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US Supreme Court ruling in union dues impacts case in Oregon
Criminal Law 07/29/2018An Oregon state employee and a labor union have reached a settlement over her lawsuit seeking payback of obligatory union fees, marking the first refund of forced fees since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in late June that government workers can't be r...
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N Carolina elections board back in court in power struggle
Legal News Feed 07/27/2018The repeatedly altered composition of North Carolina's elections board returned to court Thursday as a proxy for the lengthy power struggle between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-dominated legislature.A panel of three trial judges list...
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Top court: Social media posts violate no-contact order
Labor & Employment 07/23/2018Social media posts can represent a violation of a protection order, the state's highest court ruled on Tuesday, affirming the conviction of a man who made threats on Facebook.The Maine Supreme Judicial Court rejected Richard Heffron III's arguments t...
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12 audio files sent to prosecutors in Michael Cohen probe
Legal News Feed 07/21/2018A dozen audio recordings seized by the FBI from President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, were forwarded to federal prosecutors after lawyers dropped challenges on attorney-client privilege grounds, a former judge revealed Monday.The rec...
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Court says convicted serial rapist should be released
Legal News Feed 07/14/2018A convicted serial rapist should be allowed to be released into the community under supervision, the Minnesota state Court of Appeals ruled Monday, saying the state did not prove by clear and convincing evidence that Thomas Duvall should remain in tr...
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India's top court calls for new law to curb mob violence
Headline News 07/13/2018India's highest court on Tuesday asked the federal government to consider enacting a law to deal with an increase in lynchings and mob violence fueled mostly by rumors that the victims either belonged to members of child kidnapping gangs or were beef...
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Courts finds suspect in neo-Nazi trial guilty of 10 killings
Legal News Center 07/11/2018A German court on Wednesday found the main defendant in a high-profile neo-Nazi trial guilty over the killing of 10 people - most of them migrants - who were gunned down between 2000 and 2007 in a case that shocked Germany and prompted accusations of...
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Florida school shooting suspect's statement issue in court
Legal News Center 07/11/2018How much of Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz's statement to investigators should be made public is an issue going before a judge.A hearing is set Monday on whether any or all of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting suspect's ...
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Hawaii Supreme Court sides with lesbian couple in B&B case
Labor & Employment 07/10/2018A Hawaii appeals court ruling that a bed and breakfast discriminated by denying a room to two women because they're gay will stand after the state's high court declined to take up the case.Aloha Bed & Breakfast owner Phyllis Young had argued she ...
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Drivers challenge license suspensions for unpaid court debt
Lawyer Blogs 07/05/2018More than 40 states allow the suspension of driver’s licenses for people with unpaid criminal or traffic court debt.But now, advocates across the country are pushing to change that, arguing that such laws are unconstitutional because they unfai...
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3 more Supreme Court candidates meet with Trump
Headline News 07/02/2018President Donald Trump spoke with three more potential Supreme Court candidates on Tuesday as a key senator privately aired concerns about one of the contenders.As Trump weighs his options, he has heard from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has expressed r...
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California high court: Yelp can't be ordered to remove posts
Legal News 07/01/2018Online review site Yelp.com cannot be ordered to remove posts against a San Francisco law firm that a judge determined were defamatory, a divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday in a closely watched case that internet companies warned could be ...