Recent Updates
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Court rules in favor of fired transgender funeral director
National News 03/16/2018A woman was illegally fired by a Detroit-area funeral home after disclosing that she was transitioning from male to female and dressed as a woman, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said R.G. & G.R. Harr...
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High court: Held immigrants can't get periodic bond hearings
Law Journals 03/16/2018The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigrants the government has detained and is considering deporting aren't entitled by law to periodic bond hearings.The case is a class-action lawsuit brought by immigrants who've spent long periods in custody. T...
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Supreme Court declines to take up 'Dreamers' case for now
Law Journals 03/16/2018The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's highly unusual bid to bypass a federals appeals court and get the justices to intervene in the fate of a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation....
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Delay in Nevada gun buyer law draws protests at court debate
Law Journals 03/06/2018A lawyer seeking a court order to enforce a Nevada gun buyer screening law that has not been enacted despite voter approval in November 2016 blamed the state's Republican governor and attorney general on Friday for stalling the law."For either person...
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California parents face new charges in kids' torture case
Law Reviews 03/01/2018A Southern California couple suspected of starving and shackling some of their 13 children pleaded not guilty Friday to new charges of child abuse.David and Louise Turpin previously entered not-guilty pleas to torture and a raft of other charges and ...
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Pennsylvania congressional map battle lands in Supreme Court
Legal Compliance 02/26/2018A request by Republican leaders in the Pennsylvania Legislature to stop a new congressional map from being implemented is now in the hands of the nation's highest court.The filing made late Wednesday asked Justice Samuel Alito to intervene, saying th...
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Supreme Court sides with Chicago museum in terror case
Law Journals 02/26/2018The Supreme Court is preventing survivors of a 1997 terrorist attack from seizing Persian artifacts at a Chicago museum to help pay a $71.5 million default judgment against Iran.The court ruled 8-0 Wednesday against U.S. victims of a Jerusalem suicid...
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Supreme Court asked to review 'Making a Murderer' confession
Law Journals 02/22/2018Lawyers for a Wisconsin inmate featured in the "Making a Murderer" series on Netflix asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to review a federal appeals court decision that held his confession was voluntary.Brendan Dassey's legal team told the high c...
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Supreme Court: Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Protection Is Narrow
Law Reviews 02/16/2018The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that whistleblower protections passed by Congress after the 2008 financial crisis only apply to people who report problems to the government, not more broadly.The justices said that a part of the Dodd-Frank Act that ...
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Courts: Bail reform working, but sustainable funding needed
Legal Compliance 02/16/2018judge overseeing the program says it faces financial difficulties.A report submitted last week by Judge Glenn Grant, who runs the state's court system, also shows the program faces financial difficulties because it relies on court fees instead of a "...
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Maldives court delays reinstating pro-opposition lawmakers
National News 02/16/2018The Supreme Court of the Maldives delayed its order Sunday reinstating 12 pro-opposition lawmakers ahead of a key parliamentary sitting, the latest political turmoil to roil the island nation.Opposition lawmaker Ahmed Mahloof said the government may ...
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Inmate in landmark Supreme Court case denied parole
Headline Legal News 02/15/2018A 71-year-old Louisiana inmate whose case led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on juvenile-offender sentences was denied parole Monday, more than a half-century after he killed a sheriff's deputy at age 17.A three-member panel from the state...