Recent Updates
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Parkland sheriff removal case heads to Florida Supreme Court
Legal Compliance 04/06/2019A lawsuit claiming Florida's governor improperly suspended a county sheriff for failing to prevent last year's Parkland school shooting is going directly to the Florida Supreme Court.The Fourth District Court of Appeal transferred the case to the sta...
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After shocking NY arrest, Avenatti faces court in California
Legal Compliance 04/01/2019A week after Michael Avenatti’s shocking arrest in New York, the attorney famous for representing porn star Stormy Daniels in legal battles against President Donald Trump will be back in federal court Monday to face fraud charges in California....
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Man charged with killing missing girl's mom due in court
Legal Compliance 03/24/2019A man accused of killing the mother of his child in Milwaukee is due in court. WITI-TV reports that 34-year-old Dariaz Higgins has a preliminary hearing scheduled Monday.Higgins is accused of fatally shooting 24-year-old Sierra Robinson and wounding ...
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Supreme Court: Google class-action case should be revisited
Legal Compliance 03/20/2019The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed a lower court to take another look at a lawsuit that involved Google and privacy concerns and ended in a class-action settlement.The high court said in an unsigned opinion that a lower court should address whet...
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Supreme Court to consider Louisiana's non-unanimous juries
Legal Compliance 03/18/2019The Supreme Court will consider banning non-unanimous juries in criminal cases in Louisiana, the only state that still allows them.The justices said Monday they will hear an appeal from a man who was convicted of second-degree murder by a jury's 10-2...
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Ohio Republicans defending state congressional map in court
Legal Compliance 03/11/2019Attorneys for Ohio Republican officials will call witnesses this week to defend the state's congressional map.A federal trial enters its second week Monday in a lawsuit by voter rights groups that say the current seats resulted from "an unconstitutio...
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Court: $700M judgment against North Carolina still unpaid
Legal Compliance 03/06/2019A North Carolina judge has affirmed that a court judgment issued more than 10 years ago stating school districts are owed over $700 million in civil penalties from several state agencies is still nearly all unpaid.The order signed Wednesday by Wake S...
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Court upholds car rental tax imposed in Maricopa County
Legal Compliance 02/26/2019The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday upheld a car rental tax surcharge that’s imposed in Maricopa County to pay for building a professional football stadium and other sports and recreational facilities, marking the second time an appeals court h...
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Ginsburg makes 1st public appearance since cancer surgery
Legal Compliance 02/05/2019Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is making her first public appearance since undergoing lung cancer surgery in December.The 85-year-old Ginsburg is attending a concert at a museum a few blocks from the White House that is being given by her ...
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Pakistan court to review acquittal in blasphemy trial
Legal Compliance 01/28/2019The lawyer of a Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for charges of blasphemy vowed to secure her freedom when the country's Supreme Court meets Tuesday to reconsider an acquittal announced last year.Aasia Bibi was released fr...
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No-cost birth control, now the norm, faces court challenges
Legal Compliance 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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GOP candidate asks North Carolina court to declare he won
Legal Compliance 01/04/2019The 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...