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High court won't step into Mich. dispute over harness racing
Headline Legal News 04/25/2016The Supreme Court won't step into a dispute between Michigan gaming officials and a group of harness racing drivers over allegations of race-fixing. The drivers had refused to speak to state investigators without a grant of immunity from prosecution....
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JetBlue attendant pleads not guilty to cocaine charge
Recent Cases 04/23/2016A JetBlue flight attendant accused of trying to sneak a suitcase full of cocaine through Los Angeles International Airport has pleaded not guilty to a federal charge. City News Service says Marsha Gay Reynolds entered the plea Friday to posses...
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Arkansas funeral home pleads guilty over stacked bodies
Ethics 04/23/2016The company that owns an Arkansas funeral home where bodies were found stacked on top of each other in unrefrigerated areas pleaded guilty Friday after felony charges were dropped against the father and son who own the business. Arkansas Funer...
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Federal lawyer gets 30 days for forging document
Legal Events 04/22/2016A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney was sentenced to 30 days in jail Wednesday for forging a document to make it look like a Mexican man who wanted to stay in the United States was not eligible to do so. Jonathan M. Love was also sent...
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Court document: Newtown teacher carried loaded gun in school
National News 04/21/2016Court documents show a Newtown middle school teacher who was arrested on a weapon possession charge was carrying a loaded .45-caliber pistol in a holster inside the school. A Danbury Superior Court judge on Wednesday entered an initial not-gui...
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High court nominee praises lawyers for helping the poor
National News 04/20/2016Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland praised lawyers for their work with low-income Washingtonians Thursday in his first public remarks since his nomination last month. Garland was on familiar turf, speaking at the federal courthouse in Washington, ...
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Court overturns Virginia school's transgender bathroom rule
Recent Cases 04/19/2016A Virginia high school discriminated against a transgender teen by forbidding him from using the boys' restroom, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a case that could have implications for a North Carolina law that critics say discriminates agai...
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Supreme Court rejects challenge to Google's online library
Recent Cases 04/18/2016The Supreme Court turned away a challenge Monday to Google's online book library from authors who complained that the project makes it harder for them to market their work. The justices let stand lower court rulings in favor of Mountain View, Califor...
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Supreme Court to swear in large group of deaf lawyers
Legal Events 04/16/2016Mobile phones ordinarily are strictly forbidden in the marble courtroom of the nation's highest court, but the justices are making an exception next week when roughly a dozen deaf and hard-of-hearing lawyers will be admitted to the Supreme Court bar....
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Despite court ruling, China gay rights movement makes gains
Recent Cases 04/15/2016For years, Chen Tiantian could only read about the gay rights movement in faraway places. She knew that there were activists in Beijing and a vibrant community in Shanghai, and that in San Francisco, a distant mecca, gay pride parades took up entire ...
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Obama's power over immigration drives Supreme Court dispute
Legal Exams 04/15/2016The raging political fight over immigration comes to the Supreme Court on Monday in a dispute that could affect millions of people who are in the United States illegally. The court is weighing the fate of Obama administration programs that cou...
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Cosby asks court to reseal testimony about affairs, drugs
Recent Cases 04/14/2016Bill Cosby's lawyers urged an appeals court Wednesday to reseal the comedian's lurid, decade-old testimony about his womanizing, but the panel of judges seemed to think the request was pointless, since the deposition has already made headlines around...