Recent Updates
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Judge fights for job after admitting to courthouse affair
Criminal Law 04/21/2018Massachusetts' highest court will decide the fate of a judge who admitted to having an affair with a clinical social worker that included sexual encounters at the courthouse.The Commission on Judicial Conduct is asking for Judge Thomas Estes to be su...
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Cosby defense team lobs attacks in court of public opinion
Court Watch 04/20/2018Jurors weren't allowed to hear testimony that Bill Cosby's chief accuser was once hooked on hallucinogenic mushrooms or had her sights set on becoming a millionaire, but that hasn't stopped the defense from airing the explosive claims about Andrea Co...
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Environmentalists ask court to restore oil-gas emission rule
Court Watch 04/19/2018Environmentalists are asking an appeals court to reinstate a rule restricting harmful methane emissions on U.S. lands, at least temporarily.Attorneys for 13 groups on Friday asked a federal appeals court in Denver to block an order by a lower court t...
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Constitutionality of murder conviction upheld by high court
Court Watch 04/18/2018The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a man's conviction for killing his 4-year-old son.Forty-four-year-old Chris Miller was sentenced to life in prison for the death of his son, Jacob Miller, and an additional 50 years f...
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Michigan Democrats back Nessel for state attorney general
Court Watch 04/14/2018Thousands of fired-up Michigan Democrats endorsed Dana Nessel on Sunday in a hotly contested race for state attorney general, backing the former prosecutor-turned-civil rights lawyer to wrest back control of an office the party last held 16 years ago...
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Question of sales tax on online purchases goes to high court
Intellectual Property 04/14/2018Online shoppers have gotten used to seeing that line on checkout screens before they click "purchase." But a case before the Supreme Court could change that.At issue is a rule stemming from two, decades-old Supreme Court cases: If a business is shipp...
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Zuckerberg Flubs Details of Facebook Privacy Commitments
Legal Business 04/13/2018Over two days of questioning in Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg chief revealed that he didn’t know key details of a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission that requires Facebook to protect user privacy.With congressional h...
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Facebook to stop spending against California privacy effort
Business Law 04/12/2018Facebook says it will stop spending money to fight a proposed California ballot initiative aimed at giving consumers more control over their data.The measure, known as the "California Consumer Privacy Act," would require companies to disclose upon re...
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Lawyer tells Australian court Geoffrey Rush barely eating
Criminal Law 04/06/2018Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush has become virtually housebound, barely eats and wakes each morning with a "terrible sense of dread" since a Sydney newspaper alleged inappropriate behavior toward an actress, his lawyer swore in an affidavit.Lawyer ...
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Court: Mexican family can't sue agent in cross-border death
Court Watch 03/22/2018A federal appeals court says a U.S. Border Patrol agent who fired his gun in Texas and fatally wounded a teenager across the Mexican border cannot be sued by the teen's family.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in the case of 15-year...
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Budget bill likely would end Supreme Court email search case
Court Watch 03/22/2018The budget bill before Congress includes an update to federal law that makes clear that authorities with a warrant can obtain emails and other data held by American technology companies but stored on servers overseas.Passage of the Cloud Act probably...
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Supreme Court takes up challenge by crisis pregnancy centers
Employment Law 03/20/2018The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a free speech fight over California's attempt to regulate anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.The case being argued Tuesday involves information required by a state law that the centers must provide client...