Recent Updates
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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 ...
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High court wrestles with prayer in government
Court Alerts 11/08/2013The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with the appropriate role for religion in government in a case involving mainly Christian prayers at the start of a New York town's council meetings. The justices began their day with the marshal's customary plea ...
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Planned Parenthood Asks Supreme Court's Help In Texas
Headline News 11/04/2013Planned Parenthood is asking the Supreme Court to place Texas' new abortion restrictions on hold. The group says in a filing with the high court Monday that more than a third of the clinics in Texas have been forced to stop providing abortions since ...
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Court-martial date set in Naval Academy case
Attorneys News 11/04/2013A court-martial has been scheduled for February for a U.S. Naval Academy student accused of aggravated sexual assault. Midshipman Josh Tate appeared at an arraignment Monday at the Washington Navy Yard. The court-martial is scheduled to begin Feb. 10...