Recent Updates
-
Kansas faces skeptical state Supreme Court on school funding
Trial Coverage 07/17/2017Attorneys for Kansas will try to convince an often skeptical state Supreme Court on Tuesday that the funding increase legislators approved for public schools this year is enough to provide a suitable education for kids statewide. The high court is he...
-
Hearing In San Diego Unified Suit Against The College Board
Legal Marketing 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,...
-
Supreme Court deadline nears for suit over wetland loss
Recent Cases 07/15/2017A Louisiana flood board is nearing a deadline for asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review its lawsuit seeking to make oil and gas companies pay for decades of damage to coastal wetlands. Federal district and appeals courts have rejected the lawsuit, ...
-
Hearing In San Diego Unified Suit Against The College Board
U.S. Court News 07/12/2017Judge 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,...
-
Supreme Court deadline nears for suit over wetland loss
Legal Networks 07/11/2017A Louisiana flood board is nearing a deadline for asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review its lawsuit seeking to make oil and gas companies pay for decades of damage to coastal wetlands. Federal district and appeals courts have rejected the lawsuit, ...
-
First Opioid Court in the U.S. Focuses on Keeping Users Alive
Recent Cases 07/09/2017After three defendants fatally overdosed in a single week last year, it became clear that Buffalo's ordinary drug treatment court was no match for the heroin and painkiller crisis. Now the city is experimenting with the nation's first opioid crisis i...
-
Court: Detained immigrant children entitled to court hearing
U.S. Court News 07/08/2017Immigrant children who cross the border without their parents have the right to a court hearing to challenge any decision to detain them instead of turning them over to family in the U.S., a federal appeals court said Wednesday. The 9th U.S. Circuit ...
-
Court: Energy firm can pass $55M cleanup costs
Legal Marketing 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 ...
-
Appeals court backs Jimmy John's franchisee in labor dispute
Legal Solutions 07/06/2017A company that owns 10 Jimmy John's sandwich shops in the Twin Cities was within its rights to fire six union workers who circulated posters critical of the company's sick-leave policy, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The full 8th U.S. Circuit ...
-
Abduction suspect makes first appearance in court
U.S. Court News 07/05/2017Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal courthouse Monday as the suspect in the kidnapping of a Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois made his first appearance since being arrested last week. During the nine-minute hearing, 28-year-old ...
-
Indiana high court to rule on Lake Michigan beach ownership
Legal Events 07/04/2017The Indiana Supreme Court will decide who owns the land immediately adjacent to Lake Michigan. Don and Bobbie Gunderson claim their land on Lake Michigan extends to the water’s edge, meaning no one can access the beach by their house without permissi...
-
Case of gay couple's wedding cake heads to Supreme Court
Litigation Reports 07/01/2017A Colorado clash between gay rights and religion started as an angry Facebook posting about a wedding cake but now has big implications for anti-discrimination laws in 22 states. Baker Jack Phillips is challenging a Colorado law that says he was wron...