Recent Updates
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Republicans condemn 'scheme' to undo election for Trump
Daily Legal News 01/05/2021The unprecedented Republican effort to overturn the presidential election has been condemned by an outpouring of current and former GOP officials warning the effort to sow doubt in Joe Biden's win and keep President Donald Trump in office is un...
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Appeals court vacates order delaying woman’s execution
Daily Legal News 01/01/2021A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.The ruling, handed down Friday by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Co...
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Trump plan to curb drug costs dealt setback in court
Daily Legal News 12/24/2020A late-term maneuver by President Donald Trump to use lower drug prices paid overseas to limit some of Medicare’s own costs suffered a legal setback Wednesday that appears likely to keep the policy from taking effect before the president leaves...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court tosses Trump election lawsuit
Daily Legal News 12/14/2020The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s lawsuit attempting to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state, ending Trump's legal challenges in state court about an hour before the Electoral C...
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Justices rule Muslim men can sue FBI agents over no-fly list
Practice Legal News 12/11/2020A unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Muslim men who were placed on the government’s no-fly list because they refused to serve as FBI informants can seek to hold federal agents financially liable.The justices continued a string of de...
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High court to decide whether Nazi art case stays in US court
Daily Legal News 12/06/2020Jed Leiber was an adult before he learned that his family was once part-owner of a collection of centuries-old religious artworks now said to be worth at least $250 million.Over a steak dinner at a New York City restaurant in the 1990s he had asked h...
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Giuliani shows at Trump camp lawsuit hearing in Pennsylvania
Daily Legal News 11/19/2020A hearing on the Trump campaign’s federal lawsuit seeking to prevent Pennsylvania officials from certifying the vote results was set to begin Tuesday after a judge denied the campaign’s new lawyer’s request for a delay.Rudy Giuliani...
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Republicans face court setbacks, Trump law firm steps down
Daily Legal News 11/17/2020Republicans suffered setbacks to court challenges over the presidential election in three battleground states on Friday while a law firm that came under fire for its work for President Donald Trump’s campaign withdrew from a major Pennsylvania ...
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Court weighs challenge to Colorado discrimination law
Daily Legal News 11/14/2020A Colorado web designer should not have to create wedding websites for same-sex couples under the state's anti-discrimination law because it would amount to forced speech that violates her religious beliefs, a lawyer told an appeals court Monday.Kris...
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Trump, GOP drop Nevada court appeal of ballot count case
Focused Practice 11/12/2020A state court legal fight to stop the counting of mail ballots in the Las Vegas area has ended after the Nevada Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the Donald Trump campaign and the state Republican party, at their request. The dismissal leaves two ...
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Without Ginsburg, high court support for health law in doubt
Daily Legal News 11/08/2020Until six weeks ago, defenders of the Affordable Care Act could take comfort in some simple math. Five Supreme Court justices who had twice preserved the Obama-era health care law remained on the bench and seemed unlikely votes to dismantle it.But Ju...
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Supreme Court to hear case about juvenile life sentences
Daily Legal News 11/04/2020The Supreme Court is to hear arguments in a case that could put the brakes on what has been a gradual move toward more leniency for children who are convicted of murder. The court has concluded over the last two decades that children should be treate...