Recent Updates
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Court to decide if deportation ruling retroactive
Lawyer Blogs 05/01/2012The Supreme Court will decide whether to apply retroactively its 2010 decision that immigrants have a right to be told that a guilty plea could lead to their deportation. The high court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Roselva Chaidez, who was...
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Court Rules For Private Lawyer Hired By CA City
Lawyer Blogs 04/17/2012The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that private individuals hired temporarily by local governments have the same protection against civil rights lawsuits as public employees. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday that it makes no sense to trea...
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High court turns down Louisiana bid on Census
Lawyer Blogs 03/19/2012The Supreme Court has turned down Louisiana's bid to recover the congressional seat taken from the state as a result of the 2010 Census. The court is not commenting on its order Monday preventing the state from pursuing a lawsuit that claims the Cens...
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Supreme Court considers Fighting Sioux case
Lawyer Blogs 03/16/2012North Dakota's Supreme Court grilled the state Board of Higher Education's lawyer Thursday about the board's tardiness in challenging a law that requires the University of North Dakota's sports teams to carry the Fighting Sioux nickname. State lawmak...
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House acts against high court on eminent domain
Lawyer Blogs 02/29/2012The House sought Tuesday to undercut a 2005 Supreme Court ruling that gives state and local governments eminent domain authority to seize private property for economic development projects. Sponsors of the bill, which passed by a voice vote, said it ...
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British arms-to-Iran suspect faces Texas court
Lawyer Blogs 02/27/2012A retired British businessman is to appear in a federal court in El Paso after being extradited last week on charges that he tried to sell missile batteries to Iran in 2006. Christopher Tappin turned himself in Friday after fighting extradition from ...
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Appeals court tosses Armenian payments law
Lawyer Blogs 02/24/2012A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down a novel and controversial California law that allowed descendants of 1.5 million Armenians who perished in Turkey nearly a century ago to file claims against life insurance companies accused of reneging...
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NY court decision bolsters anti-fracking movement
Lawyer Blogs 02/23/2012A New York court decision has bolstered a movement among towns determined to prevent the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas within their borders. A state Supreme Court justice on Tuesday upheld the town of Dryden's August ...
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Strauss-Kahn has March court date in US
Lawyer Blogs 02/23/2012A New York court has scheduled a hearing on a lawsuit filed by the woman who accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan hotel. Prosecutors dropped criminal charges against Strauss...
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Court says police cannot be sued over warrant
Lawyer Blogs 02/22/2012The Supreme Court said Wednesday that California police officers cannot be sued because they used a warrant that may have been defective to search a woman's house. The high court threw out the lawsuit against Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Cu...
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High court to take new look at affirmative action
Lawyer Blogs 02/21/2012The Supreme Court will once again confront the issue of race in university admissions in a case brought by a white student denied a spot at the flagship campus of the University of Texas. The court said Tuesday it will return to the issue of affirmat...
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Student bra search case goes to NC Supreme Court
Lawyer Blogs 02/13/2012The North Carolina Supreme Court is hearing arguments over whether school officials should be allowed to search students' bras for drugs. A student at an alternative school sued after students had to untuck their shirts and pull out their bras with t...