Recent Updates
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Court: Lawyers will be disbarred over child porn
Headline News 01/24/2014Lawyers convicted of child pornography charges will automatically be disbarred and prohibited from practicing law in California, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Deciding the fate of an Orange County lawyer whose license was suspended after he...
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Ga. banker accused of losing millions due in court
Headline News 01/02/2014A 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 ...
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Minnesota Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Assisted Suicide Case
Headline News 12/30/2013The 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...
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Utah's same-sex marriage ban back in court
Headline News 12/23/2013A 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 ...
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Judge ousts defendant twice from Guantanamo court
Headline News 12/20/2013The 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...
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Hearing: Which court should hear coastal lawsuit?
Headline News 12/20/2013A 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 ...
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Dutch Supreme Court: Fortis was mismanaged
Headline News 12/09/2013The Netherlands' Supreme Court has upheld rulings that the now-defunct Belgian bank Fortis NV was mismanaged from September 2007 to September 2008, and its then-management board can be held accountable. Friday's ruling opens the door for investor cla...
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Supreme Court won't stop NY's Internet taxation
Headline News 12/05/2013On perhaps the busiest online shopping day of the year, the Supreme Court refused to wade into a dispute over state sales taxes for purchases on websites like Amazon.com, an outcome likely to prompt more states to attempt to collect taxes on Internet...
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Amanda Knox appeals slander case to European court
Headline News 11/29/2013Lawyers for Amanda Knox filed an appeal of her slander conviction in Italy with the European Court of Human Rights, as her third murder trial was underway in Florence. The slander conviction was based on statements Knox made to police in November 200...
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Supreme Court Will Take up New Health Law Dispute
Headline News 11/29/2013The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law, whether businesses can use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. The justices said they will take ...
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Appeals court sides with Starbucks over tips
Headline News 11/25/2013A federal appeals court in New York has agreed that Starbucks baristas must share their tips with shift supervisors. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its finding Thursday. The decision stemmed from a lower-court ruling that found that the...
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Russian court: Greenpeace activist to stay in jail
Headline News 11/18/2013A Russian judge refused Monday to free Australian Greenpeace activist Colin Russell, who was among 30 people arrested following a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic, signaling that others also could be kept in jail for three more months pendi...