Recent Updates
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The Latest: New Mexico court blocks straight-ticket option
Lawyer News 09/13/2018The New Mexico Supreme Court is blocking a ballot option that would have allowed voters to select candidates from one particular party in all races by marking a single box. The court made its decision Wednesday after listening to oral arguments ...
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Court: Drug users can be jailed for relapsing on probation
Lawyer News 07/12/2018In a case that has attracted national attention, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Monday that judges in the state have the authority to order people to remain drug free as a condition of probation and under some circumstances order a defendant jail...
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High court to hear challenge to Virginia uranium mining ban
Lawyer News 06/19/2018The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to Virginia's decades-old ban on uranium mining.The state has had a ban on uranium mining in place since 1982, soon after the discovery of a massive uranium deposit in the state's Pittsylvania Count...
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Supreme Court strikes down Minnesota's voter clothing law
Lawyer News 06/11/2018shirts and pins to the polls.Minnesota had defended its law as a reasonable restriction that keeps order at polling places and prevents voter intimidation. But the justices ruled 7-2 that the state's law is too broad, violating the free speech clause...
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New York court says Trump can't delay defamation lawsuit
Lawyer News 05/16/2018A New York court says former "Apprentice" contestant Summer Zervos can proceed with her defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, at least for now. A state appeals court on Thursday turned down a request by Trump's lawyers to delay the case ...
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Nassar to face another sentence, victims in return to court
Lawyer News 01/25/2018Sports doctor Larry Nassar's return to court to face another prison sentence for molesting gymnasts could unfold much the same as a hearing last week in another Michigan county.Judge Janice Cunningham has set aside several days for roughly 60 people ...
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Court reverses itself and restores woman's murder conviction
Lawyer News 12/13/2017Georgia's highest court has reversed it own recent decision and restored the murder conviction of a woman whose husband shot and killed a police officer. The Georgia Supreme Court issued a new opinion Monday that upholds Lisa Ann Lebis' felony murder...
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Supreme Court declines gay rights work discrimination case
Lawyer News 12/08/2017The Supreme Court is leaving in place a lower court ruling that a federal employment discrimination law doesn't protect a person against discrimination based on their sexual orientation. The court on Monday declined to take up the question of whether...
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US court bars Trump from reversing transgender troops policy
Lawyer News 11/01/2017A federal judge on Monday barred President Donald Trump's administration from proceeding with plans to exclude transgender people from military service. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the transgender service members who had sue...
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Court nixes class-action status for TGI Friday's drink su
Lawyer News 10/07/2017A lawsuit accusing restaurant chain TGI Friday's violated consumer fraud laws with its drink pricing can't go ahead as a class action that could have included millions of members, but a similar case involving Carrabba's Italian Grill restaurants can,...
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Rooney gets road ban after pleading guilty to drunk driving
Lawyer News 09/14/2017Former England captain Wayne Rooney pleaded guilty to drunk driving on Monday, leading to a court imposing a two-year driving ban and ordering him to perform 100 hours of unpaid community work. The Everton striker was stopped by police outside Manche...
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Abortion clinic dispute to be argued in Ohio Supreme Court
Lawyer News 09/10/2017A dispute over whether to shut down Toledo's last abortion clinic is headed to the Ohio Supreme Court Tuesday, in a case both sides view as pivotal. At issue in oral arguments will be the state health department's 2014 order shutting down Capital Car...