Recent Updates
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Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect Monday
Legal Compliance News 07/26/2024An Iowa judge has ruled the state’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, preventing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from be...
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The Law Office of Erica S. Janton - East Greenwich, RI Divorce Lawyer
Legal Marketing 07/21/2024Erica S. Janton has extensive experience in complex high asset and high conflict family law matters and uses her experience within the family court arena to individually tailor strategies with each of her clients and provide realistic solution focuse...
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Court dismisses lawsuit over Tennessee’s anti-drag show ban
Legal Compliance News 07/21/2024A federal appeals court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows, reversing a lower court ruling that deemed the statute unconstitutional and blocked its enforcement in part of ...
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Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison
Court Watch 07/17/2024Albania’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a verdict of the lower courts keeping a former elected mayor from the country’s Greek minority in prison after he was convicted of buying votes.A Supreme Court statement said that it upheld the ver...
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New York’s top court allows ‘equal rights’ amendment to appear on November ballot
Featured Legal News 07/14/2024A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution to bar discrimination over “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes” will appear on the ballot this November, the state’s high court ruled Thursday.The decision from...
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Special Education Lawyers in Connecticut - Maya Murphy, P.C.
Legal Marketing 07/10/2024Parental awareness of a child’s special needs is the best way for the child to exceed expectations and achieve maximum potential. Special education laws and regulations are designed to protect and provide for students with disabilities and ensu...
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Giuliani Disbarred in N.Y. for Wrongdoing During Trump’s 2020 Campaign
Featured Legal News 07/07/2024Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in New York on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.The Manhattan app...
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What to know about the Supreme Court immunity ruling
Family Law 07/01/2024The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday in former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case makes it all but certain that the Republican will not face trial in Washington ahead of the November election.The Supreme Court did not d...
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Israel’s high court orders the army to draft ultra-Orthodox men
Court Watch 06/26/2024Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coal...
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Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims
Class Action 06/22/2024The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal gun control law that is intended to protect victims of domestic violence.In their first Second Amendment case since they expanded gun rights in 2022, the justices ruled 8-1 in favor of a 1994 ban on firear...
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Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons
Court Watch 06/19/2024Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat.The boy band singer-turned-solo st...
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Ex-Thailand PM Shinawatra indicted for defaming monarchy
Legal Business 06/16/2024Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was indicted and arraigned Tuesday on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics. He was granted bail.Thaksin is the unofficial power b...