18 h. ago Former Memphis officer being released from custody after new trial ordered in Tyre Nichols case

A judge has ruled that a former Memphis police officer convicted of federal civil rights charges in the beating death of Tyre Nichols will be released from custody after a new trial was ordered in the case

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21 h. ago Man accused of ramming a car into Filipino festival in Vancouver found mentally fit to stand trial

A judge has ruled that the man accused of killing 11 people by driving his SUV into a crowd during a Filipino heritage festival is mentally fit to stand trial

Politics

22 h. ago Tottenham fans can be lawfully rejected from working with Arsenal supporters, says court

Employers had a vested interest in not disturbing the harmony of the office, a judge ruled as a Russian woman claimed she missed out on a job because she didn't enjoy 'British habits'

Sport

25 h. ago Tottenham fans can be rejected from job working with Arsenal supporters, judge rules

Judge Daniel Wright said employers had a vested interest in not disturbing the harmony of the office

Sport

28 h. ago Spurs fans can be denied jobs if current staff are Arsenal supporters

Football fans can be legally denied jobs if current staff support a rival team, Employment Judge Daniel Wright ruled in Croydon.

Society

28 h. ago Tottenham fans can be lawfully rejected from working with Arsenal supporters, judge rules

Judge Daniel Wright said employers had a vested interest in not disturbing the harmony of the office

Sport

28 h. ago Trump suffers blow in bid to fire Federal Reserve governor as judge rules Lisa Cook can stay during fight

Board member’s legal challenge to president’s attempted ouster supported by district court justice

Events

36 h. ago Judge pauses California's request to bar Trump administration's ongoing use of National Guard troops

A federal judge who ruled last week that the Trump administration broke federal law by sending National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area says he will not immediately consider a request to bar the ongoing use of 300 Guard troops

Politics

37 h. ago Judge rules President Trump cannot fire Fed’s Lisa Cook for now

Ruling allows central bank board member to attend its next rate-setting meeting

Politics

37 h. ago Lisa Cook to remain at Federal Reserve while fighting Trump’s attempt to fire her, judge rules

Agency governor is legally challenging Trump after he sought to remove her, citing unconfirmed mortgage fraud allegationsA federal judge has ruled that Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook can stay in her post while suing Donald Trump over his unprecedented bid to fire her.Cook is legally challenging the US president after he sought to remove her, citing unconfirmed allegations of mortgage fraud, amid an extraordinary campaign by his administration to strengthen its control over the US central bank. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Countdown champion, 31, accused of stabbing rival contestant at a tournament is unfit to stand trial, judge rules

John Cowen, 31, was arrested after allegedly attacking Thomas Carey, a former Cambridge University maths student, with a knife at the Countdown in Blackpool event last September.

Events

54 h. ago Hong Kong judge rules in favor of lesbian couple's parental recognition in landmark case

A Hong Kong judge has ruled in favor of a lesbian couple’s parental recognition of their son born through reciprocal in vitro fertilization in a landmark case

Events

3 d. ago Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention: ‘It was a clear act of cruelty’

His grandparents survived the Nakba and he fled Assad’s Syria. Khalil is no stranger to political persecution, but not even Trump’s crackdown can silence himWhen a history of resistance to the lurching authoritarianism of Donald Trump’s second presidency is written, it could well begin on 11 April 2025, inside a small immigration courtroom in remote, central Louisiana.It was there, in the early afternoon, that a slight young man dressed in a blue uniform jumpsuit spoke calmly but directly to the new administration – away from the gaze of television cameras and 1,000 miles (1,610km) from his friends and family. Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian organiser, had been arrested a month earlier – snatched from the lobby of his Manhattan apartment building as he returned home with his wife. Now, detained in the small town of Jena, he sat before a judge who had just ruled that he was eligible to be deported from the United States purely for his political views....

Politics

5 d. ago Judge temporarily blocks Alabama rule saying voucher students can't play sports for a year

A judge has sided with Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey in a dispute over where school voucher recipients can play sports this year

Events

5 d. ago Shopping online at work is not a sackable offence, judge rules

A woman who use her work computer for online shopping was unfairly dismissed, a judge has ruled, after he found the personal use was ‘not excessive’

Economics

5 d. ago Judge blocks administration's ending of legal protections for 1.1 million Venezuelans and Haitians

A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States

Events

5 d. ago A death row inmate says judges are ruled by Satan as he tries to avoid execution

A judge is considering whether delusional beliefs about the legal system are enough to prevent a South Carolina prisoner from being executed

Events

6 d. ago Polish female gang member who dressed up as a nurse during Covid pandemic to deal drugs is allowed to stay in the UK after judge ruled her crimes were not serious enough

Urszula Kareme impersonated an NHS 'key worker' to avoid detection in her role with an organised crime group that traded large amounts of cocaine, heroin and cannabis in lockdown .

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6 d. ago Case against Tennessee man accused of killing 4 people can move forward to grand jury, judge rules

An FBI agent says data from a cellphone used by a Tennessee man accused of killing four members of the same family and kidnapping a baby showed he was in the vicinity of the wooded area where the bodies were found with gunshot wounds and covered with tarpaulins

Events

6 d. ago Judge orders Trump administration to release billions in foreign aid approved by Congress

Trump had told Mike Johnson that he would not spend $4.9bn in congressionally approved foreign aidUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration must release billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress, including money that Donald Trump said last week he will not be spending, a federal judge has ordered.US District Judge Amir Ali in Washington ruled on Wednesday that the move by the Republican administration was probably illegal and issued a preliminary injunction ordering the release of $11.5bn that is set to expire at the end of the month. Continue reading...

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