Recent Updates
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Top German court strengthens intersex identity rights
Legal Solutions 01/15/2018Germany’s highest court has decided that people must be allowed to be entered in official records as neither male nor female, saying in a ruling published Wednesday that authorities should create a third identity or scrap gender entries altoget...
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Analysis: Outside groups may factor in Arkansas court race
Legal Solutions 01/02/2018Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson lost her bid to run the state's highest court two years ago after coming under fire from conservative groups that spent big on mailers and TV ads targeting her. Two years earlier, David Sterling was def...
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Indonesia court upholds seizure of illegal fishing vessel
Legal Solutions 10/29/2017Indonesia says it has won a two-year court battle that confirms the legality of the government's seizure of a Thai vessel linked to human trafficking and illegal fishing in Indonesian waters.Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Susi Pudjiastuti...
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Personal Injury Attorneys Website Design
Legal Solutions 08/12/2017Personal Injury Website Design #L171066-PI This website design is highly suggested for personal injury lawyers. Upon entering the website, visitors see a simple layout and full width slider which evokes a professional and unique feel to your visitors...
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Hearing In San Diego Unified Suit Against The College Board
Legal Solutions 07/16/2017Judge Michael M. Anello will hear San Diego Unified's motion for a temporary restraining order in federal court 4 p.m. Friday, according to court records. The district filed a lawsuit Friday against the College Board and Educational Testing Services,...
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Court: Energy firm can pass $55M cleanup costs
Legal Solutions 07/06/2017The Ohio Supreme Court says an energy company is allowed to pass on the $55 million cost of cleaning up two polluted sites to its customers in the form of an added charge on their monthly bills. Duke Energy has been adding $1.67 to bills in Ohio for ...
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Florida Legislature at "Open War" with State Supreme Court
Legal Solutions 03/01/2017The Republican-dominated Legislature's tense relationship with the state Supreme Court is hanging over this year's legislative session as lawmakers take up two bills to deal with the aftermath of court rulings that Republicans don't like. One of them...
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Trial court election changes considered by North Carolina House
Legal Solutions 02/21/2017Some Republicans are set on returning all North Carolina state judicial elections to being officially partisan races again. A law quickly approved in December during a special election directed statewide races for Supreme Court and Court of Appeals t...
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Court cites racial profiling in tossing gun charge
Legal Solutions 09/23/2016The highest court in Massachusetts on Tuesday threw out a gun conviction against a Boston man in a ruling that says black men who flee when approached by police may be reacting to racial profiling rather than trying to hide criminal activity. In its ...
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Swedish court upholds arrest warrant for Julian Assange
Legal Solutions 05/28/2016A Swedish court on Wednesday rejected a request to overturn the arrest warrant of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because there were no new circumstances to consider. The Stockholm District Court said it made the decision because Assange is still wa...
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Court rejects AG Kane's request to reinstate law license
Legal Solutions 02/05/2016Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane's law license will remain suspended after the state's highest court on Friday denied her request to have it reinstated while she fights criminal charges of leaking secret grand jury material and lying about...
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ACLU to appeal court ruling in Missouri drug testing case
Legal Solutions 12/22/2015The American Civil Liberties Union said it plans to appeal a federal court ruling that upheld a technical college’s plan to force every incoming student to be tested for drugs. Tony Rothert, legal director for the ACLU’s Missouri chapter, told the Je...