Recent Updates
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US Supreme Court allows lawsuit against troopers to proceed
National News 10/06/2021The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by two state police officers accused of failing to protect a woman from a man who went on a deadly rampage, allowing a civil lawsuit to proceed. Troopers were accused of failing to do enough when Brit...
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Commissioner sought to oversee 3 Ohio redistricting suits
National News 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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Arkansas court: State can’t enforce ban on mask mandates
National News 10/01/2021The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday said it wouldn’t allow the state to enforce its ban on mask mandates by schools and other government bodies, while lawmakers clashed over efforts to prohibit businesses from requiring employees get the COV...
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Federal judge delays vaccine mandate for NYC teachers
National News 09/27/2021New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect. Workers in the nation’s largest school system were to be ...
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Wisconsin election investigator warns of subpoenas
National News 09/22/2021The retired conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice leading a Republican-ordered investigation into the 2020 presidential election released a video Monday threatening to subpoena election officials who don’t comply and saying the intent wa...
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1st female LGBT federal appeals court nominee to get hearing
National News 09/14/2021The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is considering President Joe Biden’s nomination of a Vermont judge who played a role in the state’s passage of the first-in-the-nation civil unions law, a forerunner of same-sex marriage, to become the ...
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Oklahoma court declines to bar duo from death penalty case
National News 09/12/2021The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected a request to remove two members of the state’s Pardon and Parole Board from a high-profile death penalty case. The court’s brief ruling on Friday denied a prosecutor’s request to remove Adam L...
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Australia’s High Court intervenes in police shooting trial
National News 09/10/2021Australia’s highest court on Friday agreed to hear a challenge to a police officer using his law enforcement job as a defense against a charge of murdering an Indigenous man. Constable Zachary Rolfe could become the first police officer to be c...
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Court rules Catholic school wrongfully fired gay substitute
National News 09/06/2021A gay substitute teacher was wrongfully fired by a Roman Catholic school in North Carolina after he announced in 2014 on social media that he was going to marry his longtime partner, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn r...
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Charlotte Sexual Harassment Lawyer
National News 08/23/2021Law Promo’s spotlight today is on Chris Strianese, Charlotte Sexual Harassment Lawyer. Chris Strianese is a Charlotte-based attorney specializing in sexual harassment. On his Charlotte sexual harassment attorney website, Chris explains sexual h...
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US moves to cut backlog of asylum cases at US-Mexico border
National News 08/18/2021The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed changing how asylum claims are handled, aiming to reduce a huge backlog of cases from the U.S.-Mexico border that has left people waiting years to find out whether they will be allowed to stay in America...
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Federal judge leaves CDC evictions moratorium in place
National News 08/13/2021A federal judge is refusing landlords’ request to put the Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium on hold, though she made clear she thinks it’s illegal. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich on Friday said her “hands ar...