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Court: No review of 100-year sentence for attempted murders
Featured Legal News 09/08/2018A Louisiana court is refusing to review the case of a 31-year-old man who is serving 100 years for the attempted murder of two people.Houma Today reports the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal Wednesday denied a review of Joshua Dean’s cas...
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Zimbabwe court to rule Friday on opposition's vote challenge
Featured Legal News 08/20/2018Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court said it will rule on Friday after hearing the main opposition party's challenge to the results of last month's presidential election, the first without longtime leader Robert Mugabe on the ballot.Police barricaded stre...
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Alabama Supreme Court won't move lawsuit against Moore
Featured Legal News 08/19/2018The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday refused to transfer a defamation lawsuit against former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore by a woman who says Moore molested her decades ago.The court denied Moore's request to have the case heard in Etowah County in...
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Court questions whether Maine has money to expand Medicaid
Featured Legal News 07/19/2018Maine's high court is weighing whether to allow the LePage administration to continue to block federal funding for voter-approved Medicaid expansion. Justices on Wednesday heard the administration's arguments against a court order r...
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Trump enjoys 'suspense' ahead of Supreme Court announcement
Featured Legal News 07/09/2018President Donald Trump is going down to the wire as he makes his choice on a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, but he says with his final four options "you can't go wrong."Trump spoke to reporters Sunday afternoon before...
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Kentucky high court: Death penalty IQ law unconstitutional
Featured Legal News 06/17/2018The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the state's practice for determining if someone is intellectually disabled and not eligible to receive the death penalty is "unconstitutional."News outlets report that the court on Thursday deemed Kentucky's ...
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Supreme Court allows Arkansas to enforce abortion restrictions
Featured Legal News 06/01/2018The Supreme Court is allowing Arkansas to put into effect restrictions on how abortion pills are administered. Critics of a challenged state law say it could effectively end medication abortions in the state. The justices did not comment Tuesday in r...
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California high court to rule on social media access
Featured Legal News 05/23/2018The California Supreme Court will decide whether Facebook and other social media companies must turn over user content to criminal defendants.The justices are expected to rule Thursday in a case that has pitted some of Silicon Valley's biggest compan...
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Australian cardinal back in court on sex abuse charges
Featured Legal News 05/10/2018Wednesday for an appearance in a Melbourne court where he will eventually stand trial on sexual abuse charges spanning decades.Magistrate Belinda Wallington on Tuesday ordered Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic to appear at Victoria state Cou...
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Sanctuary cities could get boost from sports betting ruling
Featured Legal News 05/07/2018In President Donald Trump's former life as a casino owner, he might have cheered Monday's ruling from the Supreme Court that struck down a federal law that barred every state but Nevada from allowing betting on most sporting events.But the Trump admi...
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Dayton appoints Democratic Rep. Thissen to Supreme Court
Featured Legal News 05/07/2018Gov. Mark Dayton appointed longtime Democratic state Rep. Paul Thissen to the Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday, the latest in a long line of partisans to join the state's highest court.Thissen is an attorney and Minneapolis lawmaker who has served ...
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SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Diabetes, decisions and justice math
Featured Legal News 04/22/2018Visitors attending Supreme Court arguments surrender their electronics on entering the courtroom. So if something rings, chimes or buzzes, it's likely the device's owner is dressed in a black robe.Last year, a justice's cellphone went off. But last m...