Recent Updates
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US court won't resurrect lawsuit in CIA leak case
Legal News Feed 08/12/2008A federal appeals court has refused to resurrect a lawsuit that former CIA operative Valerie Plame brought against members of the Bush administration.Plame accused Vice President Dick Cheney and several former high-ranking administration officials of...
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Schwarzenegger sues controller to force pay cuts
Legal News Feed 08/12/2008Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California's top payroll official are headed for a court fight over the governor's attempt to cut the pay of about 175,000 state employees until lawmakers approve a budget.A lawsuit against state Controller John Chiang ...
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Lawyers for Mexican say execution violates treaty
Legal News Feed 08/05/2008Condemned prisoner Jose Medellin looked to the federal courts to keep him from the death chamber Tuesday for his part in the gang rape, beating and strangling of two teenage girls 15 years ago.The Mexican-born Medellin, 33, faced lethal injection in ...
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US judge: White House aides can be subpoenaed
Legal News Feed 07/31/2008President Bush's top advisers are not immune from congressional subpoenas, a federal judge ruled Thursday in an unprecedented dispute between the two political branches.Congressional Democrats called the ruling a ringing endorsement of the principle ...
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McCain backs off his no-new-tax pledge
Legal News Feed 07/29/2008Republican presidential candidate John McCain's signal that he may be open to a higher payroll tax for Social Security, despite previous vows not to raise taxes of any kind, is drawing sharp rebukes from conservatives.McCain's shift has come in stage...
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Bush nominates judge for 3rd US appeals court
Legal News Feed 07/26/2008President Bush on Thursday nominated Paul S. Diamond to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, withdrawing his earlier pick for the job after she drew opposition in the Senate.If confirmed by the Senate, Diamond, a federal district ju...
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California court rejects challenge to same-sex marriage
Legal News Feed 07/18/2008The California Supreme Court Wednesday rejected without comment a challenge seeking to remove a November ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage in the state. The petition, filed by Equality California, the National Center for Lesbian Righ...
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Court tosses White House appeal on visitor logs
Legal News Feed 07/11/2008A federal appeals court on Friday set back the White House's efforts to keep the names of its visitors secret.The three-member panel of judges threw out the government's appeal in the case in which a watchdog group is trying to find out how often pro...
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Senate to pass bill overhauling eavesdropping rules
Legal News Feed 07/09/2008The Senate finally is expected to pass a bill overhauling rules on secret government eavesdropping, completing a lengthy and bitter debate that pitted privacy and civil liberties concerns against the desire to prevent terrorist attacks.The vote, plan...
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Court criticizes govt evidence in Guantanamo hearing
Legal News Feed 07/01/2008[##_1L|1196739836.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]A US federal appeals court has overturned the designation of a Muslim from western China as an enemy combatant and sharply criticized the government's evidence against him, court documents show...
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Beshear's former law firm to represent him
Legal News Feed 06/03/2008Gov. Steve Beshear has turned to his former law firm of Stites & Harbison to represent him and the governor's office in the lawsuit brought by Senate President David Williams over road funding. After deciding to outsource his legal representation...
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Supreme Court sides with Ala. governor
Legal News Feed 05/27/2008The Supreme Court has ruled for Alabama's governor in a dispute over his attempt to fill a county commission vacancy with a fellow Republican appointee.In a 7-2 ruling, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says Gov. Bob Riley did not need advance approval fro...