Recent Updates
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Florida court sides with Gov. Scott in nursing home battle
Legal Interview 10/30/2017Florida Gov. Rick Scott has won the first round in a legal tug-of-war over his mandate that nursing homes and assisted living facilities install generators.The 1st District Court of Appeal on Thursday rejected a legal challenge to emergency rules put...
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Court, for now, blocks immigrant teen's access to abortion
Legal Interview 10/30/2017An appeals court is blocking, for now, an abortion sought by a pregnant 17-year-old immigrant being held in a Texas facility, ruling that the government should have time to try to release her so she can obtain the abortion outside of federal custody....
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Kenya Supreme Court says why it annulled presidential poll
Legal Interview 09/22/2017Kenya's Supreme Court is delivering its full judgment on why it annulled President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election in August.The court annulled Kenyatta's victory in the August 8 election saying there were irregularities and illegalities, in response to...
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Israeli protesters erect golden statue of High Court chief
Legal Interview 09/01/2017Jerusalem residents woke to discover a surprising spectacle outside the country's Supreme Court — a golden statue of the court's president put up in protest by members of a religious nationalist group.Police quickly removed the statue of Miram Naor, ...
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Court delay sought in $7B Obamacare subsidy case
Legal Interview 05/24/2017Uncertainty over the future of health care for millions grew deeper Monday as insurers released a blueprint for stabilizing wobbly markets and the Trump administration left in limbo billions of dollars in federal payments.At the federal courthouse, t...
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U.S. high court ruling deals blow to patent trolls
Legal Interview 05/24/2017The 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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High Court Struggles Over Hospital Pension Dispute
Legal Interview 04/03/2017The Supreme Court seemed to struggle on Monday over whether some of the nation's largest hospitals should be allowed to sidestep federal laws protecting pension benefits for workers. Justices considered the cases of three church-affiliated nonprofit ...
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Competing bills target, affirm high court water decision
Legal Interview 01/30/2017Some lawmakers are taking aim at a recent Washington Supreme Court decision that put the onus on counties to determine whether water is legally available in certain rural areas before they issue building permits. One bill sponsored by Sen. Judy...
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US Supreme Court could hear Charleston company, Lexmark case
Legal Interview 12/08/2016A small Charleston company that refills and resells empty toner cartridges could soon be defending itself before the U.S. Supreme Court in a dispute that could affect huge tech companies and pharmaceutical firms.Lexmark, a Lexington, Kentucky-based p...
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Court blocks federal plan to extend overtime pay to many
Legal Interview 12/08/2016In a blow to the Obama administration's labor-law plans, a federal court has blocked the start of a rule that would have made an estimated 4 million more American workers eligible for overtime pay heading into the holiday season.As a result of Tuesda...
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Supreme Court stays execution of Alabama inmate
Legal Interview 11/23/2016The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday night stayed the execution of an Alabama man convicted of the 1982 shooting death of a woman's husband in a murder-for-hire arrangement.Five justices voted to stay the execution of Tommy Arthur as the high court con...
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Kenya: World court has no jurisdiction in Somalia dispute
Legal Interview 09/21/2016Kenya says that the International Court of Justice has no jurisdiction in a case filed by Somalia covering a dispute over potentially oil-rich seabed off the two countries' Indian Ocean coasts.Somalia launched a case with the United Nations' highest ...