Recent Updates
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Former Rep. George Santos pleads guilty in federal fraud case
Practice Legal News 08/20/2024George Santos, the former New York congressman who spun lies into a brief political career, pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, acknowledging that he allowed his ambitions to cloud his judgment.Santos, 36, is likely to ...
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Alabama woman who faked kidnapping pleads guilty to false reporting
Practice Legal News 03/22/2024An Alabama woman who claimed she was abducted after stopping her car to check on a wandering toddler pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of giving false information to law enforcement.News outlets reported that Carlee Russell pleaded guilty to misd...
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Delaware Senate confirms two Supreme Court nominees
Practice Legal News 05/02/2023The state Senate has confirmed Gov. John Carney’s two nominees for the Delaware Supreme Court, including a lawyer tapped by Carney for the high court after he was arrested for drunken driving.Carney’s nominations of Abigail LeGrow and N. ...
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Criminal Attorneys in St. Louis, MO - John M. Lynch
Practice Legal News 07/13/2022police investigator and federal drug task force agent enable him to see a case from all sides. He is routinely hired by other attorneys to assist with criminal cases. His peer recognition is also evident in the recognition that he has earned with Top...
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Justices rule Muslim men can sue FBI agents over no-fly list
Practice Legal News 12/11/2020A unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Muslim men who were placed on the government’s no-fly list because they refused to serve as FBI informants can seek to hold federal agents financially liable.The justices continued a string of de...
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Netanyahu heads to court as 1st sitting Israeli PM on trial
Practice Legal News 05/24/2020Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is lashing out at Israel’s justice system, saying his trial on corruption charges is an attempt to “depose” him. Prime Minister Benjamin spoke Sunday as he arrived at a Jerusalem courthouse ...
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Georgia courts urged to require sex harassment training
Practice Legal News 12/05/2019A committee of judges has recommended that all Georgia courts require judges and court employees to participate in sexual harassment prevention training at least once a year.A Georgia Supreme Court news release says the Ad Hoc Committee to Prevent Se...
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Court rules against Florida officials on medical marijuana
Practice Legal News 07/04/2019A Florida appellate court ruled that the state's approach to regulating marijuana is unconstitutional, possibly allowing more providers to jump into a market positioned to become one of the country's most lucrative.If the ruling stands, it could forc...
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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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Philippine Supreme Court orders release of drug war evidence
Practice Legal News 04/02/2019The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the release of police documents on thousands of killings of suspects in the president’s anti-drug crackdown, in a ruling that human rights groups said could shed light on allegations of extrajudic...
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High court questions courts’ role in partisan redistricting
Practice Legal News 03/25/2019The Supreme Court’s conservative majority sounded wary Tuesday of allowing federal judges to determine when electoral maps are too partisan, despite strong evidence that the political parties drew districts to guarantee congressional election o...
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Court records reveal a Mueller report right in plain view
Practice Legal News 02/24/2019The Democrats had blamed Russia for the hacking and release of damaging material on his presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton. Trump wasn’t buying it. But on July 27, 2016, midway through a news conference in Florida, Trump decided to entertai...