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Esra Jung, Sunnyvale, CA Personal Injury Attorney
Headline Legal News 03/17/2023Esra Jung, Sunnyvale, CA Personal Injury Attorney has helped clients recover over $10 million in compensation over 30 years. Trial lawyer with 30 years of experience in personal injury, criminal and general law practice. Expertise in legal research a...
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Executive gets 15 months in prison in doomed nuclear project
U.S. Law Review 03/12/2023A former executive utility who gave rosy projections on the progress of two nuclear power plants in South Carolina while they were hopelessly behind will spend 15 months in prison for the doomed project that cost ratepayers billions of dollars.Ex-SCA...
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German woman risks tougher sentence over Yazidi girl’s death
U.S. Law Review 03/08/2023A German appeals court on Thursday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a German convert to Islam who was given 10 years in prison on charges that, as a member of the Islamic State group in Iraq, she allowed a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husba...
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Mexican president lashes out at Supreme Court chief justice
U.S. Law Review 03/03/2023Mexico’s president lashed out Wednesday at the chief justice of the country’s Supreme Court, accusing her of promoting rulings favorable to criminal suspects.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s comments opened a ne...
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Hobbs doesn’t plan to carry out execution scheduled by court
U.S. Law Review 03/01/2023Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs says corrections officials will not carry out an execution even though the state Supreme Court scheduled it over the objections of the state’s new attorney general.The Democratic governor’s vow not to execute Aaro...
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Judge OK’s Arizona rancher trial in Mexican migrant killing
U.S. Law Review 02/26/2023An Arizona rancher accused of shooting at a group of migrants on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing one man, will face trial on charges including second-degree murder and aggravated assault, a judge ruled Friday.Santa Cruz County Justi...
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Alabama man charged in quadruple killing denied bond
U.S. Law Review 02/23/2023A judge has denied bond for a man accused of killing his grandparents, his brother and a family friend in south Alabama.Jared Smith-Bracy, 21, is charged with four counts of capital murder in the deaths Wednesday night in Daphne. He met briefly with ...
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Pakistani court acquits parents of activist in treason case
U.S. Law Review 02/17/2023A Pakistani court on Wednesday acquitted the parents of an exiled female human rights activist, a defense lawyer said, three years after the couple was arrested on charges of terror financing and sedition.The 2019 arrests of Gulalai Ismail’s pa...
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Spain orders extradition of British alleged hacker to U.S.
U.S. Law Review 02/14/2023Spain’s National Court has agreed to the extradition to the U.S. of a British citizen who allegedly took part in computer attacks, including the July 2020 hacking of Twitter accounts of public figures such as Joseph Biden, Barack Obama and Bill...
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Alabama prison staff shortage worsens despite court order
U.S. Law Review 02/11/2023A federal judge said Friday Alabama prisons remain critically understaffed, with court filings showing the number of officers in state lockups has continued to drop despite a court order to increase numbers.The prison system has lost more than 500 se...
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Pence subpoenaed by special counsel probing Trump
Litigation Regulations 02/07/2023Former Vice President Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel overseeing investigations into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to a person with direct knowled...
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Interior: $580M headed to 15 tribes to fulfill water rights
U.S. Law Review 02/03/2023Fifteen Native American tribes will get a total of $580 million in federal money this year for water rights settlements, the Biden administration announced Thursday.The money will help carry out the agreements that define the tribes’ rights to ...