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American Association for Justice Announces Gary M. Paul as President-Elect

Posted on July 30, 2010
American Association for Justice Announces Waters, Kraus & Paul Partner as President-Elect Gary M. Paul, a longtime champion of victims? rights and a partner with one of the nation?s most prolific plaintiff?s firms, has risen through the ranks of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) to be named president-elect of the organization...

Family of victims sues over Marine jet crash in SD

Posted on July 29, 2010
The family of four people killed in the crash of a Marine Corps jet in a San Diego County neighborhood two years ago sued the federal government and Boeing Wednesday.The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court by Dong Yun Yoon, whose wife, two daughters and mother-in-law were killed in the December 2008 crash that incinerated two homes and damaged others in University City...

Hawaii lawsuit seeks equal rights for gay couples

Posted on July 29, 2010
Six gay couples in Hawaii are filing a lawsuit Thursday asking for the same rights as married couples, three weeks after Gov. Linda Lingle vetoed a same-sex civil unions measure.The lawsuit doesn't seek the titles of "marriage" or "civil unions" for gay partners...

Texas, feds wait turns in polygamist leader cases

Posted on July 29, 2010
A Utah Supreme Court decision that overturns polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs' 2007 criminal conviction won't automatically make him a free man. Even if Utah doesn't retry him, Texas and federal prosecutors are waiting to move forward with their own cases...

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Coal companies eye targeting congressional Dems

Posted on July 29, 2010
A leading Appalachian coal company is asking its counterparts to pool their money for a political offensive against Democrats in Kentucky and West Virginia.International Coal Group is calling on other mining companies to join an initiative that would take advantage of a U...

GOP Sen. Snowe to support Kagan for Supreme Court

Posted on July 29, 2010
Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe says she plans to vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice.The Maine lawmaker's announcement makes her the fourth Republican to break with her party to back President Barack Obama's high court nominee.In a statement, Snowe says Kagan has met her standards for a justice with her strong intellect, respect for the rule of law and understanding of the Supreme Court's important but limited role...

NM hires law firm to pursue investment lawsuits

Posted on July 28, 2010
The State Investment Council has hired a law firm to help recover damages and losses from questionable investments and fees paid to third-party marketing agents.The council on Tuesday approved the selection of a Day Pitney LLP, which has nine offices on the East Coast, including in New York, Boston, Washington, D...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has added three partners

Posted on July 28, 2010
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has added three partners to the firm's Labor and Employment practice group: Thomas R. Kaufman, Michael L. Gallion and Gregg A. Fisch. Kaufman, Gallion and Fisch join Sheppard Mullin's Los Angeles/Century City office from Seyfarth Shaw in Los Angeles, where Kaufman was co-chair of Seyfarth's national wage/hour class action practice group...

Conn. man found incompetent in '92 is held again

Posted on July 28, 2010
A 76-year-old Connecticut man has been arrested after authorities discovered he was released from a mental hospital in 1992 after being found incompetent to stand trial for a 1991 murder.Prosecutors say they should have been notified 18 years ago when Pedro Custodio was released from a state hospital in Newtown...

Woman sentenced to prison for faking breast cancer

Posted on July 28, 2010
A judge sentenced a Chattanooga woman to 42 months in prison for faking breast cancer and told her it was "reprehensible" that she took donations of sick leave, money and cancer patient support services for five years."It seems like to me some confinement is necessary," Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Don Poole said Monday after a four-hour hearing in which attorneys for 39-year-old Keele Maynor asked for a probation sentence that would allow her to work and pay about $54,000 in restitution...

Tribune confident it will leave Ch. 11 in 2010

Posted on July 28, 2010
Tribune Co. believes it will still emerge from bankruptcy protection this year even though a court-appointed examiner concluded that talks leading up to a leveraged buyout of the company had bordered on fraud.In a memo to employees, Tribune CEO Randy Michaels and Chief Operating Officer Gerald Spector said they agreed with only some of the conclusions in Monday's report, while disputing others...

Ambac case lawyers, advisers get $18 million

Posted on July 27, 2010
With more than $67 billion of its insurance coverage placed into a special receivership fund, Ambac Assurance Corp. is flirting with financial ruin. Yet at the same time, lawyers and consultants helping Wisconsin regulators navigate the complex case have collected nearly $18 million for their efforts...

NH ex-teacher pleads guilty on nude photo charge

Posted on July 27, 2010
A former New Hampshire high school teacher has pleaded guilty to a charge she e-mailed nude photographs of herself to a 15-year-old student.Forty-one-year-old Melinda Dennehy of Hampstead entered the plea Monday to a misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure...

Jury finds Texas man guilty of beheading children

Posted on July 27, 2010
A South Texas man accused of beheading his common-law wife's three children was found guilty of capital murder Monday at his second trial.A state appeals court had overturned John Allen Rubio's previous conviction and death sentence in 2007, saying the children's mother had wrongly been allowed to testify...

Many lawyers aren?t aware of new rules

Posted on July 27, 2010
Many lawyers are still unaware of the upcoming enforcement of new Medicare reporting rules, let alone versed on how to prepare clients. And some insurers, fearful of running afoul of the rules, are engaging in practices that have delayed getting awards to plaintiffs...

Federal court reverses TVA emissions ruling

Posted on July 27, 2010
A federal appeals court in Virginia has reversed a judge's ruling requiring the nation's largest public utility to promptly install upgraded emission controls at four coal-fired power plants.Three of the Tennessee Valley Authority plants are in Tennessee, and the other is in Alabama...

Fla. lawyer accused of vandalizing client's home

Posted on July 26, 2010
A lawyer was accused of burglarizing the home of a client who filed a complaint against him with the Florida Bar. Albert Ford II was being held on charges of burglary to a structure causing damage, grand theft, criminal mischief and burglary to an occupied dwelling...

Lindsay Lohan Gets Lawyer Visit, Anxiously Awaits Release

Posted on July 26, 2010
Still behind bars as she's six days into her term for probation violation, Lindsay Lohan received the second visit of the weekend from lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley on Sunday.Having already used up her two allotted personal visits, the "Machete" actress' attorney turned up at the Century Regional Detention Facility to keep her high profile client up-to-date while also checking in on her well-being...

Former NH teacher faces hearing on nude photos

Posted on July 26, 2010
A former New Hampshire high school teacher charged with e-mailing nude photographs of herself to a 15-year-old student faces a court hearing.Forty-one-year-old Melinda Dennehy of Hampstead is scheduled to appear Monday in Derry District Court on a felony charge of indecent exposure...

Latino group sues Neb. city over immigration law

Posted on July 23, 2010
A Latino civil rights group is suing a Nebraska city to stop its new ordinance that bars residents from hiring or renting homes to illegal immigrants.The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court "to protect immigrants from unlawful, local regulation of immigration" and challenges to constitutional and federal authority...

Renewal of Bush tax cuts could be only temporary

Posted on July 23, 2010
Many Americans could be hit with a big tax increase in the next two or three years despite President Barack Obama's repeated promises to shield the middle class from higher rates.Democrats are hedging about making Obama's pledge stick for more than a year or two, setting up a major battle on a super-sensitive subject just before the November elections...

RFK Jr.'s wife guilty of driving impaired in NY

Posted on July 23, 2010
The wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. settled her drunken-driving case without jail time Thursday night by pleading guilty to a minor charge.Mary Kennedy admitted in court that her driving ability was impaired when she drove over a curb outside a school in Bedford, 30 miles north of New York City, in May...

Alaska pair pleads guilty to lying about hit list

Posted on July 23, 2010
A National Weather Service employee and his British-born wife pleaded guilty Wednesday to domestic terrorism charges of lying to the FBI about a hit list of possible targets who the couple suspected were enemies of Islam.Paul Rockwood Jr. and his wife, Nadia Rockwood, of King Salmon, Alaska, were charged with lying about the list and making false statements about domestic terrorism during interviews with FBI agents in May...

Legal Talk Show - Robert Perkinson

Posted on July 23, 2010
Robert Perkinson is a professor of American studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His writing has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, and Boston Review, among other venues. Texas Tough is his first book.Drawing on convict accounts, official records, and interviews with prisoners, guards, and lawmakers, Robert reveals the Southern roots of our present-day prison colossus...

GOP Sen. Lugar to support Kagan for Supreme Court

Posted on July 22, 2010
Republican Sen. Richard Lugar says he'll vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice.The Indiana Republican is the second in the GOP to announce he's breaking with his party to back President Barack Obama's nominee to succeed retired Justice John Paul Stevens...

Mass. judge who wrote gay marriage ruling retiring

Posted on July 22, 2010
Massachusetts Chief Justice Margaret Marshall said Wednesday that while she understands her tenure on the state's high court will always be linked to the legalization of gay marriage, that case holds no greater importance in her mind than the hundreds of other rulings she authored...

'South Park' critic in Va. court on terror charge

Posted on July 22, 2010
A Virginia man who once threatened the creators of "South Park" will spend at least one more day in jail on separate charges of trying to join a Somali terror group linked to al-Qaida. Twenty-year-old Zachary Chesser of Oakton, Va., made an initial appearance Thursday in U...

Madoff trustee seeks $3.6 billion from funds

Posted on July 22, 2010
The court-appointed trustee hunting for money to pay investors who lost billions of dollars in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme has sued more than two dozen entities related to a New York-based hedge fund.Trustee Irving Picard filed papers in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan late Tuesday to recover $3...

'Barefoot Bandit' to make Seattle court appearance

Posted on July 22, 2010
The young man accused of being the "Barefoot Bandit" is scheduled to make his first court appearance Thursday in Seattle, one day after returning to the state where authorities say his crime-spree started. After a two-year run from the law that stretched across the nation and to the Bahamas, 19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore was returned to Washington state Wednesday...

NY man's Facebook ownership claim lands in court

Posted on July 21, 2010
Facebook will try to get a New York man's claim for majority ownership of the website thrown out of court, attorneys for the social networking site said Tuesday.A complaint by Paul Ceglia of Wellsville claims that a 7-year-old contract he signed with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for software development entitles him to 84 percent of the company...

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