Tag: Brazilian Supreme Court

• Friday, August 9th 2019 - 10:43 UTC

  Lula da Silva will remain in Curitiba until pending appeals are filed and judged

  

  Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended a lower court decision to transfer imprisoned former President Lula da Silva from the southern city of Curitiba to a penitentiary in the state of Sao Paulo.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Bolsonaro's new guns decree questioned by the Supreme Court and Congress

  

  A Brazilian supreme court judge said Friday that President Jair Bolsonaro and his Justice Ministry had five days to respond to opposition assertions that a recently passed gun decree was unconstitutional.

• Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 06:56 UTC

  Lula has to remain in jail while Justices decide on procedural controversy

  

  Brazil's former president Lula da Silva remained in prison on Wednesday as two Supreme Court judges issued competing orders over whether he should be released while he tries to get his graft conviction overturned.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 09:51 UTC

  Bad start for Bolsonaro: Temer signs 16% pay raise for Justices, which is a benchmark for other public sector

  

  Brazil’s exiting President Michel Temer signed into law a 16% pay raise for Supreme Court justices on Monday, disregarding a request from his President-elect Jair Bolsonaro that he veto the bill to avoid increasing next year’s budget deficit.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 07:23 UTC

  Bolsonaro wants Brazil's top anti corruption judge as his Justice minister

  

  Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro says he wants the country's best-known anti-corruption judge to be justice minister or to serve on the Supreme Court. Sergio Moro has been the driving force behind an anti-corruption probe known as Operation Car Wash.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 08:15 UTC

  Lula waiting for Supreme Court decision before giving up his presidential candidacy

  

  Brazil's imprisoned former president Lula da Silva will not yet bow out of next month's presidential race, waiting first to hear a Supreme Court decision on an appeal of his ban from running, his legal team said. His decision takes his leftist Workers' Party (PT) close to the limit on registering a candidate for the October 7 election, with a court having set Tuesday as the deadline for the PT to name a replacement nominee.

• Friday, August 31st 2018 - 08:59 UTC

  Brazilian Supreme Court confirms constitutionality of outsourcing

  

  Brazil’s Supreme Court voted 7-4 on Thursday to allow companies to outsource all types of jobs, a ruling that confirms the constitutionality of labor rules set last year under a law that was fiercely opposed by unions.

• Wednesday, July 11th 2018 - 08:39 UTC

  Brazilian court has received 146 habeas corpus petitions on behalf of Lula da Silva

  

  A top Brazilian court has received 146 habeas corpus petitions on behalf of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva following a dramatic back-and-forth between lower court judges over whether he should be released from jail.

• Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 08:45 UTC

  Brazilian court turns down Lula da Silva's latest appeal

  

  A Brazilian court on Wednesday turned down ex-president Lula da Silva's latest appeal against his 12-year sentence for corruption, seemingly putting his bid for a political comeback even farther out of reach. The court in Porto Alegre tweeted that it had unanimously turned down the appeal, which was of a technical nature and, even if successful, would not have changed Lula's guilty verdict.

• Wednesday, April 11th 2018 - 08:47 UTC

  Brazil Supreme Court delays considering change to a law that could release jailed Lula

  

  A Justice on Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a delay until next week of a debate on changing a law that could, if passed, lead to the imminent release of recently jailed ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.