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  Court may reconsider ruling on police deadly force measure

  Legal Outlook 08/30/2018

  The question of whether Washington voters will have their say on a measure designed to make it easier to prosecute police for negligent shootings might not be over after all.One day after ruling that Initiative 940 should appear on the November ballo...

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  North Carolina newspaper asks court to unseal lawsuit

  Legal Outlook 08/26/2018

  A North Carolina newspaper has asked a state appeals court to order the public release of a lawsuit involving a car dealership owner charged in South Carolina with molesting a 15-year-old boy during a NASCAR weekend at Darlington Raceway.The Fayettev...

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  Zimbabwe court to rule Friday on opposition's vote challenge

  Legal Compliance News 08/24/2018

  Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court said it will rule on Friday after hearing the main opposition party's challenge to the results of last month's presidential election, the first without longtime leader Robert Mugabe on the ballot.Police barricaded stre...

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  West Virginia House speaker resigns to run for Supreme Court

  Featured Legal News 08/22/2018

  West Virginia's Republican House speaker resigned Tuesday to run for a vacancy on the state Supreme Court, fueling accusations by Democrats that an unprecedented move to impeach state Supreme Court justices represents a power grab by GOP lawmakers.Sp...

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  Trump lashes out at his former lawyer after guilty plea

  Legal Outlook 08/21/2018

  Facing a growing threat to his presidency, President Donald Trump lashed at his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, a day after the onetime "fixer" implicated Trump in a campaign cover-up to buy the silence of women who said they had sexual relatio...

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  Sen. Collins, potential swing vote, meets with Kavanaugh

  Featured Legal News 08/20/2018

  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh met Tuesday with Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a centrist who's seen as a potential swing vote on his confirmation, while Democrats push him to release more documents from his years in the George W. Bus...

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  Lawyers will seek to shift blame for warehouse fire at trial

  Legal Compliance News 08/19/2018

  Lawyers for the two men charged in the Northern California warehouse fire that killed 36 people said Friday they are now preparing for a trial where they will try to shift blame for the blaze from their clients to others, including the building's own...

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  Alabama Supreme Court won't move lawsuit against Moore

  Featured Legal News 08/19/2018

  The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday refused to transfer a defamation lawsuit against former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore by a woman who says Moore molested her decades ago.The court denied Moore's request to have the case heard in Etowah County in...

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  California high court rules for immigrant kids in visa fight

  Legal Outlook 08/18/2018

  The California Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for some immigrant children who are abused or abandoned by a parent to seek a U.S. visa to avoid deportation in a ruling that advocates said would help thousands of children.State judges cannot ...

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  Court: Ex-federal immigration lawyer can be sued for forgery

  Law Journals 08/11/2018

  A U.S. appeals court says a former federal immigration lawyer who forged a document in an effort to get a man deported can be sued for damages.Jonathan M. Love was assistant chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle in 200...

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  Audit: 'Pervasive lack of accountability' in Kentucky courts

  Legal Outlook 07/12/2018

  In 2016, Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts was looking for office space for newly-elected Supreme Court Justice Sam Wright. They got two offers: One would cost more than $59,000 a year and require extensive renovations. The other space w...

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  Hawaii Supreme Court sides with lesbian couple in B&B case

  Featured Legal News 07/11/2018

  A Hawaii appeals court ruling that a bed and breakfast discriminated by denying a room to two women because they're gay will stand after the state's high court declined to take up the case.Aloha Bed & Breakfast owner Phyllis Young had argued she ...