Recent Updates
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California fight on Trump birth control rules goes to court
Business Law 01/11/2019A U.S. judge will hear arguments Friday over California's attempt to block new rules by the Trump administration that would allow more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women.Judge Haywood Gilliam previously blocked an interi...
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Cancer the latest health woe for resilient Justice Ginsburg
Business Law 12/24/2018Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is resting in a New York hospital following surgery to remove two malignant growths in her left lung, the third time the Supreme Court’s oldest justice has been treated for cancer and her second stay in a hospital in...
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Court to explore competency claim of ailing Alabama inmate
Business Law 10/01/2018The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in the case of an inmate sentenced to death for killing an Alabama police officer in 1985 but who lawyers say can no longer remember the murder because of stroke-induced dementia.Justices will decide...
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Iowa woman promoted to nation's lone all-male Supreme Court
Business Law 08/03/2018Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday promoted a female district judge to the Supreme Court in Iowa, the only state where all of its current justices are men.Susan Christensen will be the first woman on Iowa's high court in roughly eight years. T...
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US Supreme Court ruling in union dues impacts case in Oregon
Business Law 07/29/2018An Oregon state employee and a labor union have reached a settlement over her lawsuit seeking payback of obligatory union fees, marking the first refund of forced fees since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in late June that government workers can't be r...
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Zuckerberg Flubs Details of Facebook Privacy Commitments
Business Law 03/16/2018Over two days of questioning in Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg chief revealed that he didn’t know key details of a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission that requires Facebook to protect user privacy.With congressional h...
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Supreme Court blocks some redrawn North Carolina districts
Business Law 02/06/2018The U.S. Supreme Court told North Carolina officials late Tuesday they must use some but not all of the state's legislative districts that other federal judges redrew for this year's elections.The justices partially granted the request of Republican ...
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Samsung worker killed by brain tumor wins compensation case
Business Law 11/13/2017Overturning an appeal court's decision, South Korea's Supreme Court said Tuesday the family of a Samsung worker who died of a brain tumor should be eligible for state compensation for an occupational disease.The ruling on Lee Yoon-jung, who was diagn...
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Ohio court won't hear case in seizure of exotic animals
Business Law 10/24/2017Another court has dealt a blow to an Ohio man who is trying to get his six tigers and several other exotic animals back from the state.The Ohio Supreme Court earlier this month said it would not hear an appeal in the case involving the owner of a roa...
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Court extends house arrest for Russian theater director
Business Law 10/16/2017A court in Russia's capital ruled Tuesday to extend the house arrest of a widely revered theater and film director.Kirill Serebrennikov was detained and put under house arrest in August in a criminal case that sent shockwaves across Russia's art comm...
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Court agrees to take on US-Microsoft dispute over emails
Business Law 10/15/2017The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take on a major dispute over the government's authority to force American technology companies to hand over emails and other digital information sought in criminal probes but stored outside the U.S.The justices inte...
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Court: DirecTV owes $15M to South Carolina in tax dispute
Business Law 09/04/2017A court has ruled that pay-television giant DirecTV owes South Carolina nearly $15 million because of the way the company calculates its tax bill in the state.The Post and Courier of Charleston reports the South Carolina Court of Appeals found that D...