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  • New York's top court: Parents can legally eavesdrop on kids

    New York's top court: Parents can legally eavesdrop on kids

    Legal Events 04/05/2016

    New York's highest court says parents can legally eavesdrop on young children, establishing an exception to state law against wiretaps without the consent of at least one person on a call. The Court of Appeals split 4-3 in deciding such monitoring is...

  • California court mulls whether employers must offer seating

    California court mulls whether employers must offer seating

    Recent Cases 04/04/2016

    California's Supreme Court is set to clarify the state's rules for determining when employers must provide workers with a place to sit. The court's opinion, expected Monday, stems from lawsuits brought by cashiers at the CVS drugstore chain and telle...

  • Supreme Court Rejects Conservative Group’s Argument

    Supreme Court Rejects Conservative Group’s Argument

    Lawyer Interviews 04/04/2016

    A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in deciding how to draw electoral districts. The justices turned back a challenge from Texas voters that could have dramatically altered political distri...

  • Court upholds total population count in electoral districts

    Court upholds total population count in electoral districts

    Recent Cases 04/03/2016

    A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in deciding how to draw electoral districts.   The justices turned back a challenge from Texas voters that could have dramatically altered political...

  • Supreme Court will take up case about juror's racial bias

    Supreme Court will take up case about juror's racial bias

    Ethics 04/02/2016

    The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether jurors' claims of racially charged comments by another juror can overcome the need for secrecy in jury deliberations. The justices will hear an appeal from a Hispanic man in Colorado who says he did n...

  • Supreme Court's future hangs in the balance in 2016

    Supreme Court's future hangs in the balance in 2016

    Headline Legal News 04/01/2016

    Hillary Clinton said Monday that the future of the Supreme Court would hang in the balance of the 2016 election, warning that Republican front-runner Donald Trump would bring division to the court if he was allowed to shape its future. Clinton said T...

  • Clinton: Americans should put Court nomination at forefront

    Clinton: Americans should put Court nomination at forefront

    National News 03/28/2016

    Hillary Clinton wants voters to consider what Republican front-runner Donald Trump might do to shape the Supreme Court. Clinton planned to use in a speech in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday to argue that Trump could roll back the rights of individuals,...

  • Attorney: Court ruling lets Ohio political candidates lie

    Attorney: Court ruling lets Ohio political candidates lie

    Headline Legal News 03/28/2016

    Candidates for public office in Ohio can lie and get away with it under a recent federal court ruling that struck down a state law banning false statements in campaigns, an attorney says. Attorney Donald Brey, who has represented Republicans in cases...

  • Supreme Court rejects Blagojevich appeal in corruption case

    Supreme Court rejects Blagojevich appeal in corruption case

    Legal Events 03/27/2016

    The Supreme Court on Monday rejected former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's appeal of his corruption convictions that included his attempt to sell the vacant Senate seat once occupied by President Barack Obama.   The justices let stand an appeal...

  • Court gives green light to death penalty fast-tracking

    Court gives green light to death penalty fast-tracking

    Legal Events 03/24/2016

    A federal appeals court Wednesday cleared the way for the Department of Justice to allow states to have their inmates' death penalty appeals expedited through federal court.   Legal organizations that challenged the DOJ's criteria for certifying...

  • Karadzic convicted of genocide, sentenced to 40 years

    Karadzic convicted of genocide, sentenced to 40 years

    Recent Cases 03/23/2016

    A U.N. court convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and nine other charges Thursday and sentenced him to 40 years in prison for orchestrating Serb atrocities throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 war that left 100,000 people dead. As...

  • Judge begins to deliver verdict in Ukrainian pilot trial

    Judge begins to deliver verdict in Ukrainian pilot trial

    Legal Events 03/22/2016

    A Russian court has begun reading a verdict for Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who is charged with complicity to murder two Russian journalists in war-torn eastern Ukraine.   The judge began reading the verdict Monday morning. He quoted arg...