Multiple Facebook and Twitter posts shared in February 2021 claim the Thai Court of Justice postponed its verdict on a group of protest leaders charged with sedition over anti-government demonstrations staged in 2014. The claim is false: on February 2
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Snopes→ The Surprising Cost of Our Epic Court Battle
How legal bills drain Snopes’ fact-checking resources.
Snopes→ Supreme Court Won’t Halt Turnover of Trump’s Tax Records
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. has been seeking Donald Trump’s tax records since 2019 as part of an investigation.
Snopes→ Snubbed as Obama High Court Pick, Garland in Line to be AG
Once-snubbed Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland will finally come before the Senate, this time as President Joe Biden's choice for attorney general.
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Fact-checkers score wins in court, but the threat of legal harassment remains
Fact-checkers in Greece, Kazakhstan and Brazil celebrated legal victories this month after fighting off court challenges that could have crippled their organizations. In Athens, a court rejected a lawsuit by a group called the Union of Greek Physicists
Snopes→ Springsteen Wouldn’t Take Breath Test, Court Papers Say
Bruce Springsteen told a park officer he had done two shots in the previous 20 minutes but wouldn't take a breath test before he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in New Jersey.
Snopes→ Arson Suspected in Massive Fire at Texas Courthouse
A suspect has been arrested been taken into custody following a massive fire that destroyed all but the rock outer walls of an 111-year-old Texas courthouse.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Is NOT Of ‘Democrat’ Protesters Storming The Capitol In 2018 During Kavanaugh Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing — It Is From 2011 At The Wisconsin State Capitol
Does a photo show hundreds of people storming the U.S. Capitol building in 2018 during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearing? No, that's not true: The photo is from protests at the Wisconsin state capitol in 2011 -- seven
Snopes→ Moscow Court Orders Kremlin Foe Navalny to Prison
The ruling ignited protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Top Fact Checks→ Supreme Court stays Bombay High Court’s order on groping a minor without “skin to skin” contact is not sexual assault.
A bench of the Bombay High Court headed by Justice Pushpa Ganediwala ruled that touching a minor without skin contact is not sexual assault.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Despite Peruvian Court Declaration, There Is NO Evidence Soros, Gates and Rockefeller Created COVID-19
Did George Soros, Bill Gates and the Rockefeller family create the COVID-19 virus, as a three-judge Peruvian court declared? No, that's not true: Although the exact location and origin of the virus has not been definitively identified, ma
Snopes→ Supreme Court Ends Trump Emoluments Lawsuits
The cases involved suits filed by Maryland and the District of Columbia, and high-end restaurants and hotels in New York and Washington, D.C., that “found themselves in the unenviable position of having to compete with businesses owned by the Preside
Snopes→ NJ High Court Overturns Conviction Over ‘Shining’ Reference
The New Jersey Supreme court has overturned a man's bank robbery conviction because of a prosecutor's reference to a classic horror movie.
Liste→ Video falsely claims Marcos son ‘Bongbong’ won vice president court case
A video viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple Facebook and YouTube posts in January 2021 purports to show President Rodrigo Duterte announcing that Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jnr has won a legal challenge over the 2016 election result aga
Top Fact Checks→ An IT expert testified in an Italian court, saying that he and others rigged machines to switch votes to Biden.
There is no evidence of switched votes or that electoral fraud took place in the presidential election.
Top Fact Checks→ The Supreme Court has stayed the implementation of three farm laws.
The Supreme Court has stayed the implementation of three farm laws and set up a four-member committee that will scrutinize them.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fulton County Did NOT Defy Court Order Against Blocking Credentialed Republican Poll Monitors From Viewing Absentee Ballots In Georgia U.S. Senate Runoff
Did the Fulton County Board of Elections defy a judge's order to remove barriers that prevented credentialed Republican poll monitors from viewing absentee ballots in the Senate runoff election in Georgia? No, that's not true: In a Januar
Liste→ Chinese social media posts falsely claim video shows ‘snub’ by US Supreme Court associate justice in 2021
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on Twitter and Facebook that claim it shows US Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas ignoring two people who offered to shake hands with him at an event in early January
Snopes→ Appeals Court Vacates Order Delaying Woman’s Execution
Lisa Montgomery, who was convicted of crimes in 2004, is the only woman on federal death row.
Snopes→ Did Stacey Abrams’ Sister Oversee a Court Case Involving Abrams?
A Republican Congressman saw a conflict of interest involving the Abrams sisters in December 2020.
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Will the Supreme Court Hear the Texas Case if the State Files It Differently?
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Snopes→ Supreme Court Rules Challenge to Trump Census Plan is Premature
The high court said it was too soon to rule on the legality of Trump's plan because it's not yet clear how many people he would seek to exclude and whether the division of House seats would be affected.
Snopes→ Did Supreme Court Erupt in a Shouting Match Over Texas Voter Fraud Case?
Fake news is fake news, no matter who repeats it.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Supreme Court Is NOT Granting Trump 34 More Electoral College Votes
Did the Supreme Court issue a decision granting Donald Trump 34 more electoral votes than originally tabulated following the general election? No, that's not true: This is a satirical post. The Supreme Court issued no such ruling nor did
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Supreme Court Did NOT Signal It Would Reconsider Texas’ Bid To Overturn 2020 Election If Refiled As ‘Bill Of Complaint’
Did the U.S. Supreme Court signal it would reconsider the Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election, if refiled "with the correct terms"? No, that's not true: Election law experts consulted by Lead Stories agreed
TruthOrFiction→ Did Michigan State Police Block ‘Republican Electors’ From Entering the Courthouse?
As the U.S. Electoral College made it official — again — that outgoing United States President Donald Trump had lost his bid for re-election on December 14 2020, footage posted online showed an attempt to overturn the results with a group
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Fleets Were NOT Positioned Off Both U.S. Coasts Bracing For Unrest After Supreme Court Rejects Suit To Overturn Election
Were U.S. Navy aircraft carrier fleets positioned off both U.S. coasts after the Supreme Court refused to hear the lawsuit seeking to overturn election results that cost Trump a second term? No, that's not true: A Pentagon source confirme
Snopes→ Supreme Court Rejects Texas Attack on Biden Victory
The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory.
Liste→ Claims of Nevada voter fraud rejected by state’s top court
Social media posts claim about 100,000 votes cast in Nevada were fraudulent, surpassing US president-elect Joe Biden’s margin of victory in the state. This is false; the Supreme Court of Nevada examined the claims and denied the request to overturn e
Snopes→ Wisconsin Courts to Consider Trump’s Election Lawsuits
President Donald Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin returns to the courtroom, with hearings in federal and state lawsuits seeking to invalidate hundreds of thousands of ballots and give the GOP-controlled Legislature
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Eight States Have NOT All Joined Texas AG’s Suit Asking Supreme Court To Overturn Other States’ Election Results
Have Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and South Dakota all joined Texas's lawsuit filed with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn election results in four battleground states? No, that's n
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Supreme Court Did NOT Vote 6-3 To Take Up Texas AG’s Lawsuit Over Election, NOR Did Tennessee Join
Did the U.S. Supreme Court vote 6-3 to take up the Texas Attorney General's lawsuit seeking to overturn four other states' 2020 election results? No, that's not true: There is no such vote recorded on the Supreme Court's public list of or
Snopes→ Trump Looks Past Supreme Court Loss to New Texas Election Lawsuit
The suit from the Texas attorney general, Republican Ken Paxton, demands that the 62 total Electoral College votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin be invalidated.
Snopes→ Trump Camp Loses Nevada Court Bid to Nullify Election
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has lost its legal bid to nullify President-elect Joe Biden’s 39,000-vote electoral win in Nevada.
Snopes→ Supreme Court Rejects GOP Bid to Halt Biden’s Pennsylvania Win
The Supreme Court has rejected Republicans' last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania's certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the electoral battleground.
Snopes→ Trump Thought Courts Were Key to Winning. Judges Disagreed.
President Donald Trump and his allies say their lawsuits aimed at subverting the 2020 election and reversing his loss to Joe Biden would be substantiated, if only judges were allowed to hear the cases.
Snopes→ Supreme Court Rejects Appeal to Limit Transgender Students
The suit from a group of Oregon parents sought to prevent transgender students from using locker rooms and bathrooms of the gender of which they identify, rather than their assigned sex at birth.
Snopes→ Wisconsin High Court Declines to Hear Trump Election Lawsuit
Trump had asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in the state’s two biggest Democratic counties, alleging irregularities in the way absentee ballots were administered.
Snopes→ Pennsylvania Supreme Court Hears Bill Cosby’s Sex Assault Case
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court questioned whether Bill Cosby's alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young women amounted to a signature crime pattern, given studies that show as many as half of all sexual assaults involve drugs or al
Top Fact Checks→ Supreme Court rejects Chanda Kochhar’s appeal against her sacking as ICICI Bank CEO
The Supreme Court refused to interfere with the Bombay High Court's dismissal of a plea filed by Chanda Kochhar against her termination in 2019.