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  • Court officer investigated for photographing lawyer's notes

    Court officer investigated for photographing lawyer's notes

    Daily Legal News 03/08/2017

    A court security officer in Maine has been placed on leave while under investigation for sending a cellphone photo of a defense attorney's notes to a prosecutor. The Kennebec Journal reports that court officials are calling the incident a seriou...

  • Greek court rejects extradition for Turkish servicemen

    Greek court rejects extradition for Turkish servicemen

    Daily Legal News 01/30/2017

    Greece's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an extradition request for eight Turkish servicemen who fled their country by helicopter after a coup attempt. Presiding judge Giorgos Sakkas, reading out the decision, said the servicemen were unlikel...

  • Philippine court urged to order Marcos' remains exhumed

    Philippine court urged to order Marcos' remains exhumed

    Daily Legal News 12/08/2016

    Human rights victims who suffered during the rule of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos filed petitions Monday asking the Supreme Court to order the exhumation of his remains that were buried last week at the country's Heroes' Cemetery.They also wa...

  • Ohio sheriff accused of drug theft changing not guilty plea

    Ohio sheriff accused of drug theft changing not guilty plea

    Daily Legal News 12/08/2016

    A suspended sheriff in Ohio who has denied stealing prescription drugs and misusing office funds is due in court to change his not guilty plea.Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer is scheduled to attend a change of plea hearing Monday in Fremont.Ove...

  •  Man pleads guilty to killing girlfriend, burning body

    Man pleads guilty to killing girlfriend, burning body

    Daily Legal News 09/02/2016

    A South Carolina man has admitted to beating his girlfriend, stuffing her body into a suitcase and then burning it in a barrel last year.  News outlets report 23-year-old John Coddington of Fort Mill pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder in th...

  •  Top French Court Suspends Riviera Town's Burkini Ban

    Top French Court Suspends Riviera Town's Burkini Ban

    Daily Legal News 08/31/2016

    France's highest administrative court struck a blow against controversial 'burkini bans' Friday, upending one town's decision to prohibit the full-body swimsuit on its beaches.The Council of State suspended the ban in Villeneuve-Loubet, just west of ...

  • Appeals court hands loss to New Jersey sports betting effort

    Appeals court hands loss to New Jersey sports betting effort

    Daily Legal News 08/09/2016

    A federal appeals court has rejected New Jersey's attempt to legalize sports betting, setting aside the state's legal challenge to a federal ban.The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling published Tuesday invalidates a law passed by New Jersey in...

  • Court agrees with tossing strict North Dakota abortion law

    Court agrees with tossing strict North Dakota abortion law

    Daily Legal News 07/23/2015

    A federal appeals court agreed Wednesday that one of the nation's most restrictive abortion laws is unconstitutional — a North Dakota statute banning abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.  The 8th U...

  • Court Halts Execution Of Tyler Woman's Killer

    Court Halts Execution Of Tyler Woman's Killer

    Daily Legal News 07/23/2015

    The Texas Court of Criminal of Appeals halted the scheduled lethal injection of Clifton Lamar Williams until questions about some incorrect testimony at his 2006 trial can be resolved. Williams, 31, had faced execution Thursday evening for the k...

  • Texas turns away from criminal truancy courts for students

    Texas turns away from criminal truancy courts for students

    Daily Legal News 06/21/2015

    A long-standing Texas law that has sent about 100,000 students a year to criminal court — and some to jail — for missing school is off the books, though a Justice Department investigation into one county's truancy courts continues.Gov. Greg Abbott ha...

  • Man pleads guilty to charge over noose on Ole Miss statue

    Man pleads guilty to charge over noose on Ole Miss statue

    Daily Legal News 06/21/2015

    A federal prosecutor said in court Thursday that Graeme Phillip Harris hatched a plan, after a night of drinking at a University of Mississippi fraternity house, to hang a noose on a campus statue of James Meredith, the first black student at Ole Mis...

  • Court to hear cases over employment, housing bias

    Court to hear cases over employment, housing bias

    Daily Legal News 10/03/2014

    Did retailer Abercrombie & Fitch discriminate against a Muslim woman who was denied a job because her headscarf clashed with the company's dress code? That's the question in one of the 11 cases the Supreme Court said Thursday it will take on in its n...