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EU court rejects challenge to cell phone cap

Posted on June 08, 2010
The European Union's highest court rejected a challenge Tuesday by four British cell phone companies to a Europe-wide price cap on fees for using a phone abroad.The British branches of Vodafone, Telefonica O2, T-Mobile and Orange had argued against the EU's imposing maximum price limits for "roaming" charges or extra fees for making or receiving calls outside the user's home nation...

LA judge in banana workers case cites threats

Posted on June 08, 2010
A California judge said Monday threats had been made against her and witnesses in connection with lawsuits claiming Nicaraguan workers on Dole Foods banana plantations were harmed by pesticides.Judge Victoria Chaney met with lawyers in closed session regarding new claims of witness tampering, then took the bench to abruptly announce there had been threats to her and to witnesses in radio addresses in Nicaragua...

The immigration factor in McCain's reelection fight

Posted on June 08, 2010
As a candidate for president, Republican John McCain lamented his party's tough talk on illegal immigration. "In the long term, if you alienate the Hispanics, you'll pay a heavy price," he told a group of Milwaukee businessmen in October 2006.Back then, some strongly favored walling off the U...

400 Marijuana Dispensaries To Close In Los Angeles

Posted on June 07, 2010
Los Angeles is home to hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries, but concern over their proliferation has provoked a backlash. Police are cracking down on most of them starting Monday. A new city ordinance limits the number and locations of medical marijuana dispensaries allowed to operate in Los Angeles...

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Court won't hear Clinton pay lawsuit

Posted on June 07, 2010
The Supreme Court won't hear arguments that Hillary Rodham Clinton is ineligible to be secretary of state. The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group. The Constitution says no member of Congress can be appointed to a government post if that job's pay was increased during the lawmaker's current term...

Lehman, Nortel, Bank of America, Google in Court News

Posted on June 07, 2010
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.?s ex- Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him and his colleagues of failing to disclose Repo 105, a financing method allegedly used to conceal billions of dollars of debt, according to court records...

2 New Jersey Terror Suspects to Appear in Court

Posted on June 07, 2010
Two young New Jersey men are scheduled to appear in federal court in Newark Monday morning on charges of trying to join a terrorist group.The two were arrested Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport before they could board separate flights to Egypt, where they hoped to continue on to Somalia to join the terrorist group al-Shabab, a militant organization with links to Al Qaeda...

Lesbian couple weds in Portugal's 1st gay marriage

Posted on June 07, 2010
A lesbian couple wed Monday in Portugal's first same-sex ceremony since the predominantly Catholic country introduced a law allowing gay marriage last month.Teresa Pires and Helena Paixao, divorced Portuguese mothers in their 30s who have been together since 2003, married in a 15-minute ceremony at a Lisbon registry office...

Bradley S. Wallace, Attorney at Law

Posted on June 04, 2010
Bradley S. Wallace is a trial attorney and a litigation specialist. He focuses his practice exclusively to representing injured people. His objective, in every case, is to protect the interests of his clients, fight to obtain the most fair and reasonable result on their behalf, and aggresively pursue every legal avenue to achieve that goal...

Illinois couple guilty of $41M Best Buy fraud

Posted on June 04, 2010
A federal jury has found an Illinois couple guilty of defrauding Best Buy out of $41 million by over-billing the Richfield-based company for computer parts. Russell Adam Cole, 50, and Abby Rae Cole, 53, of Deerfield, Ill., were found guilty Thursday of mail fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy, tax evasion and conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with the scheme...

Cleanup Costs and Lawsuits Rattle BP?s Investors

Posted on June 04, 2010
BP shareholders are fleeing the company?s stock amid growing uncertainty about the ultimate bill for cleanup costs, lawsuits, fines and damage to the oil giant?s reputation. BP?s shares fell an additional 15 percent on Tuesday, as investors reacted to news that the latest effort to stem the gushing oil in the Gulf of Mexico failed over the weekend...

Mass. sen. who stuffed money in bra pleads guilty

Posted on June 04, 2010
A Massachusetts state senator caught on video stuffing what prosecutors said was bribe money into her sweater and bra has pleaded guilty to corruption charges.Dianne Wilkerson, a Boston Democrat, entered the pleas to eight counts of attempted extortion at a hearing in U...

Final NY hate crime suspect pleads guilty

Posted on June 04, 2010
The last of seven New York teenagers implicated in the hate crime killing of an Ecuadorean immigrant pleaded guilty on Wednesday.Anthony Hartford's plea to gang assault and other charges closes the prosecution phase of a case that attracted international headlines and prompted an ongoing U...

Jury sentences man to death for Nev. coed murder

Posted on June 04, 2010
A jury sentenced a 28-year-old Nevada man to death for raping and killing a college coed after sexually assaulting two others in Reno more than two years ago.The same Washoe County District Court jury that convicted James Biela (BEEL'-uh) last week deliberated about nine hours before reaching a unanimous verdict Wednesday...

Neal Gerber partners leave to start own law firm

Posted on June 03, 2010
Five partners have left Neal Gerber & Eisenberg to start their own law firm counseling trade associations, charitable groups and other non-profits.The group is led by Jed Mandel, who chaired Neal Gerber's practice group focused on associations and non-profit organizations...

UK court dismisses insider dealing case

Posted on June 03, 2010
Britain's regulator lost its first criminal case for insider dealing on Thursday as a jury acquitted a lawyer and a finance director of wrongdoing and a second lawyer had charges against him dropped.The Financial Services Authority had charged Andrew King, a finance director, and lawyers Michael McFall and Andrew Rimmington with eight counts of insider dealing during the 305 million pound ($450 million) takeover of biotech firm NeuTec Pharma by Swiss drugmaker Novartis...

NY school sued after teen suspended over rosary

Posted on June 03, 2010
A federal judge says a New York school must reinstate a 13-year-old boy who was suspended for wearing rosary beads.Judge Lawrence Kahn ordered the Schenectady (skeh-NEHK'-ta-dee) seventh-grader reinstated pending a June 11 hearing into whether the suspension violated the boy's civil rights...

U.S. says state aggression issues could undermine ICC

Posted on June 03, 2010
At a landmark review conference of the ICC in Kampala, delegates are seeking to agree a definition of state aggression and how ICC investigations into the crime, one of four grave crimes the court has jurisdiction over, could be triggered.The issue has divided delegates and NGOs over fears that giving the court powers to prosecute state aggression -- defined broadly as using force that manifestly breaches the UN charter -- could open it up to criticism of political bias and may again prove too divisive for full agreement to be reached in Kampala...

Ohio convert's lawyer charged over records filing

Posted on June 02, 2010
A lawyer has pleaded not guilty to charges she illegally disclosed confidential information regarding a teenage girl who converted to Christianity and ran away from her Ohio home.Attorney Angela Lloyd entered the pleas Tuesday in Franklin County juvenile court after a magistrate approved bringing two misdemeanor charges...

Court: Are medical residents students or employees

Posted on June 02, 2010
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to will decide whether student doctors are students or employees when it comes to collecting Social Security taxes.The high court will hear an appeal from the Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minn., and the University of Minnesota, which says the IRS shouldn't have made it collect the taxes...

Gunman kills 5, wounds 25 in northwest England

Posted on June 02, 2010
A taxi driver described as quiet but friendly went on a shooting spree across a picturesque rural area of northwestern England on Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding 25 before apparently turning the gun on himself.Officers found a body believed to be that of 52-year-old suspect Derrick Bird in woodland near the Lake District village of Boot, Cumbria police said...

48 states: Funeral protests shouldn't be protected

Posted on June 02, 2010
Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have submitted a brief to the Supreme Court in support of a father who sued anti-gay protesters over their demonstration at the 2006 funeral of his son, a Marine killed in Iraq.Only Virginia and Maine declined to sign the brief by the Kansas attorney general...

Rohm & Haas/Dow Chemical cancer cluster trial

Posted on June 02, 2010
The presiding judge in the Rohm & Haas/Dow Chemical cancer cluster trial, which had been scheduled to begin on June 7, has set September 20 as the new trial date.Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Allan Tereshko, in ordering the new schedule in the first of 31 related cases, cited ?issues attendant to a trial of this magnitude and complexity,? including pending appeals filed by the defendant of pre-trial motions...

Judge: Conn. town can't hold graduations in church

Posted on June 01, 2010
A federal judge has ruled two Connecticut public high schools can't hold their graduations inside a church because that would be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.U.S. District Court Judge Janet Hall made the ruling Monday in the case of Enfield High School and Enrico Fermi High School, both in Enfield...

Court: Victims can sue ex-Somali prime minister

Posted on June 01, 2010
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block a lawsuit against a former prime minister of Somalia over claims that he oversaw killings and torture in his home country.The high court said it will allow lawsuits against Mohamed Ali Samantar to go forward despite his claims of immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act...

The Visa Bulletin for June 2010 is now available

Posted on June 01, 2010
VISA BULLETIN FOR JUNE 2010A. STATUTORY NUMBERS1. This bulletin summarizes the availability of immigrant numbers during June. Consular officers are required to report to the Department of State documentarily qualified applicants for numerically limited visas; the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security reports applicants for adjustment of status...

Australia sues Japan over controversial whaling

Posted on June 01, 2010
Japan said Tuesday it would staunchly defend its research hunt that kills hundreds of whales per year, a day after Australia filed an international lawsuit arguing that the cull does not qualify for a scientific exemption to a 1986 ban.Australia ? Japan's major trading partner ? filed its lawsuit with the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Monday, officials in both countries confirmed, after Canberra announced its intention last week to file suit following years of fruitless diplomatic efforts to end the hunt...

Overtime claims and compliance

Posted on June 01, 2010
Wage and hour matters usually manifest when disgruntled employees feel they have not been compensated properly for their work. Often, wage and hour matters are brought forth by employees who have been terminated, anticipate being terminated, or have just received a bad performance review...

Transocean seeks delay of oil spill depositions

Posted on May 28, 2010
The company that owns the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig argued in federal court Tuesday that plaintiffs should not begin collecting evidence and testimony on the Gulf oil spill until the November deadline for claimants to file suit.Transocean Ltd. made its arguments in Houston after the federal court there accepted the company's petition to limit its liability in the oil spill to less than $27 million, the amount the company says the sunken rig is worth...

INFLUENCE GAME: Govt regulators hired by companies

Posted on May 28, 2010
At a 2005 workshop, a senior official in the U.S. government's Minerals Management Service raised concerns about ultra-deepwater drilling and included the bullet point, "Few or no regulations or standards." Within two years, Jim Grant left his post as chief of staff of the government's Gulf of Mexico region to take a job with BP PLC ? one of the companies his former agency regulated in its oversight of offshore drilling...

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