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Switchblades are now legal to carry in Massachusetts because a state law banning them violates the right to keep and bear arms, the state's highest court said. Gun-rights decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years that confirm an individual right to keep and bear arms
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady has added more high-profile legal power to fight his "Deflategate" suspension. The AFL-CIO filed a friend of the court brief on Monday asking the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a decision handed down by a three-judge panel in April.
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STATE HOUSE — Cities and towns reliant on local aid saw much to celebrate in the $39.5 billion budget proposal released by House leadership on Wednesday, but some groups, including the court system, were less excited by the fiscal restraint shown in the spending plan for next year. The budget,
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BOSTON (AP) — Dozens of text messages that a teenage girl sent to her boyfriend that encouraged him to kill himself were just words and do not constitute a crime, her lawyer told the state's highest court Thursday. But a prosecutor argued that Michelle Carter pressured Conrad Roy III
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California family appealed Tuesday to the state's highest court in their fight to keep a 6-year-old foster child who was removed from their home after a lower court said her 1/64th Native American bloodline requires that she live with relatives. The family'
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Baltimore (CNA/EWTN News) — The latest push to legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill has failed in Maryland, but opponents are well aware that this isn't the end of the fight. When it was clear that it didn't have enough support to pass, the sponsor
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WASHINGTON – A serving U.S. Army officer who went to court to keep his beard for religious reasons notched a significant victory Thursday, when a federal judge blocked special tests for the decorated veteran while the case is pending. Federal District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington ruled that the Defense
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BOSTON (AP) — A lawyer for a Chinese national who supplied Iran with U.S.-made devices that can be used to convert uranium for nuclear weapons is criticizing the U.S. government for dropping charges against his Iranian co-defendant as part of a breakthrough U.S.-Iran deal. The criticism
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