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BP agrees to $20B fund for spill victims

Posted on June 16, 2010
President Barack Obama met on his own turf with top BP officials on Wednesday to press his demands that the London-based oil giant pay into a claims fund for victims of the worst oil spill in the nation's history.BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, CEO Tony Hayward, and other officials walked slowly as a group from the Southwest Gate of the White House, where they were dropped off, and climbed the steps leading to the West Wing...

JDA Software may have to pay Dillard's $246M

Posted on June 16, 2010
JDA Software may have to pay department store operator Dillard's $246 million in a dispute over a software licensing agreement, the company said Wednesday.JDA, which makes which makes software that helps retailers manage inventory, said a Texas jury in state district court for Dallas County came down on the side of Dillard's in a ruling Tuesday...

Planned NM uranium mine not on Navajo land

Posted on June 16, 2010
A New Mexico-based uranium producer plans to move forward with a mining operation in the western part of the state after that a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that its land is not part of Indian Country.The full 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled in a 6-5 decision that the U...

Philadelphia: Scouts should confront anti-gay rule

Posted on June 16, 2010
City lawyers called on local Boy Scout officials to muster "the courage of their convictions" and challenge their national group's ban on gays as a trial over government funding opened Tuesday.The city of Philadelphia wants to end its $1-a-year lease to the local Boy Scouts chapter unless it rejects a Boy Scouts of America policy banning "avowed" gays...

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Court to review order for Calif. to reduce inmates

Posted on June 15, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it will review whether California must cut its prison population by nearly 40,000 inmates to improve medical and mental health care, escalating a legal battle that has been playing out for two decades. The justices agreed to hear the state's appeal of a court order to reduce its inmate population by December 2011...

High court sides with immigrant with minor record

Posted on June 15, 2010
The Supreme Court has ruled that an immigrant's second minor drug offense ? possession of a single tablet of an anti-anxiety drug without a prescription ? should not lead automatically to deportation. The justices on Monday unanimously reversed a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the deportation to Mexico of Jose Angel Carachuri-Rosendo...

Utah man facing firing squad seeks federal stay

Posted on June 15, 2010
A death row inmate set to be executed by firing squad Friday is scrambling to block his execution after losing an appeal at the Utah Supreme Court and failing to persuade the state parole board to grant him clemency.Ronnie Lee Gardner's attorneys are now ramping up a federal civil rights lawsuit filed last week against the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole...

Fellow law school deans embrace Kagan for court

Posted on June 15, 2010
Sixty-nine law school deans from around the country are endorsing Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. The deans are praising Kagan, herself a onetime dean of the Harvard Law School, saying she is superbly qualified.In a letter to the chairman and top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the leading legal academics say Kagan has first-rate legal skills, a respected body of work on constitutional law, enormous intelligence, and a flair for forging coalitions...

High court rejects appeal in rendition case

Posted on June 14, 2010
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Canadian engineer who was caught up in the U.S. government's secret transfer of terror suspects to other countries.The court did not comment Monday in ending Syrian-born Maher Arar's quest to sue top U.S...

Kagan confirmation would affect major tobacco case

Posted on June 14, 2010
It's a simple matter of math: Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court has complicated the government's effort to force the tobacco industry to cough up nearly $300 billion.If confirmed by the Senate as a justice, Kagan would have to sit out high court review of the government's decade-old racketeering lawsuit against cigarette makers...

Jackson doctor fighting to keep medical license

Posted on June 14, 2010
Nearly a year after he went from anonymity to notoriety, Michael Jackson's doctor returns to court for a pretrial hearing that will determine when he goes to trial and what he will be able to do in the meantime.Dr. Conrad Murray is likely to face the usual placards and catcalls from Jackson fans denouncing him outside the courthouse and members of Jackson's family glaring at him inside the courtroom Monday...

Obama plans fourth tour of Gulf oil spill

Posted on June 14, 2010
Struggling to show leadership in a crisis, President Barack Obama is embarking on a three-state tour of Gulf Coast states tainted by oil before speaking to the nation about the country's worst environmental disaster and what to expect in the weeks ahead...

Calif. high court to hear church's property appeal

Posted on June 14, 2010
The California Supreme Court has decided to hear an Orange County church's appeal to keep its beachfront church property, despite breaking away from the main Episcopal Church.St. James Anglican Church, a theologically conservative breakaway church, has waged a nearly six-year fight to keep the church property instead of returning it to the Diocese of Los Angeles...

Lawsuit alleges Palace ex-staffers took secrets

Posted on June 11, 2010
The company that owns the Detroit Pistons is alleging that former employees stole trade secrets when they quit to join a former executive at a sports-and-entertainment rival. The Detroit News says Thursday that a lawsuit filed by Palace Sports & Entertainment in Oakland County Circuit Court demands the return of confidential records and seeks a cash award...

OJ lawyer to make high court appeal for new trial

Posted on June 11, 2010
O.J. Simpson's lawyer says time could be the biggest hurdle he'll face when he asks the Nevada Supreme Court on Friday to overturn the imprisoned former football star's conviction in a September 2007 hotel room heist and grant a new trial. "We only have 15 minutes to make our arguments...

Release set for more of Kagan's Clinton-era files

Posted on June 11, 2010
Senators are mining Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's work as an aide to former President Bill Clinton for clues about her opinions and legal approach. The William J. Clinton Presidential Library is set Friday to release more than 40,000 pages of notes, memos and other files, mostly from Kagan's stint as a White House counsel during the mid-1990s...

Guatemala AG ousted amid corruption allegations

Posted on June 11, 2010
Guatemala's Constitutional Court has removed the new attorney general amid allegations of corruption. The ruling means Conrado Reyes must hand the reins of the Attorney General's Office back to an interim top prosecutor who was in charge before his nomination...

Advocates protest US immigration fee hikes

Posted on June 11, 2010
Immigrant rights advocates said the proposed fee increases by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) send a message to immigrants that they are not wanted here.?Things like these fee increases are only going to further discourage the sentiment that immigrants are a major part of this country,? said Terry Valen of the Filipino Community CenterThe USCIS plans to increase fees on permanent residency, also known as green card applications...

Soltman, Levitt, Flaherty & Wattles LLP

Posted on June 10, 2010
The law firm of Soltman, Levitt, Flaherty & Wattles LLP is committed to the highest standard of client care. We acknowledge receipt of a new matter and make contact with both the insured and any opposing attorneys immediately. The firm services all courts within the State of California...

Utah judge denies motion for condemned inmate

Posted on June 10, 2010
Lawyers for a death row inmate scheduled for execution by a firing squad on June 18 failed Wednesday to persuade a federal judge to block a commutation hearing because the process is riddled with conflict. The emergency hearing in U.S. District Court came hours after attorneys for Ronnie Lee Gardner argued an appeal of the case before the Utah Supreme Court ? asking justices to vacate Gardner's death sentence...

Court OKs Calif. city's day laborer crackdown

Posted on June 10, 2010
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the city of Redondo Beach's ordinance allowing for the arrest of day laborers who approach automobiles soliciting work.A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower-court decision...

JON ATZEN JOINS SHEPPARD MULLIN LOS ANGELES

Posted on June 10, 2010
Jon Atzen has joined the Los Angeles/Downtown office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm's Corporate practice group and member of the Emerging Companies practice. Atzen most recently was a partner at DLA Piper in Los Angeles...

Rwandan judge says no bail for US lawyer

Posted on June 10, 2010
A Rwandan judge Monday turned down a bail application by an American lawyer charged with denying Rwanda's 1994 genocide and publishing articles that threaten the country's security. Peter Erlinder pleaded not guilty to the charges in court last Friday and asked to be granted bail so he could return home for medical treatment...

Supreme Court Blocks Arizona Election Funding

Posted on June 09, 2010
The court's emergency orders throws a wrench into the state's campaigns two months before its primary elections. It is the latest sign the high court's conservative bloc is skeptical of legal rules to limit election spending or to equalize the spending between wealthy and not-so-wealthy candidates...

Court sides with paper mill in Fox River cleanup

Posted on June 09, 2010
A lawyer for Appleton Papers, Inc. says a court has ruled that two insurance companies will have to contribute $10 million toward the cleanup of the Fox River. Madison attorney Ron Ragatz says Tuesday's ruling by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals means Munich Re AG and Westport Insurance Corp...

Girl pleads guilty in Seattle bus tunnel beating

Posted on June 09, 2010
A 15-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in a Seattle bus tunnel beating of another girl that was captured on surveillance video.The Seattle girl who entered her plea Tuesday had been charged with first-degree robbery in the Jan...

Court weighs whether to release militia members

Posted on June 09, 2010
A federal prosecutor has told an appeals court in Ohio that five jailed members of a Midwest militia are a threat to public safety. The prosecutor says they should stay in jail until they're tried on charges of plotting to overthrow the government.But attorneys for the defendants told the 6th U...

Ohio couple plead not guilty to terror conspiracy

Posted on June 09, 2010
An Ohio couple have pleaded not guilty to charges that they conspired to provide thousands of dollars to a Mideast terrorist group. Hor Akl and his wife, Amera Akl, appeared in federal court Tuesday in Toledo on charges they planned to conceal up to $500,000 to give to Hezbollah on behalf of anonymous donors in the United States...

Supreme Court blocks Ariz. campaign finance law

Posted on June 08, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court derailed a key part of Arizona's campaign finance system on Tuesday by at least temporarily blocking extra money for publicly funded candidates outspent by privately financed rivals or targeted by independent groups' spending.The court said in a brief order that it will prevent the state from using its system of so-called matching funds at least until the justices decide whether to hear the full appeal of opponents of the key provision of the state's campaign funding system...

NM high court to hear arguments in emissions case

Posted on June 08, 2010
The New Mexico Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday afternoon in a legal battle over an environmental group's effort to establish a cap on greenhouse gas emissions in the state. State regulators and the New Mexico Environmental Law Center are asking the justices to order a District Court judge in Lovington to reverse an earlier decision that halted the effort by New Energy Economy to control greenhouse gas emissions...

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