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Pa. high court fast tracks juvenile lifer appeals
Legal Review 08/08/2012Pennsylvania's highest court is moving quickly to determine how to respond to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles aren't constitutional.The Sentencing Project, an advocacy group based in Washi...
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Court overturns $1M award against U of M, Smith
Daily Legal News 08/08/2012The Minnesota Supreme Court has overturned a $1 million award against the University of Minnesota and men's basketball coach Tubby Smith over the hiring of an assistant coach.Jimmy Williams quit his job as an assistant coach at Oklahoma State in 2007...
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Gay marriage ban backers seek Supreme Court review
Legal Review 08/03/2012Backers of California's ban on same-sex marriages asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to overrule a federal appeals court that struck down the measure as unconstitutional, a move that means the bitter, four-year court fight over Proposition 8 cou...
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Court orders Chevron to stop drilling for oil
Lawyer News 08/03/2012A federal court has given Chevron Corp. and driller Transocean Ltd. 30 days to suspend all petroleum drilling and transportation operations in Brazil until the conclusion of investigations into two oil spills off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The cour...
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County's court records found in open recycling bin
Daily Legal News 08/03/2012Court administrators in Madison County say they'll do a better job of disposing of public records after court documents turned up in an open recycling bin. The Alton Telegraph reports that one of its reporters responding to a tip found hundreds of th...
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Pa.'s tough, new voter ID law heads to court
Politics 07/25/2012The first legal test for Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law is arriving.A state Commonwealth Court judge will begin a hearing Wednesday on whether to block the law from taking effect in this year's election while the court considers a ...
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Court rejects Florida prison privatization appeal
Political and Legal News 07/25/2012An appellate court on Tuesday tossed out Attorney General Pam Bondi's request for a decision to uphold the proposed privatization of 29 South Florida prison facilities.A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal rejected her plea to rever...
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Appeals court reinstates lawsuit against Glock
Daily Legal News 07/25/2012A California appeals court has reinstated a now-retired paralyzed Los Angeles police officer's product liability lawsuit against gun manufacturer Glock.Enrique Chavez was paralyzed from the waist down when his 3-year-old son accidentally shot him wit...
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Goldman agrees to settle mortgage debt class action
Politics 07/18/2012Goldman Sachs Group Inc has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit with investors who claimed losses on $698 million of securities backed by risky mortgage loans issued by defunct subprime lender New Century Financial Corp. Lawyers for the investors...
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Class-action lawsuit filed against Mountain State
Daily Legal News 07/18/2012Three students are suing Mountain State University, former President Charles Polk and the Board of Trustees over the school's revoked accreditation, saying it renders their degrees worthless. Dale Burger and his two children, Amanda and Jeff Burger, ...
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Pa. high court denies Orie Melvin request
Daily Legal News 07/18/2012A Pennsylvania state Supreme Court justice who is fighting political corruption charges has lost a request for her fellow justices to intervene in her criminal court case and require that an out-of-county judge preside over it. The state Supreme Cour...
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Wash. Senate hopeful sought to seal court files
Politics 07/18/2012A couple months before Brad Toft emerged as the only Republican in a crucial state Senate race, he pressed officials to seal records from a past court case. In a signed letter, Toft seemed to suggest that he wasn't the same person cited in the court ...