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Commissioner sought to oversee 3 Ohio redistricting suits
Legal Events 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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Federal judge delays vaccine mandate for NYC teachers
Legal Events 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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California Litigation Attorneys Web Design
Legal Events 08/18/2021Law Promo is pleased to announce the launch of the new responsive website for California Litigation Attorneys. About the firm: Our mission is to provide the highest quality legal counseling, deliberately tailored to the specific objectives of each cl...
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San Francisco Copyright Lawyers - Our Firm
Legal Events 07/24/2021Our Firm has established a reputation for enforcing and protecting trademarks in the marketplace with enforcement actions in Federal and State courts throughout the United States as well as at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. San Francisco Trade...
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Nepal’s Supreme Court reinstates dissolved lower house
Legal Events 07/12/2021Nepal’s Supreme Court reinstated the House of Representatives on Monday and upheld the leader of the opposition’s claim to be the new prime minister. The 167-page court order removes Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli, who had been running ...
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Most virus-related restrictions lifted for Kentucky courts
Legal Events 05/18/2021Kentucky’s Supreme Court has ended most coronavirus-related restrictions for the state’s court system effective immediately, Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. said Tuesday. The high court entered administrative orders eliminating most heal...
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Capitol stormer who wore ‘I Was There’ shirt to stay in jail
Legal Events 04/02/2021A federal judge refused Thursday to set bail for a Texas man who was wearing a T-shirt that said, “I Was There, Washington D.C., January 6, 2021,” when he was arrested on charges he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.U.S. Judge Carl Nicho...
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South Africa’s ex-president should be jailed, argues lawyer
Legal Events 03/25/2021Lawyers for a commission investigating corruption in South Africa have asked the country’s highest court to jail former president Jacob Zuma for two years for failing to cooperate with its probe. The commission of inquiry into high-level graft,...
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Courts wrestle with whether manslaughter is always violent
Legal Events 03/06/2021Once annually, sometimes less, the full federal appeals court in New York meets to confront a perplexing legal question. Most recently, it was to decide whether shooting somebody point-blank in the face and stabbing somebody to death are violent acts...
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Judge refuses to order remote access to New Hampshire House
Legal Events 02/22/2021The New Hampshire House can proceed with in-person sessions this week without providing remote access to medically vulnerable lawmakers, a federal judge ruled Monday.Seven Democratic lawmakers sued Republican House Speaker Sherm Packard last week arg...
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Planned Parenthood sues to block South Carolina abortion ban
Legal Events 02/18/2021Planned Parenthood was filing a lawsuit Thursday against a bill that would ban most abortions in South Carolina, effectively stopping the measure from going into effect even as the governor was scheduled to sign it into law at a public statehouse cer...
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Court halts another Texas execution over disability claims
Legal Events 02/04/2021A Texas appeals court has delayed a second execution this year to review claims that an inmate is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday granted a request by attorneys for Ed...