Recent Updates
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Nevada Supreme Court upholds ethics laws
Law & Politics 12/02/2013The Nevada Supreme Court upheld the state's ethics laws on Wednesday while backing the censure of a Sparks councilman for his 2005 vote on a casino project involving his former campaign manager. In a 5-2 opinion, justices rejected arguments from Spar...
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Amanda Knox appeals slander case to European court
Headline News 11/29/2013Lawyers for Amanda Knox filed an appeal of her slander conviction in Italy with the European Court of Human Rights, as her third murder trial was underway in Florence. The slander conviction was based on statements Knox made to police in November 200...
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Supreme Court Will Take up New Health Law Dispute
Headline News 11/29/2013The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law, whether businesses can use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. The justices said they will take ...
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Wash. court says gun limits OK before conviction
Law & Politics 11/25/2013Washington's high court upheld a state law Thursday that prohibits some suspects in serious criminal cases from possessing a firearm before they have been found guilty of a crime. The state Supreme Court said in a 5-4 ruling that the law did not viol...
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Appeals court sides with Starbucks over tips
Headline News 11/25/2013A federal appeals court in New York has agreed that Starbucks baristas must share their tips with shift supervisors. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its finding Thursday. The decision stemmed from a lower-court ruling that found that the...
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International court summit debates Africa issues
Legal News Feed 11/22/2013The International Criminal Court's vexed relationship with Africa took center stage Wednesday on the opening day of the annual summit of its 122 member states. The prosecutions of Kenya's president and his deputy have plunged relations between the wo...
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Supreme Court Refuses to Block Texas Abortion Law
Legal World 11/22/2013A sharply divided Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to continue enforcing abortion restrictions that opponents say have led more than a third of the state's clinics to stop providing abortions. The justices voted 5-4 to leave in effect a provisi...
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Spain court rejects handing pedophile to Morocco
Legal World 11/18/2013Spain's National Court has ruled against extraditing back to Morocco a convicted Spanish pedophile whose release triggered protests in the North African country. A court statement Monday said Daniel Galvan Vina would not be handed back because under ...
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Russian court: Greenpeace activist to stay in jail
Headline News 11/18/2013A Russian judge refused Monday to free Australian Greenpeace activist Colin Russell, who was among 30 people arrested following a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic, signaling that others also could be kept in jail for three more months pendi...
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N. Ind. court helps veterans get back on track
Court Alerts 11/11/2013A northern Indiana judge is helping troubled veterans get their lives back in order. Porter Superior Judge Julia Jent started the Veterans Treatment Court slightly more than two years ago. Case managers, mental health professionals, prosecutors and p...
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High court reverses pot conviction over evidence
Headline News 11/11/2013The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed the conviction of a Beaverhead County man for criminal distribution of dangerous drugs, saying he was convicted based on insufficient evidence. The court ruled in a 4-1 decision that state prosecutors p...
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2 plead not guilty to killing students near USC
Headline News 11/08/2013Two men have pleaded not guilty to killing two Chinese graduate students who were shot as they sat in a parked car near the University of Southern California last year. The Los Angeles Times says 20-year-old Javier Bolden and 21-year-old Bryan James ...