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  • Court to weigh cocaine cases, could alter sentencing in Ohio

    Court to weigh cocaine cases, could alter sentencing in Ohio

    Politics 02/11/2016

    Prosecutors across Ohio are concerned that a ruling under review by Ohio's top court could delay and shorten sentences for suspects caught with cocaine and force costly changes upon law enforcement.The state Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday ...

  • California high court to decide defibrillator case

    California high court to decide defibrillator case

    Politics 06/23/2014

    The California Supreme Court will decide whether large retailers in the state are required to have defibrillators on hand to help treat customers and workers who suffer sudden cardiac arrest. The high court said it will issue an opinion Monday mornin...

  • Campaigns lawyered up for election overtime chance

    Campaigns lawyered up for election overtime chance

    Politics 11/06/2012

    Legions of lawyers are ready to enter the fray in case Election Day turns on a legal challenge. One nightmare scenario would be for the results in a battleground state like Florida or Ohio to be too close to call, with thousands of absentee or provis...

  • High court won't block early voting in Ohio

    High court won't block early voting in Ohio

    Politics 10/19/2012

    The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for voters in the battleground state of Ohio to cast ballots on the three days before Election Day, giving Democrats and President Barack Obama's campaign a victory three weeks before the election. The cou...

  • 2 King Co. candidates vying for Attorney General

    2 King Co. candidates vying for Attorney General

    Politics 10/10/2012

    The two men competing to be Washington's next attorney general are co-workers, but that's about as much similarity King County Councilmen Reagan Dunn and Bob Ferguson will admit to. Dunn, a Republican, and the Democrat Ferguson have been trying to dr...

  • Court won't hear anti-gay marriage group appeal

    Court won't hear anti-gay marriage group appeal

    Politics 10/05/2012

    The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a national anti-gay marriage group that tried to thwart Maine's campaign disclosure law requiring it to release its donor list. The high court turned aside an appeal from the National Organi...

  • High court uphold WV congressional districts

    High court uphold WV congressional districts

    Politics 09/27/2012

    The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld West Virginia's congressional redistricting plan against a challenge that small population variations among its three congressional districts violate the Constitution. The justices, in an unsigned opinion, reversed...

  • Appeals court reverses ruling on campaign donors

    Appeals court reverses ruling on campaign donors

    Politics 09/21/2012

    An appeals court on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling that likely would have led to greater disclosure of who is paying for certain election ads. In March, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that the Federal Election Commission overstep...

  • Mo. high court hears arguments on incentive fund

    Mo. high court hears arguments on incentive fund

    Politics 09/21/2012

    Missouri Supreme Court judges are weighing two potentially contradictory sections of legislation while deciding whether a new law creating an incentive fund for high-tech businesses can take effect. Arguments Wednesday before the high court focused o...

  • Federal agency charged with enforcing consumer finance laws

    Federal agency charged with enforcing consumer finance laws

    Politics 09/13/2012

    The new federal agency charged with enforcing consumer finance laws is emerging as an ambitious sheriff, taking on companies for deceptive fees and marketing and unmoved by protests that its tactics go too far. In the 14 months it has existed, the Co...

  • N.Y. probing equity firms, including Bain

    N.Y. probing equity firms, including Bain

    Politics 09/05/2012

    New York's attorney general is investigating tax strategies of some of the nation's largest private equity firms, including Bain Capital, founded by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, an official familiar with the probe said Sunday. Attorne...

  • Federal court rejects GOP-drawn Texas voting maps

    Federal court rejects GOP-drawn Texas voting maps

    Politics 08/29/2012

    Stadiums and hospitals removed from the districts of black congressional members and country clubs newly drawn into those of white incumbents. A lawyer emailing "No bueno" to a Republican staffer about plans that risked leaving a paper trail and jeop...