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US Top Court Refuses to Hear Bank Melli Appeal of Ruling

EghtesadOnline: The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Iranian government-owned Bank Melli’s appeal of a lower court ruling that allowed victims of militant attacks allegedly backed by Iran to seek millions of dollars in compensation from the bank.
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Publish Date:13/March/2018 | 07:56

US ignoring major perpetrators of terror acts, gives wrong address: Iran

EghtesadOnline: Iran has denounced the recent US Supreme Court ruling allowing President Donald Trump’s contentious Muslim ban to be partly reinstated, saying the United States is turning a blind eye to the real culprits behind acts of terror on its soil.
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Publish Date:28/June/2017 | 14:38

Rice Says No Evidence Trump Travel Ban Would Make U.S. Safer

EghtesadOnline: There’s no evidence President Donald Trump’s travel ban, struck down in the courts and awaiting Supreme Court review, would make the U.S. safer from the kinds of attacks carried out in London overnight, his predecessor’s national security adviser said.
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Publish Date:05/June/2017 | 09:54

Supreme Court nominee to face confirmation vote April 7: Senate leader

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that the Senate would have a final vote on April 7 on President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, even as more Democrats opposed his confirmation.
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Publish Date:29/March/2017 | 08:46

Democratic opposition to U.S. high court nominee grows

EghtesadOnline: A third of Democratic senators have so far announced they will vote against confirming U.S. President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, adding to a chorus of opposition from the left, but leaving questions over whether there will be a concerted effort to block a vote in the Senate.
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Publish Date:25/March/2017 | 08:54

Virginia Judge Tees Up Travel Ban Argument for Top Court

EghtesadOnline: A Virginia judge helped tee up an argument likely to be fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court over President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict travel to the U.S. from six predominantly Muslim countries.
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Publish Date:25/March/2017 | 04:52

Top Senate Democrat promises fight to block Trump high court pick

EghtesadOnline: The top U.S. Senate Democrat on Thursday pledged to pursue a procedural hurdle to try to block the confirmation of Republican President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, a move that could provoke a nasty partisan fight and change the way the Senate does business.
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Publish Date:24/March/2017 | 10:23

Supreme Court reins in president's appointment powers

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday put new restrictions on presidential powers, limiting a president's authority to staff certain top government posts in a case involving an appointment to the National Labor Relations Board.
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Publish Date:22/March/2017 | 06:35

Democrats raise doubts about Trump's high court nominee Gorsuch

EghtesadOnline: Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, on Monday emphasized the need for judicial independence even as Trump castigates jurists who have ruled against him, while Democrats questioned whether he would rule against abortion rights and gun control while favoring corporations.
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Publish Date:20/March/2017 | 21:45

US Supreme Court forbids seizure of Persian artifacts

EghtesadOnline: The US Supreme Court has ruled that American citizens injured in a 1997 suicide bombing in Israeli occupied Palestinian territories cannot seize ancient Persian artifacts from a Chicago university and museum as compensation.
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Publish Date:24/February/2018 | 14:50

Supreme Court Lets Trump Bar Refugees in Boost for Travel Ban

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Supreme Court reinforced President Donald Trump’s travel ban, saying he can bar thousands of refugees from entering the country while the justices prepare to hear a broader challenge to the policy.
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Publish Date:13/September/2017 | 05:03

Trump Takes Travel Ban Dispute to U.S. Supreme Court Again

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump’s administration took the dispute over his temporary travel ban to the Supreme Court again, asking the justices to let the government bar entry into the U.S. by people with grandparents and cousins in the country.
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Publish Date:15/July/2017 | 03:55

US travel ban regrettable, misguided policy: Iran FM

EghtesadOnline: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says it is regrettable that the US Supreme Court has decided to partially reinstate President Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and people from six Muslim-majority countries, warning that the move can fuel extremism in the region.
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Publish Date:28/June/2017 | 14:47

Iran raps US Supreme Court decision on Trump’s travel ban

EghtesadOnline: Iranian foreign ministry has strongly condemned the ‘discriminatory’ decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to partially lift blocks on Trump’s travel ban that prevents all entries from six majority-Muslim countries.
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Publish Date:28/June/2017 | 14:03

Trump Travel Ban Loses Again as Supreme Court Showdown Looms

EghtesadOnline: A second federal appeals court upheld the block on President Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to take up the administration’s request to reinstate it.
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Publish Date:13/June/2017 | 04:43

In big win for Trump, Senate approves his conservative court pick

EghtesadOnline: The Republican-led Senate on Friday gave Donald Trump the biggest triumph of his young presidency, confirming his Supreme Court nominee over stout Democratic opposition and restoring a conservative majority on the highest U.S. judicial body.
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Publish Date:08/April/2017 | 05:05