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Actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction in a case that accused him of falsely reporting a hate crime to Chicago police in 2019 has been overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court over prosecutorial issues. Smollett’s case was reviewed by the state high court, which ruled Thursday that the former “Empire” actor should not have been charged after he […]
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Courtroom artist’s drawing ofo Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Rana appearing before Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago’s federal court. File image | Photo Credit: AP Having lost his legal battle in all the lower courts, Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Rana, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, has now knocked on the doors of the […]
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US Supreme Court | Photo Credit: Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday (November 6, 2024) to consider a bid by Meta’s Facebook to scuttle a federal securities fraud lawsuit brought by shareholders who accused the social media platform of misleading them about the misuse of its user data. Also Read: U.S. Senate […]
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A handout picture provided by the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on November 2, 2024, shows him waving to the crowd during a meeting with Iranian students in Tehran. Khamenei vowed to respond to attacks on Iran and its allies. | Photo Credit: AFP PHOTO/HO/KHAMENEI.IR Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday (November 2, […]
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A view of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. File | Photo Credit: AP A Pakistan Parliamentary panel has approved a controversial Bill to increase the number of judges in the Supreme Court from 17 to 25 despite its disapproval by the Opposition lawmakers who termed it an attempt to manipulate the judiciary. ‘The Supreme Court […]
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a meeting in Tehran on October 27, 2024 | Photo Credit: via Reuters The social platform X has suspended a new account on behalf of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that posted messages in Hebrew. The account was suspended early Monday (October 28, 2024) with a brief […]
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump. | Photo Credit: AP A win for former President Donald Trump in the coming U.S. presidential election could see the conservatives in the country’s Supreme Court retain control for the coming decades. Conservatives already have a supermajority on the Supreme Court as a result of Mr. Trump’s first […]
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A Bangladeshi soldier stands guard at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh | Photo Credit: AFP Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Sunday (October 20, 2024) reinstated the Supreme Judicial Council with authority to investigate allegations of judicial misconduct, while upholding its previous ruling that declared the 16th constitutional amendment, which transferred the power of removing judges to […]
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CAPITAL CASE By Amy Howe on Oct 17, 2024 at 6:44 pm The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, where Roberson was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday evening. (Mark via Flickr) This article was updated on Oct. 18 at 9:07 a.m. The Supreme Court on Thursday evening refused to stop the execution […]
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An unusual legal move bought more time for a Texas man who was set to be executed on Thursday evening. A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers, who said Robert Roberson was actually innocent and shouldn’t be executed, issued a subpoena for the death row inmate. Roberson was convicted of the capital murder of his 2-year-old […]
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