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Mass protests take place in Spain against PM Sánchez’s amnesty deal with Catalan separatists

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The Spanish Constitutional Court then nullified the referendum, holding that the regional law on which it was based was illegal under the Spanish Constitution. Shortly after the Constitutional Court ruling, Puigdemont fled and has since remained in other European countries, including Belgium, Finland, Denmark and Germany.

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‘Invisibility’ of Prosecutor Misconduct Erodes Trust: PA Report

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million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania. Courts failed to address 1,774 of those claims. Adopt American Bar Association Rules for Defining Prosecutorial Misconduct. They identified 7,207 separate claims of prosecutorial misconduct over that 17-year period.

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A bungled house sale, a bankrupt couple, and a statutory puzzle involving debts incurred through fraud

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Share The court will hear its second bankruptcy case of the week next Tuesday, with Bartenwerfer v. Dissatisfied with the purchase, Buckley eventually obtained a judgment in a California state court based on the failure of the Bartenwerfers to disclose information about the house on the standard-form Transfer Disclosure Statement.

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A community-college spat leads to a First Amendment retaliation claim

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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument on whether the First Amendment restricted the board’s authority to do so. The censure resolution prompted Wilson to add a federal civil rights claim to his first state-court lawsuit, arguing that the censure violated his right to free speech.