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Sex predator law challenged by Cosby to get court review
Legal Outlook 08/02/2018Pennsylvania's highest court will consider whether the state can lawfully designate certain sex offenders as sexually violent predators, as it's seeking to do in the case of Bill Cosby.Cosby's attorneys also are challenging the constitutionality of t...
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SC Supreme Court to decide if elected sheriff is qualified
Ethics 08/02/2018Clarke Stearns has been working as sheriff for more than 18 months in McCormick County, but it's still up in the air whether he is qualified to be the county's top lawman.Stearns' Democratic opponent in the 2016 election, J.R. Jones, sued him within ...
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DC court sides with transit agency in dispute with church
Court Watch 08/01/2018A federal appeals court in Washington is siding with transportation officials in a dispute about the transit agency's decision to reject an ad from the Roman Catholic Church.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday...
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Iowa woman promoted to nation's lone all-male Supreme Court
Trial Coverage 08/01/2018Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday promoted a female district judge to the Supreme Court in Iowa, the only state where all of its current justices are men.Susan Christensen will be the first woman on Iowa's high court in roughly eight years. T...
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US Supreme Court ruling in union dues impacts case in Oregon
Trial Coverage 07/28/2018An Oregon state employee and a labor union have reached a settlement over her lawsuit seeking payback of obligatory union fees, marking the first refund of forced fees since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in late June that government workers can't be r...
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Rock icon Cliff Richard wins UK High Court privacy case
Law Reviews 07/19/2018British rock icon Cliff Richard has won his privacy case against the BBC for its coverage of a police raid at his home and has been awarded more than 200,000 ($260,000) in damages.Richard had sued the broadcaster for its coverage of the 2014 raid, wh...
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Court questions whether Maine has money to expand Medicaid
Civil Rights 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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Philadelphia's tax on soda upheld by state Supreme Court
Legal Outlook 07/18/2018Pennsylvania's highest court is upholding Philadelphia's tax on soda and other sweetened drinks, rejecting a challenge by merchants and the beverage industry.The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday the 1.5-cent-per-ounce levy is aimed at distributors and d...
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Missouri court gives jolt of life to long Midwest power line
Legal Outlook 07/16/2018A proposal for a high-voltage power line carrying wind energy across the Midwest received a jolt of new life Tuesday as the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that state regulators had wrongly rejected it.The ruling is a major victory in the quest by Clean...
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India's top court calls for new law to curb mob violence
Law Reviews 07/15/2018India's highest court on Tuesday asked the federal government to consider enacting a law to deal with an increase in lynchings and mob violence fueled mostly by rumors that the victims either belonged to members of child kidnapping gangs or were beef...
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Florida school shooting suspect's statement issue in court
Legal Outlook 07/14/2018How much of Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz's statement to investigators should be made public is an issue going before a judge.A hearing is set Monday on whether any or all of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting suspect's ...
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Conservatives close in on dream: Tipping court right
Legal Outlook 07/11/2018President Donald Trump’s selection of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as a new Supreme Court nominee last Monday culminates a three-decade project unparalleled in American history to install a reliable conservative majority on the nation’s highest ...