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  1. Supreme Court bars lawyers from accessing drivers' database
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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that lawyers cannot gather personal information about drivers from state databases when seeking plaintiffs for potential lawsuits. The court held in a narrow 5-4 vote that the... Full Article at Thomson Reuters News & Insight

  2. News Summary: Apple details gov't data requests
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    NEW YORK (AP) — DISCLOSURE: Apple Inc. said it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May. BACKGROUND: The company, like some other businesses, had asked the U.S... Full Article at FindLaw: AP Professional News

  3. Court: Ariz. citizenship proof law illegal
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    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier. The justices voted... Full Article at FindLaw: AP Professional News

  4. High court to hear NJ housing discrimination case
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    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take on another dispute involving race, deciding whether people must prove they were victims of intentional housing discrimination to win lawsuits under federal law. With highly... Full Article at FindLaw: AP Professional News

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  1. Defense attorneys dispute Ohio enslavement charges
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    CLEVELAND (AP) — An attorney says slavery charges against three people in Ohio are ludicrous and says the woman at the... Full Article at FindLaw: AP Professional News

  2. Utah man shot in church upgraded to fair condition
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    OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah man shot in the head during a Father's Day Mass was upgraded to fair condition Tuesday — just a... Full Article at FindLaw: AP Professional News

  3. House passes far-reaching anti-abortion bill
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    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone... Full Article at FindLaw: AP Professional News

  4. Suburban NY woman indicted on pot-growing charges
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    A woman from the ritzy New York City suburb of Scarsdale who is accused of raising thousands of marijuana plants was... Full Article at FindLaw: AP Professional News

  5. Man pleads guilty to smuggling snakes on planes
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    TYLER, Texas (AP) — Samuel L. Jackson would have been cursing up a storm. An East Texas man has pleaded guilty to smuggling... Full Article at FindLaw: AP Professional News

  6. Rural lawmakers push for farm bill votes in House
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    WASHINGTON (AP) — Farm-state lawmakers are scrambling to win bipartisan support for a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm... Full Article at FindLaw: AP Professional News

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  1. Arizona State Senator Steve M. Gallardo speaks about voting rights during a news conference in Phoenix, Arizona June 17, 2013. The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an Arizona law that required people registering to vote in federal elections to show proof of citizenship, a victory for...
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  1. Illegal acts in Turkey from now won't be allowed and whatever needs to be done according to the law will be done
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  2. They'll say it's a fee. It's disguised as a legal requirement to move your case forward. Just make sure you do it through an attorney.
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  3. They'll say it's a fee. It's disguised as a legal requirement to move your case forward. Just make sure you do it through an attorney.
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  4. Companies like HSBC are brazenly ignoring state law, leaving homeowners across New York stuck in a legal limbo where they can't even get the legally required settlement conference that could help them keep their homes
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  5. Let them bring the law to parliament and we will see, finally, who is with Greece and who is on the side of the illegal immigrants.
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  6. The fact is our highways are bloody ... This (the Michigan helmet law change) doesn't make helmets illegal. ... No one is forcing anyone to ride without a helmet.
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  7. Our office will review this complaint and respond in court ... It is our belief that this legislation is lawful, and the Office of the Attorney General is prepared to vigorously defend the law.
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  8. The solution chosen will allow legal closure to be achieved without having to enact new legislation with retroactive effect or indeed applying emergency law
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  9. The attorney general and I agree that the state is on firm legal footing as we move to return the Bibles to the rooms
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  10. The American public deserves to know whether the administration is complying with the law, and Congress should debate the legal and policy implications of our targeted killing operations
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  11. It looked like we sneaked down there and did it ... We didn't do anything illegal. ... I have to prove to the people watching in Virginia that it was legal.
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  12. The U.S. attorney's office, for all practical purposes, has been the sole check on corruption in Illinois
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  13. If the diagnosis made by the state's psychologist is correct, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office is seeking to impose the death penalty upon a mentally ill woman who has no prior criminal history
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  14. The senior guys, (Attorney General) Eric Holder, are just incompetent.
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  15. After making some progress on implementation and enforcement of the big-case attorney fee guidelines, we will move forward
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  16. I don't know that you're taking this whole thing seriously. I just saw you slap your attorney on the backside. Is there something funny about this?
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  17. I don't know that you're taking this whole thing seriously. I just saw you slap your attorney on the backside. Is there something funny about this?
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  18. What this community wanted was for George Zimmerman to be arrested, the police chief to be fired and the state attorney to be gone. And all of this has been done
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  19. The Philippines underscores that the apprehension and illegal detention of peacekeepers are gross violations of international law
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  20. The decision is outrageous. It's wrong. It's illegal. It's a nullity. The magistrate has totally misconceived the law
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  21. There was communication between The Salvation Army and the attorney of the neighboring building's owner, pertaining to the demolition. The neighbor assured The Salvation Army that they would be taking proper precautions
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  22. Once the women were no longer useful for their illegal activities, they decided to kill them and abandon their bodies ... in the Juarez Valley
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  23. The law in itself is a legal violation because parliament passed it while it was under a state of terrorism and intimidation
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  24. Those people cause a lot of problems in the city. They park badly, they drive too fast and that sort of thing. They leave garbage on the streets and they attract illegal dealers
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