Recent Updates
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Trump lashes out at his former lawyer after guilty plea
Legal Outlook 08/21/2018Facing 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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California high court rules for immigrant kids in visa fight
Legal Outlook 08/18/2018The 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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Audit: 'Pervasive lack of accountability' in Kentucky courts
Legal Outlook 07/12/2018In 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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Supreme Court adopts new rules for cell phone tracking
Legal Outlook 06/24/2018The Supreme Court says police generally need a search warrant if they want to track criminal suspects’ movements by collecting information about where they’ve used their cellphones. The justices’ 5-4 decision Friday is a victory for...
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Police shooting of boy spurs more protests, appeals
Legal Outlook 06/24/2018Protesters demonstrated Friday for a third day over the fatal police shooting in Pennsylvania of an unarmed black teen fleeing a traffic stop as they sought to get the attention of a nation engrossed by the immigration debate, and to pressure officia...
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NY high court nixes Trump's bid to delay defamation suit
Legal Outlook 06/16/2018New York's highest court on Thursday turned down President Donald Trump's latest bid to delay a defamation suit filed by a former "Apprentice" contestant who accused him of unwanted groping and kissing.The ruling by the state Court of Appeals didn't ...
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Polish court rules against man who wouldn't serve LGBT group
Legal Outlook 06/12/2018Poland's Supreme Court has ruled against a businessman who refused to print posters for an LGBT business group because he did not want to "promote" the gay rights movement. The country's top court said it was upholding the ruling of a lower court. Th...
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Court to consider fraud investigator in NFL concussion case
Legal Outlook 06/01/2018A federal judge in Philadelphia is scheduled to hear arguments in the NFL's request for a special investigator to look into what the league says are fraudulent claims in a $1 billion concussion settlement.The league last month cited an independent st...
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Bangladesh Supreme Court upholds bail for opposition leader
Legal Outlook 05/16/2018Bangladesh’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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An Epic Supreme Court Decision on Employment
Legal Outlook 05/16/2018False 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...
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Ohio court's visitor center adds plaster cast of Harding
Legal Outlook 05/16/2018A plaster cast used to create a sculpture of President Warren G. Harding found at the Ohio Supreme Court is on display in the building's visitor education center.The likeness was donated by the former president's family.It was used to create the scul...
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Supreme Court greenlights driver rights in rental car case
Legal Outlook 05/15/2018The Supreme Court said Monday that people who borrow rental cars from friends or family are generally entitled to the same protections against police searches as the authorized driver.The justices ruled unanimously that as a general rule someone who ...