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Judge says Trump can't sue New York AG in court to stop release of tax ret
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 12 (ANI): A federal judge on Monday (local time) dismissed New York's attorney general and state tax commissioner as defendants in President Donald Trump's lawsuit seeking to block a House of Representatives committee from obtaining his New York state tax returns.
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R. Kelly denied bail, trial date set for May 2020
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 3 (ANI): A Brooklyn judge denied bail to singer-songwriter R. Kelly in his sex abuse case after the accused artist requested to be released while awaiting trial.
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US: Criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein dismissed
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], Aug 30 (ANI): A US federal judge on Thursday formally dismissed the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein, roughly three weeks after the accused sex trafficker was found dead in his jail cell.
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Judge dismisses lawsuit against Washington Post brought by Covington Catho
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 28 (ANI): In a very significant ruling on media law, a federal judge in Kentucky has dismissed a lawsuit against The Washington Post on Friday (local time) brought by a high school student who claimed that the organisation's coverage of his and his fellow students
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Kevin Spacey to face lawsuit from anonymous massage therapist
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 17 (ANI): A California federal judge on Wednesday allowed a massage therapist to pursue a sexual assault lawsuit against Kevin Spacey while keeping his identity anonymous.
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Ashley Judd's lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein paused
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 3 (ANI): One thing at a time. A California federal judge ruled, on Tuesday, that Harvey Weinstein doesn't have to continue fighting the defamation lawsuit filed against him by American actor and political activist Ashley Judd, until after his criminal sexual assaul
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Trump's order to revive drilling in Arctic, Atlantic 'unlawful': federal j
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington [US], Mar 31 (ANI): A federal judge has termed US President Donald Trump's order to withdraw an Obama-era ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans as "unlawful".
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Manafort's sentence extended to another 43 months, to serve 7.5 yrs jail t
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Mar 14 (ANI): A federal judge on Wednesday added another 43 months to the jail term of US President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort, which means the 69-year-old will now serve an overall seven-and-half-year of prison term.
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Cohen 'lying to reduce his jail time', says Trump
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [USA], Jan 18(ANI): President Donald Trump on Friday said that his former attorney Michael Cohen, who has already been sentenced to three years in prison by a New York federal judge over charges of tax evasion and campaign-finance violations, is lying in Buzzfeed's reports over Mo
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Texas Judge strikes down Obamacare
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 15 (ANI): A federal judge in Texas on Friday struck down the Affordable Care Act, terming it "unconstitutional."
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Made a mistake by hiring Cohen: Trump
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 14 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump said he made a "mistake" by hiring Michael Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in prison by a New York federal judge over charges of tax evasion and campaign-finance violations.
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Appeal court turns down Trump's request to reinstate asylum ban
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
California [USA], December 8 (ANI): The San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals here denied the Trump administration's effort to delay US federal judge's order that blocked imposition of its asylum policy.
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