Recent Updates
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Court in Va. examines death row isolation policy
Criminal Law 10/27/2014Virginia's practice of automatically holding death row inmates in solitary confinement will be reviewed by a federal appeals court in a case that experts say could have repercussions beyond the state's borders. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in ...
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Court justice suspended over role in porn scandal
Legal News Center 10/22/2014The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday suspended one of its members over his participation in a state government pornographic email scandal that involved employees of the attorney general's office. The court justices issued an order saying Justice ...
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Massachusetts Real Estate Attorney
Law Firm News 10/22/2014For more than 30 years, Attorney Alan H. Segal has been lending legal expertise to the Greater Boston Massachusetts area from his Needham, Massachusetts Law Office. With great attentiveness, Alan and his associates have given legal consultation in bu...
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High court action on voting aims to avoid chaos
Legal News Center 10/13/2014In seemingly contradictory voting-rights actions just a month before November's elections, the Supreme Court has allowed new Republican-inspired restrictions to remain in force in North Carolina and Ohio while blocking Wisconsin's voter identificatio...
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US high court: Who best judges fair competition?
Headline News 10/13/2014The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a North Carolina case over whether U.S. states can delegate the regulation of professions such as dentistry, plumbing, cosmetology and more to boards of practitioners drawn from those occupations. The issue set f...
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Court-martial for Missouri drill sergeant resumes
Legal News Feed 09/29/2014The military court-martial of a Missouri sergeant accused of sexually assaulting eight female soldiers has resumed. A verdict is expected Wednesday after a three-day trial for 30-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Angel M. Sanchez, who is accused of using his ...
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Case of American jailed in Cuba back in US court
Headline News 09/29/2014An attorney for a Maryland man who has spent over four years jailed in Cuba argued before a federal appeals court that his client should be allowed to sue the U.S. government over his imprisonment. An attorney for Alan Gross, who was a government sub...
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San Francisco Intellectual Property Lawyer - The Onu Law Firm
Law Firm News 09/22/2014The Firm’s intellectual property practice includes the management, securement, and protection of our client’s intellectual property along with the development, structure and implementation of agreements in order to maximize our client’s intellectual ...
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German court lifts injunction banning Uber
Court Alerts 09/22/2014A court in Germany has lifted an emergency injunction that banned the ridesharing service Uber from operating anywhere in the country.The Frankfurt state court ruled Tuesday that the urgent measures taxi drivers won against their upstart rival last m...
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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...