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Kan. doc to appeal conviction in painkiller case

Posted on June 25, 2010
Defense attorneys plan to seek the release of a Kansas doctor and his wife while they appeal their convictions on charges they conspired to profit from illegally prescribing painkillers to patients who later died.Jurors found Dr. Stephen Schneider and his wife, Linda, guilty Thursday...

Kilpatrick lawyer: He'll battle this indictment

Posted on June 25, 2010
A lawyer for Kwame Kilpatrick said Thursday that the ex-Detroit mayor would fight Wednesday's indictment."Mr. Kilpatrick will vigorously defend these allegations," Farmington Hills attorney Arnold Reed said at a news conference. He said an indictment is no evidence of guilt and that Kilpatrick committed no crime...

FTC Antitrust Review of Small Transactions is No Longer Under the Radar

Posted on June 25, 2010
Attorneys at the law firm of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C. are advising companies considering mergers, tender offers, acquisition transactions and joint ventures of any size to carefully examine any potential antitrust risks prior to closing the business deal...

Calif man accused of extortion through hacking

Posted on June 24, 2010
Federal agents have arrested a man accused of hacking into computers to obtain personal data to extort sexually explicit videos from women and teenage girls in exchange for keeping their information private.The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says 31-year-old Luis Mijangos was arrested Tuesday in Santa Ana...

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Ga. death row inmate in rare innocence hearing

Posted on June 24, 2010
A federal judge heard new testimony Wednesday in the case of a Georgia death row inmate given a rare chance by the U.S. Supreme Court to prove his innocence nearly 20 years after a jury convicted him of killing a police officer.Attorneys for Troy Anthony Davis say witnesses who identified him as the killer of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail during Davis' 1991 trial were pressured by police into making false statements...

High court sides with ex-Enron CEO Skilling

Posted on June 24, 2010
The Supreme Court has sided with former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling in limiting the use of a federal fraud law that has been a favorite of white-collar crime prosecutors.The court said Thursday that the "honest services" law could not be used in convicting Skilling for his role in the collapse of Enron...

Legal deal for sick 9/11 workers back in NYC court

Posted on June 23, 2010
Lawyers for thousands of Sept. 11 responders are back in a New York City court trying to rally support for a deal that would end a seven-year legal fight over the toxic fallout caused by the collapse of the World Trade Center.U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein earlier this month gave his preliminary approval to a deal that would resolve lawsuits filed by nearly 10,000 police officers, firefighters and construction workers suing the city over their exposure to toxic ash...

Utah Supreme Court: Online petition signatures OK

Posted on June 23, 2010
The Utah Supreme Court says state election officials must accept online petition signatures that are turned in to get individuals on the ballot. The justices announced the unanimous decision Tuesday as voters went to the polls for primary elections.The issue was raised by an independent candidate for governor...

Fellow law clerks endorse Kagan for court

Posted on June 23, 2010
A broad group of former law clerks who worked with Elena Kagan at the Supreme Court some 20 years ago are calling her exceptionally well-qualified to be a justice. Twenty-nine people who were fellow clerks from 1987 to 1988, when Kagan worked for former Justice Thurgood Marshall, are writing to the Senate Judiciary Committee to endorse her...

5 militia men must stay locked up awaiting trial

Posted on June 23, 2010
Five members of a Midwest militia charged with conspiring to rebel against the government and use weapons of mass destruction will remain in jail while awaiting trial, an appeals court said Tuesday, reversing a decision by a federal judge.Each man is dangerous and "no conditions of release will reasonably assure the safety of the community," two judges on the three-judge panel said...

Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan opens Atlanta office

Posted on June 23, 2010
The Milwaukee-based law firm of Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP, recognized as one of the nation?s largest minority-owned law firms, said Tuesday that it has opened an Atlanta office.The June 1 opening in the Atlanta Financial Center in Buckhead, Ga...

2nd Mass. man to change plea in black church arson

Posted on June 22, 2010
A second man is expected to change his not-guilty plea in the arson fire that destroyed a predominantly black Massachusetts church hours after Barack Obama was elected president.Thomas Gleason Jr. has a change-of-plea hearing scheduled Tuesday in U.S...

Judge: Slaughterhouse manager will get 27 years

Posted on June 22, 2010
A former vice president of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse will be sentenced to 27 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $27 million restitution for his conviction on financial fraud charges, a federal judge said Monday.Chief U.S. District Court Judge Linda R...

Summary of actions by the Supreme Court on Monday

Posted on June 22, 2010
The Supreme Court on Monday:_Upheld a federal law that bars "material support" to foreign terrorist organizations, rejecting a free speech challenge from humanitarian aid groups. The court ruled 6-3 that the government may prohibit all forms of aid to designated terrorist groups, even if the support consists of training and advice about entirely peaceful and legal activities...

High court to review mental health advocacy suit

Posted on June 21, 2010
The Supreme Court says it will decide whether Virginia's advocate for the mentally ill can force state officials to provide records relating to deaths and injuries at state mental health facilities.The justices agreed Monday to review a federal appeals court ruling dismissing the state advocate's lawsuit against Virginia's mental health commissioner and two other officials...

High court upholds anti-terror law

Posted on June 21, 2010
The Supreme Court has upheld a federal law that bars "material support" to foreign terrorist organizations, rejecting a free speech challenge from humanitarian aid groups.The court ruled 6-3 Monday that the government may prohibit all forms of aid to designated terrorist groups, even if the support consists of training and advice about entirely peaceful and legal activities...

Hyland Levin: New law firm, new offices

Posted on June 21, 2010
Hyland Levin, a law firm that was created by breaking off from Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll?s Voorhees, N.J., office, is scheduled to move at the end of August into its new offices at 6000 Sagemore Drive in Marlton, N.J. The firm signed a 10-year deal on 16,440 square feet on the third floor of the building, giving it fresh space for the relatively new firm...

Supreme Court lifts ban on biotech alfalfa

Posted on June 21, 2010
The Supreme Court lifted Monday a four-year ban on the sale in the United States of genetically modified alfalfa, which farmers fear contaminates others crops.A district court judge in California in May 2007 blocked the US biotech giant Monsanto from selling alfalfa seeds that it had genetically modified to resist its Roundup weed killer...

Eugene, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyer

Posted on June 21, 2010
Located in Eugene, the Law Office of Max J Mizejewski defends clients throughout Southern Oregon and the Willamette Valley against criminal charges. Mr. Mizejewski provides an aggressive defense against state and federal prosecutors.Mr. Mizejewski believes everyone's rights should be protected, and everyone deserves the best possible defense...

Kagan's e-mails to go public as hearings approach

Posted on June 18, 2010
Ever wish you could rifle through a public figure's e-mail? Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's e-mails are about to go public as part of the Senate Judiciary Committee's preparations for her confirmation hearings in a little more than a week.The William J...

Convicted killer to be sentenced for 4th time

Posted on June 18, 2010
An Oregon jury is considering whether to sentence to death a convicted killer who has already been given the death penalty three times.A Deschutes County Circuit Court jury in Bend on Wednesday will be the fourth to decide whether Randy Lee Guzek should die...

Bishop lawyer says Boston case may help defense

Posted on June 18, 2010
The lawyer for a woman charged with killing three university colleagues in Alabama says a new murder charge brought against her for the 1986 shooting death of her brother could be used in an insanity defense in the Alabama case.Roy Miller said Thursday that if the insanity defense is used in Alabama, Amy Bishop's life would become "an open book...

Embattled Texas judge faces disciplinary panel

Posted on June 18, 2010
A Texas judge charged with closing her court before a death row inmate could file a last-minute appeal is headed before a state disciplinary panel.Judge Sharon Keller on Friday faces five counts of judicial misconduct. The hearing comes nearly three years after she said "We close at 5" while attorneys for a condemned man scrambled to file an appeal hours before his execution...

Price Waicukauski & Riley, LLC

Posted on June 18, 2010
The Simple Choice for Complex Litigation 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...

Fla. homeowners lose beach dispute at high court

Posted on June 17, 2010
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Florida can undertake beach-widening projects without paying beachfront property owners who lose exclusive access to the water.The court, by an 8-0 vote, rejected a challenge by six homeowners in Florida's Panhandle who argued that a beach-widening project changed their oceanfront property into oceanview...

Ex-NYC crane inspector gets 2-6 years for bribery

Posted on June 17, 2010
The city's former chief crane inspector apologized at his sentencing Wednesday for taking bribes to fake inspection and licensing exam results and said other inspectors didn't deserve the notoriety he brought them.James Delayo was sentenced in Manhattan state Supreme Court to two to six years in prison for taking more than $10,000 in payoffs...

New trial ordered in Texas swinger's club case

Posted on June 17, 2010
An appeals court has overturned the conviction of an east Texas man accused of grooming children as young as 5 to perform in sex shows at a small-town swingers club.The 14th Court of Appeals in Houston on Thursday ordered a new trial for 43-year-old Patrick "Booger Red" Kelly...

US court tosses protester's arrest at Liberty Bell

Posted on June 17, 2010
An anti-abortion protester arrested in 2007 had a First Amendment right to demonstrate on a sidewalk near the entrance the building that houses the Liberty Bell, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.The decision overturns lower-court rulings that upheld the arrest of Christian evangelical leader Michael Marcavage...

At spill hearing, BP CEO says he's 'deeply sorry'

Posted on June 17, 2010
Chastened by heavy criticism from lawmakers, a grim-faced BP chief executive Tony Hayward said Thursday he was "deeply sorry" for his company's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico."I understand the seriousness of the situation, the frustrations and fears that continue to be voiced," he told a House investigations subcommittee...

John Crane Inc. Found Liable for Engineman?s Illness

Posted on June 16, 2010
A Philadelphia court has awarded more than $4.5 million to a mesothelioma plaintiff and his wife of 57 years. Few mesothelioma plaintiffs live long enough to hear a final verdict in their cases, making the outcome of this reverse bifurcated trial especially significant...

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