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UK sanctions Russia commanders, Iran businessmen following strikes on Ukraine territory
The UK Wednesday announced 16 new sanctions against Russian commanders and Iranian businessmen in response to missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. The sanctions are in response to the continuing Russian occupation and seizu (More) |
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Supreme Court wraps up final argument session of term with travel ban case
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Trump v. Hawaii [transcript, PDF; audio], challenging the latest version of President Donald Trump's ban on entry to the US from certain Muslim-majority countries. When granting certiorari (More) |
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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 17 February 2018
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, indicted 13 Russian citizens and three Russian organizations for interfering in the 2016 US presidential election. Nine local government and health care o (More) |
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Fourth Circuit upholds preliminary injunction of third Trump travel ban
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a lower court's preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of US President Donald Trump's most recent travel ban . The appellate court concluded, based on "official statements from Preside (More) |
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Supreme Court to review challenge to latest travel ban
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in Trump v. Hawaii , a challenge to the latest version of the so-called travel ban. The court agreed to consider the following questions presented by the government:1. Whether respondents' challen (More) |
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to approve third version of 'travel ban'
The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court Friday to uphold the third version of the administration's travel ban . This petition comes just over a week after the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction against t (More) |
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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 30 December 2017
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: A judge on Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court on Friday ruled that those challenging the state's 2011 congressional map in League of Women Voters v. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit u (More) |
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Ninth Circuit upholds injunction against third travel ban
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction against President Trump's third travel ban last Friday. The three-judge panel stated that under the Immigration and Nationality Act , the President must first "make a legally suffic (More) |
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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 9 December 2017
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: California's Public Counsel partnered with Morrison & Foerster on Tuesday to file a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Los Angeles claiming the state has failed to uphold its suggested standards for (More) |
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Supreme Court allows enforcement of revised travel ban
The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed enforcement of the Trump administration's revised travel ban pending further court proceedings. Here is the order staying the lower court decision in Trump v. Hawaii , currently pending before the Ninth Circ (More) |
John Jay born
John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the state of New York, co-author of the Federalist Papers and first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was born on December 12, 1745.
Read a biographical sketch of John Jay, and pay a virtual visit to the John Jay Homestead, to which he retired in 1801.
