The Supreme Court is upholding an Indiana law that requires abortion providers to dispose of aborted fetuses in the same way as human remains. But the justices are staying out of the debate over a broader, blocked provision that would ...

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The Supreme Court is taking on a major test of LGBT rights in cases that look at whether federal civil rights law bans job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The justices said Monday they will ...

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Justice Elena Kagan’s father was 3 years old when the census taker came to the family’s apartment on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, New York, on April 10, 1930. Robert Kagan was initially wrongly listed as an “alien,” though he was ...

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Because of the wealth of personal information most cellphones hold, defense attorneys and civil liberties advocates argue that police searches of physical phones as well as the collection of location data emitted from the phones should require a warrant, just as the search of a person’s personal computer or the substance of phone or email conversations would.

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Alonzo Jay King Jr.’s was convicted for a 2003 Maryland rape, a crime police solved only by matching DNA collected from King when he was arrested on an unrelated assault charge six years later.

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In a previous case, the court ruled a consumer class action could not go forward because plaintiffs failed to establish damages on a class-wide basis.

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An appeals court has struck down a rule allowing the Missouri Public Defender Commission to stop taking certain cases to reduce its offices’ workloads. The demise of the rule places additional importance on a bill pending in the Missouri Legislature ...

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“Lord, I pray that I am half the person my dog thinks I am.” – Unknown This past Saturday, we celebrated two themes: dogs and a human life. Permit me to explain. Last year, on Sept. 24, my close friend ...

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Altria Group, the biggest U.S. cigarette maker, began defending the first of more than 8,000 suits against the tobacco industry in Florida after the state’s Supreme Court threw out a record $145 billion verdict in 2006. Lawyers for Altria and ...

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Lawyers for a group of sex offenders challenging restrictions on their Halloween-related activities are asking a federal judge to certify a question of law directly to the Missouri Supreme Court. It’s the first time such a procedure has been tried ...

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State law requires prosecutors to plead and prove a defendant is a prior offender before the case is submitted to the jury, a deeply divided Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday. For Michael Teer, the decision means 16 years off his ...

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