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Man run down, 50 years after killing girl in hit-and-run
Law Reviews 05/26/2018A Vietnam War veteran who confessed five years ago to killing a 4-year-old girl in a 1968 hit-and-run was trying to protect children when a woman drove her car onto a baseball field in Maine during a game, striking and killing him.Screaming bystander...
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Court: Montana minimizes impact of mining near Yellowstone
Law Reviews 05/22/2018A gold exploration proposal near Yellowstone National Park faced a significant setback as a judge blamed Montana officials for understating the potential for mining to harm land, water and wildlife.The ruling released Friday means the Montana Departm...
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Ford fined by Australian court for mishandling complaints
Law Reviews 05/16/2018Ford Motor Co.'s Australian subsidiary has been fined 10 million Australian dollars ($7.6 million) for mishandling customer complaints about faulty automatic transmissions in thousands of cars.The fine in the Federal Court on Thursday equals the larg...
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Supreme Court wrestles with administrative law judge case
Law Reviews 04/26/2018The Supreme Court wrestled Monday with a case brought by a former financial adviser known for his "Buckets of Money" strategy who is challenging the appointment of the administrative law judge who ruled against him.The case involves the Securities an...
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Taxpayer tab for law firm overseeing Atlantic City hits $4.8M
Law Reviews 04/21/2018Taxpayer tab for law firm overseeing Atlantic City hits $4.8MNew Jersey taxpayers' tab for the takeover of Atlantic City has reached about $5 million in fees from the law firm former Gov. Chris Christie picked to oversee the gambling resort.Records o...
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USCIS will reject any petition that includes an incorrect fee payment
Law Reviews 04/16/2018USCIS will reject and return the petitions and associated filing fees to petitioners that were not selected, as well as any cap-subject petitions received after Feb. 27.In January, the Department of Labor announced a change to its process of issuing ...
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Former Trump campaign aide Nunberg at court for grand jury
Law Reviews 03/30/2018A former Trump campaign aide appeared for hours before a federal grand jury Friday, after he defiantly insisted in a series of news interviews just days earlier that he intended to defy a subpoena in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigat...
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TransCanada doesn't have to pay landowner attorneys
Law Reviews 03/28/2018The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline doesn't have to reimburse attorneys who defended Nebraska landowners against the company's efforts to gain access to their land, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.The high court's ruling resolves a dispute...
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Organized labor case goes in front of Supreme Court
Law Reviews 03/26/2018The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that could deal a painful financial blow to organized labor.All eyes will be on Justice Neil Gorsuch Monday when the court takes up a challenge to an Illinois law that allows unions representing govern...
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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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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 ...