Recent Updates
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Court turns down campaign disclosure challenge
Legal News Center 02/23/2011The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal challenging campaign disclosure laws in Washington state.The court on Tuesday let stand without comment a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the state's disclosure requirements. Human Life of Washington ...
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Fla. Ruling Big Tobacco Won Comes Back To Bite It
Legal News Center 02/18/2011A Florida Supreme Court ruling that threw out a $145 billion award against cigarette makers is biting Big Tobacco back, making it dramatically easier for thousands of smokers to sue and turning the state into the nation's hot spot for damage awards.T...
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Okla Supreme Court denies constitutional challenge
Legal News Center 02/15/2011The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected a constitutional challenge against the state's Judicial Nominating Commission.The high court on Tuesday overruled claims in a lawsuit that challenged the makeup of the commission that nominates candidates to fi...
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IRS agents testify in Pa. judge corruption case
Legal News Center 02/14/2011Federal prosecutors have rested in the corruption trial of a former northeastern Pennsylvania judge charged with taking part in a $2.8 million kickback scheme involving privately-owned juvenile detention centers. Two IRS agents testified Monday morni...
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Superintendent gets taxpayer-funded lawyer
Legal News Center 02/09/2011The Wisconsin superintendent who received $140,000 a year in salary and benefits has been declared indigent and will get a taxpayer-funded attorney to defend him against charges of trying to solicit sex from a minor. At a hearing in Milwaukee County ...
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Judge decides not to commit defendant
Legal News Center 02/08/2011The former Wellesley College student who was found not guilty by reason of insanity of stabbing her former boyfriend as he slept in his MIT dorm room was allowed to go free yesterday, after a judge decided not to have her committed to a psychiatric h...
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Assange lawyer: Risk of 'denial of justice'
Legal News Center 02/07/2011The lawyer for Julian Assange argued Monday the embattled WikiLeaks founder would face a secret trial that violates international standards of fairness if sent to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations.The leader of the secret-spilling website is ...
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Court won't hold 'Don't ask, don't tell' lawsuit
Legal News Center 01/31/2011A federal appeals court has denied the government's request to suspend a lawsuit challenging the military's ban on openly gay servicemembers.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco issued an order Friday requiring the Department of Jus...
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NJ top court: Slapping teen daughter isn't abuse
Legal News Center 01/28/2011Slapping a teenager or taking money from her paycheck to pay family bills is hardly admirable, but doesn't constitute child neglect or abuse, the state Supreme Court ruled today.In a 7-0 decision, the court found the state Division of Youth and Famil...
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Supreme Court turns away O'Hare cemetery case
Legal News Center 01/27/2011The Illinois Supreme Court has refused to review a lower court decision in favor of Chicago's acquisition of a cemetery that's in the path of a planned runway in the $15 billion O'Hare International Airport Modernization Program.Spokesman Joseph Tybo...
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Tensions rise between Supreme Court, politicians
Legal News Center 01/24/2011The moment lasted about 20 seconds. But its political reverberations have endured for a year and exemplify today's knotty confluence of law, politics and public perception. At last year's State of the Union speech Jan. 27, with six Supreme Court just...
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Mass. clergy abuse lawyer lists names of accused
Legal News Center 01/21/2011A prominent lawyer for Boston-area clergy sex abuse victims on Wednesday released a new list of accused abusers, saying it was time to "end the secrecy."The list includes previously undisclosed names of 19 Catholic priests, brothers and one deacon wh...