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  • California Supreme Court halts death penalty measure

    California Supreme Court halts death penalty measure

    Legal Events 12/21/2016

    The California Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a voter-approved measure intended to speed up the appeals process for the state's Death Row inmates to give it time to consider a lawsuit challenging the measure. In a one-page decision, the court staye...

  • Ohio's high court dismisses media lawsuit over bodycam video

    Ohio's high court dismisses media lawsuit over bodycam video

    Legal Events 12/21/2016

    The Ohio Supreme Court dismissed a public information lawsuit Tuesday without ruling on its argument that video from police body cameras are public record and should be released on request. In not taking up the issue, the court noted that the video h...

  • Court to unseal Clinton email search warrant

    Court to unseal Clinton email search warrant

    Recent Cases 12/20/2016

    A federal court in New York is scheduled to release redacted copies Tuesday of the search warrant that allowed the FBI to dig into a trove of Hillary Clinton emails days before the presidential election. The emails were found on a computer belonging ...

  • High court turns away appeal from former AIG executives

    High court turns away appeal from former AIG executives

    Recent Cases 12/20/2016

    The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from two former American International Group executives seeking to avoid civil fraud claims on charges they hid hundreds of millions of dollars in losses from investors. The justices on Monday let stand a lower ...

  • Kansas Supreme Court to hear death row inmate's appeal

    Kansas Supreme Court to hear death row inmate's appeal

    Recent Cases 12/19/2016

    Attorneys for a Kansas death row inmate convicted of killing his estranged wife, their two daughters and his wife's grandmother in 2009 will get to make their case to the state's highest court about why he should be spared. James Kraig Kahler argues ...

  • Massachusetts teen due in court in texting suicide case

    Massachusetts teen due in court in texting suicide case

    Headline Legal News 12/19/2016

    A Massachusetts woman accused of sending her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to kill himself is due in court for a pretrial hearing. Michelle Carter is charged with manslaughter in the 2014 death of Conrad Roy III. The 18-year-old Roy died of...

  • Dems to use hearings on Trump picks to court working class

    Dems to use hearings on Trump picks to court working class

    Recent Cases 12/18/2016

    Determined to hold around two dozen Senate seats in 2018, Democrats will use the coming series of confirmation hearings to try to distinguish themselves from President-elect Donald Trump's billionaire nominees and convince working-class voters who el...

  • Man who fired shots in DC pizza parlor expected in court

    Man who fired shots in DC pizza parlor expected in court

    National News 12/16/2016

    Family members noticed a change in the man charged with firing an assault rifle in a Washington pizza parlor after he hit a 13-year-old pedestrian with his car in October, his parents said. Edgar Maddison Welch shifted from energetic and outgoing to ...

  • Supreme Court upholds broad reach of bank fraud law

    Supreme Court upholds broad reach of bank fraud law

    Law Firm News 12/15/2016

    The Supreme Court is upholding the broad reach of a federal law prohibiting bank fraud. The unanimous ruling on Monday came in the case of a California man who illegally siphoned about $307,000 out of a Taiwanese businessman's Bank of America bank ac...

  • Supreme Court rejects 2 death row appeals

    Supreme Court rejects 2 death row appeals

    Bar Associations 12/11/2016

    The Supreme Court has denied appeals from death row inmates in Louisiana and South Carolina who questioned their lawyers' actions. The justices on Monday did not comment on the cases of James Tyler of Louisiana and Sammie Stokes of South Carolina. Ty...

  • Supreme Court takes up cases about race in redistricting

    Supreme Court takes up cases about race in redistricting

    National News 12/06/2016

    The Supreme Court is taking up a pair of cases in which African-American voters maintain that Southern states discriminated against them in drawing electoral districts. The justices are hearing arguments Monday in redistricting disputes from North Ca...

  • Muslim cleric is in US court fighting against deportation

    Muslim cleric is in US court fighting against deportation

    Recent Cases 12/05/2016

    The leader of one of New Jersey's largest mosques has taken the stand to defend himself against charges that he lied on his green card application. Imam Mohammad Qatanani is the leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County. A judge ruled against im...