Recent Updates
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Man charged with killing 5 in newsroom to appear in court
National Legal News 07/30/2018A man charged with killing five people in The Capital newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, is scheduled to be in court.An initial appearance for Jarrod Ramos is set for Monday morning in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. A grand jury has indicted Ramos ...
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Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh's gun views are clear
Legal Compliance 07/30/2018Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he recognizes that gun, drug and gang violence "has plagued all of us." Still, he believes the Constitution limits how far government can go to restrict gun use to prevent crime.As a federal appeals court ju...
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Chicago releases plan for court-monitored police reform
Law Review 07/28/2018Chicago and state officials released a plan Friday to carry out far-reaching police reforms under federal court supervision more than a year after a U.S. Justice Department investigation found a longstanding history of civil rights violations by the ...
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Court: Release surveillance video in Florida school shooting
Legal Compliance 07/25/2018An appeals court says news organizations are entitled to obtain surveillance video showing the law enforcement response to the Valentine's Day mass shooting at a Florida high school.The 4th District Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld a lower court's...
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Top court: Social media posts violate no-contact order
Law Review 07/24/2018Social media posts can represent a violation of a protection order, the state's highest court ruled on Tuesday, affirming the conviction of a man who made threats on Facebook.The Maine Supreme Judicial Court rejected Richard Heffron III's arguments t...
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Tennessee abortion change vote case appealed to high court
Legal Compliance 07/23/2018Opponents of a state constitutional amendment that passed in 2014 to allow tougher abortion restrictions are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court after a circuit appellate court denied a recount.The appeal in the Amendment 1 case was filed earlier thi...
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Lawyer Website Search Engine Optimization
National Legal News 07/22/2018Beyond simply attracting more attention to your website, keeping a regular, informative blog can be a great way to build influence in your community. If you update your blog frequently with useful information for clients, employees and individuals se...
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Securing your Path to Success as a Start Up Law Firm
Legal Compliance 07/22/2018Securing your Path to Success as a Start Up Law Firm - As they say, the grass is always greener… Statistically, lawyers developing a new business venture will eventually succeed and many exceed their income level they once had at larger firms....
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Rock icon Cliff Richard wins UK High Court privacy case
Law Review 07/19/2018British rock icon Cliff Richard has won his privacy case against the BBC for its coverage of a police raid at his home and has been awarded more than 200,000 ($260,000) in damages.Richard had sued the broadcaster for its coverage of the 2014 raid, wh...
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Court questions whether Maine has money to expand Medicaid
U.S. Court Watch 07/19/2018Maine's high court is weighing whether to allow the LePage administration to continue to block federal funding for voter-approved Medicaid expansion. Justices on Wednesday heard the administration's arguments against a court order r...
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Suspect in 1988 killing of Indiana girl, 8, appears in court
National Legal News 07/16/2018A judge has given prosecutors until Thursday to formally charge a man who's being held in the 1988 slaying of an 8-year-old Indiana girl.Fifty-nine-year-old John D. Miller of Grabill was arrested Sunday on preliminary murder, child molesting and crim...
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Florida school shooting suspect's statement issue in court
Legal Compliance 07/16/2018How much of Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz's statement to investigators should be made public is an issue going before a judge.A hearing is set Monday on whether any or all of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting suspect's ...