Recent Updates
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Serial rapist Coe appeals confinement in US court
National News 01/02/2014Kevin Coe, who was arrested in 1981 after dozens of women were raped in Spokane, is appealing his confinement as a sexually violent predator to federal court. Coe was suspected in the rapes, attributed to the "South Hill Rapist," but only one convict...
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Supreme Court denies appeal in arson case
Recent Cases 12/30/2013The Montana Supreme Court has denied a petition for post-conviction relief filed by a Billings man who argued that a District Court judge misinterpreted the state's arson law and that he had ineffective attorneys. The Dec. 20 Supreme Court ruling lef...
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Man pleads not guilty in rape, death of Ohio girl
Headline Legal News 12/30/2013An Ohio man pleaded not guilty Thursday in the rape and strangulation of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found in a trash bin at the trailer park where they were neighbors. One of Jerrod Metsker's court-appointed attorneys entered the pleas for him ...
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Gay couples wed in Utah after judge overturns ban
Legal Events 12/23/2013Elisa Noel rushed to the county clerk's office with her partner immediately after learning that a federal judge overturned Utah's ban on gay marriage. They waited in line for a wedding license and were married in an impromptu ceremony punctuated with...
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Canadian court strikes down anti-prostitution laws
Headline Legal News 12/23/2013Canada's highest court struck down the country's anti-prostitution laws Friday, a victory for sex workers who had argued that a ban on brothels and other measures made their profession more dangerous. The ruling drew criticism from the conservative g...
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Calif. high court mulling release of law test data
Headline Legal News 12/20/2013Researcher Richard Sander has been fighting for years to obtain sensitive data collected by the administrator of California's bar examination to help him examine the effects affirmative action policies have on the performance of minority law school s...
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Hearing: Which court should hear coastal lawsuit?
National News 12/20/2013A legal tug-of-war continues in a state levee board's lawsuit against 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies over the erosion of wetlands. The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East wants U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to send ...
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$15 SeaTac minimum wage challenged in court
National News 12/16/2013A King County Superior Court judge declined Friday to immediately rule on a challenge to the voter-approved $15 an hour minimum wage requirement for airport workers in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Judge Andrea Darvas said she'll issue a ruli...
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Appeals court vacates ban on US horse slaughter
Recent Cases 12/16/2013A federal appeals court on Friday removed a temporary ban on domestic horse slaughter, clearing the way for companies in New Mexico, Missouri and Iowa to open while an appeal of a lawsuit by animal protection groups proceeds. The 10th U.S. Circuit Co...
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NY court: Reporter shielded in Colo. shooting case
Headline Legal News 12/12/2013A Fox News reporter is protected by New York law from being forced to reveal her sources for a story about the suspect in the mass shooting that left 12 people dead in a suburban Denver movie theater last year, the state's top court ruled Tuesday. Th...
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Court: Exec guilty over faulty French implants
Legal Events 12/12/2013A disgraced French businessman was convicted of fraud and sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday for filling tens of thousands of breast implants with industrial grade silicone. But he left the courthouse freely after lodging an appeal, and tho...
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New Calif. court date set for ex-Nevada lawmaker
National News 12/09/2013A California court date was pushed back again for a former Las Vegas-area lawmaker jailed since a freeway chase and scuffle with police the day he was expelled last March from the Nevada Assembly. Prosecutor Shannon Faherty said a Friday court date f...