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  Court: Montana minimizes impact of mining near Yellowstone

  Featured Legal News 05/29/2018

  A gold exploration proposal near Yellowstone National Park faced a significant setback as a judge blamed Montana officials for understating the potential for mining to harm land, water and wildlife.The ruling released Friday means the Montana Departm...

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  Czech court: Attacker on Petra Kvitova taken into custody

  Law Journals 05/26/2018

  A Czech Republic court has ruled a suspect in a knife attack on two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova be taken into custody.Zuzana Buresova, a spokesperson for the county court in the city of Prostejov, says the court issued the ruling on Thursda...

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  Court program in Dona Ana County focuses on veterans

  Featured Legal News 05/26/2018

  A new court program has opened in Dona Ana County that focuses on the substance abuse and mental health issues facing military veterans who have been charged with non-violent crimes.Las Cruces Sun-News reports that the first hearing in the 3rd Judici...

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  Justices allow Arkansas to enforce abortion restrictions

  Legal Compliance News 05/22/2018

  The Supreme Court is allowing Arkansas to put in effect restrictions on how abortion pills are administered. Critics of a challenged state law say it could effectively end medication abortions in the state.The justices did not comment Tuesday in reje...

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  Supreme Court limits warrantless vehicle searches near homes

  Featured Legal News 05/22/2018

  The Supreme Court is putting limits on the ability of police to search vehicles when they do not have a search warrant.The court sided 8-1 Tuesday with a Virginia man who complained that police walked onto his driveway and pulled back a tarp covering...

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  High court to hear challenge to Virginia uranium mining ban

  Featured Legal News 05/21/2018

  The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to Virginia's decades-old ban on uranium mining.The state has had a ban on uranium mining in place since 1982, soon after the discovery of a massive uranium deposit in the state's Pittsylvania Count...

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  Divided Supreme Court rules for businesses over workers

  Law Journals 05/19/2018

  The Supreme Court says employers can prohibit their workers from banding together to dispute their pay and conditions in the workplace, an important victory for business interests.The justices ruled 5-4 Monday, with the court's conservative members i...

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  The Latest: Lambert, Ballou move to fall Supreme Court race

  Law Journals 05/19/2018

  A state Court of Appeals judge and a circuit court judge have emerged from a three-way primary and will face off in November for a seat on the Kentucky Supreme Court.Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has easily won the Democratic nomination in his pursui...

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  Supreme Court sends land dispute back to Wash. top court

  Legal Compliance News 05/18/2018

  The Supreme Court is asking Washington state's highest court to take another look at a land dispute between a Native American tribe and its neighbors.The dispute concerns a roughly 40-acre plot of land purchased by the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe in 20...

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  Bangladesh Supreme Court upholds bail for opposition leader

  Legal Outlook 05/16/2018

  Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a High Court’s decision to grant bail to opposition leader and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who was jailed for five years on a corruption conviction.Lawyers from both sides said the rul...

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  New York court says Trump can't delay defamation lawsuit

  Legal Compliance News 05/16/2018

  A New York court says former "Apprentice" contestant Summer Zervos can proceed with her defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, at least for now. A state appeals court on Thursday turned down a request by Trump's lawyers to delay the case ...

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  An Epic Supreme Court Decision on Employment

  Legal Outlook 05/16/2018

  False dichotomy, meretricious piety, and pay-no-attention-to-that-man-behind-the-curtain misdirection are vital arrows in the quiver of any lawyer or judge, no matter of what persuasion. These tricks were on particularly egregious display in Epic Sys...