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Supreme Court examines Kentucky's medical review panels
Legal Compliance 08/09/2018After Ezra Claycomb was born with severe brain damage and cerebral palsy, his mother considered filing a medical malpractice lawsuit. But in 2017, Kentucky's Republican-controlled legislature passed a law requiring all such lawsuits first be reviewed...
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Myanmar snubs Hague court's intervention in Rohingya crisis
Legal Issues 08/07/2018Myanmar has sharply rejected an attempt by the International Criminal Court to consider the country's culpability for activities that caused about 700,000 minority Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh for safety.The office of State Counsellor Aung ...
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Child remains found at New Mexico compound, man due in court
Headline Legal News 08/05/2018For months, neighbors worried about a squalid compound built along a remote New Mexico plain, saying they brought their concerns to authorities long before sheriff's officials first found 11 hungry children on the lot, and then the remains of a small...
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Tennessee high court refuses to block looming execution
Law Journals 08/04/2018The Tennessee Supreme Court has refused to stay Thursday's scheduled execution of a convicted child killer while the state's new lethal injection protocol continues to be challenged on appeal.The order brings Tennessee within days of killing Billy Ra...
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Officer involved in militia leader's death named in court
Law Journals 08/03/2018A state police officer has accidently revealed the name of one of the officers who fatally shot a militia leader who participated in the armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge.The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the officer's name slipped out this ...
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Iowa woman promoted to nation's lone all-male Supreme Court
Recent Cases 08/02/2018Court in Iowa, the only state where all of its current justices are men.Susan Christensen will be the first woman on Iowa's high court in roughly eight years. The appointment doesn't require confirmation by lawmakers for Christensen to take the bench...
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Oklahoma lawsuit against opioid makers back in state court
Recent Cases 08/02/2018A U.S. judge determined Friday that a lawsuit the state of Oklahoma filed against the makers of opioids does not "necessarily rise" to a federal issue.The ruling by U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange in Oklahoma City sends the matter back to st...
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With scant record, Supreme Court nominee elusive on abortion
Law Journals 08/01/2018Twice in the past year, Brett Kavanaugh offered glimpses of his position on abortion that strongly suggest he would vote to support restrictions if confirmed to the Supreme Court.One was in a dissent in the case of a 17-year-old migrant seeking to te...
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The Latest: Zimbabwe's president welcomes court challenge
Legal Solutions 08/01/2018Zimbabwe's president says people are free to approach the courts if they have issues with the results of Monday's election, which he carried with just over 50 percent of the vote.President Emmerson Mnangagwa spoke to journalists shortly after opposit...
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SC Supreme Court to decide if elected sheriff is qualified
Law Journals 08/01/2018Clarke Stearns has been working as sheriff for more than 18 months in McCormick County, but it's still up in the air whether he is qualified to be the county's top lawman.Stearns' Democratic opponent in the 2016 election, J.R. Jones, sued him within ...
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US Supreme Court ruling in union dues impacts case in Oregon
National News 07/29/2018An Oregon state employee and a labor union have reached a settlement over her lawsuit seeking payback of obligatory union fees, marking the first refund of forced fees since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in late June that government workers can't be r...
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N Carolina elections board back in court in power struggle
Law Firm News 07/22/2018The repeatedly altered composition of North Carolina's elections board returned to court Thursday as a proxy for the lengthy power struggle between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-dominated legislature.A panel of three trial judges list...