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Ex-Illinois guardsman pleads guilty in Islamic State plot
Law Firm Marketing 12/20/2015A former Illinois National Guard soldier pleaded guilty Monday to charges alleging he conspired to provide material support to the Islamic State group. Hasan Edmonds, 23, of Aurora, Illinois, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide mater...
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High court takes up challenges to drunken-driving test
Headline Legal News 12/20/2015The Supreme Court will decide whether states can criminalize a driver's refusal to take an alcohol test even if police have not obtained a search warrant. The justices on Friday agreed to hear three cases challenging laws in Minnesota and North Dakot...
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Polish court convicts chemist of planning parliament attack
Law Firm Marketing 12/19/2015A court in southern Poland has handed a 13-year prison term to a chemist found guilty of having plotted a bomb attack on parliament and other buildings in 2012. The man, identified as Brunon Kwiecien, a university teacher in Krakow, was arrested in 2...
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Japan court says requiring same surname in marriage is legal
Legal Events 12/18/2015Japan's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that requiring married couples to have the same surname is constitutional, dealing a blow to a longtime effort for gender equality in choosing names. The law does not say which partner must give up his or her nam...
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Court papers: Witness ID'd man in playground shooting
Headline Legal News 12/01/2015A witness's statement and photo identification led to the arrest of a man accused in a playground shootout that wounded 17 people, court papers show. Joseph "Moe" Allen, 32, faces 17 counts of attempted murder in the Nov. 22 gunfight at Bunny Friend ...
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US court rejects Virginia death row inmate's appeal
Recent Cases 11/30/2015A federal appeals court has rejected a Virginia death row inmate's appeal of his murder-for-hire conviction. Ivan Teleguz was sentenced to death in 2006 for hiring a man to kill his former girlfriend, Stephanie Sipe, in Harrisonburg. After two key pr...
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Appeals court: EPA chief doesn't have to give deposition
Legal Events 11/26/2015A federal appeals court says U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy doesn't have to give a deposition in a coal company's lawsuit over the impact of regulations on jobs. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of A...
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High court directs Andhra Pradesh government to prepare summer plan
Recent Cases 11/25/2015The Hyderabad High Court has directed the Andhra Pradesh government to take steps to protect people from heat waves during summer season. The bench of acting Chief Justice Dilip B Bhosale and Justice S Ravi Kumar gave AP two weeks to come up with a p...
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Detroit-area ex-officer found guilty in videotaped beating
National News 11/22/2015A white, former Detroit-area police officer was found guilty Thursday of assault and misconduct in the bloody beating of a black driver during a traffic stop that was captured on video. Wayne County jurors handed down the verdict in the case a...
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Rancher pleads guilty to falsely claiming cattle losses
National News 11/22/2015A South Dakota rancher has pleaded guilty in federal court to falsely claiming he lost more than a hundred cattle during the autumn blizzard of 2013 that left ranchers in the state reeling with financial losses. Karl Knutson pleaded guilty Fri...
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Perry's indictment in hands of top Texas criminal court
Legal Events 11/19/2015Attorneys for former Texas Gov. Rick Perry urged the state's highest criminal court Wednesday to dismiss felony abuse-of-power charges that the Republican blames in part for foiling his short-lived 2016 presidential run. After two hours of arguments,...
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Texas man executed for setting fire that killed 3 children
Recent Cases 11/18/2015A Texas inmate was executed Wednesday for setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two young half-sisters at an East Texas home 15 years ago. Raphael Holiday, 36, became the 13th convicted killer put to death this year in Texas, w...