Recent Updates
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USCIS will reject any petition that includes an incorrect fee payment
Featured Legal News 03/27/2018USCIS will reject and return the petitions and associated filing fees to petitioners that were not selected, as well as any cap-subject petitions received after Feb. 27.In January, the Department of Labor announced a change to its process of issuing ...
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Supreme Court takes up challenge by crisis pregnancy centers
Law Journals 03/27/2018The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a free speech fight over California's attempt to regulate anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.The case being argued Tuesday involves information required by a state law that the centers must provide client...
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Court hears case alleging unconstitutional 6th District gerrymander
Law Journals 03/26/2018U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed frustration with partisan gerrymandering on Wednesday as they heard arguments in a case challenging Maryland’s 6th Congressional District.The case, which alleges a Democratic gerrymander in Maryland at the ...
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Another key redistricting case goes in front of high court
Law Journals 03/24/2018The Supreme Court has already heard a major case about political line-drawing that has the potential to reshape American politics. Now, before even deciding that one, the court is taking up another similar case.The arguments justices will hear Wednes...
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Bolivia takes sea access dispute with Chile to world court
International 03/19/2018Bolivia made an emotional appeal Monday for the International Court of Justice to order Chile to enter talks over granting the landlocked South American nation access to the Pacific Ocean, saying the dispute will remain a source of conflict if it's n...
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Appeals court weighs resuming pipeline project in Louisiana
Law Journals 03/17/2018A company building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana is asking a federal appeals court to allow it to resume construction work in an environmentally fragile swamp.A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arg...
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Martin Shkreli cries in court, is sentenced to 7 years for securities fraud
Legal Compliance News 03/16/2018The smirk wiped from his face, a crying Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud Friday in a hard fall for the pharmaceutical-industry bad boy vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.Shkreli, the boyis...
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Cambodian court denies opposition leader release on bail
Court Watch 03/11/2018Cambodia's Supreme Court has denied bail for an opposition leader charged with treason who is seeking to be released for medical treatment abroad.The court ruled Friday that Kem Sokha must remain in pretrial detention for his own safety and because t...
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Court rules in favor of fired transgender funeral director
Featured Legal News 03/07/2018A woman was illegally fired by a Detroit-area funeral home after disclosing that she was transitioning from male to female and dressed as a woman, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said R.G. & G.R. Harr...
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Organized labor case goes in front of Supreme Court
Featured Legal News 03/03/2018The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that could deal a painful financial blow to organized labor.All eyes will be on Justice Neil Gorsuch Monday when the court takes up a challenge to an Illinois law that allows unions representing govern...
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Supreme Court declines to take up 'Dreamers' case for now
Law Journals 02/28/2018The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's highly unusual bid to bypass a federals appeals court and get the justices to intervene in the fate of a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation....
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High court: Held immigrants can't get periodic bond hearings
Supreme Court News 02/27/2018The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigrants the government has detained and is considering deporting aren't entitled by law to periodic bond hearings.The case is a class-action lawsuit brought by immigrants who've spent long periods in custody. T...