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Judge: No FBI Entrapment for 3 in Gov. Whitmer Kidnap Plot

March 3, 2022
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A judge ruled Tuesday that three men charged in a plot to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer before the 2020 election were not entrapped by the FBI. Joseph Morrison, Pete Musico, and Paul Bellar will face a tentatively scheduled pretrial examination in August and trial in September, Jackson County Circuit Judge Thomas Wilson said…

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Judge Blasts Air Force Over Denying Vaccine Religious Exemption Requests, Grants Injunction

February 24, 2022
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U.S. District Court Judge Tilman Self, III, is the first to stop the U.S. Air Force from enforcing its military COVID-19 vaccine mandate on a service member. Self granted a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Department of Defense on behalf of an Air Force officer who’d been denied a religious exemption to the mandate. As…

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US Judge Dismisses 2 Charges Against Former Boeing 737 MAX Technical Pilot

February 10, 2022
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WASHINGTON—A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed two charges against a former chief technical pilot for Boeing Co. accused of deceiving federal regulators evaluating the company’s 737 MAX jet, but rejected a request to dismiss the other four counts. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas granted part of the request of lawyers for former Boeing…

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Judge Restores Visiting Rights for Quebec Father Unvaccinated Against COVID 19

February 9, 2022
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MONTREAL—A Quebec father who is not vaccinated against COVID-19 has regained the right to have visits with his 12-year-old son. Superior Court Justice Marie-Anne Paquette ruled Tuesday that it is no longer in the child’s best interest to deny him all in-person contact with his father given the improving COVID-19 situation in Quebec. On Dec….

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Quebec Court Says Justice Minister’s Intervention on Judge Bilingualism Illegal

February 3, 2022
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MONTREAL—The Quebec Superior Court has ruled that the province’s justice minister does not get to decide whether judges can be required to speak English as well as French. The case was centred around half a dozen Quebec court judge postings in Montreal and surrounding areas, where Chief Judge Lucie Rondeau deemed it necessary that candidates…

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US Judge Bars Martin Shkreli From Drug Industry, Orders $64.6 Million Payment

January 16, 2022
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WASHINGTON—A U.S. judge on Friday barred Martin Shkreli from the pharmaceutical industry for life and ordered him to pay $64.6 million after he famously raised the price of the drug Daraprim and fought to block generic competitors. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan ruled after a trial where the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and…

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RCMP Commissioner Breached Duty With Slow Response to Watchdog Report, Judge Rules

January 13, 2022
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OTTAWA—RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki flouted the law by failing to respond promptly to a watchdog report about alleged spying on anti-oil protesters, a federal judge has ruled. In a newly released decision, Federal Court Associate Chief Justice Jocelyne Gagne said Lucki breached her duty under the RCMP Act by not submitting a response to the…

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Alex Murdaugh Attorneys Ask Judge to Lower $7 Million Bond

January 10, 2022
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COLUMBIA, S.C.—Lawyers for prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh said Monday that he’s so broke he can’t pay a phone bill—much less $7 million in bail—while a court-appointed overseer said Murdaugh needs to use whatever money he has to pay his alleged victims, not free himself from jail. In a virtual court hearing before a…

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Djokovic Back in Training After Court Overturns Visa Cancellation in Australia

January 10, 2022
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World tennis No. 1 Novak Djokovic was back in practice hours after winning a court challenge to remain in Australia on Monday. Djokovic posted on Twitter a photograph of himself on a court at the Rod Laver Arena at Melbourne Park with a caption thanking the judge who released him from immigration detention over his…

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Judge Dismisses Claims That LinkedIn Overcharged Advertisers

December 28, 2021
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A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn of inflating the number of people who watched video ads so the networking platform could overcharge hundreds of thousands of advertisers. In a decision on Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen said that while some LinkedIn statements may have been misleading, the plaintiffs failed…

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