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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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Lawyers seeking 32% of $641M Flint tainted water settlement
Business Law 03/09/2021Lawyers who negotiated a $641 million settlement for victims of Flint’s lead-contaminated water are asking a judge to set aside up to 32% for fees and expenses for years of work on the case.If granted, the request would total $202 million in fe...
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Courts wrestle with whether manslaughter is always violent
Legal Compliance 03/06/2021Once annually, sometimes less, the full federal appeals court in New York meets to confront a perplexing legal question. Most recently, it was to decide whether shooting somebody point-blank in the face and stabbing somebody to death are violent acts...
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Court raises bar for some immigrants to avoid deportation
Immigration Law 03/04/2021The Supreme Court on Thursday made it harder for longtime immigrants who have been convicted of a crime to avoid deportation.Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for a 5-3 conservative majority that ruled against a Mexican citizen who entered the U...
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Mississippi told to pay $500K to wrongfully imprisoned man
National Legal News 03/03/2021A judge is ordering the state of Mississippi to pay $500,000 to a Black man who was wrongfully imprisoned more than 22 years and was tried six times in a quadruple murder case.Curtis Flowers was released from prison in December 2019, months after the...
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Supreme Court likely to uphold Arizona voting restrictions
U.S. Court Watch 03/01/2021The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to uphold voting restrictions in Arizona in a key case that could make it harder to challenge a raft of other voting measures Republicans have proposed following last year’s elections.All six conservativ...
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Anchorage companies, man fined for clean air violations
Law Review 02/28/2021A man and two companies in Alaska have been sentenced to three years probation and a $35,000 fine for violating the Clean Air Act involving asbestos work at a shopping center more than five years ago, a judge said.The work was performed at the Northe...
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Judge refuses to order remote access to New Hampshire House
Law Review 02/22/2021The New Hampshire House can proceed with in-person sessions this week without providing remote access to medically vulnerable lawmakers, a federal judge ruled Monday.Seven Democratic lawmakers sued Republican House Speaker Sherm Packard last week arg...
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Planned Parenthood sues to block South Carolina abortion ban
Legal Compliance 02/18/2021Planned Parenthood was filing a lawsuit Thursday against a bill that would ban most abortions in South Carolina, effectively stopping the measure from going into effect even as the governor was scheduled to sign it into law at a public statehouse cer...
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European court rejects case vs Germany over Afghan airstrike
Legal Compliance 02/16/2021The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday rejected a complaint against Germany’s refusal to prosecute an officer who ordered the deadly bombing in 2009 of two fuel tankers in northern Afghanistan.Scores of people died when U.S. Air Force je...
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Outside team to assist Albuquerque police internal affairs
Law Review 02/15/2021The city of Albuquerque and the U.S. Department of Justice have proposed a plan to temporarily assist Albuquerque Police Department internal affairs investigators.An outside team is expected to correct issues as they arise and train detectives on how...
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Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Melton to step down
Criminal Law 02/12/2021Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold D. Melton announced Friday that he is stepping down on July 1.Melton said in a statement that he doesn’t yet know what he’ll do next, but that he is exploring opportunities “for the next se...
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US court halts drilling at ConocoPhillips project in Alaska
Bankruptcy Law 02/12/2021A federal appeals court ordered work to stop at a major oil project on Alaska’s North Slope, siding with conservation and Indigenous groups.The decision Saturday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will stop on-the-ground work for the wint...