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Prince Harry has lost a legal bid aimed at allowing him to pay the UK for additional police protection while in the country.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” Planned Parenthood CEO and President Alexis McGill Johnson stated that while she strongly opposes the ruling by a federal judge in Texas on the abortion pill mifepristone, ignoring the ruling — an idea

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reacted to a federal court ruling invalidating FDA approval of an abortion pill by stating that “the Biden administration should ignore this ruling.” Ocasio-Cortez said, “I think we’ve been preparing

A 21-year-old man has been jailed for manslaughter in progressive Ireland after he killed a violent home invader as a teenager.

China’s entire court system has adopted artificial intelligence (AI) software that is used in determining “every verdict,” the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Wednesday.

A top French court has ruled that transgender men, i.e. women who have transitioned, are not eligible for artificial fertilisation treatments (IVF) after the case was brought by a transgender association.

Average British citizens are reportedly being fined thousands of pounds by closed-door courts over COVID-19 lockdown breaches.

The European Commission has demanded that Poland cough up €70 million in fines the nation has so far refused to pay.

A Spanish judge agreed that the potential risks to the child from the vaccine are higher than the benefits. 

The Biden administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to abandon a Trump-era legal challenge alleging that Harvard College’s admission policies discriminate against Asian-American applicants.

The Supreme Court heard gun rights arguments to decide if a New York law requiring someone show cause in order to be approved for a license to carry a firearm outside of their home violates the Second Amendment.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in favor of a California police officer who was accused of using “excessive force” during an arrest, reversing the liberal Ninth Circuit appeals court on an issue at the center of the “defund the police” movement.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of Oklahoma police officers who were accused of using excessive force after fatally shooting a man who raised a hammer behind his head, “and took a stance as if he was about to throw the hammer or charge at the officers.” The Court held that the officers are entitled to qualified immunity.

Pop star Britney Spears’ father, James Spears, could face an FBI probe after being accused of crossing “unfathomable lines” over a “horrifying and unconscionable” claim that he set up a surveillance system in his daughter’s bedroom, according to reports. 

More than 130 federal judges might have broken the law — some accidentally — by hearing court cases that involved their own financial interests, breaching a bedrock principle of American jurisprudence, which maintains no one should be a judge of their own cause, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Two New York judges ordered defendants to get vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus, the New York Times reported on Monday.

Italian courts are currently overwhelmed with thousands of asylum seeker cases, as migrants appeal their asylum rejections.

The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Friday that absentee ballots must arrive by Election Day, November 3, to be counted — overturning a lower court decision that had extended the deadline by 14 days.

In a decision handed down late last week and reported to the public on Monday, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the government of Iran to pay $107 million in compensatory damages, plus $1.3 billion in punitive damages, to the family of former FBI agent Robert Levinson.

The governors of all 36 states in Nigeria challenged an executive order before the nation’s Supreme Court this week relinquishing the federal government from its constitutional responsibility to fund state courts.

The U.S. Senate confirmed its 200th federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump on Wednesday, approving Cory Wilson by a narrow 52-48 vote to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Sweden’s supreme administrative court has upheld an order for a Muslim youth group to repay government grants after it was ruled to not “respect the ideas of democracy”.

A federal judge, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, has blocked American communities and states from stopping refugee resettlement — a power that President Trump granted to them through an executive order last year.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to determine whether a witness had to obey a subpoena from the impeachment inquiry after Democrats withdrew the subpoena and impeached Trump anyway.

The Court of Claims allowed derivative claims to proceed based on a new and untested legal theory.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is allowing President Donald Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ enforcement plan to continue, despite a negative decision from a lower-court judge.

A federal judge has denied a request from a 24-year-old woman who fled the United States to join the Islamic State, arguing that she does not face imminent danger in the Syrian refugee camp where she is currently situated.

A mixed race woman who has repeatedly assaulted, spat on, and racially abused police officers has been allowed to walk free from court by an Australian magistrate who called her “wonderful”.

An Austrian court has rejected appeals by eight Iraqi citizens against their prison sentences for gang-raping a German tourist on New Year’s Eve in 2015.

Hollywood celebrities and left-wing politicians are taking to Twitter to smear President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and to threaten to hold back funding from any U.S. senator who is considering to vote to confirm him.

Actor Andrew Garfield dedicated his Tony Awards acceptance speech on Sunday to the LGBT community and took aim at the Supreme Court’s recent decision to side with a Christian baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding.

President Donald J. Trump expressed his frustration with the current border security laws, requiring a judicial ruling to determine whether or not an illegal alien claiming asylum should be allowed to stay in the country.

The Supreme Court of the Philippines expelled a judge on Thursday branded an “enemy” by President Rodrigo Duterte.

President Donald Trump continued questioning the ongoing Russia investigation of his campaign by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

An American judge ruled on Tuesday that Iran must pay $6 billion to victims or those affected by the 9/11 terror attacks.

Official new guidance on “equal treatment” instructs judges to favour non-white defendants in order to “redress inequality”.