Recent Updates
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Federal appeals court rules against Trump on ending DACA
Focused Practice 05/12/2019A federal appeals court ruled Friday the Trump administration acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when it sought to end an Obama-era program that shields young immigrants from deportation.A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circ...
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News attorneys: Opioid distribution data should be public
Politics 05/07/2019Attorneys for news organizations argued Thursday that the U.S. public should be allowed to see federal data about how prescription opioids were distributed as the nation’s overdose crisis was worsening.They urged a three-judge panel of the 6th ...
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Arizona court says Costco can be sued over ED drug disclosure
Political and Legal News 05/04/2019The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled that the Costco warehouse store chain can be sued for privacy violations by a Phoenix-area man because a pharmacist joked with his ex-wife about an erectile dysfunction prescription he had never picked up.The ru...
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Man Accused of Plotting IS-Inspired Attack Pleads Not Guilty
Practice Legal News 05/02/2019A Maryland man accused of planning an Islamic State-inspired attack at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C., has pleaded not guilty to a federal criminal charge.Rondell Henry was arraigned Monday on one count of interstate trans...
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Wisconsin court says gun site not liable in spa shooting
Political and Legal News 05/01/2019The state Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging a firearms website that enabled a man to illegally purchase the pistol he used in a mass shooting at a suburban Milwaukee spa six years ago is liable in the killings, ruling that federal la...
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Roggensack Re-Elected as Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief
Focused Practice 05/01/2019Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack has been re-elected to a third, two-year term leading the court.The court announced her re-election by fellow justices Tuesday. The result was public, but the vote was done in secret and the b...
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Ohio top court to hear arguments in TV news defamation case
Legal Review 04/25/2019Ohio's Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in an appeal involving a defamation lawsuit that alleged a television station falsely labeled three siblings as "robbers."A Columbus family sued WBNS-TV in 2016 after the station reported on a hover ...
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Myanmar court rejects appeal of jailed Reuters reporters
Legal Review 04/24/2019Myanmar’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the final appeal of two Reuters journalists and upheld seven-year prison sentences for their reporting on the military’s brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo earlier this...
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Supreme Court to take up LGBT job discrimination cases
Legal Review 04/21/2019The Supreme Court is taking on a major test of LGBT rights in cases that look at whether federal civil rights law bans job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.The justices said Monday they will hear cases involving p...
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Nissan ex-chair Ghosn appeal on extended detention rejected
Focused Practice 04/18/2019Japan's top court said Thursday it has rejected an appeal by former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's lawyers against his extended detention after his fourth arrest on allegations of financial misconduct.The decision upholds the extension of his detenti...
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Supreme Court asked to void Louisiana abortion clinic law
Daily Legal News 04/18/2019A Louisiana abortion clinic is asking the Supreme Court to strike down regulations that could leave the state with just one clinic.A divided high court had previously agreed to block the law pending a full review of the case.An appeal being filed wit...
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Court sets hearing on Trump administration's asylum policy
Political and Legal News 04/15/2019A federal appeals court on Wednesday scheduled a hearing over whether to stop the Trump administration from forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their immigration court hearings.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set a hearing for April 24...