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Rooney gets road ban after pleading guilty to drunk driving
Lawyer News 09/14/2017Former England captain Wayne Rooney pleaded guilty to drunk driving on Monday, leading to a court imposing a two-year driving ban and ordering him to perform 100 hours of unpaid community work. The Everton striker was stopped by police outside Manche...
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Court eyes Massachusetts church-state dispute
Court Alerts 09/13/2017An attorney says a Massachusetts town should not be barred from giving public funds to support the restoration of a historic building just because it happens to be a church. Nina Pickering-Cook told Massachusetts' highest court on Thursday that commu...
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Indian court sentences 2 men to death in 1993 Mumbai blasts
Criminal Law 09/13/2017An Indian court on Thursday sentenced two men to death and two others to life in prison for a series of bombings that killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993. A fifth man was given 10 years in prison. The five men were convicted earlier of criminal consp...
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Chicago's lawsuit over sanctuary city threat goes to court
Legal News Feed 09/11/2017Chicago is asking a federal judge to block President Donald Trump's administration from following through on its threat to withhold public safety grants to so-called sanctuary cities. Attorneys for the city will be in court Monday to argue their case...
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Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg is set speak in Chicago
Business Law 09/11/2017U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is scheduled to visit Chicago and speak at a university conference. She's expected to appear at Roosevelt University downtown on Monday evening as part of a program focusing on themes of law, social just...
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Abortion clinic dispute to be argued in Ohio Supreme Court
Lawyer News 09/10/2017A dispute over whether to shut down Toledo's last abortion clinic is headed to the Ohio Supreme Court Tuesday, in a case both sides view as pivotal. At issue in oral arguments will be the state health department's 2014 order shutting down Capital Car...
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Challenge to $225M Exxon settlement to be heard in court
Attorney Blogs 09/10/2017Environmental groups arguing New Jersey's $225 million settlement with Exxon Mobil short-changed taxpayers are getting their day in appeals court. The Appellate Court is set to hear arguments on Monday in Trenton. New Jersey sued Exxon Mobil for natu...
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Supreme Court Backs Dayton Veto of Legislature Budget
Law & Politics 09/09/2017The Minnesota Supreme Court says Gov. Mark Dayton’s veto of the Legislature’s budget was constitutional. The ruling Friday is counter to a lower-court ruling this summer that Dayton had acted unconstitutionally, but is not the last word in the case. ...
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Indian court sentences 2 men to death in 1993 Mumbai blasts
Criminal Law 09/08/2017An Indian court on Thursday sentenced two men to death and two others to life in prison for a series of bombings that killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993. A fifth man was given 10 years in prison. The five men were convicted earlier of criminal consp...
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Court eyes Massachusetts church-state dispute
Law Firm Blogs 09/07/2017An attorney says a Massachusetts town should not be barred from giving public funds to support the restoration of a historic building just because it happens to be a church. Nina Pickering-Cook told Massachusetts' highest court on Thursday that commu...
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Supreme Court's Kagan says Scalia death forced compromises
Law Firm News 09/06/2017U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death forced the rest of the court to learn how to work together to avoid ties, Justice Elena Kagan said during a stop Friday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kagan spoke for about an hour with UW La...
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Military parts dealer guilty in plot to steal Army equipment
Attorney Blogs 09/04/2017A military equipment dealer was convicted Thursday of scheming with soldiers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to steal sensitive material for sale to buyers in Russia, China and Mexico. John Roberts, of Clarksville, Tennessee, was found guilty of conspira...