Recent Updates
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Opponents of Maine’s new abortion law won’t seek to nullify it
Business Law 08/16/2023Groups opposed to Maine’s new law expanding abortion access won’t attempt to nullify the statute through a so-called People’s Veto referendum.Republican Rep. Laurel Libby, leader of the Speak Up for LIFE group, said Wednesday that a...
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Owner of Maryland Construction Company Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion
Attorneys News 08/10/2023According to court documents, Jerry Lee Redman of Severn, Maryland, owned Redman Services Inc. (RSI), a paving and construction company. For at least 2015 through 2018, Redman filed corporate income tax returns for RSI that underreported the business...
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Pakistan leader moves to disband parliament, his jailed nemesis seeks release
Attorneys News 08/07/2023Pakistan’s prime minister said Wednesday he is moving toward dissolving parliament, starting a possible countdown to a general election, as his chief political rival fought to overturn a corruption conviction that landed him in a high-security ...
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Bankruptcy Filings Rise 10%, and Courts Feel the Pinch
Bankruptcy 08/02/2023previous year. Bankruptcy totals are reported four times annually by the U.S. government.According to statistics released by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, annual bankruptcy filings totaled 418,724 in the year ending June 2023, c...
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Trump’s Lawyers Meet With Prosecutors as Election Interference Charges Loom
Court Alerts 07/29/2023Lawyers for Donald Trump were meeting Thursday with members of special counsel Jack Smith’s team as a potential indictment loomed over the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to a person fami...
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Abortion messaging roils debate over Ohio ballot initiative
Court Alerts 07/25/2023The fraught politics of abortion have helped turn an August ballot question in Ohio that would make it harder to change the state constitution into a cauldron of misinformation and fear-mongering.State Issue 1, the sole question on the ballot, calls ...
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Judge upholds the $5 million jury verdict against Trump
Law Journals 07/21/2023A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the former president’s claims that the award was excessive and that the jury vindicated him by failing to conclude he raped a columnist in a luxury de...
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White House is taking on corporate mergers, landlord junk fees
Court Alerts 07/17/2023The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed new guidelines for corporate mergers, took steps to disclose the junk fees charged by landlords and launched a crackdown on price-gouging in the food industry.The announcements will be discussed as part ...
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Amazon pushes back against Europe’s pioneering new digital rules
U.S. Court News 07/13/2023Amazon is disputing its status as a big online platform that needs to face stricter scrutiny under European Union digital rules taking effect next month, the first Silicon Valley tech giant to push back on the pioneering new standards.The online reta...
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Tennessee can enforce ban on transgender care for minors, court says
Legal Analysis 07/08/2023Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth can go into effect — at least for now — after a federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily reversed a lower court ruling.Last month, a district court judge in Tenness...
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Man gets life sentence for raping 9-year-old Ohio girl
U.S. Court News 07/06/2023A man who confessed to raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl has been sentenced to life in prison in a case that became a national flashpoint on abortion rights because the girl had to travel out of state to end the pregnancy.Gerson Fuentes,...
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Judge allows North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law to take effect
U.S. Court News 07/02/2023A federal judge ruled on Friday that nearly all of North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law scheduled to begin this weekend can take effect, while temporarily blocking one rule that doctors feared could expose them to criminal penalties.Th...