Recent Updates
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Indiana Supreme Court considers eavesdropping case
Employment Law 12/18/2017The Indiana Supreme Court has taken up an eavesdropping case that could result in a new state standard to determine when prosecutorial misconduct is so egregious that a criminal suspect can no longer be made to stand trial.The court heard arguments l...
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S Carolina Rep. Quinn pleads guilty to corruption charge
Business Law 12/15/2017South Carolina Rep. Rick Quinn Jr. pleaded guilty to corruption charges Wednesday, becoming the third Republican lawmaker convicted in a wide-ranging Statehouse corruption probe.Prosecutors said they will ask for prison time for the 52-year-old forme...
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Travel ban is headed back to a federal appeals court in Virginia
Immigration Law 12/14/2017Thirteen judges on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will be asked to decide if the ban violates the constitution by discriminating against Muslims, as opponents say, or is necessary to protect national security, as the Trump administration says....
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Supreme Court allows full enforcement of Trump travel ban
Legal Business 12/13/2017The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to fully enforce a ban on travel to the United States by residents of six mostly Muslim countries.This is not a final ruling on the travel ban: Challenges to the policy are winding through ...
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Arkansas judge blocks state from issuing birth certificates
Consumer Rights 12/11/2017An Arkansas judge on Friday blocked the state from issuing any birth certificates until officials are able to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the state's birth certificate law illegally favors heterosexual parents.Pulaski County Circuit ...
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Court asked to stop suit against prosecutor in man's death
Consumer Rights 12/10/2017A lawyer for Baltimore's top prosecutor asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit by five police officers who claim she maliciously prosecuted them in the death of a black man gravely injured in custody.Assistant Attorney General K...
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Russian court keeps theater director under house arrest
International 12/04/2017A Moscow court on Monday ruled that a prominent theater and film director who is being investigated for fraud must remain under house arrest.Kirill Serebrennikov, arguably Russia's best known director, was detained and put under house arrest in Augus...
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Cake case before Supreme Court has ties to barbecue decision
Court Watch 12/03/2017The upcoming Supreme Court argument about a baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple makes some civil rights lawyers think of South Carolina's Piggie Park barbecue.When two African-Americans parked their car at a Piggie Park drive-in in...
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Asbestos Court to resolve hundreds of claims
Legal Business 12/02/2017The Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an order creating an asbestos claims court to resolve hundreds of Libby asbestos-related cases pending in the state’s trial courts.The cases have languished for years because W.R. Grace & Co. &mda...
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Supreme Court rejects case over Mississippi Confederate emblem
Legal Business 11/28/2017The Supreme Court on Monday rejected hearing a case that challenges the use of Confederate imagery in the Mississippi state flag.Carlos Moore, an African-American attorney from Mississippi, argued that the flag represents "an official endorsement of ...
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Walker signs bill inspired by cabin-owners' court fight
Corporate Law 11/27/2017Just five months after an adverse ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court had her in tears, Donna Murr was celebrating Monday after Gov. Scott Walker signed into law a bill that gives Wisconsin property owners more rights.The Murr family fought for more t...
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Trappers ask court to throw out lawsuit over US fur exports
Court Watch 11/25/2017Fur trappers are asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit from wildlife advocates who want to block the export of bobcat pelts from the United States.Attorneys for trapping organizations said in recent court filings that the lawsuit against the ...