Recent Updates
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Sen. Collins, potential swing vote, meets with Kavanaugh
Legal Compliance 08/22/2018Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh met Tuesday with Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a centrist who's seen as a potential swing vote on his confirmation, while Democrats push him to release more documents from his years in the George W. Bus...
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Alabama Supreme Court won't move lawsuit against Moore
Legal Compliance 08/18/2018The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday refused to transfer a defamation lawsuit against former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore by a woman who says Moore molested her decades ago.The court denied Moore's request to have the case heard in Etowah County in...
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Lawyers will seek to shift blame for warehouse fire at trial
Legal Compliance 08/16/2018Lawyers for the two men charged in the Northern California warehouse fire that killed 36 people said Friday they are now preparing for a trial where they will try to shift blame for the blaze from their clients to others, including the building's own...
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Tennessee high court refuses to block looming execution
Legal Compliance 08/07/2018The Tennessee Supreme Court has refused to stay Thursday's scheduled execution of a convicted child killer while the state's new lethal injection protocol continues to be challenged on appeal.The order brings Tennessee within days of killing Billy Ra...
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Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh's gun views are clear
Legal Compliance 07/30/2018Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he recognizes that gun, drug and gang violence "has plagued all of us." Still, he believes the Constitution limits how far government can go to restrict gun use to prevent crime.As a federal appeals court ju...
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Court: Release surveillance video in Florida school shooting
Legal Compliance 07/25/2018An appeals court says news organizations are entitled to obtain surveillance video showing the law enforcement response to the Valentine's Day mass shooting at a Florida high school.The 4th District Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld a lower court's...
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Tennessee abortion change vote case appealed to high court
Legal Compliance 07/23/2018Opponents 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...
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Securing your Path to Success as a Start Up Law Firm
Legal Compliance 07/22/2018Securing 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....
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Florida school shooting suspect's statement issue in court
Legal Compliance 07/16/2018How 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 ...
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Audit: 'Pervasive lack of accountability' in Kentucky courts
Legal Compliance 07/12/2018In 2016, Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts was looking for office space for newly-elected Supreme Court Justice Sam Wright. They got two offers: One would cost more than $59,000 a year and require extensive renovations. The other space w...
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Pennsylvania court to hear objections to church abuse report
Legal Compliance 07/07/2018Pennsylvania's highest court on Friday decided against immediately releasing an investigative grand jury's report into allegations of decades of child sexual abuse in six Roman Catholic dioceses, instead saying it would hear arguments from priests an...
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Drivers challenge license suspensions for unpaid court debt
Legal Compliance 07/04/2018It can start with a couple of traffic tickets. Unable to pay the tickets right away, a driver becomes saddled with late fees, fines and court costs. Soon, the driver may be taken off the road indefinitely.More than 40 states allow the suspension of d...