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Wood County commissioner reprimanded by Supreme Court
Daily Legal News 01/31/2020The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday reprimanded a part-time Wood County circuit court commissioner for not removing himself from hearing a case involving an attorney who was a personal friend.The court reprimanded part-time commissioner Kenneth G...
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Top Arizona court rules frozen embryos in breakup must be donated
Daily Legal News 01/23/2020The Arizona Supreme Court released a decision Thursday in a case that determined if a woman can use her frozen embryos to have a baby even if her ex-husband disagrees.A trial court had ruled against Torres, saying the contract she and her then-boyfri...
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Court takes another look at Native American adoption law
Politics 01/19/2020A 1978 law giving preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving American Indian children was getting a second look Wednesday from a federal appeals court in New Orleans.A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit...
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Missouri court permanently blocks key part of voter photo ID
Daily Legal News 01/15/2020The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday permanently blocked a central portion of a 2016 voter identification law that it said had required a “misleading” and “contradictory” sworn statement from people lacking a photo ID.The 5-2...
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WikiLeaks' Assange in UK court fighting extradition to USA
Daily Legal News 01/07/2020WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a brief court appearance Monday in his bid to prevent extradition to the United States to face serious espionage charges.He and his lawyers complained they weren't being given enough time to meet to plan their ba...
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Democratic states appeal Obamacare ruling to Supreme Court
Politics 01/05/2020In a move that could put the Obama-era health law squarely in the middle of the 2020 election, Democratic-led states Friday asked the Supreme Court for a fast-track review of a recent appeals court decision declaring a key part of the law unconstitut...
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President, Supreme Court top Wisconsin races in 2020
Political and Legal News 01/01/2020Everyone knows Wisconsin will be in the spotlight for the presidential race in 2020. It's one of just a few states where the electorate is so evenly divided, it could swing either way. That is the biggest prize on the ballot this year, but it's far f...
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Court: Washington drivers must use turn signals to turn
Daily Legal News 12/29/2019The state Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that drivers must use their signal every time they turn or change lanes on a roadway.Thursday’s ruling reverses a Court of Appeals ruling that said a signal is required only when public safety is af...
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Court upholds creation of national monument in Atlantic
Legal Review 12/27/2019A federal appeals court on Friday upheld former President Barack Obama's designation of a federally protected conservation area in the Atlantic Ocean, a move that commercial fishermen oppose.Fishing groups sued over the creation of Northeast Canyons ...
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Protests of Indian law grow despite efforts to contain them
Daily Legal News 12/18/2019From campuses along India’s Himalayan northern border to its southern Malabar Coast, a student-led protest movement against a new law that grants citizenship on the basis of religion spread nationwide on Wednesday despite efforts by the governm...
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Supreme Court won't disturb ruling against anti-homeless law
Legal Interview 12/15/2019The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left a lower court ruling in place that struck down a law making it a crime to sleep in public places when homeless shelter space is unavailable.A federal appeals court had ruled that the anti-camping ordinance in Boi...
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Fallen rights icon at UN court for Rohingya genocide case
Daily Legal News 12/10/2019Twenty-eight years to the day after Aung San Suu Kyi’s husband and sons accepted her Nobel Peace Prize while she remained under house arrest in Myanmar, the former pro-democracy icon appeared in a United Nations court ready to defend her countr...