Recent Updates
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No-cost birth control, now the norm, faces court challenges
Court Alerts 01/16/2019Millions of American women are receiving birth control at no cost to them through workplace health plans, the result of the Obama-era Affordable Care Act, which expanded access to contraception.The Trump administration sought to allow more employers ...
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Freed by court, Pakistani Christian woman still a prisoner
Class Action News 01/15/2019Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian acquitted of blasphemy, still lives the life of a prisoner, nearly three months after her release from death row, awaiting a final ruling on her fate.She spends her days in seclusion for fear of being targeted by ang...
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Health isn't 1st priority for energy regulators, court rules
Headline News 01/12/2019The Colorado Supreme Court said Monday that state law does not allow oil and gas regulators to make health and environmental protection their top priority, prompting Democrats who control the Legislature to call for changing the law.In a victory for ...
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Supreme Court stays out of dispute over Whitaker appointment
National Legal News 01/10/2019The Supreme Court is refusing to be drawn into a dispute over the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as the acting U.S. attorney general.The justices on Monday rejected an appeal in a case dealing with gun rights that also included a challenge to Presid...
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North Carolina Supreme Court throws 200th anniversary party
U.S. Court Watch 01/07/2019North Carolina's highest court is holding a "legal party" to observe the anniversary of its first meeting 200 years ago this month.The state Supreme Court scheduled a special session Monday in its downtown Raleigh courtroom to celebrate the court's b...
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High court to take new look at partisan electoral districts
National Legal News 01/04/2019The Supreme Court is plunging back into the issue of whether electoral districts can be too partisan.Disputes have arisen in cases involving North Carolina's heavily Republican congressional map and a Democratic congressional district in Maryland, an...
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GOP candidate asks North Carolina court to declare he won
Legal Compliance 01/03/2019The Republican in the nation's last undecided congressional race asked a North Carolina court Thursday to require that he be declared the winner because the now-defunct state elections board didn't act.A lawsuit by GOP candidate Mark Harris claims th...
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Prominent Chinese rights lawyer tried in closed proceedings
Legal News Feed 12/26/2018The trial of a prominent human rights lawyer began in northern China on Wednesday with about two dozen plainclothes officers stationed outside a courthouse and at least one supporter taken away by police.Reporters, foreign diplomats and supporters we...
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A Colorado man of missing Colorado woman in court
U.S. Court Watch 12/24/2018A Colorado man suspected of killing his fiance has made his first court appearance. Patrick Frazee appeared by teleconference at a Teller County District Court hearing. Frazee was arrested earlier Friday in the disappearance of 29-year-old Kelsey Ber...
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Pakistani court set to announce verdict against ex-PM Sharif
National Legal News 12/24/2018An anti-corruption court is set to rule on two cases against Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.Sharif, who was removed from office last year after being disqualified from serving his third stint as prime minister, could be sentenced to pr...
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A Colorado man of missing Colorado woman in court
Law & Politics 12/22/2018A Colorado man suspected of killing his fiance has made his first court appearance. Patrick Frazee appeared by teleconference at a Teller County District Court hearing. Frazee was arrested earlier Friday in the disappearance of 29-year-old Kelsey Ber...
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Appeals court agrees to hear case involving Trump DC hotel
U.S. Court Watch 12/20/2018A federal appeals court agreed Thursday to take up a case accusing Donald Trump of profiting off the presidency in violation of the U.S. Constitution, giving the president's legal team its first major victory in the case.The order issued by the U.S. ...