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Class-Action Lawsuit Has Local Roots

Posted on July 13, 2010
To identify the source of a class-action lawsuit involving thousands of alleged victims and defendants representing virtually the entire egg industry in America, look no further than a Main Street restaurant in Falconer.According to local attorney Arthur Bailey, the case began with a cup of coffee at T...

'Die Hard' director pleads guilty in wiretap case

Posted on July 13, 2010
"Die Hard" director John McTiernan pleaded guilty Monday to lying to FBI agents and a judge during the investigation of Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano in a wiretapping case.McTiernan, 59, entered his plea to two counts of making false statements to the FBI and one count of perjury for lying to a federal judge while trying to withdraw a guilty plea...

Gov't hopes new drilling moratorium can survive

Posted on July 13, 2010
Rebuffed twice by the courts, the Obama administration is taking another crack at a moratorium on deep-water drilling, stressing new evidence of safety concerns and no longer basing the moratorium on water depth. But those who challenge the latest ban question whether it complies with a judge's ruling tossing out the first one...

Colo. school shooting suspect pleads not guilty

Posted on July 13, 2010
A man accused of shooting and wounding two eighth-graders outside their middle school pleaded not guilty Monday by reason of insanity.Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood, 32, entered his plea in Jefferson County District Court, and was ordered to undergo a mental evaluation at the state Mental Health Institute in Pueblo...

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Court: Insurance rates can reflect credit scores

Posted on July 12, 2010
Insurance companies can use a person's credit report to determine rates, the Michigan Supreme Court said Thursday in declaring that state regulators exceeded their authority when they banned the practice as discriminatory.The decision ends a legal battle between insurance companies and Gov...

Self Representation Hurting Individual Cases

Posted on July 12, 2010
In a survey released today by the American Bar Association, judges indicated that a lack of representation in civil matters is hurting those individuals? cases, and is negatively impacting courtrooms. Approximately 1,000 state trial judges responded to the survey, which posed questions about their dockets, self-representation and the impact on the courts...

Judicial Vacancies Slow the Wheels of Justice

Posted on July 12, 2010
As the Senate prepares to vote on whether Elena Kagan should fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, there remain a substantial number of other vacancies in the nation?s lower federal courts that urgently need filling. Currently, there are about 100 vacancies in the lower federal courts...

Chicago's tough new gun ordinance goes into effect

Posted on July 12, 2010
A new gun ordinance in Chicago that officials say is the strictest of its kind in the country went into effect on Monday.The ordinance was pushed through quickly by Mayor Richard Daley and the City Council after the U.S. Supreme Court last month made the city's 28-year-old handgun ban unenforceable...

Treasury: 4.5M hires qualify for new tax break

Posted on July 12, 2010
Businesses have added 4.5 million workers under a new program that provides tax breaks for hiring unemployed workers, the Treasury Department said Monday.It is unclear, however, how many of those workers would have been added without the tax break.President Barack Obama signed a law in March that exempts businesses hiring people who have been unemployed for at least 60 days from paying the 6...

Law firm sued over local construction defect case

Posted on July 09, 2010
A Southern California law firm that has won more than $17 million from construction defect court settlements in the Sacramento area is being sued by former clients for legal malpractice.Eleven local parties allege Lee Jackson, a partner in the Santa Monica office of Milstein, Adelman & Kreger LLP, misled them and settled a construction defect lawsuit against U...

Filmmaker: I was undercover operative for law firm

Posted on July 09, 2010
A filmmaker who went to Nicaragua to make a documentary said Thursday he became an undercover operative for a Texas law firm that was suing Dole Foods on behalf of purported banana plantation workers who claim they were left sterile by pesticide exposure...

Violent protests after Calif train killing verdict

Posted on July 09, 2010
The U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division will investigate a white Oakland police officer accused of killing an unarmed black man on a crowded train platform, a case reminiscent of the racially charged 1992 police beating of Rodney King.The federal government said it will step in after officer Johannes Mehserle was convicted Thursday of a lesser involuntary manslaughter charge, touching off angry protests that damaged stores and netted dozens of arrests...

$500K donated to Ariz. to defend law

Posted on July 09, 2010
Retirees and other residents from all over the country were among those who donated nearly $500,000 to help Arizona defend its immigration enforcement law, with most chipping in $100 or less, according to an analysis of documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press...

Kagan deserves confirmation to the Supreme Court

Posted on July 09, 2010
American Bar Association witnesses will be lead-off witnesses today as the Senate Judiciary Committee resumes its confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Kim Askew, chair of the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, and William J...

Alabama Law Firm Files Lawsuit Against BP

Posted on July 08, 2010
A Montgomery law firm has filed a lawsuit against BP, Halliburton and Cameron International for a commercial landowner in Baldwin County.Beasley Allen Crow Methvin Portis and Miles PC filed the suit on behalf of James E. Fisher and Kate C. Fisher, who own commercially zoned land in Baldwin County, according to a press release...

Soldier pleads guilty to lying about money

Posted on July 08, 2010
A U.S. Army officer who approved supplies contracts in Iraq pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying about contents of a package he sent to the United States containing more than $100,000.Maj. Charles E. Sublett told a judge Wednesday he sent almost $108,000 in sequentially numbered $100 bills and more than 17 million Iraqi dinar, then worth about $11,600, from Balad, Iraq, to his wife in Killeen, Texas...

Appeals court to hear drilling moratorium case

Posted on July 08, 2010
A federal appeals court is set to hear the Justice Department's bid to delay a judge's decision to overturn a six-month deepwater drilling moratorium.A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is scheduled to hear arguments Thursday from lawyers on both sides of a lawsuit filed by companies that oppose the Obama administration's temporary drilling ban...

Toronto law firm preps Facebook privacy suit

Posted on July 08, 2010
A Toronto-based law firm with a history of targeting litigation at corporations as varied as chocolate companies and silicone breast implant manufacturers has a new company in the crosshairs: Facebook.Merchant Law Group, which has offices in 10 Canadian cities, last week launched litigation seeking class action status against the massive social-networking site, alleging the mishandling of sensitive user data--the latest development in a resurgence of action against the social network's privacy policies, after it looked for a while as if all the fuss had calmed down...

Maine retailer wins verdict against law firm

Posted on July 08, 2010
A mattress and furniture retailer here has won a $7.3 million emotional distress verdict against a law firm in a case involving the now-defunct Northern Mattress & Furniture Co. of Fairfield, Maine, according to a report in the Kennebec Journal.Peter Redman, who now operates Priceless Mattress & Furniture in Augusta, Maine, said the firm Bernstein Shur Sawyer & Nelson was negligent in representing him in a sexual harassment claim brought by a co-worker at the former store in 2004...

Pfizer gets EU approval for kids' cholesterol drug

Posted on July 07, 2010
The European Union has approved a new chewable form of cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor for children 10 and up with high levels of bad cholesterol and triglycerides, a type of blood fat, Pfizer said Tuesday.The approval includes children whose high blood fats are due to an inherited disease that causes extremely high cholesterol levels, familial hypercholesterolemia...

HSBC Clients Scrutinized in U.S. Tax Evasion Probe

Posted on July 07, 2010
The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into whether some HSBC Holdings Plc clients may have failed to disclose offshore accounts, lawyers familiar with the probe said on Tuesday.The London-based bank has become the latest focus of a widening federal probe into U...

Germany slams jailing of Syrian rights lawyer

Posted on July 07, 2010
Germany condemned Wednesday the jailing of a 79-year-old prominent human rights lawyer by a Syrian court and demanded his immediate release.The German government's human rights commissioner, Markus Loening, said he was "shocked" by the sentencing of Haytham al-Maleh to three years in prison Sunday on charges of "publishing false information"...

Ky. man pleads guilty to threatening Obama in poem

Posted on July 07, 2010
A Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to writing and posting on a white supremacist website a poem threatening the assassination of President Barack Obama.Johnny Logan Spencer Jr. of Louisville entered an open plea ? admitting guilt without a deal with prosecutors ? Tuesday in U...

Lawmaker: Suit won?t stop Utah immigration bill

Posted on July 07, 2010
The Obama administration?s lawsuit against Arizona over its tough law cracking on illegal immigration won?t deter state Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, who says he is ?full steam ahead? in sponsoring a Utah version of the Arizona law.?I actually think the more states that pass legislation and get involved in the lawsuit, the better it?s going to be for defraying costs and fighting the federal government,? said Sandstrom, R-Orem...

Band penalized for copied riff in 'Down Under' hit

Posted on July 06, 2010
A judge ordered Australian band Men at Work on Tuesday to hand over a portion of the royalties from their 1980s hit "Down Under," after previously ruling its distinctive flute riff was copied from a children's campfire song.But the penalty ? 5 percent of the song's royalties ? was far less than the 60 percent sought by publishing company Larrikin Music, which holds the copyright for the song "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree...

Appeals court orders new hearing for detainee

Posted on July 06, 2010
A U.S. appeals court says an Algerian protesting his Guantanamo detention deserves a new lower court review. The review should determine whether he was part of al-Qaida.The three-judge panel reversed a decision that concluded Belkacem Bensayah's imprisonment was legal because he was an al-Qaida supporter...

Naomi Campbell faces jail time if she ignores subpoena

Posted on July 06, 2010
Prosecutors want Campbell to say whether Taylor gave her a rough, or uncut, diamond as a gift during a celebrity-packed 1997 reception in South Africa hosted by then-President Nelson Mandela. They contend her testimony will support their contention that Taylor lied when he testified that he never possessed rough diamonds...

Feds to file lawsuit over Arizona immigration law

Posted on July 06, 2010
The Justice Department has decided to file suit against Arizona on grounds that the state's new immigration law illegally intrudes on federal prerogatives and will seek a preliminary injunction to stop the legislation from taking effect, law enforcement sources said Tuesday...

Patton Boggs buys Trent Lott's law firm

Posted on July 06, 2010
Patton Boggs LLP, which operates one of Denver's top 20 law offices, is acquiring the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group, a Washington firm that includes former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., as well as former Sen. John Breaux, D-La.Lott and Breaux will join Patton Boggs' D...

Price Waicukauski & Riley, LLC

Posted on July 05, 2010
Price Waicukauski & Riley, LLC offers more than 100 years of litigation experience in state and federal courts throughout Indiana and across the nation. While our office is in Indianapolis, Indiana, our firm focuses on representing plaintiffs in complex cases throughout Indiana and nationwide...

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