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  • Chief justice seeks budget increase for court technology

    Chief justice seeks budget increase for court technology

    Notable Attorneys 01/18/2019

    The head of the Iowa court system says technology and the need to ensure justice for everyone demands increased spending.Speaking Wednesday in his annual speech to the Legislature, Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady told lawmakers “we s...

  • Model in Russian court apologizes for US election claim

    Model in Russian court apologizes for US election claim

    Legal Exams 01/17/2019

    A Belarusian model and self-styled sex instructor who last year claimed to have evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election said Saturday that she apologizes to a Russian tycoon for the claim and won't say more about the m...

  • Family's fight for liquor license leads to Supreme Court

    Family's fight for liquor license leads to Supreme Court

    Ethics 01/16/2019

    Doug and Mary Ketchum chose Memphis, Tennessee, as a place to live with their disabled adult daughter because it has clearer air than their former home in Utah.That was the easy part. Their decision to support themselves by buying a liquor store has ...

  • Russian court says bobsledder can keep Olympic titles

    Russian court says bobsledder can keep Olympic titles

    Ethics 01/14/2019

    Russian bobsledder Alexander Zubkov won a Moscow court ruling on Friday that could make it harder for the International Olympic Committee to recover his gold medals.The Russian flagbearer at the 2014 Sochi Olympics was stripped of his two gold medals...

  •  Kevin Spacey pleads not guilty to groping young man at bar

    Kevin Spacey pleads not guilty to groping young man at bar

    Recent Cases 01/11/2019

    Kevin Spacey pleaded not guilty Monday to groping an 18-year-old busboy in 2016 in the first criminal case brought against the disgraced actor following a string of sexual misconduct allegations that crippled his career.Spacey’s court appearanc...

  • High court to take new look at partisan electoral districts

    High court to take new look at partisan electoral districts

    Legal Events 01/04/2019

    The Supreme Court is plunging back into the issue of whether electoral districts can be too partisan.Disputes have arisen in cases involving North Carolina's heavily Republican congressional map and a Democratic congressional district in Maryland, an...

  • Appeals court sides with Trump in transgender military case

    Appeals court sides with Trump in transgender military case

    Recent Cases 01/02/2019

    A federal appeals court is siding with the Trump administration in a case about the Pentagon's policy of restricting military service by transgender people.A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday that a lowe...

  •   Mississippi chief justice: Time for another to lead court

    Mississippi chief justice: Time for another to lead court

    Legal Marketing 12/26/2018

    After 21 years on the Mississippi Supreme Court and 10 years as chief justice, Bill Waller Jr. says it's time for someone else to take the helm.Waller's court has at times questioned problems with forensic evidence, but passed when asked to rule on t...

  • Cancer the latest health woe for resilient Justice Ginsburg

    Cancer the latest health woe for resilient Justice Ginsburg

    Legal Exams 12/25/2018

    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is resting in a New York hospital following surgery to remove two malignant growths in her left lung, the third time the Supreme Court’s oldest justice has been treated for cancer and her second stay in a hospital in...

  • A Colorado man of missing Colorado woman in court

    A Colorado man of missing Colorado woman in court

    Legal Events 12/24/2018

    A Colorado man suspected of killing his fiance has made his first court appearance. Patrick Frazee appeared by teleconference at a Teller County District Court hearing. Frazee was arrested earlier Friday in the disappearance of 29-year-old Kelsey Ber...

  • Human rights court rules against Greece in Sharia law case

    Human rights court rules against Greece in Sharia law case

    Legal Events 12/16/2018

    Greece violated a prohibition on discrimination by applying Islamic religious law to an inheritance dispute among members of the country's Muslim minority, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Wednesday.The court, based in the eastern French city...

  • Judge’s ruling on ‘Obamacare’ poses new problems for GOP

    Judge’s ruling on ‘Obamacare’ poses new problems for GOP

    Recent Cases 12/10/2018

    A federal judge’s ruling that the Obama health law is unconstitutional has landed like a stink bomb among Republicans, who’ve seen the politics of health care flip as Americans increasingly value the overhaul’s core parts, including...

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