Recent Updates
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2nd Circuit denies Yanks request in letter unsealing case
Bankruptcy Law 04/21/2022The 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals has denied a request by the New York Yankees to rehear the team’s attempt to keep sealed a letter from baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to general manager Brian Cashman detailing an investigation into sign stealin...
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Supreme Court denies Penobscot appeal over namesake river
Intellectual Property 04/20/2022The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined an appeal by the Penobscot Indian Nation in its fight with Maine over ownership and regulation of the tribe’s namesake river.It was a bitter defeat for the tribe that sued a decade ago, claiming the Pen...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court adopts GOP-drawn legislative maps
Political and Legal 04/19/2022The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday adopted Republican-drawn maps for the state Legislature, handing the GOP a victory just weeks after initially approving maps drawn by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.The court reversed itself after the U.S. Supreme Co...
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Nury Turkel lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people
Legal Marketing 04/15/2022Nury A. Turkel is an attorney, foreign policy expert, and rights advocate with nearly two decades of experience working in the intersection of law, business, government, and the human rights community. He specializes in corporate governance and regul...
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Court: DWI fatality sentence needs more definition
DUI Law 04/12/2022A Louisiana appellate court has ordered a state judge to add details to the sentence of a man who pleaded guilty to killing a jogger while driving drunk in October 2020.A three-judge panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal ruled in the case of Georg...
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Mexico high court OKs preference for state power plants
Criminal Law 04/06/2022Mexico’s Supreme Court deemed constitutional Thursday a controversial energy law pushed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that gives government-owned power plants preference over private competitors.The law took effect in M...
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Groups seek to stop gold mine exploratory drilling in Idaho
Court Watch 04/02/2022Environmental groups are renewing efforts to stop exploratory drilling by a Canadian mining company hoping to build a gold mine in Idaho west of Yellowstone National Park.The Idaho Conservation League and Greater Yellowstone Coalition, in documents f...
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Retired judges will hear divorce cases to clear backlog
Family Law 03/26/2022The Maine court system will assign retired judges to divorce proceedings to clear a growing backlog of more than 6,000 cases that have been delayed since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.The program began last week and will assign the former jud...
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9 apply for open West Virginia Supreme Court seat
U.S. Supreme Court 03/19/2022Nine people have applied for an open West Virginia Supreme Court seat.Gov. Jim Justice’s office says the applicants are C. Haley Bunn; Nicole A. Cofer; Robert J. Frank; Gregory Howard Jr.; Charles O. Lorensen; Kristina D. Raynes; James J. Rowe;...
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Courts, BMV act after license retained after fatal crash
Corporate Law 03/14/2022The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles and court officials have scrambled to close a gap in tracking and sharing information about criminal convictions that should result in license suspensions. The problem surfaced when a man who pleaded guilty to mansl...
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Kansas AG asking judge to dismiss redistricting lawsuits
Court Watch 03/09/2022Attorney General Derek Schmidt is asking a Wyandotte County judge to dismiss two lawsuits filed over new Kansas congressional district lines enacted by Republican lawmakers. Schmidt’s request Monday came three days after the Kansas Supreme Cour...
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Not guilty plea entered in alleged drug deal slaying
Family Law 03/07/2022A defendant accused of fatally shooting a man because he didn’t want to pay him for a drug deal pleaded not guilty in Brown County Circuit Court Monday. Pedro Santiago-Marquez is charged with first-degree intentional homicide and being party to...