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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...
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Family of Colorado man killed by police settles lawsuit
Law & Politics 05/19/2017Court documents show the family of a Colorado man killed by police has settled its lawsuit against the city and the officer. The Pueblo Chieftain says it obtained documents Thursday which showed the settlement resolved “all pending claims” against of...
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8 judges on Venezuela's Supreme Court hit with US sanctions
Headline News 05/18/2017The U.S. imposed a new round of sanctions on high-level Venezuelan officials, this time targeting eight Supreme Court judges that Washington accused of damaging their nation's democracy by steadily stripping the opposition-controlled congress of any ...
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Ohio Supreme Court justice backs legalizing marijuana
Legal News Feed 05/17/2017An Ohio Supreme Court justice who’s mulling a run for governor thinks it’s time for the state to decriminalize marijuana. Justice William O’Neill, the lone Democrat holding an Ohio statewide office, said making marijuana legal is working in Colorado ...
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Texas advances new abortion limits despite court defeats
Law & Politics 05/16/2017Texas' Republican-controlled Legislature late Friday advanced tough new limits on abortion— hitting back at a U.S. Supreme Court decision last summer striking down most of the sweeping restrictions on the procedure that America's second-largest state...
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Court likely to question if Trump's travel ban discriminates
Headline News 05/15/2017For the second time in a week, government lawyers will try to persuade a federal appeals court to reinstate President Donald Trump's revised travel ban — and once again, they can expect plenty of questions Monday about whether it was designed to disc...
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High court could soon signal view on Trump immigration plans
Bankruptcy 05/14/2017Supreme Court decisions in a half-dozen cases dealing with immigration over the next two months could reveal how the justices might evaluate Trump administration actions on immigration, especially stepped-up deportations. Some of those cases could be...
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South Dakota and Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe clash in court
Criminal Law 05/14/2017The Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe is suing South Dakota over the state's interpretation that contractors working on an expansion of the Royal River Casino are required to pay contractor excise taxes to the state. The Argus Leader reported that the law...
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Appeal in boy's burp arrest case relies on Gorsuch dissent
Lawyer Blogs 05/12/2017One of Neil Gorsuch's sharpest dissents as an appeals court judge came just six months before he was nominated for the Supreme Court. That's when he sided with a New Mexico seventh-grader who was handcuffed and arrested after his teacher said the stu...
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Judge rejects effort to block Confederate statue's removal
Lawyer News 05/11/2017A last-ditch effort to block the removal of a monument to a Confederate general in New Orleans was rejected Wednesday by a Louisiana judge who turned away arguments that the city doesn't own the statue or the land on which it sits. "This has gone on ...
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Man arrested near UK Parliament in court on terror charges
Business Law 05/11/2017Prosecutors say a British man arrested with several knives near Parliament last month is also accused of being an al-Qaida bomb-maker in Afghanistan. Khalid Mohamed Omar Ali appeared in court Wednesday to face one charge of preparing terrorist acts a...