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  • UK court says income threshold for foreign spouses is lawful

    UK court says income threshold for foreign spouses is lawful

    Headline Legal News 02/20/2017

    Britain's Supreme Court says the government is entitled to set a minimum-income threshold for people wanting to bring foreign spouses to the country, a measure introduced to ensure immigrants won't draw on public welfare funds. But the court says the...

  • Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear open meetings case

    Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear open meetings case

    Law Firm News 02/15/2017

    The Wisconsin Supreme Court is to hear arguments in a case that could give school boards and other governmental bodies a way around the open meetings law. The case up for argument Wednesday focuses on whether meetings of a committee created by employ...

  • Court: Police executing 'no-knock' warrant before shooting

    Court: Police executing 'no-knock' warrant before shooting

    National News 02/14/2017

    Court documents show Hickory police were executing a "no knock" search warrant when a police officer was shot in the arm by a suspect who was shot and killed. WSOC-TV in Charlotte reports documents showed that police were concerned that one of their ...

  • NC court blocks law stripping governor of election powers

    NC court blocks law stripping governor of election powers

    Legal Events 02/14/2017

    North Carolina's Supreme Court on Monday again blocked a state law approved by Republicans that strips the new Democratic governor of powers to oversee elections. A lower appeals court briefly let the law to take effect last week, allowing a revamped...

  • Supreme Court nominee has defended free speech, religion

    Supreme Court nominee has defended free speech, religion

    Law Firm News 02/12/2017

    Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has been a defender of free speech and a skeptic of libel claims, an Associated Press review of his rulings shows. His record puts him at odds with President Donald Trump's disdain for journalists and tendency to la...

  • Partisan struggle over NC governor's authority back in court

    Partisan struggle over NC governor's authority back in court

    Recent Cases 02/11/2017

    Judges are hearing more arguments about North Carolina Republican lawmakers' efforts to reduce Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's authority in choosing his Cabinet. A three-judge panel scheduled arguments Friday on whether to extend their recent temporary ...

  • Kenya court blocks closing of world's biggest refugee camp

    Kenya court blocks closing of world's biggest refugee camp

    National News 02/11/2017

    A Kenyan court ruled Thursday that the government must not close the world's largest refugee camp and send more than 200,000 people back to war-torn Somalia, a decision that eases pressure on Somalis who feared the camp would close by the end of May....

  • Travel ban decision in hands of federal appeals court judges

    Travel ban decision in hands of federal appeals court judges

    Law Firm News 02/11/2017

    A federal appeals court will decide whether to reinstate President Donald Trump's travel ban after a contentious hearing in which the judges hammered away at the administration's motivations for the ban, but also directed pointed questions to an atto...

  • Rolling Stone defamation case over rape story back in court

    Rolling Stone defamation case over rape story back in court

    Headline Legal News 02/08/2017

    Attorneys for Rolling Stone magazine are heading back to federal court to try to overturn a jury's defamation verdict over its botched story "A Rape on Campus." A judge is holding a hearing in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Thursday to consider Rollin...

  • Philippine president's drug crackdown faces court challenge

    Philippine president's drug crackdown faces court challenge

    Legal Events 01/28/2017

    Thursday to stop such operations and help him obtain police records to prove his innocence in a test case against the president's bloody crackdown.   Lawyer Romel Bagares said his client Efren Morillo and other petitioners also asked the court t...

  • Student guilty of black church arsons wants pro-white group

    Student guilty of black church arsons wants pro-white group

    Ethics 01/28/2017

    A University of Wisconsin-Madison student who once served prison time for setting fires at two predominantly black churches is recruiting on campus for a local chapter of a national pro-white party, enraging students searching for ways to improve rac...

  • Court appeals temporarily delay Texas execution

    Court appeals temporarily delay Texas execution

    Legal Events 01/27/2017

    Texas prison officials temporarily delayed the scheduled Thursday night execution of a man convicted of a fatal robbery at a Dallas-area sandwich shop while the U.S. Supreme Court considered multiple appeals to keep him from lethal injection. Terry E...