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Attorney general applauds high court decision on water rule
Business Law 01/17/2018North Dakota's attorney general is applauding a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that recognizes federal district courts as the forum to hear legal challenges to an Obama administration rule aimed at protecting small streams and wetlands from development an...
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Thai court drops royal insult charges against academic
Court Watch 01/17/2018A Thai military court on Wednesday dropped royal insult charges against an 84-year old historian who questioned whether a Thai king had actually defeated a Burmese adversary in combat on elephant-back over 500 years ago.Sulak Sivaraksa was charged in...
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Pennsylvania court throws out congressional boundaries
Consumer Rights 01/15/2018The Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state's widely criticized congressional map Monday, granting a major victory to Democrats who alleged the 18 districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to benefit Republicans and setting off a scram...
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Hong Kong court to rule later on 3 activists' prison terms
International 01/14/2018Three Hong Kong activists will have to wait to learn the outcome of their final appeal Tuesday to overturn prison sentences for their roles in sparking 2014's massive pro-democracy protests in the semiautonomous Chinese city.Judges at Hong Kong's top...
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Supreme Court sides with police over partygoers in wild bash
Tax Law 01/12/2018The Supreme Court sided Monday with police over partygoers in a dispute about arrests at a 2008 bash at a vacant home that had been turned into a makeshift strip club.The high court ruled that police had sufficient reason to make arrests at the rauco...
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Supreme Court to hear sales tax collection case
Tax Law 01/10/2018The Supreme Court agreed Friday to wade into the issue of sales tax collection on internet purchases in a case that could force consumers to pay more for certain purchases and allow states to recoup what they say is billions in lost revenue annually....
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Supreme Court: Water rule suits should begin in trial courts
Court Watch 01/09/2018Opponents of an Obama administration rule aimed at protecting small streams and wetlands from development and pollution now know which courts should be hearing their lawsuits.The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that litigation over the rule sh...
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Supreme Court delays order for North Carolina to redraw maps
Legal Marketing 01/04/2018The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday delayed a lower-court order that would have forced North Carolina Republican lawmakers to redraw the state's congressional districts by next week because of excessive partisan bias in current lines.The justices anno...
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War Crimes Court Winds Down With Defendant's Stunning Death
Personal Injury 01/03/2018A convicted war criminal from Croatia swallowed what he said was poison and died Wednesday after a United Nations court in the Netherlands upheld his 20-year sentence for committing crimes against humanity during the Bosnian war of the 1990s.In a stu...
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Supreme Court could limit police in digital-age privacy case
Family Law 01/03/2018The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it could impose limits on the government's ability to track Americans' movements through collection of their cellphone information.The justices heard 80 minutes of arguments in a case at the intersection of privac...
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US jury acquits Peruvian defendant in FIFA bribery case
International 12/28/2017A former South American soccer official was acquitted Tuesday of a corruption charge stemming from the FIFA bribery scandal after two others were convicted last week, capping a trial in which U.S. prosecutors sought to expose a culture of greed and c...
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Northern Indiana man 3rd generation caring for court clock
Law Firm News 12/28/2017Out of habit, as the Elkhart County Courthouse clock struck 11 on a recent morning, Blake Eckelbarger took out his cellphone and compared the time.The century-and-a-half-old mechanism in the middle of Goshen trailed the timekeeping of his GPS satelli...