Recent Updates
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Supreme Court won’t upset Arkansas anti-Israel boycott law
Headline Legal News 02/21/2023The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to step into a legal fight over state laws that require contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel.The justices rejected an appeal on behalf of an alternative weekly newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas, that objec...
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Court: Health care workers in lawsuit must reveal identities
Headline Legal News 07/12/2022Nine health care workers who sued Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills over the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate have until Money to reveal their identities.The workers have so far remained anonymous, but on Thursday, a federal appeals court in Bo...
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Lawyers call on intl court to investigate Uyghur treatment
Headline Legal News 06/18/2022Lawyers on Monday renewed calls for the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups in China’s Xinjiang region as they presented a dossier of evidence to pr...
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Democrats sue to overturn new Kansas congressional districts
Headline Legal News 02/16/2022Democrats sued Kansas officials on Monday over a Republican redistricting law that costs the state’s only Democrat in Congress some of the territory in her Kansas City-area district that she carries by wide margins in elections. A team of attor...
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UNC may keep affirmative action in admissions, judge says
Headline Legal News 10/19/2021A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina’s flagship public university can continue to consider race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions, rebuffing a conservative group’s argument that affirmative action disadvantages white an...
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LAW FIRM SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING BY LAW PROMO
Headline Legal News 07/26/2021Regardless of practice area and geographical location, Law Promo has successfully expanded our clients’ businesses by putting their law firm websites at the top of search engine results for targeted search terms. Law Promo has a strong team tha...
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Nepal’s Supreme Court reinstates dissolved lower house
Headline Legal News 07/12/2021Nepal’s Supreme Court reinstated the House of Representatives on Monday and upheld the leader of the opposition’s claim to be the new prime minister. The 167-page court order removes Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli, who had been running ...
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Supreme Court rejects lingering 2020 election challenge case
Headline Legal News 04/19/2021The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not hear a case out of Pennsylvania related to the 2020 election, a dispute that had lingered while similar election challenges had already been rejected by the justices. The high court directed a lower court ...
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Prominent Chinese rights lawyer tried in closed proceedings
Headline Legal News 12/26/2018The trial of a prominent human rights lawyer began in northern China on Wednesday with about two dozen plainclothes officers stationed outside a courthouse and at least one supporter taken away by police.Reporters, foreign diplomats and supporters we...
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Supreme Court term amid starts in shadow of Kavanaugh
Headline Legal News 09/27/2018It's the storm before the calm at the Supreme Court. Americans watched Thursday's high court nomination hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh with rapt attention. The televised spectacle was filled with disturbing allegations of sexual assault and Kavanau...
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Missouri court gives jolt of life to long Midwest power line
Headline Legal News 07/18/2018A proposal for a high-voltage power line carrying wind energy across the Midwest received a jolt of new life Tuesday as the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that state regulators had wrongly rejected it.The ruling is a major victory in the quest by Clean...
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Supreme Court adopts new rules for cell phone tracking
Headline Legal News 07/02/2018The Supreme Court says police generally need a search warrant if they want to track criminal suspects’ movements by collecting information about where they’ve used their cellphones. The justices’ 5-4 decision Friday is a victory for...