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  • Haiti protest derides Dominican court ruling

    Haiti protest derides Dominican court ruling

    Headline Legal News 12/09/2013

    Hundreds of protesters gathered Friday to criticize a recent court decision in the Dominican Republic that could strip the citizenship of generations of people of Haitian descent living in the neighboring country. The crowd peaked at about 2,000 peop...

  • Supreme Court won't stop NY's Internet taxation

    Supreme Court won't stop NY's Internet taxation

    Headline Legal News 12/05/2013

    On perhaps the busiest online shopping day of the year, the Supreme Court refused to wade into a dispute over state sales taxes for purchases on websites like Amazon.com, an outcome likely to prompt more states to attempt to collect taxes on Internet...

  • LA airport shooting suspect appears in court

    LA airport shooting suspect appears in court

    National News 12/05/2013

    The man charged with killing a Transportation Security Administration officer and wounding two other agents and a civilian during a shooting rampage at Los Angeles International Airport made his first court appearance Wednesday, still showing signs o...

  • Seattle lawyer left $188 million charitable trust

    Seattle lawyer left $188 million charitable trust

    Legal Events 12/02/2013

    A Seattle lawyer who quietly amassed a fortune by investing his inherited family wealth has left a bequest of nearly $188 million to benefit Seattle Children's Hospital, the University of Washington School of Law and the Salvation Army. Hospital offi...

  • Nevada Supreme Court upholds ethics laws

    Nevada Supreme Court upholds ethics laws

    Headline Legal News 12/02/2013

    The Nevada Supreme Court upheld the state's ethics laws on Wednesday while backing the censure of a Sparks councilman for his 2005 vote on a casino project involving his former campaign manager. In a 5-2 opinion, justices rejected arguments from Spar...

  • Amanda Knox appeals slander case to European court

    Amanda Knox appeals slander case to European court

    Headline Legal News 11/29/2013

    Lawyers for Amanda Knox filed an appeal of her slander conviction in Italy with the European Court of Human Rights, as her third murder trial was underway in Florence. The slander conviction was based on statements Knox made to police in November 200...

  • Supreme Court Will Take up New Health Law Dispute

    Supreme Court Will Take up New Health Law Dispute

    Recent Cases 11/29/2013

    The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law, whether businesses can use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. The justices said they will take ...

  • Spanish court sentences 'Robin Hood' mayor

    Spanish court sentences 'Robin Hood' mayor

    Recent Cases 11/25/2013

    A Spanish court has sentenced a town mayor and four others to seven months in prison for occupying unused military land they wanted to be loaned to farmers hard hit by the economic crisis. The regional court of southern Andalusia on Thursday convicte...

  • Appeals court won't toss NYC stop-frisk rulings

    Appeals court won't toss NYC stop-frisk rulings

    National News 11/25/2013

    A federal appeals court refused Friday to toss out court rulings finding that New York City carried out its police stop-and-frisk policy in a discriminatory manner, ending what was likely the city's last chance to nullify the decisions before the arr...

  • Republicans block nominee to key appeals court

    Republicans block nominee to key appeals court

    National News 11/22/2013

    Senate Republicans on Monday blocked President Barack Obama's nomination of Robert L. Wilkins to a key appellate court, continuing a nomination fight that has stoked partisan tensions in the Senate. Wilkins, a District Court judge in Washington who i...

  • International court summit debates Africa issues

    International court summit debates Africa issues

    National News 11/22/2013

    The International Criminal Court's vexed relationship with Africa took center stage Wednesday on the opening day of the annual summit of its 122 member states. The prosecutions of Kenya's president and his deputy have plunged relations between the wo...

  • Spain court rejects handing pedophile to Morocco

    Spain court rejects handing pedophile to Morocco

    Legal Events 11/18/2013

    Spain's National Court has ruled against extraditing back to Morocco a convicted Spanish pedophile whose release triggered protests in the North African country. A court statement Monday said Daniel Galvan Vina would not be handed back because under ...

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