Recent Updates
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Trump seems likely to win travel ban case at Supreme Court
Legal Compliance 04/16/2018President Donald Trump appears likely to win his travel ban case at the Supreme Court.Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy both signaled support for the travel policy in arguments Wednesday at the high court. The ban's challengers a...
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Question of sales tax on online purchases goes to high court
Legal Compliance 04/11/2018Online shoppers have gotten used to seeing that line on checkout screens before they click "purchase." But a case before the Supreme Court could change that.At issue is a rule stemming from two, decades-old Supreme Court cases: If a business is shipp...
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High court worries about abandoning online sales tax rule
Legal Compliance 04/11/2018The Supreme Court sounded concerned Tuesday about doing away with a rule that has meant shoppers don't always get charged sales tax when they hit "checkout" online.The justices were hearing arguments in a case that deals with how businesses collect s...
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Indian court grants bail to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan
Legal Compliance 04/06/2018A court on Saturday granted bail to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who will be allowed to remain free while he appeals his conviction on charges of poaching rare deer in a wildlife preserve two decades ago.Khan was convicted Thursday and sentenced ...
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Trump administration backs PLO in victims' high court appeal
Legal Compliance 03/30/2018Despite its bumpy relationship with the Palestinians, the Trump administration is siding with the Palestine Liberation Organization in urging the Supreme Court to reject an appeal from American victims of terrorist attacks in the Middle East more tha...
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Court hears case alleging unconstitutional 6th District gerrymander
Legal Compliance 03/26/2018U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed frustration with partisan gerrymandering on Wednesday as they heard arguments in a case challenging Maryland’s 6th Congressional District.The case, which alleges a Democratic gerrymander in Maryland at the ...
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Arkansas wants court to dissolve stay for death row prisoner
Legal Compliance 03/16/2018Lawyers for the state of Arkansas argued Friday that the state prison director has long had the power to determine a death row inmate's sanity and that now isn't the time to change the way it moves the prisoners closer to their executions.The argumen...