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By Tom McParland | April 18, 2017
The family of a correctional officer killed during the Feb. 1 uprising at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center's Building C has sued the state of Delaware in federal court for wrongful death, saying state officials failed to address boiling security concerns at the Smyrna facility for 16 years.
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By Greg Land | April 18, 2017
Georgia's punitive damages statute requires that 75 percent of any punitive award in a product liability suit be turned over to the state. Instead, it's become an incentive to settle posttrial.
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By Max Mitchell | April 18, 2017
General practice attorney Gerald Clarke of Clarke and Associates says he sees a lot of disgruntled workers coming into his office looking to sue their former employers. But the difficulty of bringing whistleblower cases in an at-will employment state like Pennsylvania means he has to turn many of them away.
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By Cheryl Miller | April 17, 2017
California's approval of recreational marijuana in November launched a process that requires the state to have regulations on the books by Jan. 1, 2018. The sprint to develop new rules starts in earnest in the Legislature this week, where committees are scheduled to take up for the first time many of the nearly 40 related bills introduced this year.
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By Cheryl Miller | April 14, 2017
The street race to develop and test autonomous vehicles ramped up this week when the California Department of Motor Vehicles granted Apple Inc. a license to test three driverless SUVs on state roads.
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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 Michael Booth | April 14, 2017
State police will have to pay their own way on New Jersey's roads, the Supreme Court has ruled.
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By Victoria Hudgins | April 13, 2017
A House bill would require a vacancy board or a county's court of common pleas to quickly fill any empty seats on a township's board of supervisors.
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By Victoria Hudgins | April 13, 2017
The House introduced a bill that would create the Municipal Property Maintenance Code Assistance Fund to finance an enforcement entity to "prevent and eradicate blighted property conditions."
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By Zack Needles | April 13, 2017
A group of commissioners on Philadelphia's Board of Revision of Taxes, including former state Supreme Court Justice Russell M. Nigro, has lost in its bid to recoup nearly $300,000 in compensation lost as a result of a city ordinance that cut commissioners' pay but was ultimately declared unconstitutional.
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