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  • Court won’t hear appeal in senator’s corruption case

    Court won’t hear appeal in senator’s corruption case

    Recent Cases 03/21/2017

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s appeal of his corruption indictment, setting the stage for a federal trial in the fall. The justices let stand a lower court ruling that refused to dismiss charges inclu...

  • Court: Student prayers OK at school board meetings

    Court: Student prayers OK at school board meetings

    Recent Cases 03/21/2017

    A Texas school board can open its meetings with student-led public prayers without running afoul of the Constitution's prohibition against government-established religion, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the...

  • Turkish protesters denounce alleged coup plotters at court

    Turkish protesters denounce alleged coup plotters at court

    Legal Issues 03/19/2017

    Turkish protesters on Monday demanded the death penalty, abolished in Turkey more than a decade ago, for 18 alleged coup plotters on trial for the killing of a military officer who resisted an effort to overthrow the government. The demonstrators jee...

  • Kansas Chief Justice Pitches Lawmakers on Court Pay Hikes

    Kansas Chief Justice Pitches Lawmakers on Court Pay Hikes

    Legal Events 03/17/2017

    Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss is trying to persuade legislators to increase salaries for judges and pay for judicial branch employees. Nuss devoted much of his annual State of the Judiciary address Wednesday to what he described as t...

  • Polish court issues arrest warrant for US man in Nazi case

    Polish court issues arrest warrant for US man in Nazi case

    Legal Events 03/16/2017

    A court in eastern Poland has issued an arrest warrant for a Minnesota man sought in a Nazi massacre, opening the way for Poland to seek his extradition from the United States. The Associated Press had previously identified the man as 98-year-old Mic...

  • Trump travel ban in new court setback near nation's capital

    Trump travel ban in new court setback near nation's capital

    Headline Legal News 03/12/2017

    President Donald Trump's revised travel ban has suffered another federal court setback after a judge in Maryland rejected a revised measure that bans travel targeting six predominantly Muslim countries. Judge Theodore Chuang ruled Thursday in Greenbe...

  • Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake

    Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake

    Legal Events 03/06/2017

    An Oklahoma-based Native American tribe filed a lawsuit in its own tribal court system Friday accusing several oil companies of triggering the state's largest earthquake that caused extensive damage to some near-century-old tribal buildings. The Pawn...

  • Immigration courts: record number of cases, many problems

    Immigration courts: record number of cases, many problems

    Law Firm News 03/06/2017

    Everyone was in place for the hearing in Atlanta immigration court: the Guinean man hoping to stay in the U.S., his attorney, a prosecutor, a translator and the judge. But because of some missing paperwork, it was all for nothing. When the government...

  • NC governor, legislature head to court in power showdown

    NC governor, legislature head to court in power showdown

    Recent Cases 03/05/2017

    North Carolina's new Democratic governor and majority Republican legislature are charging at each other in a constitutional game of chicken over their powers, a confrontation that could shape the recent conservative direction of state policies and sp...

  • Court officer investigated for photographing lawyer's notes

    Court officer investigated for photographing lawyer's notes

    Recent Cases 03/03/2017

    A court security officer in Maine has been placed on leave while under investigation for sending a cellphone photo of a defense attorney's notes to a prosecutor. The Kennebec Journal reports that court officials are calling the incident a serious eth...

  • California court expands endangered-species removal powers

    California court expands endangered-species removal powers

    Notable Attorneys 03/02/2017

    The California Supreme Court on Monday said petitioners seeking to remove a subset of coho salmon from the state's endangered species list could present new evidence to argue the listing was wrong. In a unanimous ruling, the court overturned a lower ...

  • Ohio court considers privacy rights in backpack search

    Ohio court considers privacy rights in backpack search

    Headline Legal News 03/02/2017

    The state Supreme Court will hear arguments over the constitutionality of an Ohio student's backpack search that authorities say led first to the discovery of bullets and later a gun. At issue before the high court is whether a second search of the b...