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Law Office of Alan Segal - Real Estate Law Attorney Massachusetts
Lawyer News 08/27/2014Looking to purchase your first home in Massachusetts? Bostonians are beginning to save up to buy real estate as safe equity. Property would include all of the following: house, commercial building, or even a lot. When people think property, they usua...
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Appeals court questions proof-of-citizenship rules
Class Action News 08/27/2014A federal appeals panel in Denver on Monday suggested that a partisan stalemate in Congress may mean that Republicans in Kansas and Arizona will be unable to force federal election officials to impose proof-of-citizenship requirements on voter regist...
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Court: Silence can be used against suspects
Headline News 08/18/2014The California Supreme Court has ruled that the silence of suspects can be used against them. Wading into a legally tangled vehicular manslaughter case, a sharply divided high court on Thursday effectively reinstated the felony conviction of a man ac...
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California high court strikes measure from ballot
Law Firm News 08/18/2014The California Supreme Court on Monday blocked an advisory measure backed by Democrats from the November ballot. By a 5-1 vote, the court ordered the removal of Proposition 49, which would have asked voters if they want a federal constitutional amend...
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Egypt court dissolves Muslim Brotherhood party
Legal News Center 08/11/2014Egypt's highest administrative court dissolved Saturday the political party of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets liquidated, in the latest move against the 86-year old Islamist group. The decision against the Freedom and Justice Pa...
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Teen suspect in 6-year-old's death due in court
Legal News Feed 08/11/2014A 17-year-old boy arrested in the death and sexual assault of a 6-year-old Washington state girl is due in court Monday. Authorities still haven't released the name of the suspect, who was arrested Saturday in the Bremerton-area mobile home park from...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds 2011 union law
Court Alerts 08/05/2014The fight over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's signature policy achievement, a law effectively ending collective bargaining for most public employees, ended Thursday with the state Supreme Court declaring it to be constitutional. Passage of the law in ...
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Court schedules night deer hunting arguments
Class Action News 08/05/2014Wisconsin's Chippewa tribes will get a chance next month to tell a federal appeals court why members should be allowed to hunt deer at night.State officials have long banned night hunts out of safety concerns. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb ruled ...
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Brown appoints legal affairs aide to appeals court
Legal News Center 07/28/2014Gov. Jerry Brown has named a senior aide to become an associate justice on the Sacramento-based Third District Court of Appeal. Brown announced the appointment of Jonathan Renner on Friday. The 44-year-old Democrat from Sacramento has been Brown's le...
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German court receives suit against EU bank union
Legal News Feed 07/28/2014A group of German professors has filed a complaint to the country's highest court against the European Union's plans to create a so-called banking union, a central part of the effort to make the continent's financial system more resilient. The Federa...
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2 ag-gag laws facing federal court challenges
Class Action News 07/21/2014The years-long fight between farm organizations and animal rights activists over laws prohibiting secretly filmed documentation of animal abuse is moving from state legislatures to federal courts as laws in Utah and Idaho face constitutional challeng...
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Montana court sends wind farm clash to California
Legal News Feed 07/21/2014A dispute over a Montana wind farm's potential to harm nearby nesting eagles and other birds should be heard in California, the Montana Supreme Court said Friday, in an opinion that deals a legal setback to the project's developers. The legal row ove...