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  • Ethics measure backers ask high court to let them join case

    Ethics measure backers ask high court to let them join case

    Legal Events 01/22/2017

    Supporters of a voter-approved government ethics overhaul are asking the state Supreme Court to allow them to join a lawsuit challenging the initiative filed by Republican lawmakers. South Dakotans for Integrity, a political committee that supported ...

  • Supreme Court to hear case about party in vacant DC house

    Supreme Court to hear case about party in vacant DC house

    Headline Legal News 01/21/2017

    The Supreme Court will hear a case in which people arrested for having a party in a vacant house sued police for violating their constitutional rights and won. The justices said Thursday they will review lower court rulings in favor of 16 people who ...

  • Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions

    Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions

    Notable Attorneys 01/19/2017

    An appeals court in Norway is considering whether the prison conditions under which mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is being held amount to a violation of his human rights. The six-day trial ended Wednesday in a makeshift courtroom inside Skien ...

  • Aaron Hernandez expected in court as murder trial nears

    Aaron Hernandez expected in court as murder trial nears

    Recent Cases 01/17/2017

    Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez is expected in a Boston courtroom for a pretrial hearing in his upcoming double murder trial. Hernandez is accused of killing two men he encountered at a Boston nightclub in 2012. Prosecutors say the former New England...

  • Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions

    Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions

    National News 01/16/2017

    An appeals court in Norway is considering whether the prison conditions under which mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is being held amount to a violation of his human rights. The six-day trial ended Wednesday in a makeshift courtroom inside Skien ...

  • Man accused of killing Orlando officer defiant in court

    Man accused of killing Orlando officer defiant in court

    Legal Events 01/16/2017

    A man suspected of fatally shooting a Florida police officer spoke out of turn and was defiant in an Orlando courtroom where he made an initial appearance on charges of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Forty-one-year-old Markeith Loyd told the jud...

  • High court: Israel must explain lack of access to holy site

    High court: Israel must explain lack of access to holy site

    Legal Issues 01/15/2017

    Israel's Supreme Court has given the government a month to explain why it prevents women from praying from a Torah scroll at a key Jewish holy site. In the court's ruling Wednesday, it also suggested that an alternative site for women to pray at Jeru...

  • Supreme Court delays New Jersey sports betting decision

    Supreme Court delays New Jersey sports betting decision

    Recent Cases 01/15/2017

    The U.S. Supreme Court says it wants to hear more arguments before deciding whether to consider New Jersey's challenge to a federal sports betting ban. The court had been expected to announce a decision Tuesday. Instead, it asked the U.S. solicitor g...

  • Indiana Supreme Court reprimands Floyd County prosecutor

    Indiana Supreme Court reprimands Floyd County prosecutor

    Notable Attorneys 01/14/2017

    The Indiana Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson for a conflict of interest in a triple-murder case but declined to suspend him as its disciplinary commission suggested. The court ruled Friday that Henderson ...

  • Supreme Court considers suit over 2001 detention of Muslims

    Supreme Court considers suit over 2001 detention of Muslims

    Headline Legal News 01/12/2017

    Ahmer Abbasi speaks softly as he describes the strip searches, the extra shoves, the curses that he endured in a federal jail in Brooklyn following the Sept. 11 attacks. "I don't think I deserved it," Abbasi said during a telephone interview with The...

  • Circus operator agrees to plea deal in tent collapse

    Circus operator agrees to plea deal in tent collapse

    National News 01/07/2017

    Court records show a Florida-based circus operator has agreed to a plea deal following a tent collapse in New Hampshire in 2015 that killed two people and injured dozens.   The Caledonian-Record in Vermont reports details of the plea deal involv...

  • Former Haitian rebel leader due in US court on drug charges

    Former Haitian rebel leader due in US court on drug charges

    Recent Cases 01/07/2017

    A former Haitian rebel leader who was recently elected senator in Haiti has been brought to the U.S. to face longstanding federal drug trafficking charges. Court records show that Guy Philippe is to make his initial appearance Friday afternoon in Mia...

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