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Arkansas officials ask court to keep voter ID law in place
Legal Compliance News 05/03/2018Arkansas officials asked the state's highest court on Monday to allow them to enforce a voter ID law in the May 22 primary despite a judge blocking the measure and calling it unconstitutional.Secretary of State Mark Martin asked the Arkansas Supreme ...
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Bakery appeals to UK Supreme Court in gay-rights cake case
Legal Compliance News 05/01/2018A bakery owned by a Christian family asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it discriminated against a gay customer for refusing to make a cake supporting same-sex marriage.Ashers Baking Co. in Northern Ireland refused in ...
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Supreme Court to hear appeal of Missouri death row inmate
Legal Outlook 04/28/2018The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review the case of a Missouri death row inmate who says his rare medical condition could cause him to choke on his own blood during an execution.The justices said they would hear the appeal of inmate Russell Bucklew...
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Trump seems likely to win travel ban case at Supreme Court
Featured Legal News 04/26/2018President Donald Trump appears likely to win his travel ban case at the Supreme Court.Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy both signaled support for the travel policy in arguments Wednesday at the high court. The ban's challengers a...
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Pennsylvania asks court to keep Amazon incentives a secret
Legal Outlook 04/26/2018Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's administration went to court this week to block requests for records of financial incentives it offered Amazon to build its second headquarters in Pennsylvania.An administration lawyer asked Commonwealth Court to reverse an...
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Arkansas officials ask court to keep voter ID law in place
Legal Outlook 04/26/2018Arkansas officials asked the state's highest court on Monday to allow them to enforce a voter ID law in the May 22 primary despite a judge blocking the measure and calling it unconstitutional.Secretary of State Mark Martin asked the Arkansas Supreme ...
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Man tests positive for drugs while appearing in Pierre court
Legal Outlook 04/26/2018A Rapid City contractor has tested positive for drugs while in a Pierre court pleading guilty to assault.The Capital Journal reports that 30-year-old Jesse Lange pleaded guilty to felony assault of a worker for the grain bin business Lange operates w...
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Zuckerberg Flubs Details of Facebook Privacy Commitments
Legal Events 04/16/2018Over two days of questioning in Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg chief revealed that he didn’t know key details of a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission that requires Facebook to protect user privacy.With congressional h...
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Michigan Democrats back Nessel for state attorney general
Legal Exams 04/16/2018Thousands of fired-up Michigan Democrats endorsed Dana Nessel on Sunday in a hotly contested race for state attorney general, backing the former prosecutor-turned-civil rights lawyer to wrest back control of an office the party last held 16 years ago...
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High court worries about abandoning online sales tax rule
Lawyer Interviews 04/16/2018The Supreme Court sounded concerned Tuesday about doing away with a rule that has meant shoppers don't always get charged sales tax when they hit "checkout" online.The justices were hearing arguments in a case that deals with how businesses collect s...
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Constitutionality of murder conviction upheld by high court
Legal Compliance News 04/16/2018The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a man's conviction for killing his 4-year-old son.Forty-four-year-old Chris Miller was sentenced to life in prison for the death of his son, Jacob Miller, and an additional 50 years f...
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Taxpayer tab for law firm overseeing Atlantic City hits $4.8M
Headline Legal News 04/16/2018New 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 obtained Thursday by The Associated Press show the firm of Chi...