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Supreme Court rebuffs Alabama officer charged with murder
Legal Issues 08/09/2019The Alabama Supreme Court refused Friday to intervene on behalf of a Huntsville police officer charged with murder in a 2018 shooting, sending the case back to circuit court for a potential trial.The justices turned away an appeal by officer William ...
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Supreme Court rules against oil drilling platform workers
Legal Issues 06/08/2019The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday against workers on oil drilling platforms off California who argued they should be paid for the off-work time they spend on the platform, including sleeping.The high court said that federal law applies to th...
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Ronaldo rape lawsuit in Vegas moved from Nevada to US court
Legal Issues 06/01/2019A lawsuit by a Nevada woman accusing soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo of raping her in 2009 at a Las Vegas Strip resort has been moved from state to federal court in Las Vegas, her lawyer said Wednesday.“We basically just switched venues, but the ...
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Feds: US Supreme Court should turn down 'Bridgegate' appeal
Legal Issues 05/12/2019The U.S. solicitor general's office has recommended that the U.S. Supreme Court not hear the appeal of two convicted defendants in the "Bridgegate" case, nudging the four-year legal saga of New Jersey's most famous traffic jam toward a conclusion."Fu...
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Trump, GOP states ask appeals court to kill ‘Obamacare’
Legal Issues 05/02/2019Taking a harder line on health care, the Trump administration joined a coalition of Republican-led states Wednesday in asking a federal appeals court to entirely overturn former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law — a decis...
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Arizona court says Costco can be sued over ED drug disclosure
Legal Issues 04/29/2019The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled that the Costco warehouse store chain can be sued for privacy violations by a Phoenix-area man because a pharmacist joked with his ex-wife about an erectile dysfunction prescription he had never picked up.The ru...
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Group takes oil refinery fight to North Dakota's high court
Legal Issues 03/26/2019An environmental group is taking its battle against an oil refinery being developed near Theodore Roosevelt National Park to the North Dakota Supreme Court.The National Parks Conservation Association argued in its Wednesday filing that an air quality...
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Demonstrators gather for Heathrow expansion court challenge
Legal Issues 03/07/2019A challenge against British government plans to expand Heathrow Airport through the construction of a third runway has begun in one of the country's highest courts.A coalition of local councils, environmentalists and London residents claim the govern...
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Republicans pitch keeping Court of Appeals at 15 judges
Legal Issues 02/16/2019North Carolina Republican legislators now want to give up on the law they approved two years ago that reduces the number of Court of Appeals judges from 15 to 12 as retirements and other vacancies arise.A state Senate judiciary committee Tuesday reco...
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Lambert to be sworn in as Supreme Court justice
Legal Issues 01/25/2019A new Kentucky Supreme Court justice will be sworn in to office next week.A statement from the Administrative Office of the Courts says Debra Hembree Lambert will be formally sworn in as a justice on Feb. 4 at the state Capitol in Frankfort. She was ...
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EU top court adviser: Google can limit right to be forgotten
Legal Issues 01/12/2019An adviser to Europe's top court says Google doesn't have to extend "right to be forgotten" rules to its search engines globally.The European Court of Justice's advocate general released a preliminary opinion Thursday in the case involving the U.S. t...
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Kansas abortion foes brace for state Supreme Court decision
Legal Issues 01/10/2019Abortion opponents in Kansas have been bracing themselves for nearly two years for a ruling from the state's highest court that protects the right to have an abortion and potentially upends politics in a state long at the center of the national debat...