Week News

• ICC rejects request to investigate war crimes in Afghanistan

• Supreme Court liberals criticize majority’s ‘middle of the night’ decision lifting execution stay

• Hertz lawsuit against former GC seeks return of incentive pay, damages for accounting failures

• State lawmakers consider right to grow front yard veggies after couple’s court loss

• SCOTUS justices avoid mention of ‘profane past participle’ in arguments on scandalous trademarks

• Juvenile lifer, now 72, won landmark Supreme Court case but remains behind bars-READY

• Judge complains court filings being used to deliver information to news media-READY

Month News

• Lawyer Michael Avenatti charged with extorting Nike, stealing client’s settlement

• Judge rules £1/hr wages for immigration detainees are lawful

• Brother of Sri Lanka ex-president sued over alleged torture and killings

• Turkey fails in final attempt to extradite media boss from UK

• Former SeaWorld corporate lawyer pleads guilty to insider trading

• 36-count indictment accuses lawyer Avenatti of stealing from clients; max sentence could be 335 years

Year News

• What questions does the special counsel have for Trump? The New York Times has the list

• Grenfell Tower inqury: kitchen fire resident ‘did nothing wrong’

• Scotland's Brexit bill is 'perfectly practical', supreme court told

• Grassley refers Avenatti and client to DOJ for criminal investigation over Kavanaugh accusations

• Knife asbos won’t cut crime – but they will harm vulnerable young people