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No more bets: WA court says online bookie illegal

Posted on September 03, 2010
All bets are off at Betcha.com, a Seattle-based online bookmaker that couldn't skirt the state's gambling laws by making it optional for losing bettors to pay off wagers.In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the Washington state Supreme Court said Betcha.com qualified as an illegal bookie because it arranged bets and took a percentage of the action as a fee...

Appeals court rules against Ravens in logo dispute

Posted on September 03, 2010
A federal appeals court has ruled against the Baltimore Ravens and the National Football league in a copyright dispute over the team's original logo.A divided three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond ruled Thursday that the commercial use of the "Flying B" logo in old game films infringes on amateur artist Frederick Bouchat's copyright...

Menzer & Hill, P.A. - Stock Broker Fraud

Posted on September 02, 2010
Menzer & Hill, P.A. represents investors in the recovery of losses at the result of brokerage firms' failure to supervise their financial advisors who engage in unsuitable investment recommendations, the excessive trading of investors' accounts, inappropriate allocation of portfolio assets, misrepresentations and/or material omissions of fact resulting in fraud, negligence, breach of fiduciary duties, selling away, failure to advise their clients of risk management strategies and excessive use of margin...

NY appeals court halts Indian cigarette tax plan

Posted on September 02, 2010
The latest in a tangled series of state and federal court decisions has halted New York state's plan to collect taxes on cigarettes sold by Native American retailers to non-Indian customers.A state appellate court judge in western New York on Wednesday restored an order stopping the collections, Gov...

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Court denies Scrushy's request for release on bond

Posted on September 02, 2010
A federal appeals court has denied former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy's request to be released from prison on bond.The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta turned down Scrushy's request late Tuesday.Scrushy has served almost three years of a more than six year term for bribery and other charges...

Steven L. Herrick is a ?Super Lawyer?

Posted on September 02, 2010
Tully Rinckey PLLC is pleased to announce that partner Steven L. Herrick has been selected as a 2010 New York Super Lawyer. Herrick, who also serves as the firm?s Director of Legal Services in Washington, D.C., was recognized for his work in the area of business and corporate law...

SEC Investigating canceled trades

Posted on September 02, 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into certain types of stock trade orders that could be distorting share prices and trading volume, according to The Wall Street Journal.The SEC is investigating the practice called "quote stuffing" where exceptionally large numbers of orders to buy or sell stocks are placed and canceled almost immediately, the Journal said citing anonymous sources...

Justice Dept. appeals to restart stem cell research

Posted on September 01, 2010
The Justice Department, as promised, moved Tuesday to block a court ruling preventing use of government funds for embryonic stem cell research.The lower-court decision that bars the use of publicly funded stem-cell work had stunned the Obama administration, which had vowed to appeal...

Mass. court rejects challenge to Cape Wind permit

Posted on September 01, 2010
Developers of a proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm were cleared to move forward Tuesday when Massachusetts' high court rejected a claim that the project sidestepped local opposition to win a key permit.Cape Wind project, a 130-turbine proposal that would be the nation's first offshore wind farm, was given permission last year by a state board to build power transmission lines through state waters...

Clemens, in court, tells judge: 'Not guilty'

Posted on September 01, 2010
Roger Clemens put his right hand on the lectern, leaned down toward the microphone and made what might be the most important pitch of his life: "Not guilty, your honor."Those words, uttered Monday in a strong, confident voice by the seven-time Cy Young Award winner sporting a black blazer and blond highlights in his hair, marked the official beginning of a court case that could taint baseball even further and land the "Rocket" in jail...

Court says gay couples can't divorce in Texas

Posted on September 01, 2010
Gay couples legally married in other states cannot get a divorce in Texas, where same-sex marriage is banned, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.The 5th Texas Court of Appeals ruled that a Dallas district court judge didn't have the authority to hear a divorce case involving two Dallas men who married in Massachusetts in 2006...

Houston Criminal Attorney - Shahin Zamir

Posted on September 01, 2010
Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer If you have been charged with either a felony or misdemeanor, you need a proven criminal defense lawyer to inform you of your rights and fight to protect them in court. At The Law Office of Shahin Zamir, our attorneys have experience serving as advocates for our clients in criminal defense cases like yours...

Facebook post gets Detroit-area juror in hot water

Posted on August 31, 2010
A judge removed a juror from a trial in suburban Detroit after the young woman wrote on Facebook that the defendant was guilty. The problem? The trial wasn't over. Hadley Jons, of Warren just north of Detroit, could be found in contempt when she returns to the Macomb County circuit court Thursday...

Deere sells wind energy business for $900M

Posted on August 31, 2010
Deere & Co. will sell its wind energy business to a subsidiary of Exelon for $900 million, the company said Tuesday, potentially signaling an active merger and acquisition period ahead for the power industry.With energy prices persistently low due to a grinding economic recovery, stakes in the power industry have begun to shift...

Wal-Mart appeals class action in top court

Posted on August 31, 2010
Wal-Mart has petitioned the US Supreme Court to reconsider a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirming class action certification in a gender discrimination case, notes a Jurist report. The company has asked the court to examine whether the Appeals Court's April ruling was proper under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Due Process Clause, the Seventh Amendment and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 (FRCP)...

Banks post $21.6 billion profit in 2nd quarter

Posted on August 31, 2010
A mixed picture of U.S. banks emerged Tuesday as the industry posted its highest quarterly earnings in nearly three years while the number of troubled institutions grew by more than 50.Banks overall made $21.6 billion in net income in the April-to-June quarter, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...

Indian Tribes Head To Court To Stop Cigarette Tax

Posted on August 31, 2010
Lawyers for Indian tribes are in federal court today to make a last-ditch effort to stop legislation taxing reservation cigarette sales to non-Indian customers. This comes after a state judge yesterday refused to block New York State from enforcing a $4...

Thousands sign on for $10 billion BP suit

Posted on August 30, 2010
The revelation that BP's Texas City refinery emitted toxic benzene for more than a month has ignited a furor in the port community that has suffered its share of deadly industrial accidents and toxic spills.Thousands of residents who fear they may have been exposed to the known carcinogen released at the oil refinery from April 6 to May 16 have been flooding parking lots and conference halls where local trial attorneys hosted information sessions and sought clients for class-action lawsuits against the oil giant...

Facebook sued in California over teen endorsements

Posted on August 30, 2010
Two Los Angeles County teenagers are suing Facebook, claiming the social network effectively sold their names and images to advertisers without parental permission.The lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles challenges a Facebook feature that allows members to note that they like an advertised service or product...

Appeals court OKs warrantless GPS tracking by feds

Posted on August 30, 2010
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit earlier this month declined to schedule an en banc hearing, or a hearing before all judges in the ninth circuit, as requested by the defendant in a drug-related case. The defendant was seeking to suppress evidence gathered against him by federal agents who attached a GPS device to his vehicle without first obtaining a warrant...

DOJ's elite Public Integrity unit gets new leader

Posted on August 30, 2010
The Justice Department's Public Integrity Section has a storied 34-year history of pursuing corruption in government and safeguarding the public trust.That trust was breached, however, when some of the unit's prosecutors failed to turn over evidence favorable to the defense in their high-profile criminal trial of Sen...

Ginsburg talks about television and the high court

Posted on August 30, 2010
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says television has profoundly changed confirmation hearings but declined to say whether she'd oppose televising arguments.Ginsburg told a Colorado judicial conference Friday that TV has made Supreme Court confirmation hearings much longer because senators posture for cameras...

Neb. high court to get immigration-law question

Posted on August 27, 2010
A federal judge says the Nebraska Supreme Court should answer a legal question about whether a Nebraska city's ban on hiring and renting to illegal immigrants is allowed by state law.U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp ruled late Wednesday on briefs from parties in lawsuits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska and the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, also known as MALDEF...

Sotomayor predicts WikiLeaks case in Supreme Court

Posted on August 27, 2010
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor predicted Thursday that the nation's high court will be asked again to weigh issues of national security versus free speech because of the recently leaked classified war documents posted on the WikiLeaks website.Sotomayor told high school and college students at the University of Denver that she couldn't answer a student question about the security questions and free speech because "that question is very likely to come before me...

Judge orders university to release Palin documents

Posted on August 26, 2010
A group that filed a lawsuit over documents related to a June appearance by Sarah Palin at California State University, Stanislaus is claiming victory in a judge's ruling.The open-government group Californians Aware says Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Roger Beauchesne decided Wednesday that the university must release Palin's contract...

Metrolink: $200 million to settle LA rail disaster

Posted on August 26, 2010
Southern California's Metrolink system and Connex Railroad filed court papers Wednesday accepting the maximum $200 million in liability for a 2008 head-on collision between a commuter train and a freight that killed 25 people and injured more than 100...

State obscures elite Texas Rangers' border work

Posted on August 26, 2010
Gov. Rick Perry has told just about anyone who will listen about his plan to dispatch elite teams of Texas Rangers to the border to do what he says the federal government won't ? keep Texans safe from encroaching Mexican drug violence.Just don't ask him for specifics...

Judge to rule whether 3M age-bias suit is class action

Posted on August 26, 2010
A long-running age discrimination suit against 3M Co. is back in Ramsey County District Court, and an attorney is once again seeking to turn it into a class action on behalf of as many as 5,000 3M employees.The suit was originally filed in 2004 on behalf of six 3M employees who alleged they were discriminated against based on age during the tenure of CEO James McNerney Jr...

Wal-Mart wants women's pay class-action suit thrown out

Posted on August 26, 2010
Wal-Mart asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to throw out a class-action lawsuit against it that the retailer says is the largest employment suit ever. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in April that Wal-Mart should face charges in court that it pays women less than men for the same jobs...

'Tax lady' Roni Deutch says lawsuit is political

Posted on August 25, 2010
"Tax Lady" Roni Deutch says California Attorney General Jerry Brown is engaging in election year politics by filing a lawsuit accusing her law firm of false advertising and misleading consumers.Deutch said in a statement Tuesday that she will fight the $34 million lawsuit filed a day earlier in Sacramento County Superior Court by Brown, the Democrats' nominee for governor...

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