Recent Updates
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El Salvador court takes up case on ex-president's finances
Practice Legal News 05/11/2016A court in El Salvador has agreed to consider a civil case against former President Mauricio Funes, his wife and one of his sons for possible illicit enrichment.The San Salvador court press office said Saturday that several government institutions ha...
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Kansas Supreme Court reviews lawmakers' school aid changes
Practice Legal News 05/11/2016Attorneys for Kansas hope to persuade the state Supreme Court that recent changes in the state's education funding system are fair enough to poor districts that the justices can abandon a threat to shut down public schools.The high court was set to h...
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Planned Parenthood shooting defendant returning to court
Political and Legal News 05/11/2016A man who admitted killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic is returning to court for the continuation of a hearing on whether he's mentally competent to stand trial.A psychologist who examined 57-year-old Robert Dear is scheduled...
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US House staffers subpoenaed by federal court
Political and Legal News 04/17/2016Four congressional staffers have told the U.S. House that they've been subpoenaed by the federal court in Springfield, Illinois, where a grand jury is conducting a probe into the spending of former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock.The financial chief for the H...
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Appeals court rules Mississippi can resume Google inquiry
Lawyer News 04/17/2016Mississippi's attorney general can resume an investigation into whether Google facilitates illegal behavior, an appeals court ruled.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday overturned a district judge who had sided with Google. U.S. District J...
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Supreme Court to swear in large group of deaf lawyers
Practice Legal News 04/17/2016Mobile phones ordinarily are strictly forbidden in the marble courtroom of the nation's highest court, but the justices are making an exception next week when roughly a dozen deaf and hard-of-hearing lawyers will be admitted to the Supreme Court bar....
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Cosby asks court to reseal testimony about affairs, drugs
Practice Legal News 04/17/2016Bill Cosby's lawyers urged an appeals court Wednesday to reseal the comedian's lurid, decade-old testimony about his womanizing, but the panel of judges seemed to think the request was pointless, since the deposition has already made headlines around...
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Despite court ruling, China gay rights movement makes gains
Legal Interview 04/17/2016For years, Chen Tiantian could only read about the gay rights movement in faraway places. She knew that there were activists in Beijing and a vibrant community in Shanghai, and that in San Francisco, a distant mecca, gay pride parades took up entire ...
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Obama's power over immigration drives Supreme Court dispute
Legal Review 04/17/2016The raging political fight over immigration comes to the Supreme Court on Monday in a dispute that could affect millions of people who are in the United States illegally. The court is weighing the fate of Obama administration programs that coul...
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Court sides with Argentina, speeding along bond settlements
Legal Interview 04/17/2016A federal appeals court cleared the way Wednesday for Argentina to settle its debts and strengthen its ability to maneuver in worldwide markets. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned away creditors who wanted to keep in place court-ordere...
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Democrats push McConnell, GOP on Supreme Court nomination
Politics 04/17/2016Senate Democrats called on Republicans to vote on Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court by Memorial Day, as GOP lawmakers showed no sign of relenting despite the latest round of courtesy calls.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky....
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'Bogus beggar' pleads guilty to fraud charges
Political and Legal News 03/26/2016A Kentucky man who claims to have made as much as $100,000 annually by panhandling while pretending to be disabled pleaded guilty Wednesday to misrepresenting his condition to get Social Security benefits.Local news outlets report that 33-year-old Ga...