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Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake
Legal News 03/08/2017An Oklahoma-based Native American tribe filed a lawsuit in its own tribal court system Friday accusing several oil companies of triggering the state's largest earthquake that caused extensive damage to some near-century-old tribal buildings.The Pawne...
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Immigration courts: record number of cases, many problems
Court News 03/08/2017Everyone was in place for the hearing in Atlanta immigration court: the Guinean man hoping to stay in the U.S., his attorney, a prosecutor, a translator and the judge. But because of some missing paperwork, it was all for nothing.When the government ...
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Raw power in North Carolina: governor, legislature in court
Lawyer News 03/08/2017Lawyers for North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and the state's legislative leaders face off in court Tuesday over whether a series of new laws diminishing the governor's powers are constitutional.A state panel of three trial judges will determine the out...
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Court: Florida Docs Allowed to Ask Patients About Guns
Politics 02/24/2017A federal appeals court has cleared the way for Florida doctors to talk with patients about whether they own guns.The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that key provisions of a 2011 law that restricted such speech violate the First Am...
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High court ruling limits international reach of patent laws
Court News 02/24/2017The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with California-based Life Technologies Corp. in a patent infringement case that limits the international reach of U.S. patent laws.The justices ruled unanimously that the company's shipment of a single part of a ...
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Supreme Court Hears Case on Fatal Border Shooting
Lawyer News 02/24/2017How a U.S. Border Patrol argent’s use of lethal force at the U.S-Mexican border implicates constitutional rights and foreign affairs dominated arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in Hernandez v. Mesa. The lawyer arguing that the agent shou...
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Supreme Court won't hear Ohio man's Amish hair-cutting case
Political and Legal News 02/24/2017The U.S. Supreme Court won't review the case of the Ohio leader of a breakaway group that was accused in hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish.Defense lawyers challenged the constitutionality of the federal hate crimes law and how a kidnapp...
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Graft conviction keeps south Indian politician out of office
Lawyer News 02/15/2017India's top court on Tuesday upheld the corruption conviction of the head of the ruling party in Tamil Nadu state, ending her chances of becoming the southern state's next chief minister.The Supreme Court set aside a lower court order that had cleare...
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Appeals court won't re-hear the 'dusky gopher frog' case
Legal Review 02/15/2017Advocates for an endangered species of frog have won a victory in a case that's headed for the U.S. Supreme Court.A federal appeals court in New Orleans has refused to revive an environmental case involving the "dusky gopher frog."Last year, a three-...
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German court excludes Jewish brothers from Auschwitz trial
Political and Legal News 02/15/2017A German court has excluded two elderly Jewish American men from joining the trial of a 96-year-old former Auschwitz SS medic, because their mother was not killed in the death camp's gas chambers during the time covered in the indictment.Hubert Zafke...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear open meetings case
Political and Legal News 02/15/2017The Wisconsin Supreme Court is to hear arguments in a case that could give school boards and other governmental bodies a way around the open meetings law.The case up for argument Wednesday focuses on whether meetings of a committee created by employe...
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Kyrgyz court confirms life sentence for journalist
Focused Practice 01/30/2017A court in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday upheld a life sentence for an ethnic Uzbek journalist in a case that has drawn international criticism.Azimzhan Askarov was convicted in 2010 for stirring up ethnic hatred, a charge related to ethnic unrest in the sou...