Warning: Illegal string offset 'pk_i_id' in /var/www/lawyersitedesign.com/oc-content/themes/osclasswizards/search.php on line 76
Warning: Illegal string offset 'pk_i_id' in /var/www/lawyersitedesign.com/oc-content/themes/osclasswizards/search.php on line 98
Recent Updates
-
Detroit-area couple in court over control of frozen embryos
Legal Compliance News 06/07/2018A Detroit-area woman seeking custody of as many as 10 frozen embryos is asking a judge to appoint a guardian over them while she clashes with her former partner for control.Gloria Karungi and Ronaldlee Ejalu have a daughter who has sickle cell diseas...
-
Confessed killer who wants freed after 20 years due in court
Law Journals 06/06/2018A man who confessed to a string of rapes and murders with his brother and now wants to be released from an Ohio prison is due back in court.Attorneys for Nathaniel Cook say a plea deal signed nearly 20 years ago forces the court to order his release ...
-
Man run down, 50 years after killing girl in hit-and-run
Legal Compliance News 06/06/2018A 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...
-
High Court Rules in Dispute Over Immigrant Teen's Abortion
Featured Legal News 06/06/2018The Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case about a pregnant immigrant teen who obtained an abortion with the help of the ACLU, siding with the Trump administration and wiping away a lower court decision for the teen but rejecting a suggestion her lawye...
-
Congressional Dems take Trump to court over foreign favors
Law Journals 06/06/2018Lawyers representing nearly 200 Democrats in Congress plan to argue in federal court Thursday that President Donald Trump is violating the Constitution by accepting foreign state favors without first seeking congressional approval.The case argues tha...
-
Top Texas court says condemned inmate not mentally disabled
Featured Legal News 06/06/2018Texas' highest criminal court narrowly ruled Wednesday that a death row inmate is mentally capable enough to execute, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that his intellectual capacity had been improperly assessed and agreement by his lawyer and pros...
-
Suspect in vandalism to Jewish boundary heads to court
Law Journals 06/05/2018A Massachusetts man charged with vandalizing the boundaries of a symbolic Jewish household known as an eruv is heading to court.Police say 28-year-old Yerachmiel Taube, of Sharon, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on charges including malicious des...
-
The Latest: Colorado governor announces Supreme Court pick
Law Journals 06/04/2018Gov. John Hickenlooper has named Carlos Samour to the Colorado Supreme Court, filling a vacancy left by Chief Justice Nancy Rice's imminent retirement.Samour, a judge in the 18th Judicial District in Arapahoe County, is best known for presiding over ...
-
Supreme Court allows Arkansas to enforce abortion restrictions
Law Journals 06/03/2018The Supreme Court is allowing Arkansas to put into effect restrictions on how abortion pills are administered. Critics of a challenged state law say it could effectively end medication abortions in the state. The justices did not comment Tuesday in r...
-
Court to consider fraud investigator in NFL concussion case
Legal Outlook 06/01/2018A federal judge in Philadelphia is scheduled to hear arguments in the NFL's request for a special investigator to look into what the league says are fraudulent claims in a $1 billion concussion settlement.The league last month cited an independent st...
-
Judge allows Palin's son therapeutic court for proceedings
Featured Legal News 05/31/2018criminal case accusing him of assaulting his father last year at the family home.State District Judge David Wallace on Tuesday approved Track Palin's request to formally transfer his case to Veterans Court, which gives eligible veterans the option of...
-
Court: Montana minimizes impact of mining near Yellowstone
Featured Legal News 05/29/2018A 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...