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Supreme Court delays order for North Carolina to redraw maps
Legal Marketing 01/04/2018The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday delayed a lower-court order that would have forced North Carolina Republican lawmakers to redraw the state's congressional districts by next week because of excessive partisan bias in current lines.The justices anno...
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War Crimes Court Winds Down With Defendant's Stunning Death
Personal Injury 01/03/2018A convicted war criminal from Croatia swallowed what he said was poison and died Wednesday after a United Nations court in the Netherlands upheld his 20-year sentence for committing crimes against humanity during the Bosnian war of the 1990s.In a stu...
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Supreme Court could limit police in digital-age privacy case
Family Law 01/03/2018The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it could impose limits on the government's ability to track Americans' movements through collection of their cellphone information.The justices heard 80 minutes of arguments in a case at the intersection of privac...
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US jury acquits Peruvian defendant in FIFA bribery case
International 12/28/2017A former South American soccer official was acquitted Tuesday of a corruption charge stemming from the FIFA bribery scandal after two others were convicted last week, capping a trial in which U.S. prosecutors sought to expose a culture of greed and c...
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Northern Indiana man 3rd generation caring for court clock
Law Firm News 12/28/2017Out of habit, as the Elkhart County Courthouse clock struck 11 on a recent morning, Blake Eckelbarger took out his cellphone and compared the time.The century-and-a-half-old mechanism in the middle of Goshen trailed the timekeeping of his GPS satelli...
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Ohio court indefinitely suspends law license of ex-judge
Legal Business 12/28/2017The Ohio Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended the law license of a former judge sentenced to two years in prison for assaulting his estranged wife inside a vehicle while their two young daughters sat in the back seat.The court ruled unanimously T...
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Myanmar court extends detention for 2 Reuters reporters
Immigration Law 12/26/2017A court in Myanmar extended the detention of two Reuters journalists on Wednesday and set their trial for Jan. 10 on charges of violating state secrets.Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested Dec. 12 for acquiring "important secret papers" from two pol...
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Michigan High Court to Hear Arguments on Guns in Schools
Breaking Legal News 12/24/2017Michigan's high court is expected to weigh in next year on whether school districts can ban anyone not in law enforcement from carrying guns onto school grounds.The Michigan Supreme Court last week invited school districts and gun rights groups in a ...
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Appeals court: Trump exceeded authority with travel ban
Law Reviews 12/21/2017A federal appeals court panel has ruled that President Donald Trump once again exceeded the scope of his authority with his latest travel ban, but the judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put their decision on hold pending review by the U....
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Russian court: ex-minister guilty of taking $2 million bribe
Political and Legal 12/18/2017Russia's former economics minister was handed an eight-year prison sentence Friday after being convicted of accepting a $2 million bribe from one of President Vladimir Putin's top associates. The high-profile trial of Alexei Ulyukayev has been widely...
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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...