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  California court invalidates law requiring Trump tax returns

  Legal Compliance News 11/19/2019

  President Donald Trump does not have to disclose his tax returns to appear as a candidate on California’s primary ballot next spring, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday.The law, the first of its kind in the nation and aimed squa...

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  Supreme Court considering whether Trump must open tax returns

  Featured Legal News 11/06/2019

  California’s Supreme Court is considering Wednesday whether President Donald Trump must disclose his tax returns if he wants to be a candidate in the state’s primary election next spring.The high court is hearing arguments even though a f...

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  French court postpones ruling on cement firm Lafarge case

  Featured Legal News 10/24/2019

  A French court has postponed until Nov. 7 a decision on whether to uphold preliminary charges against French cement manufacturer Lafarge, including "complicity in crimes against humanity."The decision comes as the Paris appeal court on Thursday ruled...

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  Supreme Court takes up case over quick deportations

  Legal Compliance News 10/14/2019

  The Supreme Court will review a lower court ruling in favor of a man seeking asylum and which the Trump administration says could further clog the U.S. immigration court system.The justices said Friday they will hear the administration's appeal of a ...

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  Supreme Court to begin new term: About the top cases

  Featured Legal News 10/07/2019

  The biggest cases before the Supreme Court are often the last ones to be decided, and the focus on the court will be especially intense in June, just a few months before the 2020 election.President Donald Trump first announced his intention in 2017 t...

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  US Supreme Court to review Kansas’ lack of insanity defense

  Legal Compliance News 10/04/2019

  The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to consider how far states can go toward eliminating the insanity defense in criminal trials as it reviews the case of a Kansas man sentenced to die for killing four relatives.The high court planned to hear argumen...

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  Dutch Supreme Court asked to clarify euthanasia case

  Featured Legal News 09/30/2019

  Prosecutors have asked the Netherlands' Supreme Court to clarify legal matters in a landmark euthanasia case, saying Thursday they want to lay down unambiguous jurisprudence for the future.The Public Prosecution Service said by instituting "cassation...

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  Trial begins Monday in Kansas abortion stalking lawsuit

  Featured Legal News 09/30/2019

  A federal jury will decide whether the operator of a Wichita abortion facility had reasonable grounds to seek a protection-from-stalking order against an abortion protester.Jury selection begins Monday in the federal lawsuit filed by anti-abortion ac...

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  Transgender woman in Supreme Court case 'happy being me'

  Law Journals 09/20/2019

  Aimee Stephens lost her job at a suburban Detroit funeral home and she could lose her Supreme Court case over discrimination against transgender people. Amid her legal fight, her health is failing.But seven years after Stephens thought seriously of s...

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  Court rules Rams lawsuit can be heard in St. Louis courtroom

  Featured Legal News 09/10/2019

  The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that a lawsuit filed over the Rams' departure from St. Louis will be heard in a St. Louis courtroom, a defeat for the NFL team's owner who sought to send the case to arbitration.The court issued its ruling Tuesday...

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  US appeals court: Another conflict in New Orleans courts

  Featured Legal News 08/23/2019

  A state magistrate judge in New Orleans has a conflict of interest when he sets bail for criminal defendants because bail fees help fund court operations, a federal appeals court said Thursday ? the second time in a week it has found such a conflict ...

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  Gun-control backers concerned about changing federal courts

  Featured Legal News 08/11/2019

  California has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, including a ban on the type of high-capacity ammunition magazines used in some of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings.How long those types of laws will stand is a growing concern amo...