Recent Updates
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SC high court rejects capital city’s school mask mandate
National Legal News 09/04/2021South Carolina’s highest court on Thursday tossed out a school mask mandate in the state’s capital city, saying it contradicts a state budget measure aimed at preventing face covering requirements. State Attorney General Alan Wilson had s...
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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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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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Federal judge casts doubt on Trump’s Wisconsin lawsuit
National Legal News 12/10/2020A federal judge Thursday cast doubt on President Donald Trump’s lawsuit that seeks to overturn Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin, saying siding with Trump would be “the most remarkable ruling in the history of this court or the federal j...
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Health care law on line at court, but is it likely to fall?
National Legal News 10/13/2020To hear Democrats tell it, a Supreme Court with President Donald Trump’s nominee Amy Coney Barrett could quickly get rid of the law that gives more than 20 million Americans health insurance coverage. But that’s not the inevitable outcome...
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Oklahoma high court: Governor overstepped with tribal deal
National Legal News 07/23/2020Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt overstepped his authority when he reached a casino gambling agreement with two Native American tribes, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.In a 7-1 decision, the high court determined the compacts Stitt signed with the Com...
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Wolf asks Pennsylvania Supreme Court to uphold shutdown
National Legal News 06/13/2020Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Friday to intervene in his dispute with legislative Republicans who have voted to end pandemic restrictions he imposed in March to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.Republican majo...
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Supreme Court rejects challenge to limits on church services
National Legal News 05/31/2020A divided Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal by a California church that challenged state limits on attendance at worship services that have been imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Over the dissent of the four mo...
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Arkansas candidate's political ties targeted in court race
National Legal News 02/22/2020The race for a seat on the Arkansas Supreme Court is technically nonpartisan, but the close ties of one of the two main candidates to the state Republican Party. Barbara Webb, chief administrative law judge for the Arkansas Workers Compensation Commi...
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Court raises sentence for banker who smuggled a Picasso
National Legal News 02/04/2020A Spanish court has raised the sentence against a former bank president found guilty of trying to smuggle a painting by Pablo Picasso out of the country.The Madrid court announced the decision Tuesday to raise the sentence against fined ex-Bankinter ...
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Protests of Indian law grow despite efforts to contain them
National Legal News 12/18/2019From campuses along India’s Himalayan northern border to its southern Malabar Coast, a student-led protest movement against a new law that grants citizenship on the basis of religion spread nationwide on Wednesday despite efforts by the governm...
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Justices to take up dispute over subpoenas for Trump records
National Legal News 12/14/2019The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear President Donald Trump’s pleas to keep his tax, bank and financial records private, a major confrontation between the president and Congress that also could affect the 2020 presidential campaign.Argume...