Recent Updates
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Idaho Supreme Court upholds grocery tax veto
Court Alerts 07/20/2017The Idaho Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's contentious veto of legislation repealing the state's 6 percent sales tax on groceries. The high court's decision comes after 30 state lawmakers filed a lawsuit claiming Otter took t...
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EU closer to sanctions on Poland over changes in judiciary
Business Law 07/17/2017The European Union is coming closer to imposing sanctions on Poland for the government's attempt to take control over the judiciary, a senior official warned Wednesday, but he said the bloc was still open to dialogue. European Commission Vice Preside...
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Pakistan's opposition calls on court to oust prime minister
Court Alerts 07/16/2017Opposition parties in Pakistan on Monday called on the Supreme Court to remove Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office after an investigation found that he and his family possess wealth exceeding their known sources of income. The investigation is li...
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Federal court's agenda has topics that draw Trump's ire
Class Action News 07/15/2017The nation’s largest federal court circuit has clashed repeatedly with President Trump over the past six months, and the agenda for its annual meeting is not shying away from topics that have stoked the president’s ire. Immigration, fake news and med...
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Man charged with killing Maine couple on Christmas in court
Court Alerts 07/13/2017The case of a New York man charged with killing a Maine couple on Christmas Day 2015 is scheduled to return to court in Portland. Police charged David Marble Jr. of Rochester with shooting 35-year-old Eric Williams and 26-year-old Bonnie Royer in Man...
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Hearing In San Diego Unified Suit Against The College Board
Criminal Law 07/12/2017Judge Michael M. Anello will hear San Diego Unified's motion for a temporary restraining order in federal court 4 p.m. Friday, according to court records. The district filed a lawsuit Friday against the College Board and Educational Testing Services,...
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Rob Kardashian's ex-fiancee arrives at court for hearing
Legal News Feed 07/11/2017Rob Kardashian's former fiancée Blac Chyna has arrived at a Los Angeles courthouse to seek a restraining order against the reality television star. Chyna and her attorney Lisa Bloom walked into the downtown Los Angeles courthouse Monday morning witho...
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Supreme Court deadline nears for suit over wetland loss
Law & Politics 07/11/2017A Louisiana flood board is nearing a deadline for asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review its lawsuit seeking to make oil and gas companies pay for decades of damage to coastal wetlands. Federal district and appeals courts have rejected the lawsuit, ...
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Relatives of Slain US Troops Describe Loss to Jordan Court
Lawyer News 07/10/2017Relatives of two of the three U.S. military trainers shot dead at the gate of a Jordanian air base last year have described the pain of their loss to a military court trying the alleged killer. The family members attended a court hearing in Jordan's ...
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First Opioid Court in the U.S. Focuses on Keeping Users Alive
Court Alerts 07/09/2017After three defendants fatally overdosed in a single week last year, it became clear that Buffalo's ordinary drug treatment court was no match for the heroin and painkiller crisis. Now the city is experimenting with the nation's first opioid crisis i...
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Court: Detained immigrant children entitled to court hearing
Court Alerts 07/07/2017Immigrant children who cross the border without their parents have the right to a court hearing to challenge any decision to detain them instead of turning them over to family in the U.S., a federal appeals court said Wednesday. The 9th U.S. Circuit ...
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Appeals court backs Jimmy John's franchisee in labor dispute
Criminal Law 07/06/2017A company that owns 10 Jimmy John's sandwich shops in the Twin Cities was within its rights to fire six union workers who circulated posters critical of the company's sick-leave policy, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The full 8th U.S. Circuit ...