Recent Updates
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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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Michigan Supreme Court Justice Young announces retirement
Practice Legal News 04/03/2017Michigan Supreme Court Justice Robert Young plans to retire and return to his former law firm.A statement from the court says Young announced his plans Wednesday during a meeting with fellow Michigan Supreme Court justices. The 65-year-old says his r...
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Dems force 1-week delay on panel vote on Supreme Court pick
Practice Legal News 04/03/2017Senate Democrats on Monday forced a one-week delay in a committee vote on President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, who remains on track for confirmation with solid Republican backing.Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Judiciary Commi...
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International court orders reparations for Congo attack
Political and Legal News 04/03/2017The International Criminal Court on Friday awarded symbolic reparations of $250 each to nearly 300 people who lost relatives, property or livestock or suffered psychological harm in a deadly attack on a Congolese village in 2003.Judges also awarded c...
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National Verdicts
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State Bar & Other Associations 03/30/2017Ohio State Bar Oklahoma State Bar Oregon State Bar Pennsylvania Bar Association Rhode Island Bar Association South Carolina Bar South Dakota State Bar Association State Bar of Texas Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Utah State Ba...
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State Bar & Other Associations 03/30/2017Hawaii State Bar Association Idaho State Bar Illinois State Bar Association Indiana Trial Lawyers Association Kentucky Bar Association Louisiana Bar Association Maine State Bar Association Maryland State Bar Association Massachusetts Bar Association ...
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State Bar & Other Associations 03/30/2017Alabama State Bar Alaska State Bar American Bar Association American Bar Association Arizona – State Bar of Arizona Arkansas Bar Association Association of Legal Administrators California Bar Association Canadian Bar Association Colorado Bar As...
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Ohio court considers privacy rights in backpack search
Practice Legal News 03/08/2017The state Supreme Court will hear arguments over the constitutionality of an Ohio student's backpack search that authorities say led first to the discovery of bullets and later a gun.At issue before the high court is whether a second search of the ba...
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Court officer investigated for photographing lawyer's notes
Daily Legal News 03/08/2017A 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...
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Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake
Legal News 03/08/2017An Oklahoma-based Native American tribe filed a lawsuit in its own tribal court system Friday accusing several oil companies of triggering the state's largest earthquake that caused extensive damage to some near-century-old tribal buildings.The Pawne...
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Immigration courts: record number of cases, many problems
Court News 03/08/2017Everyone was in place for the hearing in Atlanta immigration court: the Guinean man hoping to stay in the U.S., his attorney, a prosecutor, a translator and the judge. But because of some missing paperwork, it was all for nothing.When the government ...