Recent Updates
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Court delay sought in $7B Obamacare subsidy case
Breaking Legal News 07/20/2017Uncertainty over the future of health care for millions grew deeper Monday as insurers released a blueprint for stabilizing wobbly markets and the Trump administration left in limbo billions of dollars in federal payments.At the federal courthouse, t...
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West Virginia high court excludes inmates from workers' comp
Breaking Legal News 07/15/2017Inmates participating in work-release programs do not quality for workers' compensation benefits, the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled has ruled.The court on Thursday unanimously affirmed a Workers' Compensation Board of Review's 2015 decision to no...
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Texas advances new abortion limits despite court defeats
Breaking Legal News 07/13/2017Texas' Republican-controlled Legislature late Friday advanced tough new limits on abortion— hitting back at a U.S. Supreme Court decision last summer striking down most of the sweeping restrictions on the procedure that America's second-largest...
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Trump visiting Supreme Court as justices weigh travel ban
Breaking Legal News 07/13/2017to do with the president's ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries. But the reason for his high court trip Thursday is purely ceremonial, to mark Justice Neil Gorsuch's ascension to the bench.Trump has no role in the courtroom ceremony, but...
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Court filing questions innocence panel insistence on secrecy
Breaking Legal News 07/03/2017As a man convicted of murder tries to prove to the North Carolina's innocence commission that he didn't commit the crime, his attorney says the commission has misled a judge in order to keep its files secret, causing delays in the case.Attorney Chris...
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Ohio's high court dismisses media lawsuit over bodycam video
Breaking Legal News 01/04/2017The Ohio Supreme Court dismissed a public information lawsuit Tuesday without ruling on its argument that video from police body cameras are public record and should be released on request. In not taking up the issue, the court noted that the video h...