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  • Supreme Court: Water rule suits should begin in trial courts

    Supreme Court: Water rule suits should begin in trial courts

    Law Firm News 01/21/2018

    Opponents of an Obama administration rule aimed at protecting small streams and wetlands from development and pollution now know which courts should be hearing their lawsuits.The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that litigation over the rule sh...

  • Judge to pick battlefield for court fight over Manson's body

    Judge to pick battlefield for court fight over Manson's body

    Recent Cases 01/21/2018

    Charles Manson orchestrated murders in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, served time in a state prison in Corcoran and died in a hospital in Bakersfield.The legal battle for his body or possessions could land in any of three California counties wh...

  •  Court rules Puigdemont must return to Spain for re-election

    Court rules Puigdemont must return to Spain for re-election

    Legal Solutions 01/21/2018

    Spain's top court said Saturday that Catalonia's fugitive ex-president must return to the country and be present in the regional parliament to receive the authority to form a new government.The Constitutional Court ruled that a session of Catalonia's...

  • Thai court drops royal insult charges against academic

    Thai court drops royal insult charges against academic

    Legal Issues 01/18/2018

    A Thai military court on Wednesday dropped royal insult charges against an 84-year old historian who questioned whether a Thai king had actually defeated a Burmese adversary in combat on elephant-back over 500 years ago.Sulak Sivaraksa was charged in...

  • Warrant dropped for professor who spoke Hawaiian in court

    Warrant dropped for professor who spoke Hawaiian in court

    Recent Cases 01/14/2018

    A judge dropped an arrest warrant Thursday for a University of Hawaii professor who refused to respond in court to English and spoke Hawaiian instead.Samuel Kaleikoa Kaeo was in court Wednesday facing a trial for charges connected to his participatio...

  • Supreme Court sides with police over partygoers in wild bash

    Supreme Court sides with police over partygoers in wild bash

    Trial Coverage 01/11/2018

    The Supreme Court sided Monday with police over partygoers in a dispute about arrests at a 2008 bash at a vacant home that had been turned into a makeshift strip club.The high court ruled that police had sufficient reason to make arrests at the rauco...

  • Pennsylvania court throws out congressional boundaries

    Pennsylvania court throws out congressional boundaries

    Recent Cases 01/11/2018

    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state's widely criticized congressional map Monday, granting a major victory to Democrats who alleged the 18 districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to benefit Republicans and setting off a scram...

  • Supreme Court delays order for North Carolina to redraw maps

    Supreme Court delays order for North Carolina to redraw maps

    Legal Events 01/01/2018

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday delayed a lower-court order that would have forced North Carolina Republican lawmakers to redraw the state's congressional districts by next week because of excessive partisan bias in current lines.The justices anno...

  • Attorney general applauds high court decision on water rule

    Attorney general applauds high court decision on water rule

    Legal News 01/01/2018

    North Dakota's attorney general is applauding a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that recognizes federal district courts as the forum to hear legal challenges to an Obama administration rule aimed at protecting small streams and wetlands from development an...

  • Chicago, IL Workers' Compensation Lawyers

    Chicago, IL Workers' Compensation Lawyers

    Law Firm News 12/22/2017

    Chicago, IL Workers' Compensation Lawyers Since 1962, the law firm of Krol, Bongiorno & Given, Ltd. has been a leader in the field of workers’ compensation law, protecting the rights of tens of thousands of workers injured on the job. KBG p...

  • Steve Mostyn, Houston attorney and major Dem donor, dies

    Steve Mostyn, Houston attorney and major Dem donor, dies

    Headline Legal News 11/20/2017

    Steve Mostyn, a prominent Houston trial attorney and a top Democratic Party donor, has died. He was 46.In a statement, his family confirmed Thursday his death on Wednesday "after a sudden onset and battle with a mental health issue.""Steve was a belo...

  • Florida man back at Supreme Court with 1st Amendment case

    Florida man back at Supreme Court with 1st Amendment case

    Notable Attorneys 11/16/2017

    The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a First Amendment case brought by a Florida man who previously won a landmark ruling from the justices on whether his floating home was a house, not a boat subject to easier government seizure under laws t...

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