Recent Updates
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Religion jabs lead to lawsuit in NC Senate race
Legal News Feed 10/28/2008Republican U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, who speaks often about prayer and faith, is gambling her re-election bid by raising religion in the campaign's final days.In a television ad this week, Dole questioned the Christian credentials of Democratic chall...
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Republicans to high court: Stop Palin ethics probe
Legal News Feed 10/08/2008Alaska Republicans are asking the state's highest court to block an abuse-of-power investigation into vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's firing of a state commissioner before a potentially embrassing report on the matter is released.Five GOP sta...
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Republicans to high court: Stop Palin ethics probe
Legal News Feed 10/07/2008Alaska Republicans are asking the state's highest court to block an abuse-of-power investigation into vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's firing of a state commissioner before a potentially embrassing report on the matter is released.Five GOP sta...
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House nixes $700B bailout bill in stunning defeat
Legal News Feed 09/29/2008In a vote that shook the government, Wall Street and markets around the world, the House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue for the nation's financial system, leaving both parties and the Bush administration struggling to pick up the ...
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Congress passes expansion of disability law
Legal News Feed 09/17/2008Someone who takes medication to control epilepsy or diabetes could end up in a situation where he or she is no longer eligible for protection under the Americans With Disabilities Act.It's a "terrible Catch-22," House Education and Labor Committee Ch...
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US court won't resurrect lawsuit in CIA leak case
Legal News Feed 08/12/2008A federal appeals court has refused to resurrect a lawsuit that former CIA operative Valerie Plame brought against members of the Bush administration.Plame accused Vice President Dick Cheney and several former high-ranking administration officials of...
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Schwarzenegger sues controller to force pay cuts
Legal News Feed 08/12/2008Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California's top payroll official are headed for a court fight over the governor's attempt to cut the pay of about 175,000 state employees until lawmakers approve a budget.A lawsuit against state Controller John Chiang ...
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Lawyers for Mexican say execution violates treaty
Legal News Feed 08/05/2008Condemned prisoner Jose Medellin looked to the federal courts to keep him from the death chamber Tuesday for his part in the gang rape, beating and strangling of two teenage girls 15 years ago.The Mexican-born Medellin, 33, faced lethal injection in ...
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US judge: White House aides can be subpoenaed
Legal News Feed 07/31/2008President Bush's top advisers are not immune from congressional subpoenas, a federal judge ruled Thursday in an unprecedented dispute between the two political branches.Congressional Democrats called the ruling a ringing endorsement of the principle ...
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McCain backs off his no-new-tax pledge
Legal News Feed 07/29/2008Republican presidential candidate John McCain's signal that he may be open to a higher payroll tax for Social Security, despite previous vows not to raise taxes of any kind, is drawing sharp rebukes from conservatives.McCain's shift has come in stage...
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Bush nominates judge for 3rd US appeals court
Legal News Feed 07/26/2008President Bush on Thursday nominated Paul S. Diamond to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, withdrawing his earlier pick for the job after she drew opposition in the Senate.If confirmed by the Senate, Diamond, a federal district ju...
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California court rejects challenge to same-sex marriage
Legal News Feed 07/18/2008The California Supreme Court Wednesday rejected without comment a challenge seeking to remove a November ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage in the state. The petition, filed by Equality California, the National Center for Lesbian Righ...