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SC high court blocks ruling during Harrell appeal
Legal News Feed 05/23/2014South Carolina's high court has blocked a judge's dismissal of an investigation into one of the state's top lawmakers while prosecutors appeal. The state Supreme Court said Thursday it would block the ruling by Circuit Judge Casey Manning earlier thi...
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Court: Red Bulls must pay $2.8M in property tax
Legal News Feed 05/13/2014A New Jersey appeals court ruled Monday that the state's Major League Soccer franchise is liable for nearly $3 million in property taxes to the town of Harrison. The New York Red Bulls have played at Red Bull Arena in Harrison since 2010. During that...
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Court decision could open door to immigrant rules
Legal News Feed 05/09/2014The U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to review a Nebraska city's ordinance that bans renting homes to immigrants living in the country illegally could open the door to similar laws elsewhere, supporters said Monday, though they're likely to encounte...
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Oklahoma gay-marriage case before US appeals court
Legal News Feed 04/17/2014Court arguments over Oklahoma's ban on same-sex marriage will center on whether voters singled out gay people for unfair treatment when they overwhelmingly defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Judges at a federal appeals court i...
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French court blocks secret recordings of Sarkozy
Legal News Feed 03/14/2014A French court has ordered an ex-aide of Nicolas Sarkozy to pay 10,000 euros ($14,000) in damages and costs to the former French president over secret recordings that were published in an online journal, and instructed the publication to pull down th...
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Judge finds Citgo guilty of Clean Air Act felonies
Legal News Feed 02/06/2014A South Texas judge has fined Citgo Petroleum more than $2 million after finding it guilty of felony violations of the U.S. Clean Air Act by its Corpus Christi refinery. U.S. District Judge John Rainey handed down his verdict and punishment Wednesday...
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Lawmakers push back against Washington high court
Legal News Feed 01/27/2014Washington state's highest court has exercised an unusual amount of power on education funding, and it's prompted some lawmakers to raise constitutional concerns. Before last year's legislative session, the court ruled that the state wasn't meeting i...
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Maryland appeals income tax case to Supreme Court
Legal News Feed 01/16/2014The Daily Record reports the justices on Monday asked for the Obama administration's views on the constitutionality of barring state residents from deducting income taxes paid to other states from their local city or county taxes owed in Maryland. La...
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Chile's top court rules against coal-fired complex
Legal News Feed 01/13/2014Chile's Supreme Court sided with local fishermen who contend a coal-fired power complex harms ocean life and pollutes their community, but the judges stopped short of ordering a suspension and left it to environmental authorities to decide if operati...
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Supreme Court Puts Utah Same-Sex Marriage on Hold
Legal News Feed 01/06/2014The 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...
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Pa. monsignor due in court after leaving prison
Legal News Feed 01/06/2014A 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...
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Sotomayor delays health law's birth control mandate
Legal News Feed 01/02/2014Only 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...