Recent Updates
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Supreme Court delays New Jersey sports betting decision
Legal News 01/23/2017The U.S. Supreme Court says it wants to hear more arguments before deciding whether to consider New Jersey's challenge to a federal sports betting ban. The court had been expected to announce a decision Tuesday.Instead, it asked the U.S. solicitor ge...
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Man accused of killing Orlando officer defiant in court
Court News 01/23/2017A man suspected of fatally shooting a Florida police officer spoke out of turn and was defiant in an Orlando courtroom where he made an initial appearance on charges of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend.Forty-one-year-old Markeith Loyd told the judg...
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Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions
Lawyer News 01/23/2017An appeals court in Norway is considering whether the prison conditions under which mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is being held amount to a violation of his human rights.The six-day trial ended Wednesday in a makeshift courtroom inside Skien p...
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Aaron Hernandez expected in court as murder trial nears
Practice Legal News 01/23/2017Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez is expected in a Boston courtroom for a pretrial hearing in his upcoming double murder trial.Hernandez is accused of killing two men he encountered at a Boston nightclub in 2012. Prosecutors say the former New England ...
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Supreme Court to hear case about party in vacant DC house
Political and Legal News 01/23/2017The Supreme Court will hear a case in which people arrested for having a party in a vacant house sued police for violating their constitutional rights and won.The justices said Thursday they will review lower court rulings in favor of 16 people who g...
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Ethics measure backers ask high court to let them join case
Political and Legal News 01/23/2017Supporters of a voter-approved government ethics overhaul are asking the state Supreme Court to allow them to join a lawsuit challenging the initiative filed by Republican lawmakers.South Dakotans for Integrity, a political committee that supported t...
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Nevada high court considering email public records question
Focused Practice 12/08/2016Neighbors' efforts to block the reopening of a mine in a historic Nevada mining town have unearthed a legal question about whether emails kept by elected officials on their personal devices are public records.The Comstock Residents Association wants ...
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French court restores far-right candidate's ties to father
Legal Review 12/08/2016French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen thought she had cut the political cord with her controversial father by expelling him from the far-right party he founded, but a court ruled Thursday Jean-Marie Le Pen still is the National Front's honorary...
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Justice Thomas: Honor Scalia by reining in government
Political and Legal News 12/08/2016Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is calling fellow conservatives to continue the work of the late Justice Antonin Scalia to keep the power of the courts and other branches of government in check.Thomas tells 1,700 people at a dinner in honor of ...
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Philippine court urged to order Marcos' remains exhumed
Daily Legal News 12/08/2016Human rights victims who suffered during the rule of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos filed petitions Monday asking the Supreme Court to order the exhumation of his remains that were buried last week at the country's Heroes' Cemetery.They also wa...
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Ohio sheriff accused of drug theft changing not guilty plea
Daily Legal News 12/08/2016A suspended sheriff in Ohio who has denied stealing prescription drugs and misusing office funds is due in court to change his not guilty plea.Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer is scheduled to attend a change of plea hearing Monday in Fremont.Ove...
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ICC prosecutor: African states leaving court is 'regression'
Politics 12/08/2016The International Criminal Court's prosecutor said Tuesday that it is a "regression" for African nations — including her home country of Gambia — to quit the court and said the continent should work with her office to end impunity for atrocities.Spea...