Recent Updates
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Judge blocks St. Louis prosecutor from law firm payments
Legal Compliance 05/22/2020A judge has blocked St. Louis’ top prosecutor from paying potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills to five outside law firms representing her.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Circuit Judge Joan Moriarity on Wedn...
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Indiana attorney general argues suspension doesn't oust him
Legal Compliance 05/17/2020Lawyers for Indiana’s attorney general are arguing he has the legal right to remain in office even while serving a 30-day suspension of his law license for groping four women. The arguments filed Friday with the state Supreme Court come after R...
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Catholic schools, ex-teachers clash in Supreme Court case
Legal Compliance 05/11/2020First, Kristen Biel learned she had breast cancer. Then, after she told the Catholic school where she taught that she’d need time off for treatment, she learned her teaching contract wouldn’t be renewed.“She was devastated,” s...
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Court tosses NY case that could have expanded gun rights
Legal Compliance 04/28/2020The Supreme Court sidestepped a major decision on gun rights Monday in a dispute over New York City’s former ban on transporting guns.The justices threw out a challenge from gun rights groups, including the National Rifle Association’s Ne...
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Democratic super PAC: We will fight Trump in court over ads
Legal Compliance 04/17/2020A leading Democratic super PAC has promised it will tangle in court with President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign to keep airing television ads the Republican president is trying to keep off the airwaves.Priorities USA Action chief Guy Ceci...
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Wisconsin moves forward with election despite virus concerns
Legal Compliance 04/07/2020Voters in Wisconsin will face a choice Tuesday of participating in a presidential primary election or heeding warnings from public health officials to stay away from large crowds during the coronavirus pandemic.Hours after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers ...
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Court: Utilities cannot charge energy-making customers more
Legal Compliance 04/03/2020Utilities cannot charge customers who produce some of their own energy more than other customers, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday in a decision that strikes down proposed rates from two companies.The state's highest court found the proposals by...
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Alabama’s virus cases top 940; abortion clinics win in court
Legal Compliance 03/31/2020The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Alabama neared 1,000 on Monday as reported deaths continued to climb and a federal judge ruled the state could not prohibit abortions during the outbreak.Total COVID-19 infections in Alabama stood near 950...
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A Supreme Court Justice Visits Campus: A Look Behind The Scenes
Legal Compliance 03/30/2020when they speak at public universities. But public and press access granted by the justices is idiosyncratic.Two justices — Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito — have limited access to their appearances, even on occasion forbidding recording of...
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Court approves PG&E’s $23B bankruptcy financing package
Legal Compliance 03/17/2020Pacific Gas & Electric on Monday won court approval to raise $23 billion to help pay its bills over destructive California wildfires after Gov. Gavin Newsom dropped his opposition to a financing package designed to help the nation’s largest...
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Australia’s High Court hears what may be Pell’s last appeal
Legal Compliance 03/13/2020The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse took his appeal to Australia’s highest court Wednesday in potentially his last bid to clear his name.Cardinal George Pell was sentenced a year ago to six years in prison for molesting ...
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A clinic prepares for Supreme Court abortion fight
Legal Compliance 03/02/2020The Hope Medical Group for Women in northern Louisiana fields phone calls every day from anxious pregnant women who ask if abortion is still legal and if the clinic, one of only three that provides abortions in the state, is still open.Despite the pr...