Recent Updates
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Court: Energy firm can pass $55M cleanup costs
Law & Politics 07/03/2017The Ohio Supreme Court says an energy company is allowed to pass on the $55 million cost of cleaning up two polluted sites to its customers in the form of an added charge on their monthly bills. Duke Energy has been adding $1.67 to bills in Ohio for ...
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Appeals court backs Jimmy John's franchisee in labor dispute
Criminal Law 07/03/2017A 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 ...
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Abduction suspect makes first appearance in court
Headline News 07/03/2017Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal courthouse Monday as the suspect in the kidnapping of a Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois made his first appearance since being arrested last week. During the nine-minute hearing, 28-year-old ...
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Indiana high court to rule on Lake Michigan beach ownership
Court Alerts 07/02/2017The Indiana Supreme Court will decide who owns the land immediately adjacent to Lake Michigan. Don and Bobbie Gunderson claim their land on Lake Michigan extends to the water’s edge, meaning no one can access the beach by their house without permissi...
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More court challenges expected for Trump's new travel ban
Court Alerts 06/30/2017A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel is now in force, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. The new rules, the product of ...
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National Courts
United States Courts 06/30/2017Judicial Panel On Multidistrict Litigati - ECF U.S. Court Of Federal Claims - ECF U.S. Court Of International Trade - ECF
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Case of gay couple's wedding cake heads to Supreme Court
Business Law 06/28/2017A Colorado clash between gay rights and religion started as an angry Facebook posting about a wedding cake but now has big implications for anti-discrimination laws in 22 states. Baker Jack Phillips is challenging a Colorado law that says he was wron...
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Supreme Court term ended much different than it began
Attorney Blogs 06/27/2017The Supreme Court began its term nine months ago with Merrick Garland nominated to the bench, Hillary Clinton favored to be the next president, and the court poised to be controlled by Democratic appointees for the first time in 50 years. Things look...
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Supreme Court limits ability to strip citizenship
Lawyer Blogs 06/26/2017The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the government's ability to strip U.S. citizenship from immigrants for lying during the naturalization process. The justices ruled unanimously in favor of an ethnic Serb from Bosnia who lied about her husband's m...
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McCarthy found guilty of 2nd-degree murder of Bella Bond
Legal News Feed 06/25/2017Michael McCarthy has been convicted of 2nd-degree murder in the death of a 2-year-old girl dubbed Baby Doe after her remains washed up on Boston Harbor island. The verdict was announced in Suffolk Superior Court on Monday. Michael McCarthy is charged...
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Rhode Island high court vacates conviction in triple slaying
Business Law 06/23/2017Rhode Island's highest court has overturned the conviction of a 21-year-old man serving two consecutive life sentences for a 2012 triple slaying at a housing complex. Authorities allege the then-16-year-old Quandell Husband had plotted with three oth...
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D.C. on edge: rumors of new Supreme Court vacancy swirl
Bankruptcy 06/23/2017White House sources think Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court's ideological fulcrum, may announce his retirement today, as the justices gather on the bench for the last time this term. If that happens, Day 158 instantly becomes President Trump...