Recent Updates
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Court: Student prayers OK at school board meetings
Civil Litigation News 03/23/2017A Texas school board can open its meetings with student-led public prayers without running afoul of the Constitution's prohibition against government-established religion, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the...
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Dems force 1-week delay on panel vote on Supreme Court pick
Practice Focuses 03/23/2017Senate 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 Comm...
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Manziel tries to reassure judge after missing court deadline
Civil Litigation News 03/23/2017After missing a court-ordered deadline, Johnny Manziel appeared before a judge Tuesday and promised to meet the stipulations required to get the troubled quarterback's domestic violence case dismissed while saying his distrust of the NFL played a par...
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Florida Legislature at "Open War" with State Supreme Court
Political and Legal 03/23/2017The Republican-dominated Legislature's tense relationship with the state Supreme Court is hanging over this year's legislative session as lawmakers take up two bills to deal with the aftermath of court rulings that Republicans don't like. One of them...
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High EU court: workplace headscarf ban not discriminatory
Practice Focuses 03/23/2017Private businesses in Europe can forbid Muslim women in their employ from wearing headscarves if the ban is part of a policy of neutrality within the company and not a sign of prejudice against a particular religion, the European Court of Justice sai...
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Kansas Chief Justice Pitches Lawmakers on Court Pay Hikes
Employment Law 03/23/2017Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss is trying to persuade legislators to increase salaries for judges and pay for judicial branch employees. Nuss devoted much of his annual State of the Judiciary address Wednesday to what he described as t...
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Immigration courts: record number of cases, many problems
Immigration Law 03/23/2017Everyone 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...
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Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake
Business Law 03/23/2017An 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 Pawn...
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SD high court sides with landowners in property rights case
Court Watch 03/19/2017The state Supreme Court has dealt a blow to South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks, ruling the agency can't allow people access to floodwaters or ice that covers private property without legislative approval. The agency had argued that all water was legal...
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Brash Maine defense lawyer in Zumba brothel case dies at 79
Attorneys in the News 03/13/2017Dan Lilley, a brash defense lawyer who was involved in many of Maine's highest profile cases including a prostitution scandal at a Zumba studio and the case of a restaurateur who shot her husband 15 times, has died. He was 79. Lilley died Saturday ni...
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Defense lawyer still going strong at 94 years old
Attorneys in the News 03/11/2017A New Jersey lawyer isn't letting his age get in the way of vigorously defending clients with theatrical flare. Frank Lucianna, 94, is still going strong, 66 years after he began his legal career, The Record reported Monday. The decorated World War I...
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UK court says income threshold for foreign spouses is lawful
Practice Focuses 03/09/2017Britain's Supreme Court says the government is entitled to set a minimum-income threshold for people wanting to bring foreign spouses to the country, a measure introduced to ensure immigrants won't draw on public welfare funds. But the court says the...