Recent Updates
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Court Halts Execution Of Tyler Woman's Killer
Daily Legal News 07/23/2015The Texas Court of Criminal of Appeals halted the scheduled lethal injection of Clifton Lamar Williams until questions about some incorrect testimony at his 2006 trial can be resolved. Williams, 31, had faced execution Thursday evening for the k...
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Texas turns away from criminal truancy courts for students
Daily Legal News 06/21/2015A long-standing Texas law that has sent about 100,000 students a year to criminal court — and some to jail — for missing school is off the books, though a Justice Department investigation into one county's truancy courts continues.Gov. Greg Abbott ha...
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Man pleads guilty to charge over noose on Ole Miss statue
Daily Legal News 06/21/2015A federal prosecutor said in court Thursday that Graeme Phillip Harris hatched a plan, after a night of drinking at a University of Mississippi fraternity house, to hang a noose on a campus statue of James Meredith, the first black student at Ole Mis...
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Court to hear cases over employment, housing bias
Daily Legal News 10/03/2014Did retailer Abercrombie & Fitch discriminate against a Muslim woman who was denied a job because her headscarf clashed with the company's dress code? That's the question in one of the 11 cases the Supreme Court said Thursday it will take on in its n...
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San Francisco Intellectual Property Lawyer
Daily Legal News 10/03/2014The Firm’s intellectual property practice includes the management, securement, and protection of our client’s intellectual property along with the development, structure and implementation of agreements in order to maximize our client’s intellectual ...
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Appellate court overturns high-speed rail rulings
Daily Legal News 08/04/2014A state appellate court on Thursday overturned two lower court rulings that had stalled funding for California's $68 billion bullet train, handing a big win to Gov. Jerry Brown's signature project and allowing the state to resume selling bonds to pay...
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Lawyer says LA police shot women without warning
Daily Legal News 02/12/2013A lawyer says two women delivering newspapers had no warning before they were mistakenly shot by Los Angeles police officers searching for triple murder suspect Christopher Dorner. Investigators say 47-year-old Maggie Carranza and her 71-year-old mot...
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Law firm: Phoenix lawyer dies from shooting wounds
Daily Legal News 02/01/2013A lawyer wounded by a gunman in a Phoenix office shooting this week has died, the second of three people hit by gunfire in the attack, the publicist for his law firm said Friday. Mark Hummels, 43, had been on life support at a Phoenix hospital after ...
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Alabama terror suspects pleads not guilty
Daily Legal News 12/27/2012A Mobile man pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of providing support to international terrorists. U.S. Magistrate Judge Katherine Nelson set a tentative trial date of March 3 for Randy Lamar Rasheed Wilson, 25. But everyone involved in the ca...
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Mont. can pursue ex-billionaire bankruptcy
Daily Legal News 12/20/2012Montana's bid to force ultra-luxury resort founder Tim Blixseth into bankruptcy and make him come up with up $57 million in purported back taxes has been resurrected by an appeals court ruling in the case. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit ...
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NY court: Lap dances are not art and are taxable
Daily Legal News 10/25/2012Lap dances are taxable because they don't promote culture in a community the way ballet or other artistic endeavors do, New York's highest court concluded Tuesday in a sharply divided ruling. The court split 4-3, with the dissenting judges saying the...
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Court blocks Ind. defunding of Planned Parenthood
Daily Legal News 10/25/2012Indiana stepped between women and their physicians when it enacted a law that blocked Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood just because the organization provides abortions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...