Recent Updates
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Group takes oil refinery fight to North Dakota's high court
U.S. Court Watch 03/28/2019An environmental group is taking its battle against an oil refinery being developed near Theodore Roosevelt National Park to the North Dakota Supreme Court.The National Parks Conservation Association argued in its Wednesday filing that an air quality...
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Man charged with killing missing girl's mom due in court
Legal Compliance 03/24/2019A man accused of killing the mother of his child in Milwaukee is due in court. WITI-TV reports that 34-year-old Dariaz Higgins has a preliminary hearing scheduled Monday.Higgins is accused of fatally shooting 24-year-old Sierra Robinson and wounding ...
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Supreme Court: Google class-action case should be revisited
Legal Compliance 03/20/2019The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed a lower court to take another look at a lawsuit that involved Google and privacy concerns and ended in a class-action settlement.The high court said in an unsigned opinion that a lower court should address whet...
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Supreme Court to consider Louisiana's non-unanimous juries
Legal Compliance 03/18/2019The Supreme Court will consider banning non-unanimous juries in criminal cases in Louisiana, the only state that still allows them.The justices said Monday they will hear an appeal from a man who was convicted of second-degree murder by a jury's 10-2...
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Detained Saudi women's rights activists brought to court
U.S. Court Watch 03/15/2019Women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia appeared in a closed-door court hearing Wednesday on unknown charges after being detained in a crackdown last year, making their first appearance before a judge in a case that has sparked international outrage...
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Ohio Republicans defending state congressional map in court
Legal Compliance 03/11/2019Attorneys for Ohio Republican officials will call witnesses this week to defend the state's congressional map.A federal trial enters its second week Monday in a lawsuit by voter rights groups that say the current seats resulted from "an unconstitutio...
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Court: $700M judgment against North Carolina still unpaid
Legal Compliance 03/06/2019A North Carolina judge has affirmed that a court judgment issued more than 10 years ago stating school districts are owed over $700 million in civil penalties from several state agencies is still nearly all unpaid.The order signed Wednesday by Wake S...
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Japan court OK's Nissan ex-Chairman Ghosn's release on bail
Law Journals 03/05/2019A Tokyo court approved the release of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn on 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) bail on Tuesday, rejecting an appeal by prosecutors to keep him jailed, a lawyer for the auto executive said.He could be freed as soon as Wednes...
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Court upholds car rental tax imposed in Maricopa County
Legal Compliance 02/26/2019The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday upheld a car rental tax surcharge that’s imposed in Maricopa County to pay for building a professional football stadium and other sports and recreational facilities, marking the second time an appeals court h...
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Court records reveal a Mueller report right in plain view
National Legal News 02/24/2019The Democrats had blamed Russia for the hacking and release of damaging material on his presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton. Trump wasn’t buying it. But on July 27, 2016, midway through a news conference in Florida, Trump decided to entertai...
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Republicans pitch keeping Court of Appeals at 15 judges
Law Review 02/16/2019North Carolina Republican legislators now want to give up on the law they approved two years ago that reduces the number of Court of Appeals judges from 15 to 12 as retirements and other vacancies arise.A state Senate judiciary committee Tuesday reco...
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Court upholds order to unseal records in brazen lynching
Law Review 02/09/2019A historian who has spent years looking into the unsolved lynching of two black couples in rural Georgia more than 70 years ago hopes some answers may finally be within his grasp.A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling to unseal...