Recent Updates
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Federal judge delays vaccine mandate for NYC teachers
Breaking Legal News 09/27/2021New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect. Workers in the nation’s largest school system were to be ...
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Spain: Venezuelan spymaster loses court extradition dispute
Criminal Law 09/20/2021Spain’s Supreme Court refused Monday to suspend a government decision allowing a former Venezuelan spymaster to be extradited to the United States. Lawyers for Gen. Hugo Carvajal, who for over a decade was late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez&rsq...
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Minnesota Supreme Court defers ruling on Minneapolis police
Legal Business 09/16/2021The Minnesota Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling Thursday in the fight over a ballot question about the future of policing in Minneapolis, but it didn’t settle the bigger question of whether the public will get to vote on the issue. Chief Jus...
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1st female LGBT federal appeals court nominee to get hearing
Court Watch 09/14/2021The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is considering President Joe Biden’s nomination of a Vermont judge who played a role in the state’s passage of the first-in-the-nation civil unions law, a forerunner of same-sex marriage, to become the ...
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Oklahoma court declines to bar duo from death penalty case
Criminal Law 09/12/2021The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected a request to remove two members of the state’s Pardon and Parole Board from a high-profile death penalty case. The court’s brief ruling on Friday denied a prosecutor’s request to remove Adam L...
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Supreme Court hanging up phone, back to in-person arguments
Civil Litigation News 09/08/2021The justices are putting the “court” back in Supreme Court. The high court announced Wednesday that the justices plan to return to their majestic, marble courtroom for arguments beginning in October, more than a year and a half after the ...
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Court rules Catholic school wrongfully fired gay substitute
International 09/06/2021A gay substitute teacher was wrongfully fired by a Roman Catholic school in North Carolina after he announced in 2014 on social media that he was going to marry his longtime partner, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn r...
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Maryland’s highest court reviewing teen sniper’s life term
Law Firm News 08/27/2021Maryland’s highest court has agreed to take up the case of Lee Boyd Malvo, who is serving life in prison for his role in the 2002 sniper spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., region. Malvo’s lawyers argue that his punishment goes ag...
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Idaho Supreme Court overturns tougher ballot initiative law
Court Watch 08/24/2021The Idaho Supreme Court has rejected a new law designed to make it harder for voters to get initiatives on the ballot, saying the legislation was so restrictive that it violated a fundamental right under the state’s constitution. The ruling iss...
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Judge tells prison to seize Nassar’s money for victims
Personal Injury 08/22/2021A judge ordered the government to take money from the prison account of a former Michigan sports doctor who owes about $58,000 to victims of his child pornography crimes. Larry Nassar has received about $13,000 in deposits since 2018, including $2,00...
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US moves to cut backlog of asylum cases at US-Mexico border
Immigration Law 08/20/2021The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed changing how asylum claims are handled, aiming to reduce a huge backlog of cases from the U.S.-Mexico border that has left people waiting years to find out whether they will be allowed to stay in America...
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Bankruptcy Law Office Responsive Website
Legal Marketing 08/18/2021Our latest work is Bankruptcy Law Office Responsive Website. We’ve started with a large profile image, immediately showing clients a picture of their future attorney. Including the image of a real person instills trust in the user and makes the...