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  • Defamatory online posts revisited by Texas court

    Defamatory online posts revisited by Texas court

    Attorneys News 01/10/2014

    They say nothing on the Internet ever really goes away, but the Texas Supreme Court is considering whether defamatory postings might be worth the effort to try. Justices on the state's highest civil court on Thursday weighed broader questions about c...

  • Supreme Court Puts Utah Same-Sex Marriage on Hold

    Supreme Court Puts Utah Same-Sex Marriage on Hold

    Legal News Feed 01/06/2014

    The Supreme Court on Monday put same-sex marriages on hold in Utah, at least while a federal appeals court more fully considers the issue. The court issued a brief order blocking any new same-sex unions in the state. The order grants an emergency app...

  • Pa. monsignor due in court after leaving prison

    Pa. monsignor due in court after leaving prison

    Legal News Feed 01/06/2014

    A Roman Catholic church official is due in court Monday for the first time since his conviction in the priest sex-abuse scandal was reversed. Monsignor William Lynn is not quite a free man. He must remain under electronic monitoring while prosecutors...

  • Ga. banker accused of losing millions due in court

    Ga. banker accused of losing millions due in court

    Headline News 01/02/2014

    A south Georgia bank director accused of losing millions of investor dollars before vanishing is set to appear in court. The U.S. attorney's office in Savannah says 47-year-old Aubrey Lee Price is due to appear before a federal judge in Brunswick on ...

  • Sotomayor delays health law's birth control mandate

    Sotomayor delays health law's birth control mandate

    Legal News Feed 01/02/2014

    Only hours before the law was to take effect, a Supreme Court justice on Tuesday blocked implementation of part of President Obama's health care law that would have forced some religion-affiliated organizations to provide health insurance for employe...

  • Minnesota Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Assisted Suicide Case

    Minnesota Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Assisted Suicide Case

    Headline News 12/30/2013

    The Minnesota Supreme Court will consider the case of a national right-to-die group accused of playing a role in the 2007 suicide of an Apple Valley woman. The high court agreed to hear Dakota County prosecutors' appeal of a Minnesota Court of Appeal...

  • Tenino man pleads guilty to child pornography

    Tenino man pleads guilty to child pornography

    Legal World 12/30/2013

    The U.S. attorney's office says a Tenino man pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Tacoma to possession of child pornography. As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors are recommending a four-year prison term when 47-year-old James Donald Mobley i...

  • Utah's same-sex marriage ban back in court

    Utah's same-sex marriage ban back in court

    Headline News 12/23/2013

    A federal judge on Monday is set to consider a request from the state of Utah to block gay weddings that have been taking place since Friday when the state's same-sex marriage ban was overturned. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby ruled Utah's law ...

  • Gay couples wed in Utah after judge overturns ban

    Gay couples wed in Utah after judge overturns ban

    Legal News Feed 12/23/2013

    Elisa Noel rushed to the county clerk's office with her partner immediately after learning that a federal judge overturned Utah's ban on gay marriage. They waited in line for a wedding license and were married in an impromptu ceremony punctuated with...

  • Judge ousts defendant twice from Guantanamo court

    Judge ousts defendant twice from Guantanamo court

    Headline News 12/20/2013

    The military judge presiding over the Sept. 11 war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo ejected one defendant from the courtroom twice Tuesday for speaking out of turn, adding a bit of drama to an otherwise dry pretrial motions hearing at the U.S. naval bas...

  • Hearing: Which court should hear coastal lawsuit?

    Hearing: Which court should hear coastal lawsuit?

    Headline News 12/20/2013

    A legal tug-of-war continues in a state levee board's lawsuit against 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies over the erosion of wetlands. The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East wants U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to send ...

  • Indian gay activists protest top court's ruling

    Indian gay activists protest top court's ruling

    Legal World 12/16/2013

    Hundreds of gay rights activists gathered in India's capital and other cities across the country on Sunday to protest a decision by India's top court to uphold a law that criminalizes gay sex. India's Supreme Court last week reversed a landmark 2009 ...

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