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Tunisian trial shines light on use of military courts
Lawyer News 11/24/2021A few days after Tunisia’s president froze parliament and took on sweeping powers in July, a dozen men in unmarked vehicles and civilian clothes barged into politician Yassine Ayari’s family home overnight and took him away in his pajamas...
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How Much Should a Law Firm Website Cost?
Lawyer News 07/26/2021Affordable Law Firm Website Design – Since 2004 A law firm website design from an agency can range from $5,000 to $25,000, whereas bigger and more complicated law firm websites will cost between $30,000 to over $100,000. Many times these high c...
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Court orders Japan company to pay 4 Koreans for forced labor
Lawyer News 10/27/2018In a potentially far-reaching decision, South Korea's Supreme Court ruled that a major Japanese steelmaker should compensate four South Koreans for forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula before the end of World War II.The l...
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California court body has paid $500K to settle sex claims
Lawyer News 03/24/2018The policymaking body for California's courts says it has paid more than $500,000 in taxpayer funds since 2011 to settle five complaints of sexual harassment against judges and court employees. The Judicial Council released the figures on...
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Nassar to face another sentence, victims in return to court
Lawyer News 01/25/2018Sports doctor Larry Nassar's return to court to face another prison sentence for molesting gymnasts could unfold much the same as a hearing last week in another Michigan county.Judge Janice Cunningham has set aside several days for roughly 60 people ...
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Court reverses itself and restores woman's murder conviction
Lawyer News 12/13/2017Georgia's highest court has reversed it own recent decision and restored the murder conviction of a woman whose husband shot and killed a police officer. The Georgia Supreme Court issued a new opinion Monday that upholds Lisa Ann Lebis' felony murder...
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Supreme Court declines gay rights work discrimination case
Lawyer News 12/08/2017The Supreme Court is leaving in place a lower court ruling that a federal employment discrimination law doesn't protect a person against discrimination based on their sexual orientation. The court on Monday declined to take up the question of whether...
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US court bars Trump from reversing transgender troops policy
Lawyer News 11/01/2017A federal judge on Monday barred President Donald Trump's administration from proceeding with plans to exclude transgender people from military service. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the transgender service members who had sue...
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Court nixes class-action status for TGI Friday's drink su
Lawyer News 10/07/2017A lawsuit accusing restaurant chain TGI Friday's violated consumer fraud laws with its drink pricing can't go ahead as a class action that could have included millions of members, but a similar case involving Carrabba's Italian Grill restaurants can,...
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Rooney gets road ban after pleading guilty to drunk driving
Lawyer News 09/14/2017Former England captain Wayne Rooney pleaded guilty to drunk driving on Monday, leading to a court imposing a two-year driving ban and ordering him to perform 100 hours of unpaid community work. The Everton striker was stopped by police outside Manche...
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Abortion clinic dispute to be argued in Ohio Supreme Court
Lawyer News 09/10/2017A dispute over whether to shut down Toledo's last abortion clinic is headed to the Ohio Supreme Court Tuesday, in a case both sides view as pivotal. At issue in oral arguments will be the state health department's 2014 order shutting down Capital Car...
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Vietnamese activist sentenced to 9 years in prison
Lawyer News 07/23/2017A Vietnamese court on Tuesday sentenced an activist to nine years in prison on charges of producing videos that defamed the country’s leadership, in the latest crackdown on dissent. Tran Thi Nga was convicted of spreading propaganda against the state...