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  • Feds and Florida headed to court over voter purge

    Feds and Florida headed to court over voter purge

    National News 06/12/2012

    The administration of Florida Gov. Rick Scott is headed to a legal showdown with two different federal agencies over a contentious voter purge. Florida filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Washington D.C., demanding that the state be given the right...

  • Ohio man found guilty in septic tank body case

    Ohio man found guilty in septic tank body case

    Recent Cases 06/11/2012

    A jury has convicted a man of aggravated murder and other charges in the death of his estranged wife, who was found strangled in a septic tank in southeast Ohio last year. Hocking County jurors in Logan deliberated for about four hours before returni...

  • NY court limits disclosure in old communist probe

    NY court limits disclosure in old communist probe

    Headline Legal News 06/09/2012

    New York's top court on Tuesday ordered the release of more names and records to a writer whose parents were targeted by anti-communist investigators in the New York City school system 57 years ago. The Court of Appeals, however, is still excluding i...

  • Ind. taxpayers lose high court fight over refunds

    Ind. taxpayers lose high court fight over refunds

    National News 06/04/2012

    The Supreme Court has turned down homeowners in Indianapolis who sought tax refunds when the city changed its plan for paying for a new sewer line. In a 6-3 ruling Monday, the court upheld the city's decision to refuse to refund taxes that some homeo...

  • High court protects Secret Service agents

    High court protects Secret Service agents

    Headline Legal News 06/04/2012

    The Supreme Court ruled Monday that two Secret Service agents are shielded from a lawsuit filed by a man they arrested after a confrontation with then-Vice President Dick Cheney. The 8-0 decision comes in a case that began with the arrest of Steven H...

  • New York Securities Fraud Lawyers

    New York Securities Fraud Lawyers

    Law Firm Marketing 06/01/2012

    New York Securities Fraud Lawyers With offices in Manhattan and Long Island, Conway & Conway has earned a long-standing reputation as a focused and highly-skilled law firm with deep roots in the financial services community. In fact, one of the f...

  • Wash. lawyers challenge secret court proceedings

    Wash. lawyers challenge secret court proceedings

    Recent Cases 05/26/2012

    A defense lawyer in Eastern Washington was reading a detective's statement in his client's drug case when he came across a curious line. In asking to search the man's house and cars, the detective revealed that he had already seen the defendant's ban...

  • Kan. gov. signs measure blocking Islamic law

    Kan. gov. signs measure blocking Islamic law

    Recent Cases 05/26/2012

    Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a law aimed at keeping the state's courts or government agencies from basing decisions on Islamic or other foreign legal codes, and a national Muslim group's spokesman said Friday that a court challenge is likely....

  • Court orders woman to stay away from Jeff Goldblum

    Court orders woman to stay away from Jeff Goldblum

    Headline Legal News 05/26/2012

    A judge on Friday granted Jeff Goldblum a temporary restraining order against a woman who has been repeatedly ordered to stay away from the actor in recent years. Goldblum's attorneys obtained the order against Linda Ransom, 49, after she repeatedly ...

  • Md. highest court recognizes same-sex divorce

    Md. highest court recognizes same-sex divorce

    Headline Legal News 05/18/2012

    Maryland's highest court ruled Friday that same-sex couples can divorce in the state even though Maryland does not yet permit same-sex marriages. The Court of Appeals ruled 7-0 that couples who have a valid marriage from another state can divorce in ...

  • Court rules NY town's prayer violated Constitution

    Court rules NY town's prayer violated Constitution

    Recent Cases 05/17/2012

    An upstate New York town violated the constitutional ban against favoring one religion over another by opening nearly every meeting over an 11-year span with prayers that stressed Christianity, a federal court of appeals ruled Thursday. In what it sa...

  • German sues Macedonia in EU human rights court

    German sues Macedonia in EU human rights court

    Recent Cases 05/16/2012

    A German who claims the CIA illegally whisked him to a secret prison in Afghanistan appeared before Europe's human rights court Wednesday in what could be the final chapter of a case that has shed light on U.S. practices in the war on terror. Khaled ...

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