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  • Oklahoma court to look at blocking Tulsa grand jury probe

    Oklahoma court to look at blocking Tulsa grand jury probe

    Court Alerts 07/03/2015

    The Oklahoma Supreme Court said Thursday it will consider whether to stop a grand jury investigation into an embattled sheriff whose longtime friend and volunteer deputy fatally shot an unarmed man. Attorneys for Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz wa...

  • In Supreme Court loss, death penalty foes see an opening

    In Supreme Court loss, death penalty foes see an opening

    Business Law 07/01/2015

    A strongly worded dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court's narrow decision this week upholding the use of an execution drug offered a glimmer of hope to death penalty opponents in what they considered otherwise a gloomy ruling. One advocate went so far Tu...

  • US court agrees Apple violated antitrust law in e-book entry

    US court agrees Apple violated antitrust law in e-book entry

    Lawyer Blogs 06/29/2015

    Apple violated antitrust laws by colluding with publishers to raise electronic book prices when it entered a market in 2010 that had been dominated by Amazon.com, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan...

  • Supreme Court extends gay marriage nationwide

    Supreme Court extends gay marriage nationwide

    Court Alerts 06/26/2015

    The Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States, a historic culmination of decades of litigation over gay marriage and gay rights generally. Gay and lesbian couples already could marry in 36...

  • Supreme Court upholds key tool for fighting housing bias

    Supreme Court upholds key tool for fighting housing bias

    Court Alerts 06/25/2015

    The Supreme Court handed a surprising victory to the Obama administration and civil rights groups on Thursday when it upheld a key tool used for more than four decades to fight housing discrimination. The justices ruled 5-4 that federal housing laws ...

  • US court upholds tough rules on for-profit college loans

    US court upholds tough rules on for-profit college loans

    Law & Politics 06/24/2015

    A federal court has ruled in favor of tough new regulations aimed at career training programs, dealing a major blow to the for-profit college industry. In an opinion released Tuesday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled the Edu...

  • Same-sex marriage opponents urge Supreme Court to go slow

    Same-sex marriage opponents urge Supreme Court to go slow

    Court Alerts 06/23/2015

    Same-sex marriage opponents acknowledge they face a tough task in trying to persuade the Supreme Court to allow states to limit marriage to a man and a woman. But they are urging the court to resist embracing what they see as a radical change in soci...

  • High court strikes down raisin program as unconstitutional

    High court strikes down raisin program as unconstitutional

    Labor & Employment 06/22/2015

    The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a 66-year-old program that lets the government take raisins away from farmers to help reduce supply and boost market prices is unconstitutional. In an 8-1 ruling, the justices said forcing raisin growers to give up...

  • Man pleads guilty to charge over noose on Ole Miss statue

    Man pleads guilty to charge over noose on Ole Miss statue

    Criminal Law 06/21/2015

    A federal prosecutor said in court Thursday that Graeme Phillip Harris hatched a plan, after a night of drinking at a University of Mississippi fraternity house, to hang a noose on a campus statue of James Meredith, the first black student at Ole Mis...

  • Huguely files appeal request with U.S. Supreme Court

    Huguely files appeal request with U.S. Supreme Court

    Law Firm News 06/20/2015

    A former University of Virginia lacrosse player is taking his last shot at overturning his conviction for the 2010 murder of his former girlfriend. Counsel for George Huguely V has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a judicial revie...

  • Texas turns away from criminal truancy courts for students

    Texas turns away from criminal truancy courts for students

    Court Alerts 06/20/2015

    A long-standing Texas law that has sent about 100,000 students a year to criminal court — and some to jail — for missing school is off the books, though a Justice Department investigation into one county's truancy courts continues. Gov. Greg Abbott h...

  • Iowa court allows remote dispensing of abortion pill

    Iowa court allows remote dispensing of abortion pill

    Legal News Feed 06/19/2015

    The Iowa Supreme Court has struck down a restriction that would have prevented doctors from administering abortion-inducing pills remotely via video teleconferencing, saying it would have placed an undue burden on a woman's right to get an abortion. ...

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