Recent Updates
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Appeals court rules Mississippi can resume Google inquiry
Court Alerts 04/11/2016Mississippi'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 ...
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Oklahoma prosecutors allege abuse before boy's disappearance
Class Action News 04/11/2016An Oklahoma couple arrested in the 2006 disappearance of their 9-year-old nephew had beaten the boy until he lay motionless on a couch and then threatened the boy's brother into repeating a rehearsed story to authorities, prosecutors allege in an aff...
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Federal court hears appeal of Minnesota sex offender ruling
Business Law 04/10/2016The lengthy legal debate over a Minnesota program that keeps sex offenders confined indefinitely after they complete their prison sentences shifted south Tuesday as state officials urged a federal appeals court nearly 500 miles away to overturn a jud...
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Court sends part of Wisconsin voter ID case back to judge
Criminal Law 04/08/2016A judge must consider whether Wisconsin's voter photo identification law applies to people who face daunting obstacles in obtaining identification, a three-judge federal appellate panel ruled Tuesday. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Nation...
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US House staffers subpoenaed by federal court
Environmental 04/07/2016Four 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 ...
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Passport mark for sex offenders law challenged in court
Bankruptcy 03/30/2016A judge in Northern California is set to hear arguments over whether to block a new federal law that requires sex offenders to have "unique identifiers" in their passports. U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton has scheduled a hearing Wednesday ...
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Supreme Court's future hangs in the balance in 2016
Legal News Feed 03/29/2016Hillary Clinton said Monday that the future of the Supreme Court would hang in the balance of the 2016 election, warning that Republican front-runner Donald Trump would bring division to the court if he was allowed to shape its future. Clinton said T...
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Clinton: Americans should put Court nomination at forefront
Court Alerts 03/28/2016Hillary Clinton wants voters to consider what Republican front-runner Donald Trump might do to shape the Supreme Court. Clinton planned to use in a speech in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday to argue that Trump could roll back the rights of individuals,...
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Attorney: Court ruling lets Ohio political candidates lie
Lawyer Blogs 03/28/2016Candidates for public office in Ohio can lie and get away with it under a recent federal court ruling that struck down a state law banning false statements in campaigns, an attorney says. Attorney Donald Brey, who has represented Republicans in cases...
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Ole Miss ex-student pleads guilty to tying noose on statue
Class Action News 03/25/2016A former University of Mississippi student could face up to a year in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to placing a noose on the school's statue of its first black student. Austin Reed Edenfield waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a misdemea...
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Karadzic convicted of genocide, sentenced to 40 years
Criminal Law 03/24/2016A U.N. court convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and nine other charges Thursday and sentenced him to 40 years in prison for orchestrating Serb atrocities throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 war that left 100,000 people dead. As...
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Court gives green light to death penalty fast-tracking
Court Alerts 03/23/2016A federal appeals court Wednesday cleared the way for the Department of Justice to allow states to have their inmates' death penalty appeals expedited through federal court. Legal organizations that challenged the DOJ's criteria for certifying...