Recent Updates
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Appeals court rejects secret Delaware arbitration
Headline Legal News 10/25/2013A 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...
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Farmers tied to listeria outbreak to plead guilty
Headline Legal News 10/23/2013Two 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...
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Wenatchee lawyer picked for federal judgeship
Headline Legal News 09/23/2013The 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...
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Committee OKs school spending report for WA court
Headline Legal News 08/28/2013A 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...
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Court: Legal status can't be used in civil cases
Headline Legal News 07/17/2013A 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...
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Court sides with Yahoo in data collection case
Headline Legal News 07/16/2013Yahoo 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...
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Ill. Supreme Court ends challenge to abortion law
Headline Legal News 07/12/2013The 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...
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SC high court overturns $11M defamation verdicts
Headline Legal News 07/06/2013South 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...
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Court: Ariz. citizenship proof law illegal
Headline Legal News 06/20/2013The 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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Court: $1M coverage for Conn. fire victim families
Headline Legal News 06/11/2013Families suing the operator of a Hartford nursing home where 16 patients died in a 2003 fire suffered a setback Monday, when the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the home's insurance coverage was $1 million instead of the $10 million claimed by t...
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Intel chair says NSA court order is renewal
Headline Legal News 06/06/2013The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence committee says the top secret court order for telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon is a three-month renewal of an ongoing practice. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California spoke t...
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Chicago man pleads guilty in NY hacking case
Headline Legal News 05/30/2013A self-described anarchist and "hacktivist" from Chicago pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges he illegally accessed computer systems of law enforcement agencies and government contractors. "As part of each of these hacks, I took and decimated confidenti...