Recent Updates
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Trials delayed for mother, son in Mississippi fraud cases
Law Firm Blogs 11/13/2021Judges have delayed the state and federal trials of a mother and son charged in one of Mississippi’s largest public corruption cases. State Auditor Shad White has said Nancy New and Zachary New were responsible for misspending millions of dolla...
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San Diego Personal Injury Law Website
Law Firm Blogs 08/06/2021When your clients are in the dark, this personal injury law office website will speak to them louder than words. We think that the mysteriousness of the webdesign brings in clients and keeps them on your website wondering if you are the right fi...
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Rebel Wilson back in Australian courts in defamation appeal
Law Firm Blogs 07/11/2018Rebel Wilson has applied to Australia's highest court to increase the comic actress's payout from a defamation case against a magazine publisher.The 38-year-old, best known for parts in the "Pitch Perfect" and "Bridesmaids" movies, was awarded in Sep...
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Idaho man upset with court tries to crash into courthouse
Law Firm Blogs 12/04/2017Authorities say an Idaho man tried to crash a car into a courthouse in downtown Boise because he was upset with the court system. The Ada County Sheriff's office says 37-year-old Jonathan Joseph Locksmith drove toward the courthouse in the state's ca...
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Florida man back at Supreme Court with 1st Amendment case
Law Firm Blogs 11/09/2017The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a First Amendment case brought by a Florida man who previously won a landmark ruling from the justices on whether his floating home was a house, not a boat subject to easier government seizure under laws t...
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With 2 in 3 months, Ohio executions could be back on track
Law Firm Blogs 09/18/2017Court rulings favorable to the state and the outcome of two executions in three months indicate Ohio could be on track to resume putting inmates to death regularly. The state executed child killer Ronald Phillips in July and double killer Gary Otte o...
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Court eyes Massachusetts church-state dispute
Law Firm Blogs 09/07/2017An attorney says a Massachusetts town should not be barred from giving public funds to support the restoration of a historic building just because it happens to be a church. Nina Pickering-Cook told Massachusetts' highest court on Thursday that commu...
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NJ Supreme Court Reverses Decades-Old Divorce Law
Law Firm Blogs 08/11/2017The New Jersey Supreme Court has reversed a decades-old law in a landmark decision that makes the child the focus of divorce relocation proceedings. The law centers on divorced parents who want to leave New Jersey with the child against the other par...
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Newest justice joins high court amid competing caricatures
Law Firm Blogs 04/11/2017Somewhere between the Republican caricature of the next justice of the Supreme Court as a folksy family guy and the Democrats' demonization of him as a cold-hearted automaton, stands Neil Gorsuch. Largely unknown six months ago, Gorsuch has seen his ...
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Nevada high court considering email public records question
Law Firm Blogs 11/17/2016Neighbors' efforts to block the reopening of a mine in a historic Nevada mining town have unearthed a legal question about whether emails kept by elected officials on their personal devices are public records. The Comstock Residents Association wants...
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Kansas court upholds death sentence for sheriff's killing
Law Firm Blogs 07/22/2016The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence imposed against a man who fatally shot a sheriff during a 2005 drug raid. Kansas hasn't executed anyone in more than 50 years, and Friday's decision in Scott Cheever's case is only the seco...
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Court rejects AG Kane's request to reinstate law license
Law Firm Blogs 02/08/2016Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane's law license will remain suspended after the state's highest court on Friday denied her request to have it reinstated while she fights criminal charges of leaking secret grand jury material and lying about...