Recent Updates
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Judge rules Mormon church didn’t meddle in death row case
Legal Compliance 03/31/2021A Utah judge has ruled that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did not interfere in a death row inmate’s 2015 trial when it laid out ground rules for what local church leaders could say before they testified as character witnesses ...
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Appellate court arguments set for Charleston church shooter
National Legal News 03/29/2021Attorneys for the man sentenced to federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation are set to formally argue that his conviction and death sentence should be overturned.Oral arguments have been set for...
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US court sides with photographer in fight over Warhol art
U.S. Court Watch 03/26/2021A U.S. appeals court sided with a photographer Friday in her copyright dispute over how a foundation has marketed a series of Andy Warhol works of art based on her pictures of Prince.The New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the...
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South Africa’s ex-president should be jailed, argues lawyer
Legal Compliance 03/25/2021Lawyers for a commission investigating corruption in South Africa have asked the country’s highest court to jail former president Jacob Zuma for two years for failing to cooperate with its probe. The commission of inquiry into high-level graft,...
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Philippine Supreme Court slams killings of lawyers, judges
Legal Compliance 03/23/2021The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday condemned the alarming number of killings and threats against lawyers and judges. One legal group has said these attacks are considerably higher under President Rodrigo Duterte compared to the past 50 years und...
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Colorado court: Speed-reading bills violates constitution
U.S. Court Watch 03/15/2021The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that state Senate Democrats violated the constitution in 2019 when they responded to Republicans’ request that bills be read at length by having computers speed-read the bills in an intelligible garble.The C...
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Courts wrestle with whether manslaughter is always violent
Legal Compliance 03/06/2021Once annually, sometimes less, the full federal appeals court in New York meets to confront a perplexing legal question. Most recently, it was to decide whether shooting somebody point-blank in the face and stabbing somebody to death are violent acts...
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Mississippi told to pay $500K to wrongfully imprisoned man
National Legal News 03/03/2021A judge is ordering the state of Mississippi to pay $500,000 to a Black man who was wrongfully imprisoned more than 22 years and was tried six times in a quadruple murder case.Curtis Flowers was released from prison in December 2019, months after the...
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Supreme Court likely to uphold Arizona voting restrictions
U.S. Court Watch 03/01/2021The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to uphold voting restrictions in Arizona in a key case that could make it harder to challenge a raft of other voting measures Republicans have proposed following last year’s elections.All six conservativ...
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Anchorage companies, man fined for clean air violations
Law Review 02/28/2021A man and two companies in Alaska have been sentenced to three years probation and a $35,000 fine for violating the Clean Air Act involving asbestos work at a shopping center more than five years ago, a judge said.The work was performed at the Northe...
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Judge refuses to order remote access to New Hampshire House
Law Review 02/22/2021The New Hampshire House can proceed with in-person sessions this week without providing remote access to medically vulnerable lawmakers, a federal judge ruled Monday.Seven Democratic lawmakers sued Republican House Speaker Sherm Packard last week arg...
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Planned Parenthood sues to block South Carolina abortion ban
Legal Compliance 02/18/2021Planned Parenthood was filing a lawsuit Thursday against a bill that would ban most abortions in South Carolina, effectively stopping the measure from going into effect even as the governor was scheduled to sign it into law at a public statehouse cer...