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Court halts police subpoena for media’s protest images
Law Journals 08/20/2020Less than 24 hours before a court order would have required five Seattle media companies to turn over unpublished protest photos and videos to police, the state Supreme Court has granted them a temporary respite. A Washington state Supreme Court comm...
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9th Circuit ends California ban on high-capacity magazines
Top Stories & Analysis 08/15/2020A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday threw out California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, saying the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s protection of the right to bear firearms.“Even ...
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High court: Rhode Island mail-in voters don't need witnesses
Law Firm Marketing 08/11/2020The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday left in place an agreement that allows Rhode Island residents to vote by mail through November's general election without getting signatures from two witnesses or a notary.State officials had agreed to suspend the w...
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Appeals court revives House lawsuit for McGahn's testimony
Supreme Court News 08/08/2020A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday revived House Democrats' lawsuit to force former White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before a congressional committee, but left other legal issues unresolved with time growing short in the current ...
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Ohio Supreme Court to hear armed school staff training case
Verdicts & Settlements 08/06/2020The Ohio Supreme Court will hear a school district's appeal of a ruling that they must provide police-level training to employees carrying concealed weapons.Madison Local Schools voted to allow armed school employees after a 2016 shooting in which tw...
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Court upholds health order fines for New Mexico businesses
Courts and the Judiciary 08/04/2020The New Mexico Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously upheld the governor’s authority to fine businesses up to $5,000 a day for violating state emergency health orders aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19.The court heard arguments from a group...
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Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence
Legal Events 08/02/2020A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases.A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Cir...
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‘See you in court’: ACLU files nearly 400 cases versus Trump
Notable Attorneys 08/01/2020The day after Donald Trump’s election in November 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union posted a message to him on its website: “See you in court.”As president, Trump hasn’t personally squared off against the ACLU from the ...
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German court convicts former concentration camp guard, 93
Courts and the Judiciary 07/23/2020A German court on Thursday convicted a 93-year-old former SS private of being an accessory to murder at the Stutthof concentration camp, where he served as a guard in the final months of World War II. He was given a two-year suspended sentence.Bruno ...
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California court upholds verdict in Monsanto cancer case
Law Firm Marketing 07/21/2020A California appeals court on Monday upheld a groundbreaking verdict that Monsanto’s widely used weed killer caused cancer in a school groundskeeper but the panel also slashed the damage award from $78.5 million to $21.5 million.The 1st Distric...
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The Supreme Court's future hinges on the 2020 election
Courts and the Judiciary 07/18/2020The blockbuster Supreme Court term that just ended was a (nearly) unmitigated disaster for movement conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts declined to overturn precedent on abortion rights. Conservative activist Justice Neil Gorsuch showed he woul...
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New Orleans councilman, attorney plead not guilty to fraud
Top Stories & Analysis 07/15/2020New Orleans City Council President Jason Williams and an attorney in his law firm pleaded not guilty to federal tax fraud charges on Friday.Williams, 47, and Nicole Burdett, 39, appeared remotely before a federal magistrate judge and entered their pl...