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  • US House staffers subpoenaed by federal court

    US House staffers subpoenaed by federal court

    Political and Legal News 04/17/2016

    Four congressional staffers have told the U.S. House that they've been subpoenaed by the federal court in Springfield, Illinois, where a grand jury is conducting a probe into the spending of former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock.The financial chief for the H...

  • Appeals court rules Mississippi can resume Google inquiry

    Appeals court rules Mississippi can resume Google inquiry

    Lawyer News 04/17/2016

    Mississippi's attorney general can resume an investigation into whether Google facilitates illegal behavior, an appeals court ruled.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday overturned a district judge who had sided with Google. U.S. District J...

  • Supreme Court to swear in large group of deaf lawyers

    Supreme Court to swear in large group of deaf lawyers

    Practice Legal News 04/17/2016

    Mobile 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....

  • Cosby asks court to reseal testimony about affairs, drugs

    Cosby asks court to reseal testimony about affairs, drugs

    Practice Legal News 04/17/2016

    Bill 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...

  • Despite court ruling, China gay rights movement makes gains

    Despite court ruling, China gay rights movement makes gains

    Legal Interview 04/17/2016

    For years, Chen Tiantian could only read about the gay rights movement in faraway places. She knew that there were activists in Beijing and a vibrant community in Shanghai, and that in San Francisco, a distant mecca, gay pride parades took up entire ...

  • Obama's power over immigration drives Supreme Court dispute

    Obama's power over immigration drives Supreme Court dispute

    Legal Review 04/17/2016

    The raging political fight over immigration comes to the Supreme Court on Monday in a dispute that could affect millions of people who are in the United States illegally.  The court is weighing the fate of Obama administration programs that coul...

  • Court sides with Argentina, speeding along bond settlements

    Court sides with Argentina, speeding along bond settlements

    Legal Interview 04/17/2016

    A federal appeals court cleared the way Wednesday for Argentina to settle its debts and strengthen its ability to maneuver in worldwide markets. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned away creditors who wanted to keep in place court-ordere...

  • Democrats push McConnell, GOP on Supreme Court nomination

    Democrats push McConnell, GOP on Supreme Court nomination

    Politics 04/17/2016

    Senate Democrats called on Republicans to vote on Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court by Memorial Day, as GOP lawmakers showed no sign of relenting despite the latest round of courtesy calls.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky....

  • 'Bogus beggar' pleads guilty to fraud charges

    'Bogus beggar' pleads guilty to fraud charges

    Political and Legal News 03/26/2016

    A Kentucky man who claims to have made as much as $100,000 annually by panhandling while pretending to be disabled pleaded guilty Wednesday to misrepresenting his condition to get Social Security benefits.Local news outlets report that 33-year-old Ga...

  • High court weighs whether to spare Texas man from execution

    High court weighs whether to spare Texas man from execution

    Political and Legal News 03/22/2016

    The U.S. Supreme Court was considering whether a Texas man who killed a city worker in 2005 should be spared from a lethal injection, as his lawyers argue that a ban on executing mentally impaired prisoners should be extended to him.Adam Ward's attor...

  • Oldest death row inmate in Georgia, age 72, is executed

    Oldest death row inmate in Georgia, age 72, is executed

    Legal News 02/11/2016

    Georgia executed a 72-year-old man, its oldest death row inmate, early Wednesday for the killing of a convenience store manager during a robbery decades ago. The state Department of Corrections says Brandon Astor Jones was pronounced dead at 12:...

  • NY court agrees to rehear Ex-Goldman board member's appeal

    NY court agrees to rehear Ex-Goldman board member's appeal

    Legal Interview 02/11/2016

    A federal appeals court in New York has agreed to rehear the appeal of the insider-trading conviction of a former board member for Goldman Sachs and Proctor & Gamble.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday issued an order saying it will...