Recent Updates
-
West Virginia House speaker resigns to run for Supreme Court
Politics 08/22/2018West Virginia's Republican House speaker resigned Tuesday to run for a vacancy on the state Supreme Court, fueling accusations by Democrats that an unprecedented move to impeach state Supreme Court justices represents a power grab by GOP lawmakers.Sp...
-
Trump lashes out at his former lawyer after guilty plea
Legal Analysis 08/21/2018Facing a growing threat to his presidency, President Donald Trump lashed at his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, a day after the onetime "fixer" implicated Trump in a campaign cover-up to buy the silence of women who said they had sexual relatio...
-
German court rules in broadcaster Nazi camp spat with Poland
Court News 08/20/2018A German court has ruled that public broadcaster ZDF can’t be forced to post a specifically worded apology demanded by a Polish court for erroneously calling two World War II Nazi camps “Polish death camps.”ZDF used that wording in ...
-
Sen. Collins, potential swing vote, meets with Kavanaugh
Focused Practice 08/20/2018Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh met Tuesday with Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a centrist who's seen as a potential swing vote on his confirmation, while Democrats push him to release more documents from his years in the George W. Bus...
-
Alabama Supreme Court won't move lawsuit against Moore
Legal News 08/18/2018The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday refused to transfer a defamation lawsuit against former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore by a woman who says Moore molested her decades ago.The court denied Moore's request to have the case heard in Etowah County in...
-
Court: Dismissal of cop's Black Lives Matter lawsuit is just
Court News 08/16/2018A federal appeals court says a Louisiana court rightly dismissed a deputy's lawsuit accusing Black Lives Matter and several leaders of inciting violence that led to a deadly 2016 attack on law enforcement officers.The Advocate reports a three-judge p...
-
Lawyers will seek to shift blame for warehouse fire at trial
Politics 08/16/2018Lawyers for the two men charged in the Northern California warehouse fire that killed 36 people said Friday they are now preparing for a trial where they will try to shift blame for the blaze from their clients to others, including the building's own...
-
California high court rules for immigrant kids in visa fight
Focused Practice 08/15/2018The California Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for some immigrant children who are abused or abandoned by a parent to seek a U.S. visa to avoid deportation in a ruling that advocates said would help thousands of children.State judges cannot ...
-
Ugandan pop star, a government critic, faces military court
Court News 08/13/2018A pop singer and prominent critic of Uganda's government was charged with unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition in a military court on Thursday for his alleged role in clashes in which the longtime president's motorcade was attacked by peopl...
-
Nevada Supreme Court taking up execution case
Practice Legal News 08/12/2018The Nevada Supreme Court has stepped in to decide whether drug companies can try to stop the state from using their medications in a twice-postponed lethal injection of a condemned inmate who wants to die.A state court judge in Las Vegas cancelled he...
-
Court: Ex-federal immigration lawyer can be sued for forgery
Litigation Reports 08/12/2018A U.S. appeals court says a former federal immigration lawyer who forged a document in an effort to get a man deported can be sued for damages.Jonathan M. Love was assistant chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle in 200...
-
Immigration cases tossed in fallout from high court ruling
Litigation Reports 08/11/2018Immigration courts from Boston to Los Angeles have been experiencing fallout from a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that has caused some deportation orders to be tossed and cases thrown out, bringing more chaos to a system that was already besiege...