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MJM Law Office, P.C. - Lane County DUI Lawyer
Law Firm Directory 01/11/2025Lane county, OR DUI Lawyer DUII (Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants) is the one crime that most everyone, including police officers, judges and lawyers, have committed at one time or another. A small percentage of motorists operating under th...
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Law Offices of Esra Jung
Law Firm Directory CaliforniaSunnyvale, CA Personal Injury Attorney If you have been injured in an accident, you need a personal injury attorney who is ready to fight for the compensation you deserve. At the Law Offices of Esra Jung, we have spent decades helping the hardworking...
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Krol, Bongiorno & Given, Ltd
Law Firm Directory IllinoisChicago, IL Workers& Compensation Lawyers Since 1962, the law firm of Krol, Bongiorno & Given, Ltd. has been a leader in the field of workers’ compensation law, protecting the rights of tens of thousands of workers injured on the job. K...
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Palin COVID-19 tests delay libel trial against NY Times
Court Watch 01/26/2022An unvaccinated former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin tested positive for COVID-19 Monday, forcing a postponement of a trial in her libel lawsuit against The New York Times. The Republican’s positive test was announced in court just as jury selection ...
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Judge sides with Alaska attorney who alleged wrongful firing
Court Watch 01/21/2022A U.S. judge sided Thursday with an attorney who alleged she was wrongly fired by the state of Alaska over political opinions expressed on a personal blog. U.S. District Court Judge John Sedwick ruled that Elizabeth Bakalar’s December 2018 firi...
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Some Michigan counties pause jury trials amid COVID surge
Court Watch 01/18/2022Jury trials have been paused in some western Michigan counties due to a surge in coronavirus cases, court officials said Monday. Chief Judge Mark Trusock said all jury trials in Kent County 17th Circuit Court, based in Grand Rapids, were on hold unti...
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Appeals court: Illinois counties must end ICE contracts
Class Action 01/14/2022A federal appeals court has ruled two counties that hold immigrant detainees at local jails must terminate contracts with federal authorities starting Thursday. Leaders in Kankakee and McHenry counties sued over an Illinois law aimed at ending immigr...
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Partisan letters cost long-serving Alaska magistrate his job
Court Watch 01/11/2022The longest serving magistrate in Alaska is no longer on the bench after writing letters to the editor critical of the Republican party. Former Seward Magistrate George Peck wrote four letters to the editor of the Anchorage Daily News, the latest in ...
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Cobb County jury trials paused as COVID-19 spreads
Court Watch 01/08/2022As COVID-19 cases continue rising across the state of Georgia, the court system in one of its counties has decided to pause jury trials. Cobb County Superior Court Judge Robert D. Leonard issued an order Monday to cancel trial jurors through Jan. 21,...
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US sanctions Myanmar judiciary officials on coup anniversary
Criminal Law 01/05/2022The Biden administration on Monday slapped sanctions on top members of Myanmar’s judiciary and one of its main revenue-producing ports over rights abuses since last year’s coup. The sanctions on the country’s attorney general, supre...
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Griffis beginning 8-year term on Mississippi Supreme Court
Court Watch 01/03/2022The Mississippi Supreme Court is holding a ceremony Monday for Justice Kenny Griffis to begin a new term of office. Griffis served 16 years on the state Court of Appeals. In February 2019, then-Gov. Phil Bryant appointed him to fill an open seat on t...
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Challenges to Ohio’s new congressional map reach high court
Legal Compliance 12/29/2021The question of whether Ohio’s new congressional map was unconstitutionally gerrymandered to favor the Republicans who controlled the mapmaking process drew strong pushback Tuesday among justices of the Ohio Supreme Court.Oral arguments in two ...
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Sarah Weddington, lawyer who argued Roe v. Wade, dies at 76
Court Watch 12/26/2021Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer who as a 26-year-old successfully argued the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court, died Sunday. She was 76.Susan Hays, Weddington’s former student and colleague, said she died ...
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Enbridge seeks federal jurisdiction in oil pipeline dispute
Court Watch 12/17/2021The Canadian company argued that a 2019 lawsuit filed in a state court by Attorney General Dana Nessel should be heard by U.S. District Judge Janet Neff, who last month retained jurisdiction over a separate case initiated by the state of Michigan to ...
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Supreme Court rejects appeal over press access in Wisconsin
Legal Marketing 12/13/2021The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a conservative think tank over Gov. Tony Evers’ decision to exclude the group’s writers from press briefings. The justices acted without comment Monday, leaving in place lower court rulings th...