RALEIGH, N.C. — A center founded at the University of North Carolina by a civil rights attorney to help the poor and disenfranchised is the ...
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MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s conservative majority threw out a petition to bar judges at all levels from hearing cases involving the largest ...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky lawyer facing prison time for a scheme to defraud the government of nearly $600 million in federal disability payments took ...
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals on April 10 affirmed a decision to grant a man’s provisional discharge from the state’s treatment program for sex offenders, ...
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WACO, Texas — A federal judge ruled Friday that allegations can proceed to trial that Baylor University violated Title IX by disregarding women’s rape claims ...
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