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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Nevada high court gets flurry of filings in execution case
Legal News Headlines 08/11/2018Two drugmakers asked the Nevada Supreme Court on Monday to let a state court judge hear arguments before justices take up an appeal about whether the state can use their products for an execution.The companies "and the citizens of Nevada have a subst...
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Tennessee high court refuses to block looming execution
Opinion 08/07/2018The Tennessee Supreme Court has refused to stay Thursday's scheduled execution of a convicted child killer while the state's new lethal injection protocol continues to be challenged on appeal.The order brings Tennessee within days of killing Billy Ra...
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12 audio files sent to prosecutors in Michael Cohen probe
Politics 07/24/2018A dozen audio recordings seized by the FBI from President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, were forwarded to federal prosecutors after lawyers dropped challenges on attorney-client privilege grounds, a former judge revealed Monday.The rec...
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Subordinate courts in Telangana sit on pile of cases
Opinion 07/22/2018Apart from the Hyderabad High Court, there is a heavy pendency of cases in the district and subordinate courts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh as well. While in Telangana at least 4.9 lakh cases — both civil and criminal — are pending, in...
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Court questions whether Maine has money to expand Medicaid
Daily Legal News 07/19/2018Maine's high court is weighing whether to allow the LePage administration to continue to block federal funding for voter-approved Medicaid expansion. Justices on Wednesday heard the administration's arguments against a court order r...
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Rock icon Cliff Richard wins UK High Court privacy case
Politics 07/18/2018British rock icon Cliff Richard has won his privacy case against the BBC for its coverage of a police raid at his home and has been awarded more than 200,000 ($260,000) in damages.Richard had sued the broadcaster for its coverage of the 2014 raid, wh...