Recent Updates
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Option to undo some DUI convictions yet to be widely sought
Law Review 06/19/2019Court officials and lawyers in North Dakota say few people have tried to undo convictions for refusing DUI blood tests in the year since a state Supreme Court opinion offered a narrow pathway for doing so.The North Dakota high court ruled in 2018 tha...
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Supreme Court sides with Alabama company in patent dispute
Law Review 06/10/2019The Supreme Court sided Monday with an Alabama technology company over the U.S. Postal Service in a patent dispute.The dispute before the justices had to do with U.S. Patent No. 6,826,548. That's the patent Birmingham-based Return Mail has for a syst...
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Supreme Court won’t get involved in Prophet Muhammad ad case
Law Review 06/04/2019The Supreme Court is declining to get involved in a dispute that began when a group tried to have Washington transit officials display an ad with a provocative cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.The justices said Monday they would not get involved in th...
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University of Wyoming plans $10M law school expansion
Law Review 05/30/2019The University of Wyoming is planning a $10 million expansion to its law school that coincides with the college's centennial celebration next year.The Laramie Boomerang reported Thursday that the renovation to the College of Law is expected to be com...
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Students in Colorado shooting face murder, other charges
Law Review 05/15/2019Two students suspected of opening fire at their school are charged with over a dozen counts of murder and attempted murder as well as theft and arson, prosecutors said Wednesday.The charges came on the same day a memorial service was being held for t...
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Supreme Court says 1 state can’t be sued in another’s courts
Law Review 05/13/2019The Supreme Court decided Monday that one state cannot unwillingly be sued in the courts of another, overruling a 40-year precedent and perhaps, foreshadowing an argument over the viability of other high court decisions.The outcome left one dissentin...
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Pence slams district court rulings against Trump policies
Law Review 05/09/2019Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that the Trump administration intends to challenge the right of federal district courts to issue rulings blocking nationwide policies, arguing that such injunctions are obstructing President Donald Trump&rsquo...
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Roggensack Re-Elected as Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief
Law Review 04/29/2019Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack has been re-elected to a third, two-year term leading the court.The court announced her re-election by fellow justices Tuesday. The result was public, but the vote was done in secret and the b...
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Kansas court bolsters abortion rights, blocks ban
Law Review 04/26/2019Kansas’ highest court ruled for the first time Friday that the state constitution protects abortion rights and blocked a first-in-the-nation ban on a common second trimester method for ending pregnancies.The state Supreme Court’s ruling r...
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Court finds WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange guilty
Law Review 04/10/2019Court in Britain finds WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange guilty of breaching his bail conditions.Police arrested Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday, after the South American nation decided to revoke the political asylum that had g...
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Spacey’s lawyers returning to court in bar groping case
Law Review 04/04/2019A judge will consider motions filed by lawyers for Kevin Spacey, who’s charged with groping an 18-year-old man on Nantucket in 2016.The Oscar-winning former “House of Cards” actor won’t be present for Thursday’s hearing ...
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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...