Recent Updates
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First Opioid Court in the U.S. Focuses on Keeping Users Alive
Court Alerts 07/09/2017After three defendants fatally overdosed in a single week last year, it became clear that Buffalo's ordinary drug treatment court was no match for the heroin and painkiller crisis. Now the city is experimenting with the nation's first opioid crisis i...
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Court: Detained immigrant children entitled to court hearing
Court Alerts 07/07/2017Immigrant children who cross the border without their parents have the right to a court hearing to challenge any decision to detain them instead of turning them over to family in the U.S., a federal appeals court said Wednesday. The 9th U.S. Circuit ...
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Indiana high court to rule on Lake Michigan beach ownership
Court Alerts 07/02/2017The Indiana Supreme Court will decide who owns the land immediately adjacent to Lake Michigan. Don and Bobbie Gunderson claim their land on Lake Michigan extends to the water’s edge, meaning no one can access the beach by their house without permissi...
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More court challenges expected for Trump's new travel ban
Court Alerts 06/30/2017A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel is now in force, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. The new rules, the product of ...
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EU Court: Vaccines Can Be Blamed for Illnesses Without Proof
Court Alerts 06/22/2017The highest court of the European Union ruled Wednesday that courts can consider whether a vaccination led to someone developing an illness even when there is no scientific proof. The decision was issued on Wednesday in relation to the case of a Fren...
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Justices could take up high-stakes fight over electoral maps
Court Alerts 06/18/2017In an era of deep partisan division, the Supreme Court could soon decide whether the drawing of electoral districts can be too political. A dispute over Wisconsin’s Republican-drawn boundaries for the state legislature offers Democrats some hope of c...
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Michelle Carter text suicide trial verdict: Guilty
Court Alerts 06/16/2017A young Massachusetts woman accused of sending her boyfriend dozens of text messages urging him to kill himself when they were teenagers was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Friday. Michelle Carter was charged in the death of Conrad Roy III. ...
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Court filing: Marsh seeks OK to sell 26 grocery stores
Court Alerts 06/14/2017A bankruptcy court document says two Ohio-based grocery chains have agreed to buy 26 of Marsh Supermarkets' 44 remaining stores for a total of $24 million. The court filing posted Tuesday says Fishers-based Marsh is seeking court approval to sell 11 ...
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The Latest: Suspect in 36 fire deaths appears in court
Court Alerts 06/09/2017A man who leased the Oakland warehouse where 36 people died in a massive fire appeared briefly in court on charges of involuntary manslaughter. Derick Almena had been expected to enter a plea Thursday but his attorney asked to delay the arraignment. ...
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High court limits seizure of assets from drug conspiracies
Court Alerts 06/04/2017The Supreme Court is limiting the government's ability to seize assets from people who are convicted of drug crimes but receive little of the illegal proceeds. The justices ruled Monday that a Tennessee man convicted for his role selling iodine water...
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Supreme Court strikes down 2 NC congressional districts
Court Alerts 05/22/2017The Supreme Court struck down two congressional districts in North Carolina Monday because race played too large a role in their creation. The justices ruled that Republicans who controlled the state legislature and governor's office in 2011 placed t...
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Former County Sheriff Joe Arpaio loses another round in court
Court Alerts 05/20/2017An appeals court has rejected former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's bid to have a jury, rather than a judge, decide whether he is guilty of a criminal contempt-of-court charge for disobeying a court order in a racial profiling case. The 9th Circuit Court of Ap...