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  • West Virginia high court excludes inmates from workers' comp

    West Virginia high court excludes inmates from workers' comp

    Breaking Legal News 07/15/2017

    Inmates participating in work-release programs do not quality for workers' compensation benefits, the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled has ruled.The court on Thursday unanimously affirmed a Workers' Compensation Board of Review's 2015 decision to no...

  • Fraternity brothers due in court in pledge's fatal fall

    Fraternity brothers due in court in pledge's fatal fall

    Court Watch 07/14/2017

    Members of a Penn State fraternity facing charges related to the death earlier this year of a pledge after a night of heavy drinking are due in court Monday for a hearing about whether there's enough evidence to head to trial.Prosecutors in the case ...

  • Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya guilty of disobeying top court

    Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya guilty of disobeying top court

    International 07/13/2017

    India's top court on Tuesday found wanted tycoon Vijay Mallya guilty of disobeying its order barring him from transferring $40 million to his children.Mallya, who fled to London last year, is wanted in India on charges of money laundering and bank de...

  • Texas advances new abortion limits despite court defeats

    Texas advances new abortion limits despite court defeats

    Breaking Legal News 07/13/2017

    Texas' Republican-controlled Legislature late Friday advanced tough new limits on abortion— hitting back at a U.S. Supreme Court decision last summer striking down most of the sweeping restrictions on the procedure that America's second-largest...

  • High court ruling may give voter rights groups a strong tool

    High court ruling may give voter rights groups a strong tool

    Civil Litigation News 07/13/2017

    The Supreme Court's ruling that two North Carolina congressional districts relied too heavily on race should give voting-rights advocates a potent tool to fight other electoral maps drawn to give Republicans an advantage in the state.The justices agr...

  • Kim Jong Nam murder suspect asks her parents to pray for her

    Kim Jong Nam murder suspect asks her parents to pray for her

    International 07/13/2017

    A suspect in the poisoning death of the North Korean leader's half brother wrote to her parents from jail, asking them to pray for her but saying "don't think about me too much."Siti Aisyah, an Indonesian mother who worked in Malaysia, appeared in co...

  • Court sides with towns over utilities in tax dispute

    Court sides with towns over utilities in tax dispute

    Tax Law 07/13/2017

    Two electric utilities seeking to reduce their property taxes in dozens of towns across New Hampshire lost an appeal Friday to the state Supreme Court.Eversource and the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative sought tax abatements from 64 towns in 2011 a...

  • Alabama asks US Supreme Court to let execution proceed

    Alabama asks US Supreme Court to let execution proceed

    U.S. Supreme Court 07/13/2017

    Alabama’s attorney general on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let an execution proceed this week, arguing that questions about a lethal injection drug have been settled by the courts.Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office asked t...

  • Trump visiting Supreme Court as justices weigh travel ban

    Trump visiting Supreme Court as justices weigh travel ban

    Breaking Legal News 07/13/2017

    to do with the president's ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries. But the reason for his high court trip Thursday is purely ceremonial, to mark Justice Neil Gorsuch's ascension to the bench.Trump has no role in the courtroom ceremony, but...

  • Court: Detained immigrant children entitled to court hearing

    Court: Detained immigrant children entitled to court hearing

    Immigration Law 07/13/2017

    Immigrant children who cross the border without their parents have the right to a court hearing to challenge any decision to detain them instead of turning them over to family in the U.S., a federal appeals court said Wednesday.The 9th U.S. Circuit C...

  •  Judge rejects effort to block Confederate statue's removal

    Judge rejects effort to block Confederate statue's removal

    Legal Business 07/11/2017

    A last-ditch effort to block the removal of a monument to a Confederate general in New Orleans was rejected Wednesday by a Louisiana judge who turned away arguments that the city doesn't own the statue or the land on which it sits."This has gone on a...

  • U.S. high court ruling deals blow to patent trolls

    U.S. high court ruling deals blow to patent trolls

    Intellectual Property 07/10/2017

    The Supreme Court is making it easier for companies to defend themselves against patent infringement lawsuits.The justices ruled unanimously on Monday that such lawsuits can be filed only in states where defendants are incorporated. The issue is impo...

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