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  • Gay couples wed in Utah after judge overturns ban

    Gay couples wed in Utah after judge overturns ban

    Legal Events 12/23/2013

    Elisa Noel rushed to the county clerk's office with her partner immediately after learning that a federal judge overturned Utah's ban on gay marriage. They waited in line for a wedding license and were married in an impromptu ceremony punctuated with...

  • Canadian court strikes down anti-prostitution laws

    Canadian court strikes down anti-prostitution laws

    Headline Legal News 12/23/2013

    Canada's highest court struck down the country's anti-prostitution laws Friday, a victory for sex workers who had argued that a ban on brothels and other measures made their profession more dangerous. The ruling drew criticism from the conservative g...

  • Calif. high court mulling release of law test data

    Calif. high court mulling release of law test data

    Headline Legal News 12/20/2013

    Researcher Richard Sander has been fighting for years to obtain sensitive data collected by the administrator of California's bar examination to help him examine the effects affirmative action policies have on the performance of minority law school s...

  • Hearing: Which court should hear coastal lawsuit?

    Hearing: Which court should hear coastal lawsuit?

    National News 12/20/2013

    A legal tug-of-war continues in a state levee board's lawsuit against 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies over the erosion of wetlands. The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East wants U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to send ...

  • $15 SeaTac minimum wage challenged in court

    $15 SeaTac minimum wage challenged in court

    National News 12/16/2013

    A King County Superior Court judge declined Friday to immediately rule on a challenge to the voter-approved $15 an hour minimum wage requirement for airport workers in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Judge Andrea Darvas said she'll issue a ruli...

  • Appeals court vacates ban on US horse slaughter

    Appeals court vacates ban on US horse slaughter

    Recent Cases 12/16/2013

    A federal appeals court on Friday removed a temporary ban on domestic horse slaughter, clearing the way for companies in New Mexico, Missouri and Iowa to open while an appeal of a lawsuit by animal protection groups proceeds. The 10th U.S. Circuit Co...

  • NY court: Reporter shielded in Colo. shooting case

    NY court: Reporter shielded in Colo. shooting case

    Headline Legal News 12/12/2013

    A Fox News reporter is protected by New York law from being forced to reveal her sources for a story about the suspect in the mass shooting that left 12 people dead in a suburban Denver movie theater last year, the state's top court ruled Tuesday. Th...

  • Court: Exec guilty over faulty French implants

    Court: Exec guilty over faulty French implants

    Legal Events 12/12/2013

    A disgraced French businessman was convicted of fraud and sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday for filling tens of thousands of breast implants with industrial grade silicone. But he left the courthouse freely after lodging an appeal, and tho...

  • New Calif. court date set for ex-Nevada lawmaker

    New Calif. court date set for ex-Nevada lawmaker

    National News 12/09/2013

    A California court date was pushed back again for a former Las Vegas-area lawmaker jailed since a freeway chase and scuffle with police the day he was expelled last March from the Nevada Assembly. Prosecutor Shannon Faherty said a Friday court date f...

  • Haiti protest derides Dominican court ruling

    Haiti protest derides Dominican court ruling

    Headline Legal News 12/09/2013

    Hundreds of protesters gathered Friday to criticize a recent court decision in the Dominican Republic that could strip the citizenship of generations of people of Haitian descent living in the neighboring country. The crowd peaked at about 2,000 peop...

  • Supreme Court won't stop NY's Internet taxation

    Supreme Court won't stop NY's Internet taxation

    Headline Legal News 12/05/2013

    On perhaps the busiest online shopping day of the year, the Supreme Court refused to wade into a dispute over state sales taxes for purchases on websites like Amazon.com, an outcome likely to prompt more states to attempt to collect taxes on Internet...

  • LA airport shooting suspect appears in court

    LA airport shooting suspect appears in court

    National News 12/05/2013

    The man charged with killing a Transportation Security Administration officer and wounding two other agents and a civilian during a shooting rampage at Los Angeles International Airport made his first court appearance Wednesday, still showing signs o...

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