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Probation for woman who wiped up blood after killing spouse
National News 08/04/2022A Florida woman who was acquitted of murdering her husband, a prominent official at the University of Central Florida, was sentenced Friday to a year of probation for tampering with evidence.A judge sentenced Danielle Redlick in state court in Orland...
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Death penalty upheld for Ohio man who fatally shot couple
Legal Events 08/01/2022The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for a man who shot and killed a couple whose house and dog he was caring for while they were away on vacation.Death row inmate George Brinkman pleaded guilty to the 2017 deaths of Rogell and Roberta...
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Ex-cop Kueng gets 3 years for violating Floyd’s rights
Legal Compliance 07/27/2022Former Minneapolis police Officer J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to three years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights during the May 2020 killing.Kueng’s co-defendant Tou Thao was scheduled to be...
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Louisiana seeks suspension of block on enforcement
Legal Compliance 07/22/2022A day after a state judge blocked enforcement of Louisiana’s abortion ban, state officials asked the same judge to suspend his own ruling while they pursue an appeal.Lawyers for state Attorney General Jeff Landry and health secretary Courtney P...
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Senate confirms Michelle Childs to DC appeals cou
Legal Events 07/20/2022The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of South Carolina jurist Michelle Childs — recently under consideration for a slot on the U.S. Supreme Court — to sit on the federal court typically seen as a proving ground for the nati...
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Georgia abortion law challenge now focused on ‘personhood’
National News 07/17/2022Lawyers for the state of Georgia urged a federal appeals court to allow the state’s 2019 abortion law to take effect now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled there is no constitutional right to an abortion.Ruling in a case out of Mississippi, ...
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Law Firm News 07/12/2022St. Louis, MO Criminal Defense Lawyer A National Presence with clients all over the country. For years, The Law Offices of John M. Lynch, LLC, has been committed to providing clients with the attentive service and the strong representation needed to ...
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Judge throws out Missouri AG’s COVID-19 suit against China
Legal Compliance 07/10/2022A federal judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit by Missouri Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt that blamed China for the coronavirus pandemic.U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh said in his 38-page ruling that in this case federal rules prohibit...
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Florida judge blocks new 15-week abortion ban
Legal Compliance 07/05/2022A Florida judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a new 15-week abortion ban days after it took effect in the state, an expected move following an oral ruling last week in which he said the law violated the state constitution.Judge John C. Cooper issued...
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Texas clinics halt abortions after state high court ruling
Legal Compliance 07/01/2022Clinics were shutting down abortion services in the nation’s second-largest state Saturday after the Texas Supreme Court blocked an order briefly allowing the procedure to resume in some cases, the latest in legal scrambles taking place across ...
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Senators ask minor leaguers for information on MLB antitrust
Breaking Stories 06/28/2022The chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to an advocacy group for minor leaguers asking questions about baseball’s antitrust exemption.Sen. Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who chairs the comm...
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Lawyers call on intl court to investigate Uyghur treatment
Legal Compliance 06/22/2022Lawyers on Monday renewed calls for the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups in China’s Xinjiang region as they presented a dossier of evidence to pr...