The Hanoi People's Court of Vietnam on Monday sentenced former politburo member Dinh La Thang to 13 years in prison for embezzlement and violation of state regulations. Thang had served as an executive for PetroVietnam (PVN),...
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Vietnam court sentences senior political official to 13 years in prison
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Supreme Court grants expedited consideration of DACA case
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Montana becomes first state with net neutrality mandate after FCC repeal
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Vermont becomes first state to legalize recreational marijuana via legislation
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Spain Supreme Court refuses to reinstate warrant for Catalan ex-president’s arrest
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Military judge finds no violation for destruction of CIA ‘black site’
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court strikes down congressional districting plan as unconstitutional
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Supreme Court rules federal district courts retain jurisdiction over EPA clean water rule
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Supreme Court rules ‘toll’ means ‘stop the clock’ in federal jurisdiction statute
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Supreme Court agrees to hear frog habitat case
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The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the Department of Justice's (DOJ) motion to expedite consideration of a petition for direct review of a trial court injunction blocking the termination of the Deferred Action...
Montana governor Steve Bullock signed an executive order on Monday that will make companies provide nondiscriminatory internet services in order to obtain a contract within the state. The executive order takes effect starting July 1, 2018. Soon, Montana telecommunications...
Vermont became the ninth state to legalize recreational marijuana and the first to do so by legislation on Monday after Phil Scott signed the bill passed earlier this month. The law legalized possession of marijuana equal to one...
The Supreme Court of Spain on Monday refused to reissue the arrest warrant for Catalan ex-president Carles Puigdemont. Puigdemont fled Spain in October after the Spanish government overtook Catalonia. He...
Military judge James Pohl ruled on Friday that no wrongdoing occurred when the prosecution destroyed a CIA secret prison, or "black site," on Pohl's orders. At the time Pohl gave the prosecution permission to destroy the...
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on Monday struck down the Congressional Redistricting Act of 2011 as violating the state constitution. The plaintiffs in the League of Women Voters v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania accused...
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense that cases litigating the Clean Water Act should be heard by federal district courts. At issue...
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday in Artis v. District of Columbia that the "instruction to 'toll' a state limitations period means to hold it in abeyance, i.e., to stop the clock." The...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari on Monday in an environmental case. Weyerhaeuser Co. v. US Fish & Wildlife Service concerns the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to preserve the the "dusky...
