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  • Court rejects AG Kane's request to reinstate law license

    Court rejects AG Kane's request to reinstate law license

    Law Firm Blogs 02/08/2016

    Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane's law license will remain suspended after the state's highest court on Friday denied her request to have it reinstated while she fights criminal charges of leaking secret grand jury material and lying about...

  • Plagued by delays, California high-speed rail heads back to court

    Plagued by delays, California high-speed rail heads back to court

    Legal News Feed 02/07/2016

    California voters embraced the idea of building the nation's first real high-speed rail system, which promised to whisk travelers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in under three hours, a trip that can take six hours or more by car. Eight years after...

  • Oldest death row inmate in Georgia, age 72, is executed

    Oldest death row inmate in Georgia, age 72, is executed

    Attorneys News 02/05/2016

    Georgia executed a 72-year-old man, its oldest death row inmate, early Wednesday for the killing of a convenience store manager during a robbery decades ago. The state Department of Corrections says Brandon Astor Jones was pronounced dead at 12:46 a....

  • High court will hear Microsoft appeal over Xbox lawsuit

    High court will hear Microsoft appeal over Xbox lawsuit

    Court Alerts 01/20/2016

    The Supreme Court will decide whether Microsoft Corp. must face a class action lawsuit by disgruntled owners of the Xbox 360 video-game system who say the console has a design defect that scratches game disks.   The justices agreed Friday to hea...

  • High court seems skeptical of mandatory public union fees

    High court seems skeptical of mandatory public union fees

    Class Action News 01/19/2016

    The Supreme Court appears ready to deliver a major setback to American unions as it considers scrapping a four-decade precedent that lets public-sector labor organizations collect fees from workers who decline to join. During more than an hour of ora...

  • Court overturns tobacco company victory over FDA on menthols

    Court overturns tobacco company victory over FDA on menthols

    Business Law 01/19/2016

    A federal appeals court has ruled that tobacco companies had no basis to challenge a Food and Drug Administration report on menthol cigarettes, which the industry alleged was written by experts with conflicts of interest. The decision by a three-judg...

  • Judge approves tea party group's lawsuit against IRS

    Judge approves tea party group's lawsuit against IRS

    Law & Politics 01/17/2016

    A federal judge in Ohio has approved class-action status for a tea party group's lawsuit stemming from IRS delays in approving nonprofit status for conservative groups seeking the tax-exemption classification.   The NorCal Tea Party Patriots sue...

  • Rome court acquits ex-Vatican accountant of corruption

    Rome court acquits ex-Vatican accountant of corruption

    Legal News Feed 01/15/2016

    A lawyer for an Italian monsignor who was fired from his Vatican accountant's job says a Rome court has acquitted his client of corruption. Prosecutors alleged Monsignor Nunzio Scarano was involved in a purported plot to use a private plane to try to...

  • Florida asks court to deny inmate's execution-delay request

    Florida asks court to deny inmate's execution-delay request

    Law Firm Blogs 01/14/2016

    Florida has asked the state's high court to reject a condemned inmate's request to delay his execution based on the U.S. Supreme Court's finding that Florida's procedure for imposing the death penalty is illegal. In a brief filed Thursday, Florida At...

  • High court raises doubts over Puerto Rico sovereignty

    High court raises doubts over Puerto Rico sovereignty

    Headline News 01/14/2016

    The Supreme Court on Wednesday raised doubts about whether Puerto Rico should be treated as a sovereign state with powers that go beyond its status as a territory of the United States.   The justices considered the question during arguments in a...

  • ACLU to appeal court ruling in Missouri drug testing case

    ACLU to appeal court ruling in Missouri drug testing case

    Business Law 12/25/2015

    The American Civil Liberties Union said it plans to appeal a federal court ruling that upheld a technical college’s plan to force every incoming student to be tested for drugs. Tony Rothert, legal director for the ACLU’s Missouri chapter, told the Je...

  • Jeffrey Dahmer's lawyer suspended by Supreme Court

    Jeffrey Dahmer's lawyer suspended by Supreme Court

    Court Alerts 12/24/2015

    The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's attorney for two months over a series of ethics violations tied largely to an attempt to help a client recover money spent on fake John Lennon memorabilia. The justices...

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