Recent Updates
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Minnesota Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Assisted Suicide Case
Headline News 12/30/2013The Minnesota Supreme Court will consider the case of a national right-to-die group accused of playing a role in the 2007 suicide of an Apple Valley woman. The high court agreed to hear Dakota County prosecutors' appeal of a Minnesota Court of Appeal...
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Tenino man pleads guilty to child pornography
Legal World 12/30/2013The U.S. attorney's office says a Tenino man pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Tacoma to possession of child pornography. As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors are recommending a four-year prison term when 47-year-old James Donald Mobley i...
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Utah's same-sex marriage ban back in court
Headline News 12/23/2013A federal judge on Monday is set to consider a request from the state of Utah to block gay weddings that have been taking place since Friday when the state's same-sex marriage ban was overturned. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby ruled Utah's law ...
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Gay couples wed in Utah after judge overturns ban
Legal News Feed 12/23/2013Elisa Noel rushed to the county clerk's office with her partner immediately after learning that a federal judge overturned Utah's ban on gay marriage. They waited in line for a wedding license and were married in an impromptu ceremony punctuated with...
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Judge ousts defendant twice from Guantanamo court
Headline News 12/20/2013The military judge presiding over the Sept. 11 war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo ejected one defendant from the courtroom twice Tuesday for speaking out of turn, adding a bit of drama to an otherwise dry pretrial motions hearing at the U.S. naval bas...
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Hearing: Which court should hear coastal lawsuit?
Headline News 12/20/2013A legal tug-of-war continues in a state levee board's lawsuit against 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies over the erosion of wetlands. The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East wants U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to send ...
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Indian gay activists protest top court's ruling
Legal World 12/16/2013Hundreds of gay rights activists gathered in India's capital and other cities across the country on Sunday to protest a decision by India's top court to uphold a law that criminalizes gay sex. India's Supreme Court last week reversed a landmark 2009 ...
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Tenn. senator's fired chief of staff back in court
Legal News Feed 12/16/2013The fired chief of staff for Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee is returning to court in Washington after his arrest on charges of possession and attempted distribution of child pornography. Ryan Loskarn was arrested Wednesday, and the 35-year-old mad...
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Court: Exec guilty over faulty French implants
Legal News Feed 12/12/2013A disgraced French businessman was convicted of fraud and sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday for filling tens of thousands of breast implants with industrial grade silicone. But he left the courthouse freely after lodging an appeal, and tho...
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Court looks at EPA rule on cross-state pollution
Legal News Center 12/12/2013The Supreme Court indicated Tuesday it could breathe new life into a federal rule requiring states to reduce power plant pollution from the South and Midwest that fouls the air in the eastern U.S. Several justices suggested during a 90-minute argumen...
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Dutch Supreme Court: Fortis was mismanaged
Headline News 12/09/2013The Netherlands' Supreme Court has upheld rulings that the now-defunct Belgian bank Fortis NV was mismanaged from September 2007 to September 2008, and its then-management board can be held accountable. Friday's ruling opens the door for investor cla...
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Haiti protest derides Dominican court ruling
Legal News Feed 12/09/2013Hundreds of protesters gathered Friday to criticize a recent court decision in the Dominican Republic that could strip the citizenship of generations of people of Haitian descent living in the neighboring country. The crowd peaked at about 2,000 peop...