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Texas court dismisses GOP donor’s defamation lawsuit
Legal Issues 06/09/2023A Texas appeals court on Friday dismissed a billionaire’s defamation lawsuit against Democrat Beto O’Rouke that was brought after O’Rourke criticized a $1 million campaign contribution to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.The ruling by th...
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Add value to your neglected assets - Life Insurance Policy Review
Legal Issues 04/09/2023During a life insurance policy review, you should look at your current coverage and beneficiaries and decide if any adjustments should be made. A Life Insurance Policy Review can be incorporated into initial planning or regular reviews when significa...
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Pence subpoenaed by special counsel probing Trump
Legal Issues 02/06/2023Former Vice President Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel overseeing investigations into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to a person with direct knowled...
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Nicholas C. Minshew - Minshew & Ahluwalia LLP
Legal Issues 03/11/2022Nicholas C. Minshew, Attorney at Law, concentrates his practice in the area of Family Law including divorce, separation, child support, child custody, alimony, division of property, separation agreements, domestic violence, prenuptial agreements, and...
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Maryland’s highest court reviewing teen sniper’s life term
Legal Issues 02/18/2022Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced the appointments of two judges to the state’s highest court on Thursday. Harford County Circuit Court Judge Angela Eaves has been appointed to the Maryland Court of Appeals. Eaves, who is the first Hispanic j...
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Appeals court: Illinois counties must end ICE contracts
Legal Issues 01/14/2022A federal appeals court has ruled two counties that hold immigrant detainees at local jails must terminate contracts with federal authorities starting Thursday. Leaders in Kankakee and McHenry counties sued over an Illinois law aimed at ending immigr...
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Commissioner sought to oversee 3 Ohio redistricting suits
Legal Issues 10/04/2021Attorneys in one of three lawsuits brought against Ohio’s newly drawn maps of legislative districts asked the state’s high court Monday to appoint a master commissioner to oversee the disputes. Lawyers for voters represented by the Nation...
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Maryland’s highest court reviewing teen sniper’s life term
Legal Issues 08/27/2021Maryland’s highest court has agreed to take up the case of Lee Boyd Malvo, who is serving life in prison for his role in the 2002 sniper spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., region. Malvo’s lawyers argue that his punishment goes ag...
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Holocaust researchers in Poland win libel case on appeal
Legal Issues 08/16/2021An appellate court in Poland on Monday rejected a lawsuit brought against two Holocaust scholars in a case that has been closely watched because it was expected to serve as a precedent for research into the highly sensitive area of Polish behavior to...
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Supreme Court: Guam can pursue $160M dump cleanup lawsuit
Legal Issues 05/24/2021The Supreme Court says the U.S. territory of Guam can pursue a $160 million lawsuit against the federal government over the cost of cleaning up a landfill on the island. The justices on Monday unanimously overturned a lower court decision that had sa...
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Colorado court: Speed-reading bills violates constitution
Legal Issues 03/15/2021The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that state Senate Democrats violated the constitution in 2019 when they responded to Republicans’ request that bills be read at length by having computers speed-read the bills in an intelligible garble.The C...
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Courts wrestle with whether manslaughter is always violent
Legal Issues 03/06/2021Once annually, sometimes less, the full federal appeals court in New York meets to confront a perplexing legal question. Most recently, it was to decide whether shooting somebody point-blank in the face and stabbing somebody to death are violent acts...