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Ohio Republicans defending state congressional map in court
Featured Legal News 03/09/2019Attorneys for Ohio Republican officials will call witnesses this week to defend the state's congressional map.A federal trial enters its second week Monday in a lawsuit by voter rights groups that say the current seats resulted from "an unconstitutio...
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Demonstrators gather for Heathrow expansion court challenge
Featured Legal News 03/07/2019A challenge against British government plans to expand Heathrow Airport through the construction of a third runway has begun in one of the country's highest courts.A coalition of local councils, environmentalists and London residents claim the govern...
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Court raises concerns over power lines by historic Jamestown
Featured Legal News 03/01/2019A federal appeals court raised concerns Friday that power lines with towers nearly as high as the Statue of Liberty could spoil the view in one of the nation's most historically rich areas, a stretch of river in Virginia where England founded its fir...
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Supreme Court seems inclined to retain cross on public land
Featured Legal News 03/01/2019The Supreme Court seemed inclined Wednesday to rule that a 40-foot-tall cross that stands on public land in Maryland is constitutional, but shy away from a sweeping ruling.The case the justices heard arguments in is being closely watched because it i...
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Court upholds car rental tax imposed in Maricopa County
Featured Legal News 02/26/2019The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday upheld a car rental tax surcharge that’s imposed in Maricopa County to pay for building a professional football stadium and other sports and recreational facilities, marking the second time an appeals court h...
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High court deciding fate of cross-shaped Maryland memorial
Featured Legal News 02/23/2019The Supreme Court this week is hearing a case challenging the location of a nearly 100-year-old, cross-shaped Maryland war memorial.Three area residents and the District of Columbia-based American Humanist Association argue the cross' location on pub...
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High court rules for retired US marshal in W.Va. tax dispute
Legal Events 02/22/2019The Supreme Court said Wednesday that the state of West Virginia unlawfully discriminated against a retired U.S. marshal when it excluded him from a more generous tax break given to onetime state law enforcement officers.The court ruled unanimously f...
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Court: Constitutional ban on high fines applies to states
Law Journals 02/21/2019The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Constitution's ban on excessive fines applies to the states, an outcome that could help efforts to rein in police seizure of property from criminal suspects.Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the ...
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Wisconsin court: Judge's Facebook friendship could show bias
Legal Outlook 02/16/2019A Wisconsin judge's decision to become Facebook friends with a woman whose child custody case he was hearing created at least the appearance of bias, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday in ordering the case to be re-heard by another judge.The case,...
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Ex-West Virginia Supreme Court justice set for sentencing
Featured Legal News 02/13/2019A former West Virginia Supreme Court justice who had a $32,000 blue suede couch in his office and was at the center of an impeachment scandal is due in federal court for sentencing for using his job for his own benefit.Allen Loughry is scheduled to b...
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Court case to tackle jails' medication-assisted treatment
Ethics 02/12/2019The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine started making its case in federal court on Monday against the ban on medication-assisted treatment in county jail amid the opioid crisis.Democratic Gov. Janet Mills recently lifted the Maine Department of ...
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Supreme Court blocks Louisiana abortion clinic law
Featured Legal News 02/08/2019A divided Supreme Court stopped Louisiana from enforcing new regulations on abortion clinics in a test of the conservative court's views on abortion rights.The justices said by a 5-4 vote late Thursday that they will not allow the state to put into e...