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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines January 11, 2010

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, January 11, 2010.

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High court returns to a busy schedule

"Blockbuster opinions, riveting oral arguments and a possible retirement loom in the next six months of the U.S. Supreme Court's term. Plus, how Michigan's suit over Asian carp got to the Court so fast, and Justice Scalia's fond remembrance of 'Sh-Boom.' "

 

Feds want more corporate data 

"The U.S. Treasury and Justice departments want to require states to collect more information about the owners of corporations and limited liability companies to help crack down on domestic shell companies that launder money and help finance terrorists. That effort is putting law enforcement officials at loggerheads with state treasurers, the business community and the American Bar Association."

 

Government plans to appeal rejection of Broadcom backdating charges

"Federal prosecutors whose stock options-backdating case against two former executives of Broadcom Corp. imploded last month amid multiple findings of prosecutorial misconduct have taken steps to appeal a trial judge's dismissal of the charges."

 

 

Alleged Christmas Day bomber pleads not guilty before packed courtroom

"In the first legal proceeding involving Detroit's latest terrorism case, local prosecutors went it alone. Main Justice did not send any lawyers to attend what was barely a three-minute hearing at the federal courthouse, which was otherwise swarmed by demonstrators, security officers, sniffing dogs and international media."

 

1st Circuit considers jurisdiction in constitutional case against board of psychologists

"After a tough grilling by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, a lawyer for a psychologist disciplined for an opinion about a child client says there's "a giant black hole" in U.S. case law concerning the constitutional rights of health care professionals and their clients."

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