Recent Updates
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Postscript: After US sentence, Sharper goes to state court
Practice Legal News 08/31/2016A week after he was sentenced to more than 18 years in prison in federal court, disgraced ex-football star Darren Sharper is set for formal sentencing in state court to charges that he drugged and raped multiple women.Thursday's sentencing for the fo...
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Turkish court issues arrest warrant for Muslim cleric
Practice Legal News 08/20/2016A court in Turkey issued a formal warrant Thursday for the arrest of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who the government accuses of being behind the failed July 15 coup that left more than 270 people dead.The state-run Anadolu news agency sa...
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Court again says New Jersey can't legalize sports betting
Practice Legal News 08/20/2016A federal appeals court on Tuesday dealt another defeat to New Jersey's yearslong attempt to legalize sports betting, setting aside the state's challenge to a federal betting ban.The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling invalidated a law passed b...
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'Whitey' Bulger asks US Supreme Court to hear his appeal
Practice Legal News 08/20/2016James "Whitey" Bulger has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal of his racketeering convictions for playing a role in 11 murders and committing a litany of other crimes.It is unclear if the high court will take up the Boston gangster's case...
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Kyrgyzstan sends case of jailed journalist back to court
Practice Legal News 07/15/2016The Supreme Court in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday refused to release an ethnic Uzbek journalist and activist serving a life sentence after being convicted of stirring up ethnic hatred, but instead sent his case to a regional cour...
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NY court: Case against ex-AIG execs can continue
Practice Legal News 06/08/2016New York's attorney general can continue his legal effort to bar two former American International Group Inc. executives from the securities industry and forfeit any improperly gained profits, the state's highest court ruled Thursday.The Court of App...
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Court: Slipknot bassist's child born after he died can sue
Practice Legal News 05/11/2016Idaho's state Supreme Court candidates went after each other's political independence Friday evening during their only scheduled major debate."When you stand on the courthouse steps with the Legislature, I'm not sure if you're sending the right messa...
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El Salvador court takes up case on ex-president's finances
Practice Legal News 05/11/2016A court in El Salvador has agreed to consider a civil case against former President Mauricio Funes, his wife and one of his sons for possible illicit enrichment.The San Salvador court press office said Saturday that several government institutions ha...
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Kansas Supreme Court reviews lawmakers' school aid changes
Practice Legal News 05/11/2016Attorneys for Kansas hope to persuade the state Supreme Court that recent changes in the state's education funding system are fair enough to poor districts that the justices can abandon a threat to shut down public schools.The high court was set to h...
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Supreme Court to swear in large group of deaf lawyers
Practice Legal News 04/17/2016Mobile phones ordinarily are strictly forbidden in the marble courtroom of the nation's highest court, but the justices are making an exception next week when roughly a dozen deaf and hard-of-hearing lawyers will be admitted to the Supreme Court bar....
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Cosby asks court to reseal testimony about affairs, drugs
Practice Legal News 04/17/2016Bill Cosby's lawyers urged an appeals court Wednesday to reseal the comedian's lurid, decade-old testimony about his womanizing, but the panel of judges seemed to think the request was pointless, since the deposition has already made headlines around...
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Suspect in some Phoenix freeway shootings pleads not guilty
Practice Legal News 10/12/2015A man accused in some of the freeway shootings that put Phoenix drivers on edge for weeks pleaded not guilty Thursday as his defense lawyers questioned the strength of the evidence against him.Attorneys for Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., 21, who was arrai...