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Woman accused of threatening official in court
Court Watch 07/20/2017A woman accused of threatening the family of North Dakota's lieutenant governor has turned herself in to authorities.Seventy-nine-year-old Alice Olson made her first court appearance Wednesday in McKenzie County. The Bismarck Tribune says bond ...
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Texas Executes TaiChin Preyor, Who Said Lawyer Used Wikipedia
Legal Careers News 07/20/2017The state of Texas executed TaiChin Preyor on Thursday night after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a last-minute appeal. Preyor, 46, was put to death by lethal injection at a state corrections unit in Huntsville in the fatal stabbing of Jami T...
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New Mexico Supreme Court won't restore funds to Legislature
Political and Legal 07/16/2017The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request to override budget vetoes, leaving negotiations about how to solve the state's budget crisis — and restore funding to the Legislature — in the hands of the governor and lawmakers...
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Court pauses criminal case against Texas' attorney general
Attorneys in the News 07/15/2017A state appeals court has temporarily halted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's criminal case on securities fraud charges as he presses for a new judge.The ruling Tuesday comes as Paxton is scheduled to stand trial in Houston in September on felony ...
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West Virginia high court excludes inmates from workers' comp
Breaking Legal News 07/15/2017Inmates participating in work-release programs do not quality for workers' compensation benefits, the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled has ruled.The court on Thursday unanimously affirmed a Workers' Compensation Board of Review's 2015 decision to no...
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Fraternity brothers due in court in pledge's fatal fall
Court Watch 07/14/2017Members of a Penn State fraternity facing charges related to the death earlier this year of a pledge after a night of heavy drinking are due in court Monday for a hearing about whether there's enough evidence to head to trial.Prosecutors in the case ...
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Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya guilty of disobeying top court
International 07/13/2017India's top court on Tuesday found wanted tycoon Vijay Mallya guilty of disobeying its order barring him from transferring $40 million to his children.Mallya, who fled to London last year, is wanted in India on charges of money laundering and bank de...
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Texas advances new abortion limits despite court defeats
Breaking Legal News 07/13/2017Texas' Republican-controlled Legislature late Friday advanced tough new limits on abortion— hitting back at a U.S. Supreme Court decision last summer striking down most of the sweeping restrictions on the procedure that America's second-largest...
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High court ruling may give voter rights groups a strong tool
Civil Litigation News 07/13/2017The Supreme Court's ruling that two North Carolina congressional districts relied too heavily on race should give voting-rights advocates a potent tool to fight other electoral maps drawn to give Republicans an advantage in the state.The justices agr...
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Kim Jong Nam murder suspect asks her parents to pray for her
International 07/13/2017A suspect in the poisoning death of the North Korean leader's half brother wrote to her parents from jail, asking them to pray for her but saying "don't think about me too much."Siti Aisyah, an Indonesian mother who worked in Malaysia, appeared in co...
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Court sides with towns over utilities in tax dispute
Tax Law 07/13/2017Two electric utilities seeking to reduce their property taxes in dozens of towns across New Hampshire lost an appeal Friday to the state Supreme Court.Eversource and the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative sought tax abatements from 64 towns in 2011 a...
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Alabama asks US Supreme Court to let execution proceed
U.S. Supreme Court 07/13/2017Alabama’s attorney general on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let an execution proceed this week, arguing that questions about a lethal injection drug have been settled by the courts.Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office asked t...