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  Democratic governor getting to shape Kansas' top court

  Featured Legal News 07/29/2019

  The Kansas Supreme Court's chief justice plans to retire before the end of the year, allowing first-year Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly to leave a bigger mark on the state's highest court than her conservative Republican predecessors.Chief Justice Lawto...

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  Italian court rules wrong Eritrean accused of trafficking

  Legal Compliance News 07/13/2019

  A court in Palermo, Sicily, ruled on Friday that the wrong Eritrean man was arrested and tried as a migrant smuggling kingpin and ordered him released from jail, to the jubilation of international supporters who had championed for years the defendant...

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  Trump asks Supreme Court to unfreeze border wall money

  Featured Legal News 07/13/2019

  The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to lift a freeze on Pentagon money it wants to use to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.Two lower courts have ruled against the administration in a lawsuit over the funding. Last we...

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  The Latest: Supreme Court blocks census citizenship question

  Featured Legal News 06/29/2019

  The Supreme Court is forbidding President Donald Trump’s administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census for now. The court says the Trump administration’s explanation for wanting to add the question was “more o...

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  NC redistricting fight turns to state courts after ruling

  Legal Outlook 06/26/2019

  Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled federal courts aren’t the place to settle partisan gerrymandering disputes, opponents of North Carolina’s district maps are putting their hopes in state courts.An election reform group, the state ...

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  Supreme Court to review Montana school choice program

  Featured Legal News 06/23/2019

  The Supreme Court will consider reviving a Montana program that gives tax credits to people who donate to private-school scholarships. The state’s highest court had struck down the program because it violated the Montana constitution’s ba...

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  Kansas court OKs school funding law but keeps lawsuit open

  Law Journals 06/12/2019

  The Kansas Supreme Court signed off Friday on an increase in spending on public schools that the Democratic governor pushed through the Republican-controlled Legislature, but the justices refused to close the protracted education funding lawsuit that...

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  Utah judge suspended for making anti-Trump comments

  Featured Legal News 05/26/2019

  A longtime Utah judge has been suspended without pay for six months after making critical comments online and in court about President Donald Trump, including a post bashing his “inability to govern and political incompetence.”Judge Micha...

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  Supreme Court conservatives attack lame-duck arguments

  Featured Legal News 05/09/2019

  Conservative justices who control the Wisconsin Supreme Court attacked liberal groups' claims Wednesday that Republican legislators met illegally when they passed laws limiting Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' and Attorney General Josh Kaul's powers durin...

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  Court records: Illinois father led police to son's body

  Featured Legal News 05/06/2019

  Court records show that video police recovered from an Illinois woman's cellphone showing her bruised 5-year-old son prompted the boy's father to lead investigators to the child's body.JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund Sr. of Crystal Lake are charge...

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  Indian court lifts ban on Chinese social media app TikTok

  Featured Legal News 04/24/2019

  An Indian court on Wednesday lifted its ban on Chinese social media video-sharing app TikTok on the condition that the platform popular with teenagers would not be used to host obscene videos.Justices N. Kirubakaran and S.S. Sundar warned TikTok that...

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  Supreme Court asked to void Louisiana abortion clinic law

  Featured Legal News 04/18/2019

  A Louisiana abortion clinic is asking the Supreme Court to strike down regulations that could leave the state with just one clinic.A divided high court had previously agreed to block the law pending a full review of the case.An appeal being filed wit...