court
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Laura Overdeck is barred from testifying or introducing witnesses after the court found she obtained confidential emails from her husband’s laptop, among other violations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Shevels, who the court heard was known in the town of Crook to be a nuisance when drunk, annoyed the Greensmith family by sitting nearby and trying to talk to them.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
A county judge has even complained that Paxton’s office is not responding in a timely manner to queries about how the state wishes to proceed in court, now that multiple hemp businesses have filed lawsuits.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
The 15-time major champion was accompanied to the court hearing by his girlfriend, Vanessa Trump, the ex-wife of President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
He’s lean and healthy and has as much energy as the Magic’s center going up and down the court.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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What’s more, Flynn became infatuated with another 18-year-old, Nora Eddington, who worked at the cigarette-and-snack counter of the criminal courts building where he was standing trial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The complaint said that the Postal Service violated an earlier Talwani order blocking the agency from working on the system while the matter worked its way through the courts.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
The Justices rule that courts aren’t a venue for architecture criticism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
He was unable to mount a legal challenge to the result as the courts were sealed off last week on the final day a case could be filed.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
He had never traveled to Europe’s royal courts.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Kim finds himself being courted and wooed simultaneously by the leaders of the U.S.,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
A neurologist named Leonard Schleifer courted him for more than a year to team up on a biotech venture that Schleifer was starting in a one-bedroom apartment at Cornell University’s medical resident housing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Osterberg courted Britain's middle and upper classes for her college, deciding most elementary school girls were "absolutely unfit to be trained... their muscles have been starved from babyhood".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
He also courted strong and straight — and unavailable — alpha men to whom he appeared happy to play the beta role of political ingénue.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Although Haupt courted danger, he managed to dodge any fatal consequences—a useful and valuable skill for a saboteur.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Many scientists are trying to diversify their funding by courting foundations and private companies instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Like a mass awakening, labels and executives began courting them, making offers that were unimaginable just a few years earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Insiders have told BBC Sport that Spurs knew they had to be both aggressive and quick, with the first quality likely extending to fees, wages and De Zerbi's personal involvement in courting players.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Long before the Supreme Court handed down the landmark Obergefell ruling on equal marriage in 2015, activists were canvassing door to door, courting any lawmaker who would listen, and losing at the local level—a lot.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026
“If you will come courting such a headstrong, brazen girl,” he said indulgently, “then I can only give you both my blessing. Perhaps you can teach her some meekness.”
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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