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  • Kansas Supreme Court to hear death row inmate's appeal

    Kansas Supreme Court to hear death row inmate's appeal

    Recent Cases 12/19/2016

    Attorneys for a Kansas death row inmate convicted of killing his estranged wife, their two daughters and his wife's grandmother in 2009 will get to make their case to the state's highest court about why he should be spared. James Kraig Kahler argues ...

  • Massachusetts teen due in court in texting suicide case

    Massachusetts teen due in court in texting suicide case

    Headline Legal News 12/19/2016

    A Massachusetts woman accused of sending her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to kill himself is due in court for a pretrial hearing. Michelle Carter is charged with manslaughter in the 2014 death of Conrad Roy III. The 18-year-old Roy died of...

  • Dems to use hearings on Trump picks to court working class

    Dems to use hearings on Trump picks to court working class

    Recent Cases 12/18/2016

    Determined to hold around two dozen Senate seats in 2018, Democrats will use the coming series of confirmation hearings to try to distinguish themselves from President-elect Donald Trump's billionaire nominees and convince working-class voters who el...

  • Man who fired shots in DC pizza parlor expected in court

    Man who fired shots in DC pizza parlor expected in court

    National News 12/16/2016

    Family members noticed a change in the man charged with firing an assault rifle in a Washington pizza parlor after he hit a 13-year-old pedestrian with his car in October, his parents said. Edgar Maddison Welch shifted from energetic and outgoing to ...

  • Supreme Court upholds broad reach of bank fraud law

    Supreme Court upholds broad reach of bank fraud law

    Law Firm News 12/15/2016

    The Supreme Court is upholding the broad reach of a federal law prohibiting bank fraud. The unanimous ruling on Monday came in the case of a California man who illegally siphoned about $307,000 out of a Taiwanese businessman's Bank of America bank ac...

  • Supreme Court rejects 2 death row appeals

    Supreme Court rejects 2 death row appeals

    Bar Associations 12/11/2016

    The Supreme Court has denied appeals from death row inmates in Louisiana and South Carolina who questioned their lawyers' actions. The justices on Monday did not comment on the cases of James Tyler of Louisiana and Sammie Stokes of South Carolina. Ty...

  • Supreme Court takes up cases about race in redistricting

    Supreme Court takes up cases about race in redistricting

    National News 12/06/2016

    The Supreme Court is taking up a pair of cases in which African-American voters maintain that Southern states discriminated against them in drawing electoral districts. The justices are hearing arguments Monday in redistricting disputes from North Ca...

  • Muslim cleric is in US court fighting against deportation

    Muslim cleric is in US court fighting against deportation

    Recent Cases 12/05/2016

    The leader of one of New Jersey's largest mosques has taken the stand to defend himself against charges that he lied on his green card application. Imam Mohammad Qatanani is the leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County. A judge ruled against im...

  • Alabama inmate seeks execution stay from US Supreme Court

    Alabama inmate seeks execution stay from US Supreme Court

    Headline Legal News 12/04/2016

    An Alabama inmate on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his upcoming execution to consider whether a judge should have been able to give him a death sentence when the jury recommended life imprisonment.   Ronald Bert Smith is scheduled ...

  • Green Party taking bid for election recount to federal court

    Green Party taking bid for election recount to federal court

    Legal Events 12/04/2016

    Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is taking her bid for a statewide recount of Pennsylvania's Nov. 8 presidential election to federal court. After announcing Stein and recount supporters were dropping their case in state court, lawyer Jon...

  • State high court to hear wind power appeal

    State high court to hear wind power appeal

    National News 12/03/2016

    A decision on a proposed high-voltage power transmission line that would run through several Illinois counties is now heading to the state Supreme Court after an energy company decided to appeal a ruling against construction. The high court agreed la...

  • Connecticut court to hear appeal in Newtown shooting case

    Connecticut court to hear appeal in Newtown shooting case

    Recent Cases 12/02/2016

    The Connecticut Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of families whose wrongful-death lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre was dismissed. The high court decided Tuesday to bypass a l...

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