BP and Chevron.
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Finding that a decades-running dispute over Slovenia and Croatia’s borders falls under international rather than EU law, the bloc’s highest court announced Friday that it lacks jurisdiction to hear the case.
Read moreA federal court in Texas ruled that it lacks jurisdiction to hear an Angolan man’s challenges to his expedited order of removal. The asylum seeker, who was beaten by police and military in his home country because of his father’s political ties, did not understand the translator during his credible fear interview because she did not speak the dialect of Portuguese he does.
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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether Ford must go into courts in Minnesota and Montana to defend itself from claims that it should be held liable for car crashes that left a woman dead and a man with a brain injury.
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With a nod to the endless stream of tweets emanating from the White House, a New York judge refused Friday to nix a defamation lawsuit from an advice columnist who says President Donald Trump raped her.
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The daughter of a man executed 13 years ago for murder does not have legal standing to seek DNA testing of evidence in the case, a Memphis judge ruled Monday, but the judge said the ruling was based on jurisdiction, not on the merits of the claims.
Read moreCall it Schrödinger’s prosecution. Attorneys for a bank charged with the biggest money-laundering scheme to Iran ever alleged in a U.S. court, asserted before a federal judge Tuesday that their Turkish state-run client would not recognize the proceedings.
Read moreNew York’s highest court ruled Tuesday that it lacks jurisdiction to resolve the Cayuga Nation’s long-running internal tribal leadership dispute.
Read moreA government watchdog group blasted a ruling that will keep a defamation lawsuit filed by California Congressman Devin Nunes against Twitter and several users in Virginia state court, warning it could chill free speech.
Read moreFinding she lacks jurisdiction over financial firms and advisers accused of bilking military housing projects out of hundreds of millions of dollars, a federal judge decided Thursday to transfer the case to New York instead of dismissing it for lack of jurisdiction.
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