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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...
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Cosby defense team lobs attacks in court of public opinion
Legal Compliance News 04/16/2018Jurors weren't allowed to hear testimony that Bill Cosby's chief accuser was once hooked on hallucinogenic mushrooms or had her sights set on becoming a millionaire, but that hasn't stopped the defense from airing the explosive claims about Andrea Co...
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Pennsylvania asks court to keep Amazon incentives a secret
National News 04/16/2018Democratic 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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Facebook to stop spending against California privacy effort
Financial 04/11/2018Facebook says it will stop spending money to fight a proposed California ballot initiative aimed at giving consumers more control over their data.The measure, known as the "California Consumer Privacy Act," would require companies to disclose upon re...
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Russian court blocks popular messaging app in privacy row
Recent Cases 04/06/2018A Russian court on Friday ordered the blocking of a popular messaging app, Telegram, after it rejected to share its encryption data with authorities.The Moscow court on Friday ruled in favor of the Russian communications watchdog, which had demanded ...
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Question of sales tax on online purchases goes to high court
Legal Compliance News 04/06/2018Online shoppers have gotten used to seeing that line on checkout screens before they click "purchase." But a case before the Supreme Court could change that.At issue is a rule stemming from two, decades-old Supreme Court cases: If a business is shipp...