Recent Updates
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Alabama begins issuing marriage licenses to gay couples
Headline News 02/09/2015Alabama began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples Monday despite an 11th-hour attempt from the state's chief justice - an outspoken opponent - to block the weddings. The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday morning that it wouldn't stop the marri...
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RI court hears $60M dispute with Catholic order
Headline News 12/08/2014The niece of a woman who gave more than $60 million to a now-disgraced Catholic order is asking the Rhode Island Supreme Court to let her sue so the money can go somewhere more deserving. The court is due to hear arguments Tuesday over lawsuits broug...
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US high court: Who best judges fair competition?
Headline News 10/13/2014The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a North Carolina case over whether U.S. states can delegate the regulation of professions such as dentistry, plumbing, cosmetology and more to boards of practitioners drawn from those occupations. The issue set f...
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Case of American jailed in Cuba back in US court
Headline News 09/29/2014An attorney for a Maryland man who has spent over four years jailed in Cuba argued before a federal appeals court that his client should be allowed to sue the U.S. government over his imprisonment. An attorney for Alan Gross, who was a government sub...
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Court: Silence can be used against suspects
Headline News 08/18/2014The California Supreme Court has ruled that the silence of suspects can be used against them. Wading into a legally tangled vehicular manslaughter case, a sharply divided high court on Thursday effectively reinstated the felony conviction of a man ac...
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Suspect in bodies-in-suitcases case due in court
Headline News 07/17/2014A former police officer charged with dumping two bodies in suitcases along a rural Wisconsin road is due to enter a plea. Fifty-two-year-old Steven Zelich is scheduled to attend a plea hearing in Walworth County Circuit Court Thursday on two counts o...
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Apple wins EU court case on store design trademark
Headline News 07/11/2014The European Union's highest court says Apple's characteristic retail store layout may be registered as a trademark. The Court of Justice on Thursday overturned a decision by German patent authorities which last year rejected an application to grant ...
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Egypt court confirms death sentences for over 180
Headline News 06/23/2014The Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader and over 180 others were sentenced to death Saturday by an Egyptian court in the latest mass trial following last year's overthrow of the country's Islamist president. The ruling by the southern Minya Crimina...
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Iowa high court reinstates major pollution lawsuit
Headline News 06/16/2014In a major environmental case, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday that residents can bring a nuisance lawsuit against a Muscatine manufacturer accused of routinely blanketing their properties with soot and chemicals.The court reinstated the class-ac...
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Fla. court asked to keep ex-FBI agent's conviction
Headline News 06/13/2014Florida prosecutors are asking an appeals court to reconsider its decision to toss the murder conviction and prison sentence for a former FBI agent in a mob-style killing linked to jailed Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger. The Miami-Dade State Att...
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Federal court upholds California water transfer
Headline News 05/20/2014A federal appeals court says environmental reviews were properly done on the nation's largest farm-to-city water transfer, the latest ruling to uphold a 2003 agreement on how California agencies divide that state's share of Colorado River water. A th...
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Court says final 'No' to Jewish restitution claim
Headline News 05/02/2014The Czech Republic's highest court has confirmed the rejection of a restitution claim by the descendants of a Jewish man who owned a snap button factory that was taken over by the Nazis and then nationalized. The Constitutional Court confirmed its 20...