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  • Top court: Social media posts violate no-contact order

    Top court: Social media posts violate no-contact order

    Law Review 07/24/2018

    Social media posts can represent a violation of a protection order, the state's highest court ruled on Tuesday, affirming the conviction of a man who made threats on Facebook.The Maine Supreme Judicial Court rejected Richard Heffron III's arguments t...

  • Tennessee abortion change vote case appealed to high court

    Tennessee abortion change vote case appealed to high court

    Legal Compliance 07/23/2018

    Opponents of a state constitutional amendment that passed in 2014 to allow tougher abortion restrictions are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court after a circuit appellate court denied a recount.The appeal in the Amendment 1 case was filed earlier thi...

  • Lawyer Website Search Engine Optimization

    Lawyer Website Search Engine Optimization

    National Legal News 07/22/2018

    Beyond simply attracting more attention to your website, keeping a regular, informative blog can be a great way to build influence in your community. If you update your blog frequently with useful information for clients, employees and individuals se...

  • Securing your Path to Success as a Start Up Law Firm

    Securing your Path to Success as a Start Up Law Firm

    Legal Compliance 07/22/2018

    Securing your Path to Success as a Start Up Law Firm - As they say, the grass is always greener… Statistically, lawyers developing a new business venture will eventually succeed and many exceed their income level they once had at larger firms....

  • Rock icon Cliff Richard wins UK High Court privacy case

    Rock icon Cliff Richard wins UK High Court privacy case

    Law Review 07/19/2018

    British rock icon Cliff Richard has won his privacy case against the BBC for its coverage of a police raid at his home and has been awarded more than 200,000 ($260,000) in damages.Richard had sued the broadcaster for its coverage of the 2014 raid, wh...

  • Court questions whether Maine has money to expand Medicaid

    Court questions whether Maine has money to expand Medicaid

    U.S. Court Watch 07/19/2018

    Maine's high court is weighing whether to allow the LePage administration to continue to block federal funding for voter-approved Medicaid expansion.    Justices on Wednesday heard the administration's arguments against a court order r...

  •  Suspect in 1988 killing of Indiana girl, 8, appears in court

    Suspect in 1988 killing of Indiana girl, 8, appears in court

    National Legal News 07/16/2018

    A judge has given prosecutors until Thursday to formally charge a man who's being held in the 1988 slaying of an 8-year-old Indiana girl.Fifty-nine-year-old John D. Miller of Grabill was arrested Sunday on preliminary murder, child molesting and crim...

  • Florida school shooting suspect's statement issue in court

    Florida school shooting suspect's statement issue in court

    Legal Compliance 07/16/2018

    How much of Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz's statement to investigators should be made public is an issue going before a judge.A hearing is set Monday on whether any or all of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting suspect's ...

  •  Court: Drug users can be jailed for relapsing on probation

    Court: Drug users can be jailed for relapsing on probation

    Law Review 07/15/2018

    In a case that has attracted national attention, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Monday that judges in the state have the authority to order people to remain drug free as a condition of probation and under some circumstances order a defendant jail...

  • Teens head to court for stealing cop's gun

    Teens head to court for stealing cop's gun

    U.S. Court Watch 07/14/2018

    Three Massachusetts teenagers charged with stealing a gun from a retired police officer are heading to court.The Sun of Lowell reports that the boys, all age 15 or 16, are scheduled to appear in Lawrence Juvenile Court on Monday to answer to charges ...

  • Conservatives close in on dream: Tipping court right

    Conservatives close in on dream: Tipping court right

    Law Review 07/13/2018

    President Donald Trump’s selection of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as a new Supreme Court nominee last Monday culminates a three-decade project unparalleled in American history to install a reliable conservative majority on the nation’s highest ...

  • Hawaii Supreme Court sides with lesbian couple in B&B case

    Hawaii Supreme Court sides with lesbian couple in B&B case

    National Legal News 07/12/2018

    A Hawaii appeals court ruling that a bed and breakfast discriminated by denying a room to two women because they're gay will stand after the state's high court declined to take up the case.Aloha Bed & Breakfast owner Phyllis Young had argued she ...