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Process servers work as a messenger service to notify individuals of their constitutional right to due course of action of law by serving them with a specific notice that declares the legal issue which involves them directly. Actually, legal documents were usually served to people by their local sheriff. As …
A Christian conservative legal group has filed lawsuits on behalf of nonprofit ministries and a photographer, saying a new Virginia law offering LGBTQ protections forces them to “abandon” their beliefs.
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Pride flags decorate Market Square in Old Town Alexandria during Pride Month on June 24, 2020,
History was made on Friday, June 19, 2020 as Salisbury officials renamed Broad St. Black Lives Matter Blvd.
Salisbury Daily Times
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — An update to Maryland’s hate crimes law, named for slain Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III, is one of several anti-discrimination measures going into effect
Posted Tue, September 22nd, 2020 12:00 pm by Tom Goldstein
On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, ruling that the ban on sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also prohibits workplace discrimination based
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers on Wednesday confronted former FBI Director James Comey about his oversight of the Trump-Russia investigation during a politically charged hearing that focused attention on problems with a probe that have becoming a rallying cry for supporters of President Donald Trump.
Comey, making his first appearance
Former FBI Director James Comey told a Senate hearing Wednesday that the FBI had a legitimate reason to launch its investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign and defended the agency’s general conduct — but said he would not have approved a controversial part of the probe if he had known
Former FBI Director James Comey in a Senate hearing Wednesday sought to defend the bureau’s efforts to investigate President Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia, amid attacks from Republican senators looking to tie him directly to some of the investigation’s missteps.
“In the main, it was done
The United States will block shipments of palm oil from a major Malaysian producer that feeds into the supply chains of iconic U.S. food and cosmetic brands. It found indicators of forced labor, including concerns about child workers, along with other abuses such as physical and sexual violence.
The
Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and helped Donald Trump win. We look back at history and ask: Will they do it again?
USA TODAY
Former FBI Director James Comey, whose 2017 dismissal by President Donald Trump unleashed a broader investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia
The government has been urged to learn lessons from the first wave of the coronavirus and make its legal aid safety net scheme more easily accessible as the country braces itself for further lockdown measures to prevent a second wave.
Lockdown measures introduced in March have already had a significant
Anthony Forson (middle) presenting the items to Martin Amoyaw
The Legal Aid Commission has called for more support from government in its quest to provide legal support to the poor and needy.
According to the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Martin Amoyaw, the Commission is struggling with inadequate office spaces
VIENNA, Va., Sept. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Access to much-needed legal advice is nearly impossible for a large majority of Americans because of cost. Now, anyone can get analysis and advice on three legal areas by listening to THE LEGAL MERRY GO ROUND three times each week.
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In less than a week, law school graduates across America will be taking the bar exam. Bar officials have spent months scrambling to figure out how to administer the mass test during the
OSWEGO, IL — To prevent identity theft and ensure that unused documents such as bills and medical records — that tend to clutter homes — are properly disposed, the Oswego Police Department is partnering with First National Bank of Oswego to host a free shredding event Saturday.
Charge receipts, copies
HAVERFORD TOWNSHIP, PA — Police in Haverford Township issued their weekly crime blotter Wednesday
The blotter features incidents that occurred between Sept. 23 and Sept. 29.
Arrests made and citations issued are also included in the blotter.
See the full blotter below.
INCIDENTS:
Identity Theft at the 200 block of
A Belarusian pro-democracy campaigner and an imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer have been awarded the Right Livelihood Award, a prize sometimes called the “alternative Nobel,” along with activists from the United States and Nicaragua.
The Stockholm-based Right Livelihood Foundation on October 1 cited human rights activist Ales Byalyatski and his
The judge overseeing a New York man’s murder trial on Wednesday ordered the defendant against future “outbursts” in front of the jury, and denied his request to remove the lead attorney from his defense team.
Carine Reeves, 40, has been accused of shooting Sally Shaw, 55, to death in Cherryfield
Doris Ohlsen Huspeni paused her college studies for marriage and children in 1949 after meeting her husband in a German language class at the University of Minnesota.
More than a decade later, she returned to school, finished her undergraduate degree in sociology, graduated from William Mitchell College of Law and