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Hearing opens for Jackson, 1st Black female high court pick
Legal Events 03/19/2022The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday opened the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated for the nation’s highest court.Jackson, 51, is to give her opening statement later Monday a...
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Kansas AG asking judge to dismiss redistricting lawsuits
Legal Events 03/09/2022Attorney General Derek Schmidt is asking a Wyandotte County judge to dismiss two lawsuits filed over new Kansas congressional district lines enacted by Republican lawmakers. Schmidt’s request Monday came three days after the Kansas Supreme Cour...
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Judges send Tyson workers’ virus lawsuit back to state court
Legal Events 01/03/2022A federal appeals court has ruled that Tyson Foods can’t claim it was operating under the direction of the federal government when it tried to keep its processing plants open as the coronavirus spread rapidly within them during the early days o...
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Idaho Supreme Court overturns tougher ballot initiative law
Legal Events 08/24/2021The Idaho Supreme Court has rejected a new law designed to make it harder for voters to get initiatives on the ballot, saying the legislation was so restrictive that it violated a fundamental right under the state’s constitution. The ruling iss...
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Business Litigation Law Attorneys Website
Legal Events 08/18/2021Monty Crawford has over twenty-five years of experience with complex business litigation, governmental investigations, international disputes, and white-collar criminal defense. Monty Crawford also is able to advise clients on the legal issues and im...
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San Francisco Copyright Lawyers - Our Firm
Legal Events 07/24/2021Our Firm has established a reputation for enforcing and protecting trademarks in the marketplace with enforcement actions in Federal and State courts throughout the United States as well as at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. San Francisco Trade...
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Appeals court upholds guilty verdicts in NCAA bribes case
Legal Events 06/04/2021The convictions of a sports business manager and an amateur basketball coach in a conspiracy to bribe top college coaches to get them to steer NBA-bound athletes to favored handlers were upheld Friday by an appeals court. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. C...
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Lawsuit seeks Confederate statue’s removal from courthouse
Legal Events 05/05/2021Civil rights advocates sued a Maryland county on Wednesday to seek the court-ordered removal of a Confederate monument from a courthouse lawn on the state’s Eastern Shore, calling it a racist symbol of oppression.In their federal lawsuit, an NA...
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Supreme Court rejects lingering 2020 election challenge case
Legal Events 04/17/2021The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not hear a case out of Pennsylvania related to the 2020 election, a dispute that had lingered while similar election challenges had already been rejected by the justices. The high court directed a lower court ...
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Husband of high court candidate begins prison sentence
Legal Events 04/06/2021The husband of a Pennsylvania appellate court judge who is running for the state’s highest court began serving a prison sentence Tuesday in a long-running case, authorities said.Charles McCullough’s incarceration comes as voters decide wh...
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Ex-Iowa wastewater plant supervisor sentenced for tampering
Legal Events 04/02/2021A former Iowa wastewater treatment plant official has been sentenced to three months in federal prison for manipulating water sample test results to ensure plant discharges into the Missouri River met federal requirements. Jay Niday, 63, of Sergeant ...
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Court halts another Texas execution over disability claims
Legal Events 02/04/2021A Texas appeals court has delayed a second execution this year to review claims that an inmate is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday granted a request by attorneys for Ed...