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  Court convicts Israeli in Palestinian teenager's 2014 murder

  Criminal Law 04/21/2016

  A Jerusalem district court has convicted the main suspect in the July 2014 murder of a Palestinian teenager. The court convicted 30-year-old Yosef Haim Ben David on Tuesday of murder, rejecting a plea that he was not responsible for his actions. Ben ...

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  Obama's power over immigration drives Supreme Court dispute

  Labor & Employment 04/16/2016

  The raging political fight over immigration comes to the Supreme Court on Monday in a dispute that could affect millions of people who are in the United States illegally.   The court is weighing the fate of Obama administration programs that cou...

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  Despite court ruling, China gay rights movement makes gains

  Bankruptcy 04/15/2016

  For years, Chen Tiantian could only read about the gay rights movement in faraway places. She knew that there were activists in Beijing and a vibrant community in Shanghai, and that in San Francisco, a distant mecca, gay pride parades took up entire ...

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  Supreme Court to swear in large group of deaf lawyers

  Class Action News 04/13/2016

  Mobile phones ordinarily are strictly forbidden in the marble courtroom of the nation's highest court, but the justices are making an exception next week when roughly a dozen deaf and hard-of-hearing lawyers will be admitted to the Supreme Court bar....

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  Cosby asks court to reseal testimony about affairs, drugs

  Lawyer Blogs 04/13/2016

  Bill Cosby's lawyers urged an appeals court Wednesday to reseal the comedian's lurid, decade-old testimony about his womanizing, but the panel of judges seemed to think the request was pointless, since the deposition has already made headlines around...

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  Appeals court rules Mississippi can resume Google inquiry

  Court Alerts 04/11/2016

  Mississippi's attorney general can resume an investigation into whether Google facilitates illegal behavior, an appeals court ruled. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday overturned a district judge who had sided with Google. U.S. District ...

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  Oklahoma prosecutors allege abuse before boy's disappearance

  Class Action News 04/11/2016

  An Oklahoma couple arrested in the 2006 disappearance of their 9-year-old nephew had beaten the boy until he lay motionless on a couch and then threatened the boy's brother into repeating a rehearsed story to authorities, prosecutors allege in an aff...

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  Federal court hears appeal of Minnesota sex offender ruling

  Business Law 04/10/2016

  The lengthy legal debate over a Minnesota program that keeps sex offenders confined indefinitely after they complete their prison sentences shifted south Tuesday as state officials urged a federal appeals court nearly 500 miles away to overturn a jud...

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  Court sends part of Wisconsin voter ID case back to judge

  Criminal Law 04/08/2016

  A judge must consider whether Wisconsin's voter photo identification law applies to people who face daunting obstacles in obtaining identification, a three-judge federal appellate panel ruled Tuesday. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Nation...

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  US House staffers subpoenaed by federal court

  Environmental 04/07/2016

  Four congressional staffers have told the U.S. House that they've been subpoenaed by the federal court in Springfield, Illinois, where a grand jury is conducting a probe into the spending of former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock. The financial chief for the ...

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  Passport mark for sex offenders law challenged in court

  Bankruptcy 03/30/2016

  A judge in Northern California is set to hear arguments over whether to block a new federal law that requires sex offenders to have "unique identifiers" in their passports. U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton has scheduled a hearing Wednesday ...

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  Supreme Court's future hangs in the balance in 2016

  Legal News Feed 03/29/2016

  Hillary Clinton said Monday that the future of the Supreme Court would hang in the balance of the 2016 election, warning that Republican front-runner Donald Trump would bring division to the court if he was allowed to shape its future. Clinton said T...