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By Cheryl Miller | April 19, 2017
California judges and their spouses should not hold a financial interest in marijuana enterprises, even though medical and recreational cannabis use is legal in California, a state Supreme Court ethics committee said in a formal opinion Wednesday.
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By John Council | April 19, 2017
While a similar state law claim against him has been allowed to go forward, the Fifth Circuit has dismissed a federal malicious prosecution case filed against a former Beaumont state district judge who allegedly had a process server arrested for showing up at the courthouse to serve a lawsuit on him.
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By Zack Needles | April 18, 2017
A woman's state law claim that she was injured when she was struck in the head by another passenger's suitcase while boarding a Southwest Airlines flight is not pre-empted by the Federal Aviation Act, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled in a case of first impression.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | April 18, 2017
A gay man has won legal recognition of his common-law marriage to his partner, who died two months before the U.S. Supreme Court expanded the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples.
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By Charles Toutant | April 17, 2017
Former Essex County Superior Court Judge Carol Ferentz, Benjamin DelVento and DelVento's sons Benjamin Jr. and Matthew had moved to dismiss the suit by Maurice Donovan.
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By Scott Graham | April 17, 2017
Sparks fly as Judges Kozinski, Reinhardt and Watford reflect on a play depicting the late Supreme Court justice's role in American politics and judiciary.
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By Max Mitchell | April 14, 2017
The Philadelphia-area attorney hit with nearly $1 million in sanctions that were later reversed has alleged that the attorneys who pursued those sanctions only did so to inflate attorney fees in the underlying medical malpractice case.
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By John Council | April 14, 2017
The issue of mental health on the bench has been catapulted into a national discussion after the body of New York Court of Appeals Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam was found Wednesday in the Hudson River.
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By Andrew Denney | April 14, 2017
The effort to reduce backlogs in New York City's courts could be bolstered by filling eight interim judicial terms in the city's Civil Court, the chair of City Council's Committee on Courts and Legal Services says.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | April 14, 2017
The sudden death of a judge often resonates across the legal community under any circumstances.
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