Recent Updates
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Facebook to stop spending against California privacy effort
Recent Cases 04/16/2018Facebook says it will stop spending money to fight a proposed California ballot initiative aimed at giving consumers more control over their data.The measure, known as the "California Consumer Privacy Act," would require companies to disclose upon re...
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Dayton appoints Democratic Rep. Thissen to Supreme Court
Law Firm News 04/16/2018Gov. Mark Dayton appointed longtime Democratic state Rep. Paul Thissen to the Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday, the latest in a long line of partisans to join the state's highest court.Thissen is an attorney and Minneapolis lawmaker who has served ...
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UK Supreme Court declines appeal from parents of ill toddler
Lawyer Interviews 04/16/2018Britain’s Supreme Court declined Friday to hear an appeal from a mother and father who want to take their terminally ill toddler to Italy for treatment instead of allowing a hospital to remove him from life support.The decision is another setba...
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Constitutionality of murder conviction upheld by high court
Court Watch 04/16/2018The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a man's conviction for killing his 4-year-old son.Forty-four-year-old Chris Miller was sentenced to life in prison for the death of his son, Jacob Miller, and an additional 50 years f...
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Supreme Court wrestles with administrative law judge case
Court Watch 04/16/2018The Supreme Court wrestled Monday with a case brought by a former financial adviser known for his "Buckets of Money" strategy who is challenging the appointment of the administrative law judge who ruled against him.The case involves the Securities an...
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Court won't reconsider making public family slain autopsies
National Court News 04/16/2018The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday once again rejected requests for unredacted autopsy reports from the unsolved slayings of eight family members.The court ruled 5-2 without comment against reconsidering its December decision that the Pike County co...
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Trump travel ban is focus of Supreme Court's last arguments
Court Watch 04/16/2018President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from several mostly Muslim countries is the topic of arguments Wednesday at the Supreme Court, with a Trump administration lawyer facing questions during the first half of arguments.The travel ban case is the...
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Trump seems likely to win travel ban case at Supreme Court
Legal Compliance 04/16/2018President Donald Trump appears likely to win his travel ban case at the Supreme Court.Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy both signaled support for the travel policy in arguments Wednesday at the high court. The ban's challengers a...
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Pennsylvania asks court to keep Amazon incentives a secret
Litigation Reports 04/16/2018Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's administration went to court this week to block requests for records of financial incentives it offered Amazon to build its second headquarters in Pennsylvania.An administration lawyer asked Commonwealth Court to reverse an...
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Question of sales tax on online purchases goes to high court
Legal Compliance 04/11/2018Online shoppers have gotten used to seeing that line on checkout screens before they click "purchase." But a case before the Supreme Court could change that.At issue is a rule stemming from two, decades-old Supreme Court cases: If a business is shipp...
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Supreme Court again refuses to hear Blagojevich appeal
Law Firm News 04/11/2018The Supreme Court for the second time has refused to hear an appeal by imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of his corruption convictions.The justices didn't comment Monday in letting stand the convictions and 14-year prison term the 61-ye...
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Supreme Court hearing case about online sales tax collection
Recent Cases 04/11/2018The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether a rule it announced decades ago in a case involving a catalog retailer should still apply in the age of the internet.The case on Tuesday focuses on businesses' collection of sales tax on online pur...