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Mexico debates its no-bail policy for nonviolent suspects
Law Review 09/06/2022In Mexico, a long list of nonviolent crimes — such as home burglary and freight and fuel theft — bring automatic pretrial detention, with no bail or house arrest allowed.Mexico’s Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on that &ldquo...
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Court okays grand jury probe in school sex assaults
Law Review 09/02/2022An attempt by the Loudoun County School Board to shut down a grand jury investigating the school system’s handling of two sexual assaults was rejected Friday by the Supreme Court of Virginia.The high court upheld a ruling in July by a circuit c...
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Biden vows ‘strong’ climate action despite dual setbacks
Law Review 07/17/2022President Joe Biden is promising “strong executive action” to combat climate change, despite dual setbacks in recent weeks that have restricted his ability to regulate carbon emissions and boost clean energy such as wind and solar power.T...
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Court: Health care workers in lawsuit must reveal identities
Law Review 07/10/2022Nine health care workers who sued Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills over the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate have until Money to reveal their identities.The workers have so far remained anonymous, but on Thursday, a federal appeals court in Bo...
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Texas clinics halt abortions after state high court ruling
Law Review 07/01/2022Clinics were shutting down abortion services in the nation’s second-largest state Saturday after the Texas Supreme Court blocked an order briefly allowing the procedure to resume in some cases, the latest in legal scrambles taking place across ...
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Court: Amazon customers can sue over lack of toxic warnings
Law Review 06/16/2022The California Supreme Court has left intact a ruling that allows customers to sue Amazon.com for failing to warn buyers that some products it sells may contain hazardous substances such as mercury. The court in its decision Wednesday denied a reques...
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North Carolina repeat offender pleads guilty to wire fraud
Law Review 06/10/2022A North Carolina man has admitted stealing mail from residential mailboxes and using stolen information to commit wire fraud, a federal prosecutor said.Soheil Akhavan Rezaie, 37, entered his guilty plea Tuesday before a U.S. magistrate judge in Charl...
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Jan. 6 riot lawyer’s illness throws wrench in several cases
Law Review 09/01/2021A prominent conservative attorney representing more than a dozen defendants charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol is seriously ill and hasn’t appeared in court for more than a week, throwing some cases into disarray. Attorney John Pier...
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Bankruptcy is Just Filling Out Some Forms, Right?
Law Review 06/22/2021Nothing could be further from the truth! My job as a Bankruptcy Attorney is to help clients understand the process, and how to navigate all of the complexities of Bankruptcy Law. My job is also to educate the public about common misconceptions of the...
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Web Design For Professional Services
Law Review 05/09/2021Generate more leads for your business Professional services are occupations in the service sector requiring special training in the arts or sciences. Some professional services require holding professional degrees and licenses and they also require s...
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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...