Recent Updates
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With 2 in 3 months, Ohio executions could be back on track
Law Firm Blogs 09/18/2017Court rulings favorable to the state and the outcome of two executions in three months indicate Ohio could be on track to resume putting inmates to death regularly. The state executed child killer Ronald Phillips in July and double killer Gary Otte o...
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3 bank customers in Germany fined for ignoring collapsed man
Law & Politics 09/17/2017A German court has fined three bank customers for failing to help an elderly man who collapsed in a bank branch and later died. The Essen district court handed the defendants, a woman and two men, fines ranging from 2,400 to 3,600 euros ($2,865 to $4...
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FBI Searched Ex-Oklahoma Senator's Office for Porn
Labor & Employment 09/15/2017Court records show the FBI searched the Capitol office of a former Oklahoma senator in March because a campaign aide allegedly saw child pornography on his computer. Republican Sen. Ralph Shortey resigned in March after being arrested when police in ...
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Rooney gets road ban after pleading guilty to drunk driving
Lawyer News 09/14/2017Former England captain Wayne Rooney pleaded guilty to drunk driving on Monday, leading to a court imposing a two-year driving ban and ordering him to perform 100 hours of unpaid community work. The Everton striker was stopped by police outside Manche...
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Court eyes Massachusetts church-state dispute
Court Alerts 09/13/2017An attorney says a Massachusetts town should not be barred from giving public funds to support the restoration of a historic building just because it happens to be a church. Nina Pickering-Cook told Massachusetts' highest court on Thursday that commu...
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Indian court sentences 2 men to death in 1993 Mumbai blasts
Criminal Law 09/13/2017An Indian court on Thursday sentenced two men to death and two others to life in prison for a series of bombings that killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993. A fifth man was given 10 years in prison. The five men were convicted earlier of criminal consp...
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Chicago's lawsuit over sanctuary city threat goes to court
Legal News Feed 09/11/2017Chicago is asking a federal judge to block President Donald Trump's administration from following through on its threat to withhold public safety grants to so-called sanctuary cities. Attorneys for the city will be in court Monday to argue their case...
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Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg is set speak in Chicago
Business Law 09/11/2017U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is scheduled to visit Chicago and speak at a university conference. She's expected to appear at Roosevelt University downtown on Monday evening as part of a program focusing on themes of law, social just...
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Abortion clinic dispute to be argued in Ohio Supreme Court
Lawyer News 09/10/2017A dispute over whether to shut down Toledo's last abortion clinic is headed to the Ohio Supreme Court Tuesday, in a case both sides view as pivotal. At issue in oral arguments will be the state health department's 2014 order shutting down Capital Car...
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Challenge to $225M Exxon settlement to be heard in court
Attorney Blogs 09/10/2017Environmental groups arguing New Jersey's $225 million settlement with Exxon Mobil short-changed taxpayers are getting their day in appeals court. The Appellate Court is set to hear arguments on Monday in Trenton. New Jersey sued Exxon Mobil for natu...
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Supreme Court Backs Dayton Veto of Legislature Budget
Law & Politics 09/09/2017The Minnesota Supreme Court says Gov. Mark Dayton’s veto of the Legislature’s budget was constitutional. The ruling Friday is counter to a lower-court ruling this summer that Dayton had acted unconstitutionally, but is not the last word in the case. ...
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Indian court sentences 2 men to death in 1993 Mumbai blasts
Criminal Law 09/08/2017An Indian court on Thursday sentenced two men to death and two others to life in prison for a series of bombings that killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993. A fifth man was given 10 years in prison. The five men were convicted earlier of criminal consp...