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  • Court quashes some District of Columbia gun laws

    Court quashes some District of Columbia gun laws

    Court Alerts 09/21/2015

    In a mixed decision, a federal appeals court on Friday struck down as unconstitutional several strict gun registration laws in the nation's capital, but upheld other restrictions aimed at public safety.   The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Distri...

  • Appeals court upholds injunction halting health mandate

    Appeals court upholds injunction halting health mandate

    Lawyer Blogs 09/18/2015

    A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that President Barack Obama's health care law unjustly burdens religiously affiliated employers by forcing them to help provide insurance coverage for certain contraceptives, even though they can opt out of dire...

  • Religious clerks in Kentucky follow law, but see conflict

    Religious clerks in Kentucky follow law, but see conflict

    Legal News Feed 09/17/2015

    Clerk Mike Johnston prays twice a day, once each morning and once each night, and asks the Lord to understand the decision he made to license same-sex marriage. “It’s still on my heart,” said Johnston, whose rural Carter County sits just to the east ...

  • Charleston church suspect's friend charged with lying to FBI

    Charleston church suspect's friend charged with lying to FBI

    Criminal Law 09/16/2015

    A friend of the man accused of gunning down nine parishioners at a Charleston church is charged with lying to federal authorities and concealing information during their investigation, and he was scheduled for his first court appearance Friday.  ...

  • Ohio court: Wording of pot legalization ballot is misleading

    Ohio court: Wording of pot legalization ballot is misleading

    Legal News Feed 09/15/2015

    Ohio's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that part of the ballot wording describing a proposal to legalize marijuana in the state is misleading and ordered a state board to rewrite it. Supporters of the measure, known in the fall election as Issue 3, cha...

  • Ferguson panel recommends police, court reform, transparency

    Ferguson panel recommends police, court reform, transparency

    Law Firm News 09/14/2015

    A reform panel formed after the Ferguson police shooting of Michael Brown is recommending the consolidation of the metro area's police departments and municipal courts, a newspaper reported Monday. Gov. Jay Nixon and others have scheduled an afternoo...

  • Idaho high court upholds law banning horse racing terminals

    Idaho high court upholds law banning horse racing terminals

    Law & Politics 09/11/2015

    Idaho's highest court says the state must enforce legislation banning lucrative instant horse racing terminals after ruling that Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's veto of the bill was invalid. The decision is a blow to Idaho's horse racing industry, where of...

  • OJ Simpson appeal rejected by Nevada Supreme Court

    OJ Simpson appeal rejected by Nevada Supreme Court

    Legal News Center 09/10/2015

    Imprisoned former football star O.J. Simpson lost his latest appeal of his 2008 kidnapping and armed robbery conviction in Las Vegas. A three-member Nevada Supreme Court panel rejected Simpson's request for a new trial, ruling in a 16-page order Thur...

  • German court rules against Lufthansa pilot strike

    German court rules against Lufthansa pilot strike

    Court Alerts 09/09/2015

    A German court issued an injunction Wednesday ordering a halt to a strike by pilots at Lufthansa, Germany’s biggest airline, that caused the cancelation of 1,000 flights. Lufthansa welcomed the ruling by the state labor court in Frankfurt but said th...

  • Kentucky court session planned in former women's coach case

    Kentucky court session planned in former women's coach case

    Court Alerts 09/09/2015

    A pretrial conference is planned in the case of a former college women's basketball coach accused of groping a player. The session has been scheduled for Tuesday morning in a Kenton County court for Bryce McKey. McKey's attorney has entered a not-gui...

  • U.S. military chooses rarely-used charge for Bergdahl

    U.S. military chooses rarely-used charge for Bergdahl

    Headline News 09/07/2015

    Military prosecutors have reached into a section of military law seldom used since World War II in the politically fraught case against U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier held prisoner for years by the Taliban after leaving his post in Afghani...

  • Washington Supreme Court rules against Backpage.com

    Washington Supreme Court rules against Backpage.com

    Lawyer Blogs 09/04/2015

    The website Backpage.com may not be immune from state liability law and a lawsuit filed by three young girls who said they were sold as prostitutes on the website can proceed to trial, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday.   In a 6-3 deci...

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