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Wisconsin’s pandemic election puts focus on state’s court
Top Stories & Analysis 04/02/2020Anyone needing proof of the power and significance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court can look no further than the lines of mask-wearing voters that stretched for hours in Milwaukee during an election held despite a stay-at-home order because of the coro...
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Wisconsin moves forward with election despite virus concerns
Top Stories & Analysis 04/01/2020Voters in Wisconsin will face a choice Tuesday of participating in a presidential primary election or heeding warnings from public health officials to stay away from large crowds during the coronavirus pandemic.Hours after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers ...
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Supreme Court: Justices healthy and trying to stay that way
Courts and the Judiciary 03/21/2020The Supreme Court reported Friday that the nine justices are healthy and trying to stay that way.To that end, when the court held its regularly scheduled private conference Friday morning, some of the justices participated remotely, and those who wer...
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New Mexico courts deem hunter information as public record
Law Journals 03/16/2020The New Mexico Game and Fish Department has been ordered to release information about hunters to individuals who sought the records as part of separate court cases.A state district judge is ordering the agency to turn over the names and addresses of ...
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Georgia high court election cancellation headed for appeal
Law Firm Marketing 03/11/2020A would-be candidate for a seat on Georgia's highest court on Wednesday asked the state's lower appeals court to step in after a judge this week said the governor had the right to fill the position even though a judge who's resigning won't leave unti...
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Neville keeps seat in crowded primary for Supreme Court
Courts and the Judiciary 03/11/2020Illinois Supreme Court Justice P. Scott Neville Jr. has won the primary election to keep his seat on the state’s highest court, emerging from a field of a six other Democrats. No Republicans ran, making him the presumed winner in November for t...
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International court approves Afghanistan investigation
Law Firm Marketing 03/01/2020International Criminal Court judges authorized a far-reaching investigation Thursday of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by Afghan government forces, the Taliban, American troops and U.S. foreign intelligence operatives.The ...
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Arkansas candidate's political ties targeted in court race
Courts and the Judiciary 02/22/2020The race for a seat on the Arkansas Supreme Court is technically nonpartisan, but the close ties of one of the two main candidates to the state Republican Party. Barbara Webb, chief administrative law judge for the Arkansas Workers Compensation Commi...
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Lesotho's PM fails to show in court to face murder charge
Law Journals 02/21/2020Lesotho’s prime minister failed to show up in court on Friday to be charged with murder in the killing of his estranged wife, and police said he might have gone to neighboring South Africa for an undisclosed ailment.Prime Minister Thomas Thaban...
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Justices return for season of big decisions, amid campaign
Law Journals 02/18/2020For a Supreme Court that says it has an allergy to politics, the next few months might require a lot of tissues.The court is poised to issue campaign-season decisions in the full bloom of spring in cases dealing with President Donald Trump’s ta...
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Trump ally Roger Stone sentenced to over 3 years in prison
Courts and the Judiciary 02/12/2020Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, was sentenced to more than three years in prison Thursday for obstructing a congressional investigation in a case that has sparked fears about presidential interference in the justice syste...
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Walker appointee, judge, prof face off in high court primary
Law Journals 02/11/2020Wisconsin voters will choose between a Republican appointee, a Madison judge and a law professor as they winnow down the candidates for a state Supreme Court seat in a primary Tuesday.Conservative Justice Dan Kelly will face off against liberal-leani...