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California high court to rule on social media access
Legal Issues 04/29/2018The California Supreme Court will decide whether Facebook and other social media companies must turn over user content to criminal defendants.The justices are expected to rule Thursday in a case that has pitted some of Silicon Valley's biggest compan...
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Lake County courts to switch to online filing system in May
National News 04/23/2018Court officials in northwestern Indiana's Lake County plan to switch next month to an online filing system that's already used by nearly three-quarters of Indiana's counties.Lake County's circuit and superior courts will switch May 21 to the Odyssey ...
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Judge fights for job after admitting to courthouse affair
Breaking Stories 04/22/2018Massachusetts' highest court will decide the fate of a judge who admitted to having an affair with a clinical social worker that included sexual encounters at the courthouse.The Commission on Judicial Conduct is asking for Judge Thomas Estes to be su...
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Cosby defense team lobs attacks in court of public opinion
U.S. Court Watch 04/21/2018Jurors weren't allowed to hear testimony that Bill Cosby's chief accuser was once hooked on hallucinogenic mushrooms or had her sights set on becoming a millionaire, but that hasn't stopped the defense from airing the explosive claims about Andrea Co...
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Taxpayer tab for law firm overseeing Atlantic City hits $4.8M
U.S. Court Watch 04/18/2018New Jersey taxpayers' tab for the takeover of Atlantic City has reached about $5 million in fees from the law firm former Gov. Chris Christie picked to oversee the gambling resort.Records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press show the firm of Chi...
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Clicking 'checkout' could cost more after Supreme Court case
Headline Legal News 04/16/2018The Supreme Court is hearing a case this week that could affect how much customers pay for online purchases.At issue is a rule saying that businesses don't have to collect state sales taxes when those businesses ship to a state where they don't have ...
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Supreme Court rejects anti-abortion pastor's appeal on noise
Legal Compliance 04/16/2018The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a pastor who challenged a state law's noise limit that was used to restrict his anti-abortion protest outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Portland, Maine.The justices offered no comment Monday in rejecti...
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Question of sales tax on online purchases goes to high court
Legal Compliance 04/15/2018Online shoppers have gotten used to seeing that line on checkout screens before they click "purchase." But a case before the Supreme Court could change that.At issue is a rule stemming from two, decades-old Supreme Court cases: If a business is shipp...
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Court: Man can't be retried for murder after mistrial ruling
National Court News 04/14/2018Georgia's highest court says a man can't be retried for murder after the judge in his case declared a mistrial after about three hours of jury deliberations.Jedarrius Treonta Meadows was on trial in September 2015 for the February 2014 shooting death...
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Supreme Court again refuses to hear Blagojevich appeal
Notable Attorneys 04/14/2018The Supreme Court for the second time has refused to hear an appeal by imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of his corruption convictions.The justices didn't comment Monday in letting stand the convictions and 14-year prison term the 61-ye...
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Zuckerberg Flubs Details of Facebook Privacy Commitments
National Court News 04/12/2018Over two days of questioning in Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg chief revealed that he didn’t know key details of a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission that requires Facebook to protect user privacy.With congressional h...
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Michigan Democrats back Nessel for state attorney general
U.S. Court Watch 04/12/2018Thousands of fired-up Michigan Democrats endorsed Dana Nessel on Sunday in a hotly contested race for state attorney general, backing the former prosecutor-turned-civil rights lawyer to wrest back control of an office the party last held 16 years ago...