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  • Toys R Us files for Chapter 11 reorganization

    Toys R Us files for Chapter 11 reorganization

    Business Law 09/20/2017

    Toys R Us, the pioneering big box toy retailer, has announced it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while continuing with normal business operations. A statement by the Wayne, New Jersey-based company late Monday says it voluntarily is se...

  • Egypt court orders detention of 24 minority Nubians 15 days

    Egypt court orders detention of 24 minority Nubians 15 days

    Court Alerts 09/20/2017

    A lawyer says an Egyptian court has ordered the detention of 24 Nubians for 15 days pending investigation for participating in a protest earlier this month. Nubians are an ethnic minority. Moustafa el-Hassan says Wednesday's decision comes after pros...

  • Court: State, Not Counties Accountable for Poor School Funds

    Court: State, Not Counties Accountable for Poor School Funds

    Legal News Center 09/19/2017

    A North Carolina appeals court says students and parents still fighting for sufficient school funding decades after they were guaranteed the right to a sound, basic education should make demands of the governor and legislators, not county officials. ...

  • With 2 in 3 months, Ohio executions could be back on track

    With 2 in 3 months, Ohio executions could be back on track

    Law Firm Blogs 09/18/2017

    Court rulings favorable to the state and the outcome of two executions in three months indicate Ohio could be on track to resume putting inmates to death regularly. The state executed child killer Ronald Phillips in July and double killer Gary Otte o...

  • 3 bank customers in Germany fined for ignoring collapsed man

    3 bank customers in Germany fined for ignoring collapsed man

    Law & Politics 09/17/2017

    A German court has fined three bank customers for failing to help an elderly man who collapsed in a bank branch and later died. The Essen district court handed the defendants, a woman and two men, fines ranging from 2,400 to 3,600 euros ($2,865 to $4...

  • FBI Searched Ex-Oklahoma Senator's Office for Porn

    FBI Searched Ex-Oklahoma Senator's Office for Porn

    Labor & Employment 09/15/2017

    Court records show the FBI searched the Capitol office of a former Oklahoma senator in March because a campaign aide allegedly saw child pornography on his computer. Republican Sen. Ralph Shortey resigned in March after being arrested when police in ...

  • Rooney gets road ban after pleading guilty to drunk driving

    Rooney gets road ban after pleading guilty to drunk driving

    Lawyer News 09/14/2017

    Former England captain Wayne Rooney pleaded guilty to drunk driving on Monday, leading to a court imposing a two-year driving ban and ordering him to perform 100 hours of unpaid community work. The Everton striker was stopped by police outside Manche...

  • Court eyes Massachusetts church-state dispute

    Court eyes Massachusetts church-state dispute

    Court Alerts 09/13/2017

    An attorney says a Massachusetts town should not be barred from giving public funds to support the restoration of a historic building just because it happens to be a church. Nina Pickering-Cook told Massachusetts' highest court on Thursday that commu...

  • Indian court sentences 2 men to death in 1993 Mumbai blasts

    Indian court sentences 2 men to death in 1993 Mumbai blasts

    Criminal Law 09/13/2017

    An Indian court on Thursday sentenced two men to death and two others to life in prison for a series of bombings that killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993. A fifth man was given 10 years in prison. The five men were convicted earlier of criminal consp...

  • Chicago's lawsuit over sanctuary city threat goes to court

    Chicago's lawsuit over sanctuary city threat goes to court

    Legal News Feed 09/11/2017

    Chicago is asking a federal judge to block President Donald Trump's administration from following through on its threat to withhold public safety grants to so-called sanctuary cities. Attorneys for the city will be in court Monday to argue their case...

  • Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg is set speak in Chicago

    Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg is set speak in Chicago

    Business Law 09/11/2017

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is scheduled to visit Chicago and speak at a university conference. She's expected to appear at Roosevelt University downtown on Monday evening as part of a program focusing on themes of law, social just...

  • Abortion clinic dispute to be argued in Ohio Supreme Court

    Abortion clinic dispute to be argued in Ohio Supreme Court

    Lawyer News 09/10/2017

    A dispute over whether to shut down Toledo's last abortion clinic is headed to the Ohio Supreme Court Tuesday, in a case both sides view as pivotal. At issue in oral arguments will be the state health department's 2014 order shutting down Capital Car...

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