Recent Updates
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State high court to weigh appeal based on impulsivity issue
National Legal News 02/07/2019The Arizona Supreme Court will consider if judges can allow evidence on whether defendants have brain damage making it more than likely a crime was committed impulsively rather than with premeditation.The court agreed Tuesday to consider the appeal o...
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Kansas abortion foes brace for state Supreme Court decision
National Legal News 01/10/2019Abortion opponents in Kansas have been bracing themselves for nearly two years for a ruling from the state's highest court that protects the right to have an abortion and potentially upends politics in a state long at the center of the national debat...
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High court seems to lean against West Virginia in tax case
National Legal News 12/03/2018The Supreme Court seemed inclined Monday to side with a retired U.S. marshal who argues West Virginia is discriminating against former federal law enforcement officers like him by giving a more generous tax break to former state law enforcement offic...
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Supreme Court agrees to hear Maryland cross memorial case
National Legal News 11/04/2018The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a case about whether a nearly 100-year-old, cross-shaped war memorial located on a Maryland highway median violates the Constitution's required separation of church and state, a case that could impact hundreds ...
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Court rules for investors in Volkswagen diesel suit
National Legal News 10/24/2018A court in Germany has ruled that Volkswagen's parent company must pay 47 million euros ($54 million) in damages to investors for not making a timely disclosure of its scandal over cars rigged to cheat on diesel emissions tests.The dpa news agency re...
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Florida court clears way to release school shooting video
National Legal News 08/23/2018The Florida Supreme Court has cleared the way for the release of exterior surveillance video showing law enforcement's response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.The court on Wednesday declined to review a lower court's decision to...
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Court, regulators clash over uranium project in South Dakota
National Legal News 08/13/2018Federal regulators recently abandoned a proposed survey of Native American cultural resources at a planned uranium mine site in the southwest part South Dakota, just days before a judge decided the survey is required by federal law.The contradictory ...
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Illinois high court: Woman can sue city over sidewalk fall
National Legal News 08/06/2018The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a woman who was injured after tripping on a poorly maintained sidewalk can move forward with a lawsuit against the city of Danville.The Champaign News-Gazette reports the state's high court ruled 7-0 on Thurs...
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Officer involved in militia leader's death named in court
National Legal News 08/02/2018A state police officer has accidently revealed the name of one of the officers who fatally shot a militia leader who participated in the armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge.The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the officer's name slipped out this ...
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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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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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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...