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  • Nevada Supreme Court upholds ethics laws

    Nevada Supreme Court upholds ethics laws

    Headline Legal News 12/02/2013

    The Nevada Supreme Court upheld the state's ethics laws on Wednesday while backing the censure of a Sparks councilman for his 2005 vote on a casino project involving his former campaign manager. In a 5-2 opinion, justices rejected arguments from Spar...

  • Amanda Knox appeals slander case to European court

    Amanda Knox appeals slander case to European court

    Headline Legal News 11/29/2013

    Lawyers for Amanda Knox filed an appeal of her slander conviction in Italy with the European Court of Human Rights, as her third murder trial was underway in Florence. The slander conviction was based on statements Knox made to police in November 200...

  • Anti-whaling activist to testify in US court

    Anti-whaling activist to testify in US court

    Headline Legal News 11/08/2013

    A fugitive anti-whaling activist known for confronting Japanese whaling vessels off Antarctica is due to testify about his actions in a U.S. court Wednesday. Paul Watson, founder of the Oregon-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, is expected to t...

  • Appeals court rejects secret Delaware arbitration

    Appeals court rejects secret Delaware arbitration

    Headline Legal News 10/25/2013

    A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling declaring that a Delaware law allowing chancery judges to oversee secret arbitration in high-stakes business disputes is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rule...

  • Farmers tied to listeria outbreak to plead guilty

    Farmers tied to listeria outbreak to plead guilty

    Headline Legal News 10/23/2013

    Two Colorado cantaloupe farmers are expected to plead guilty under a deal with federal prosecutors in the 2011 listeria outbreak that killed 33 people. Eric and Ryan Jensen have a change-of-plea hearing scheduled in federal court in Denver on Tuesday...

  • Wenatchee lawyer picked for federal judgeship

    Wenatchee lawyer picked for federal judgeship

    Headline Legal News 09/23/2013

    The White House has nominated Wenatchee lawyer Stanley Bastian to become Eastern Washington's newest federal judge. If approved by the Senate, he would replace Judge Edward Shea on the bench in Richland. Bastian is a 1983 University of Washington Law...

  • Committee OKs school spending report for WA court

    Committee OKs school spending report for WA court

    Headline Legal News 08/28/2013

    A committee overseeing progress on paying the full cost of basic education for kids in public school voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a draft of its latest progress report to the state Supreme Court. In its decision on a lawsuit brought by a coal...

  • Court: Legal status can't be used in civil cases

    Court: Legal status can't be used in civil cases

    Headline Legal News 07/17/2013

    A person's legal status in the country can't be used in civil cases by attorneys to intimidate or coerce under a new rule approved by the Washington Supreme Court last week. Since 2007, advocates have been working to make the change to the Rules of P...

  • Court sides with Yahoo in data collection case

    Court sides with Yahoo in data collection case

    Headline Legal News 07/16/2013

    Yahoo has won a court fight that could help the public learn more about the government's efforts to obtain data from Internet users. The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which reviews government requests to spy on individuals, ruled Mond...

  • Ill. Supreme Court ends challenge to abortion law

    Ill. Supreme Court ends challenge to abortion law

    Headline Legal News 07/12/2013

    The Illinois Supreme Court ended a lengthy and emotionally charged legal appeal over an abortion notification law Thursday, clearing the way for the state to begin enforcing a 1995 measure that requires doctors to notify a girl's parents 48 hours bef...

  • SC high court overturns $11M defamation verdicts

    SC high court overturns $11M defamation verdicts

    Headline Legal News 07/06/2013

    South Carolina's high court has overturned $11 million in verdicts against a Charleston attorney accused of defaming a businessman by comparing him to television mobster Tony Soprano. The state Supreme Court this week sent a civil case against Paul H...

  • Court: Ariz. citizenship proof law illegal

    Court: Ariz. citizenship proof law illegal

    Headline Legal News 06/20/2013

    The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier. The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona's voter-approved requ...

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