Recent Updates
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Nigeria’s Court reinstates terrorism charges against separatist leader
Law Firm News 12/15/2023Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling dismissing terrorism charges against a popular separatist leader whose trial has been blamed for an outbreak of violence in the country’s southeast region.The Court said Nn...
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Indiana man asks court to review sentence in wife’s slaying
Law Firm News 10/28/2021southern Indiana man who was sentenced to 65 years in prison last year for killing his wife and dismembering and hiding her body has asked the Indiana Supreme Court to review his sentence. Judson K. Hoover’s petition to the state’s high c...
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Cosby lawyers ask appeals court to toss #MeToo conviction
Law Firm News 08/11/2019Cosby lawyers ask appeals court to A Pennsylvania appeals court on Monday questioned why actor Bill Cosby never got a supposed non-prosecution agreement in writing as his lawyers asked the panel to overturn his sexual assault conviction.Cosby, 82, is...
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Supreme Court: Trump can use Pentagon funds for border wall
Law Firm News 07/19/2019The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.The court’s five conservative justices gave the administration the green light on Friday ...
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Court to Trump: Blocking Twitter critics is unconstitutional
Law Firm News 07/05/2019President Donald Trump lost a major Twitter fight Tuesday when a federal appeals court said that his daily musings and pronouncements were overwhelmingly official in nature and that he violated the First Amendment whenever he blocked a critic to sile...
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Ohio top court to hear arguments in TV news defamation case
Law Firm News 04/21/2019Ohio's Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in an appeal involving a defamation lawsuit that alleged a television station falsely labeled three siblings as "robbers."A Columbus family sued WBNS-TV in 2016 after the station reported on a hover ...
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New black officers, court officials rethinking US policing
Law Firm News 11/19/2018Hill” because the Ku Klux Klan bombed so many houses there in the 1950s and ’60s.Now, after becoming the first black person elected sheriff in Birmingham - on the same day voters elected the community’s first black district attorney...
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Supreme Court agrees to hear Maryland cross memorial case
Law Firm News 11/02/2018The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a case about whether a nearly 100-year-old, cross-shaped war memorial located on a Maryland highway median violates the Constitution's required separation of church and state, a case that could impact hundreds ...
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Court picks prosecutor to defend ruling on Arpaio's pardon
Law Firm News 10/11/2018A Los Angeles attorney has been appointed to defend a ruling by a lower court judge who refused to erase the criminal record of former metro Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio after he was pardoned by President Trump.The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monda...
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Supreme Court allows Arkansas to enforce abortion restrictions
Law Firm News 05/30/2018The Supreme Court is allowing Arkansas to put into 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 r...
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Law firm hired to investigate economic development agency
Law Firm News 05/10/2018The Oregon Department of Justice has hired a law firm to investigate allegations of discrimination and mismanagement at the state's economic development agency, Business Oregon.The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that in an anonymous letter to Gov. Kate...
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Dayton appoints Democratic Rep. Thissen to Supreme Court
Law Firm News 04/16/2018Gov. Mark Dayton appointed longtime Democratic state Rep. Paul Thissen to the Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday, the latest in a long line of partisans to join the state's highest court.Thissen is an attorney and Minneapolis lawmaker who has served ...