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  • Florida's high court urged to throw out death sentences

    Florida's high court urged to throw out death sentences

    Recent Cases 05/07/2016

    Former judges and top legal officials are calling on the Florida Supreme Court to impose life sentences on nearly 400 people now awaiting execution on death row. The group, which includes three former state Supreme Court justices and two former presi...

  • Tribunal: India, Italy should agree on Italian marine's bail

    Tribunal: India, Italy should agree on Italian marine's bail

    Notable Attorneys 05/06/2016

    India and Italy should work toward an agreement to allow an Italian marine to return home while an arbitration process continues in the fatally shootings of two Indian fishermen in 2012, a tribunal said Tuesday. The two countries should present their...

  • Court in Russia-annexed Crimea bans Tatar assembly

    Court in Russia-annexed Crimea bans Tatar assembly

    Recent Cases 05/04/2016

    The Supreme Court in the Russia-annexed peninsula Crimea on Tuesday banned a Crimean Tatar group in the latest step to marginalize the minority. Crimea's prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya who personally lodged the lawsuit welcomed the ruling against the...

  • Iran's president slams US court ruling on frozen assets

    Iran's president slams US court ruling on frozen assets

    National News 05/03/2016

    Iran's president said Wednesday that a U.S. court ruling that allows for the seizure of Iranian assets amounts to theft and indicates continued "hostility" toward his country. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that the families of victims of a 1...

  • High court seems poised to overturn McDonnell conviction

    High court seems poised to overturn McDonnell conviction

    Recent Cases 05/03/2016

    The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed poised to overturn the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on political corruption charges and place new limits on the reach of federal bribery laws. Justices across the ideological spectrum expresse...

  • Stoddard firefighter charged with arson due in court

    Stoddard firefighter charged with arson due in court

    Law Firm News 04/25/2016

    A volunteer firefighter charged with arson in connection with a brush fire that burned 190 acres in New Hampshire and prompted the evacuation of 17 homes is due to make his first court appearance.   David Plante is scheduled to be arraigned Mond...

  • High court won't step into Mich. dispute over harness racing

    High court won't step into Mich. dispute over harness racing

    Headline Legal News 04/25/2016

    The Supreme Court won't step into a dispute between Michigan gaming officials and a group of harness racing drivers over allegations of race-fixing. The drivers had refused to speak to state investigators without a grant of immunity from prosecution....

  • JetBlue attendant pleads not guilty to cocaine charge

    JetBlue attendant pleads not guilty to cocaine charge

    Recent Cases 04/23/2016

    A JetBlue flight attendant accused of trying to sneak a suitcase full of cocaine through Los Angeles International Airport has pleaded not guilty to a federal charge.   City News Service says Marsha Gay Reynolds entered the plea Friday to posses...

  • Arkansas funeral home pleads guilty over stacked bodies

    Arkansas funeral home pleads guilty over stacked bodies

    Ethics 04/23/2016

    The company that owns an Arkansas funeral home where bodies were found stacked on top of each other in unrefrigerated areas pleaded guilty Friday after felony charges were dropped against the father and son who own the business.   Arkansas Funer...

  • Federal lawyer gets 30 days for forging document

    Federal lawyer gets 30 days for forging document

    Legal Events 04/22/2016

    A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney was sentenced to 30 days in jail Wednesday for forging a document to make it look like a Mexican man who wanted to stay in the United States was not eligible to do so. Jonathan M. Love was also sent...

  • Court document: Newtown teacher carried loaded gun in school

    Court document: Newtown teacher carried loaded gun in school

    National News 04/21/2016

    Court documents show a Newtown middle school teacher who was arrested on a weapon possession charge was carrying a loaded .45-caliber pistol in a holster inside the school.   A Danbury Superior Court judge on Wednesday entered an initial not-gui...

  • High court nominee praises lawyers for helping the poor

    High court nominee praises lawyers for helping the poor

    National News 04/20/2016

    Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland praised lawyers for their work with low-income Washingtonians Thursday in his first public remarks since his nomination last month. Garland was on familiar turf, speaking at the federal courthouse in Washington, ...

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