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Kaine: Don't politicize Michelle Obama's travels

Posted on August 09, 2010
Democratic Party Chairman Tim Kaine is defending first lady Michelle Obama's vacation trip to Spain, saying critics of her travels are trying to politicize the issue.Kaine tells NBC's "Today" show he thinks "it's wrong" to talk critically about her trips...

NYC lawsuit: Census Bureau discriminated in hiring

Posted on August 06, 2010
Civil rights groups on Thursday accused the U.S. Census Bureau of discrimination in its hiring of more than a million temporary workers to conduct the 2010 census, saying it ignored a warning from a federal agency that its hiring practices might violate the Civil Rights Act...

Nazi-naming parents shouldn't get kids

Posted on August 06, 2010
A New Jersey couple who gave their children Nazi-inspired names should not regain custody of them, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, citing the parents' own disabilities and the risk of serious injury to their children.The state removed Heath and Deborah Campbell's three small children from their home in January 2009...

Mexican court upholds capital's gay marriage law

Posted on August 06, 2010
Mexico's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a law allowing same-sex marriages in Mexico City is constitutional, rejecting an appeal by federal prosecutors who argued it violated the charter's guarantees to protect the family.The justices' 8-2 ruling handed a legal victory to hundreds of same-sex couples who have been married in Mexico's capital since the landmark law took effect March 4...

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Obama visits company as new job figures come out

Posted on August 06, 2010
President Barack Obama will visit a small business and talk about job-creation Friday shortly after the government releases unemployment figures for July.The president will tour the facilities of Gelberg Signs in the District of Columbia and publicly applaud efforts the company is making to expand and hire more workers...

Honey executive pleads guilty in import case

Posted on August 06, 2010
Things are getting sticky for a 40-year-old honey import executive.Hung Ta Fan, who also goes by Michael Fan, pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to avoid more than $5 million in U.S. anti-dumping duties.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement alleges Fan imported Chinese honey and then falsely identified it as coming from South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and India...

Ginsburg says no plans to leave Supreme Court

Posted on August 05, 2010
After a period of dramatic change at the Supreme Court and in her personal life, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is looking forward to being one of three women on the high court for the foreseeable future.Although some have speculated she might step down next year, the 77-year-old Ginsburg told The Associated Press on Tuesday she has no plans to retire anytime soon and still wants to match Justice Louis Brandeis, who stepped down at age 82...

ABA Annual Meeting Begins in San Francisco

Posted on August 05, 2010
Addressing a legal services landscape transformed by the struggling economy, globalization of business and rapid advances in technology is top of mind for America?s legal community as the nation?s largest lawyers? organization today opened the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco...

Fed court bars candidate's lawsuit over expletive

Posted on August 05, 2010
A federal court has tossed a lawsuit filed by a candidate for the Wisconsin state Assembly who wants to use a racially charged phrase to describe herself on the ballot.U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa says in the Wednesday order that Ieshuh (eye-EE'-shu) Griffin's lawsuit must be dismissed because it is a habeas corpus action, which requires the person bringing it to be in custody...

Polish court orders alleged Israeli spy extradited

Posted on August 05, 2010
A Polish appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court's decision to hand over to Germany an alleged Mossad agent wanted in the slaying of a Hamas leader.The decision means that the alleged agent, known as Uri Brodsky, must be handed over to Germany within 10 days...

ICE officers released man charged in nun's death

Posted on August 05, 2010
A Bolivian man charged with killing a nun in a car crash in Virginia had at least two previous drunken driving convictions and had been released twice by immigration officers who took him into custody because he was in the United States illegally.Carlos A...

Judge: No forced treatment for Ohio convert

Posted on August 04, 2010
A state juvenile court judge on Tuesday rejected the request of a Christian convert's Muslim parents to order their daughter to continue chemotherapy for uterine cancer.The request from the parents of Rifqa Bary does not meet the legal requirement of a medical emergency needing immediate treatment, Franklin County Juvenile Court Magistrate Mary Goodrich said during a hearing...

Judge's ruling ready in Calif. gay marriage case

Posted on August 04, 2010
The first word on whether California's same-sex marriage ban passes scrutiny under the U.S. Constitution is scheduled to come down Wednesday when a federal judge issues his ruling in a landmark case.Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has reached a decision on whether to uphold or overturn the voter-approved ban known as Proposition 8 and plans to publish his opinion in the afternoon, court spokeswoman Lynn Fuller said...

Illegal immigrant crashes, killing Va. nun

Posted on August 04, 2010
An illegal immigrant awaiting a deportation ruling has been charged with killing a nun and critically injuring two others in a drunken driving crash that has sparked criticism of how immigration enforcement is handled.A local official in the Virginia suburb where the crash happened and a congressman from another state have criticized federal officials for not removing the suspect from the country after previous arrests, and even U...

Ginsburg anticipates being 1 of 3 female justices

Posted on August 04, 2010
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says the prospect of three women on the Supreme Court is exhilarating, and she intends to stay around and enjoy it.After the death of her husband and her own treatment for cancer, there was speculation that the 77-year-old justice would step down...

New law firm opens in Dayton

Posted on August 04, 2010
A new law firm, Walters & Wasylyna, LLC, is opening in Dayton, which will focus on intellectual property cases, according to an Aug. 2 statement by the legal group.The new firm is a joint endeavor by attorneys Lindsay M. Walters and Victor J. Wasylyna, who both earned their law degrees from Case Western Reserve University School of Law...

Calif. high court upholds affirmative action ban

Posted on August 03, 2010
California's high court on Monday upheld the state's 14-year-old law barring preferential treatment of women and minorities in public school admissions, government hiring and contracting.In a 6-1 ruling, the state Supreme Court rejected arguments from the city of San Francisco and Attorney General Jerry Brown that the law, known as Proposition 209, violates federal equality protections...

Pending home sales sink 2.6 percent in June

Posted on August 03, 2010
The number of buyers who signed contracts to purchase homes dropped in June, as the weak economy and tight lending standards kept consumers away from the housing market.The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday that its seasonally adjusted index of sales agreements for previously occupied homes dipped 2...

Groups seek judge's removal from drilling case

Posted on August 03, 2010
Several environmental groups have asked a federal appeals court to disqualify a judge from a lawsuit over the Obama administration's initial six-month moratorium on deep-water oil drilling.U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman overturned the temporary drilling ban in June and refused last month to withdraw from the case...

US appeals court: Pa. prison can ban Muslim scarf

Posted on August 03, 2010
Prison officials can ban employees from wearing religious headscarves out of concerns they pose a safety risk, a U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Monday in a split 2-1 decision.Prison officials have legitimate concerns the headscarves can hide drugs or other contraband, or be used by an inmate to strangle someone, the majority said...

US Supreme Court asked to halt Guantanamo trial

Posted on August 03, 2010
A military defense lawyer said Monday that he has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the upcoming war crimes trial of the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay.The trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 10 for Omar Khadr and it would be the first at the U.S...

Firms crack down on staffers' posts on social media sites

Posted on August 02, 2010
Domino's still has nightmares about a prank video posted on the social networking site, YouTube, that got two employees in trouble with the law and tarnished the pizza chain's reputation. The Ann Arbor-based company became an instant Internet sensation in April 2009 after one franchise employee filmed another sticking cheese inside his nose, sneezing on the food and implying it would be delivered to customers from the store they worked at in Conover, N...

Gibson Dunn Opens in Hong Kong with Focus on Litigation

Posted on August 02, 2010
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has opened an office in Hong Kong with two attorneys leading the effort. Kelly Austin has joined the firm as a partner from General Electric Co., where she was Asia compliance and litigation counsel. The firm also is relocating partner Joseph Barbeau to Hong Kong from its Palo Alto office...

Law center threatens suit over Michigan oil spill

Posted on August 02, 2010
A public interest law firm is preparing to sue the Canadian owners of a pipeline that ruptured in southern Michigan and dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Kalamazoo River tributary.The Great Lakes Law Center on Monday sent Enbridge Inc...

Former UNM asst. coach sues current coach, regents

Posted on August 02, 2010
A former assistant football coach at the University of New Mexico has filed a civil rights lawsuit stemming from an altercation involving coach Mike Locksley. J.B. Gerald filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque against Locksley and the University of New Mexico Board of Regents...

Ginsburg: OK to look to foreign law for good ideas

Posted on August 02, 2010
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says judges can look to foreign law for good ideas without diminishing their ability to apply U.S. law faithfully.Ginsburg told a meeting of international lawyers Friday that American judges can learn from their foreign counterparts when seeking solutions to "trying questions...

2 re-sentencings ordered in $1.9B Ohio fraud case

Posted on July 30, 2010
A federal appeals court has ordered two executives convicted in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud case to be resentenced.The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati said Wednesday the government hadn't proved Donald Ayers and Roger Faulkenberry were guilty of money laundering...

NY suit seeks $30 million in Madoff family money

Posted on July 30, 2010
The court-appointed trustee seeking to recover billions of dollars lost by jailed financier Bernard Madoff sued three entities Thursday to get back more than $30 million that he said the Madoff family had invested, mostly in oil and gas properties and technology companies...

Founding member of terrorist group pleads guilty

Posted on July 30, 2010
A founding member of a terrorist group has pleaded guilty in the kidnapping of 16 people, including four Americans, at a Philippine resort 15 years ago.During an appearance in federal court Wednesday, Madhatta Haipe admitted that he and several armed members of the Abu Sayyaf (AH'-boo SEYE'-yahf) Group kidnapped the vacationers for ransom...

Wash. high court lifts stay of execution for Brown

Posted on July 30, 2010
Washington state's Supreme Court has lifted the stay of execution for a death row inmate who claimed the state's method of lethal injection violated constitutional bans on cruel and unusual punishment.The high court unanimously ruled Thursday that Cal Coburn Brown's claims are moot because the state Department of Corrections changed its method of execution earlier this year from a three-drug cocktail to a one-drug system...

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