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Analysis: Voter ID Fight Testing Court as Much as New Law
Legal Analysis 05/06/2018The Arkansas Supreme Court's decision to allow the state to enforce its voter ID law in this month's primary while justices consider whether the measure is unconstitutional sets up a test over Republican lawmakers' efforts to reinstate a law struck d...
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Law firm hired to investigate economic development agency
Legal Analysis 05/02/2018The Oregon Department of Justice has hired a law firm to investigate allegations of discrimination and mismanagement at the state's economic development agency, Business Oregon.The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that in an anonymous letter to Gov. Kate...
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Supreme Court to hear appeal of Missouri death row inmate
Legal News Headlines 04/29/2018The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review the case of a Missouri death row inmate who says his rare medical condition could cause him to choke on his own blood during an execution.The justices said they would hear the appeal of inmate Russell Bucklew...
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Pennsylvania asks court to keep Amazon incentives a secret
Legal Analysis 04/19/2018Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's administration went to court this week to block requests for records of financial incentives it offered Amazon to build its second headquarters in Pennsylvania.An administration lawyer asked Commonwealth Court to reverse an...
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Supreme Court to hear appeal of Missouri death row inmate
Legal News Headlines 04/19/2018The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review the case of a Missouri death row inmate who says his rare medical condition could cause him to choke on his own blood during an execution.The justices said they would hear the appeal of inmate Russell Bucklew...
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Question of sales tax on online purchases goes to high court
Practice Legal News 04/16/2018Online shoppers have gotten used to seeing that line on checkout screens before they click "purchase." But a case before the Supreme Court could change that.At issue is a rule stemming from two, decades-old Supreme Court cases: If a business is shipp...
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Clicking 'checkout' could cost more after Supreme Court case
Practice Legal News 04/16/2018The Supreme Court is hearing a case this week that could affect how much customers pay for online purchases.At issue is a rule saying that businesses don't have to collect state sales taxes when those businesses ship to a state where they don't have ...
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Supreme Court rejects anti-abortion pastor's appeal on noise
Daily Legal News 04/16/2018The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a pastor who challenged a state law's noise limit that was used to restrict his anti-abortion protest outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Portland, Maine.The justices offered no comment Monday in rejecti...
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Supreme Court wrestles with administrative law judge case
Legal News Headlines 04/15/2018challenging the appointment of the administrative law judge who ruled against him.The case involves the Securities and Exchange Commission's administrative law judges, who conduct hearings on alleged securities law violations and issue initial decisi...
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Supreme Court again refuses to hear Blagojevich appeal
Court News 04/15/2018The Supreme Court for the second time has refused to hear an appeal by imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of his corruption convictions.The justices didn't comment Monday in letting stand the convictions and 14-year prison term the 61-ye...
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Court: Teen accused in school shooting plot deserves bail
Court News 04/12/2018The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that a teenager accused of planning a shooting at his former high school should not be kept in jail pending his trial.The state's top court ruled on Wednesday that there's not enough evidence to show 18-year-old Ja...
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North Carolina court allows case against dance instructors
Political and Legal News 04/11/2018North Carolina's highest court says dance instructors who glided away to a competing dance studio can still be sued by the employer who wrangled the foreign-born pair's permission to work in the United States.Happy Dance Inc. studio owner Michael Kra...