Recent Updates
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Israel high court suspends Palestinians’ evictions for now
Lawyer Interviews 03/02/2022Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a group of families slated for eviction from a flashpoint east Jerusalem neighborhood can remain in their homes for the time being. The ruling could work to ease tensions in Jerusalem’s Sheikh ...
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Onu Law Firm – Intellectual Property Matters
Lawyer Interviews 08/06/2021Onu Law Firm – Intellectual Property Matters. If you are making new intellectual property and need strategies, or perhaps you need litigation for an intellectual property dispute, The Firm is here for you. All matters concerning intellectual pr...
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N Carolina elections board back in court in power struggle
Lawyer Interviews 08/08/2018The repeatedly altered composition of North Carolina's elections board returned to court Thursday as a proxy for the lengthy power struggle between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-dominated legislature.A panel of three trial judges list...
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Supreme Court allows Ohio, other state voter purges
Lawyer Interviews 06/08/2018The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can clean up their voting rolls by targeting people who haven't cast ballots in a while.The justices rejected, by a 5-4 vote Monday, arguments in a case from Ohio that the practice violates a federal law int...
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Otter appoints new justice to Idaho Supreme Court
Lawyer Interviews 08/30/2017Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter has appointed Twin Falls judge Richard Bevan to the state's highest court. Otter announced Tuesday that Bevan — currently the 5th Judicial District's administrative judge — will replace retiring Idaho Supreme Court Justi...
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Appeals court backs Jimmy John's franchisee in labor dispute
Lawyer Interviews 07/06/2017A company that owns 10 Jimmy John's sandwich shops in the Twin Cities was within its rights to fire six union workers who circulated posters critical of the company's sick-leave policy, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The full 8th U.S. Circuit ...
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Playboy model who shot nude of unwitting woman due in court
Lawyer Interviews 05/23/2017A Playboy centerfold who ignited a backlash of criticism when she secretly snapped a photo of a naked 71-year-old woman in a locker room and posted it online mocking the woman's body is expected to appear in court Wednesday to resolve a criminal char...
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Austrian court: ex-Croatian general guilty of embezzlement
Lawyer Interviews 04/16/2017An Austrian court has found a former Croatian general guilty of embezzling millions of euros and sentenced him and an associate to two years in prison. The court in the southern city of Klagenfurt determined Wednesday that the ex-general, Vladimir Za...
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Court allows wrongful death lawsuit after miscarriage
Lawyer Interviews 01/02/2017The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that a woman can pursue a wrongful-death lawsuit against an obstetrician after a miscarriage when she was five to six weeks pregnant. Justices on Friday reversed a trial judge's order dismissing the wrongful-death ...
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Moscow court orders paper to refute a report on Rosneft CEO
Lawyer Interviews 10/08/2016A court in Moscow has ordered a leading independent newspaper to retract an article about a luxury yacht allegedly owned by the chief of Russia's top state-controlled oil company. retract The Basmanny District Court ruled Monday that the Novaya Gazet...
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Kyrgyzstan sends case of jailed journalist back to court
Lawyer Interviews 07/14/2016The Supreme Court in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday refused to release an ethnic Uzbek journalist and activist serving a life sentence after being convicted of stirring up ethnic hatred, but instead sent his case to a regional cour...
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Court orders release of Chicago police disciplinary records
Lawyer Interviews 07/08/2016An Illinois appeals court on Friday vacated an injunction obtained by the Chicago police union that barred the city's release of disciplinary files dating back decades. The Fraternal Order of Police sued to block the release after a March 2014 appell...