Recent Updates
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Court: Lawyers will be disbarred over child porn
Headline News 01/24/2014Lawyers convicted of child pornography charges will automatically be disbarred and prohibited from practicing law in California, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Deciding the fate of an Orange County lawyer whose license was suspended after he...
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2 killed in attack at German court
Class Action News 01/24/2014Two men were killed Friday in a shooting and stabbing at a court complex in Frankfurt in what may have been a revenge attack, authorities said. Frankfurt prosecutors said the case appeared to be linked to the fatal stabbing of a car dealer near Frank...
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Italian court hears final rebuttals in Knox trial
Criminal Law 01/20/2014A prosecutor urged a court on Monday to take steps to make sure that American Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend would serve their sentences, if they are convicted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher. Prosecutor Alessandro Crini p...
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Texas Supreme Court limits insurance exclusions
Legal World 01/20/2014The Texas Supreme Court issued a key ruling Friday that should boost consumer confidence in the liability insurance coverage that builders and general contractors carry. Writing for the court, Justice Phil Johnson denied an insurance company's attemp...
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High court OKs Miss. lawsuit on LCD price fixing
Class Action News 01/16/2014The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that Mississippi can pursue claims of price-fixing against a manufacturer of LCD screens in state court. The justices on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling that blocked the state-court suit against AU Optron...
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Maryland appeals income tax case to Supreme Court
Legal News Feed 01/16/2014The Daily Record reports the justices on Monday asked for the Obama administration's views on the constitutionality of barring state residents from deducting income taxes paid to other states from their local city or county taxes owed in Maryland. La...
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Chile's top court rules against coal-fired complex
Legal News Feed 01/13/2014Chile's Supreme Court sided with local fishermen who contend a coal-fired power complex harms ocean life and pollutes their community, but the judges stopped short of ordering a suspension and left it to environmental authorities to decide if operati...
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Court weighs president's recess appointments power
Class Action News 01/13/2014The Supreme Court is refereeing a politically charged dispute between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans over the president's power to temporarily fill high-level positions. The case being argued at the high court Monday is the first in th...
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Court: Lawmakers must expedite education funding
Attorneys News 01/10/2014The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday ordered lawmakers to submit a complete plan by the end of April to detail how the state will fully pay for basic education. The 8-1 ruling said that while the state made progress in last year's budget to incre...
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Defamatory online posts revisited by Texas court
Attorneys News 01/10/2014They say nothing on the Internet ever really goes away, but the Texas Supreme Court is considering whether defamatory postings might be worth the effort to try. Justices on the state's highest civil court on Thursday weighed broader questions about c...
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Supreme Court Puts Utah Same-Sex Marriage on Hold
Legal News Feed 01/06/2014The Supreme Court on Monday put same-sex marriages on hold in Utah, at least while a federal appeals court more fully considers the issue. The court issued a brief order blocking any new same-sex unions in the state. The order grants an emergency app...
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Pa. monsignor due in court after leaving prison
Legal News Feed 01/06/2014A Roman Catholic church official is due in court Monday for the first time since his conviction in the priest sex-abuse scandal was reversed. Monsignor William Lynn is not quite a free man. He must remain under electronic monitoring while prosecutors...