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Legal Volunteer of the Year Awards - April 13

Posted on March 22, 2010
Having volunteered countless hours to serve, Elizabeth Wagner will be presented with the Volunteer of the Year Award at the Leadership Awards Luncheon hosted by the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators (GLA ALA). Wagner serves as Programs Chair, working tirelessly to bring the best educational opportunities to association members and supports the GLA ALA Justice Jog, AIDS Life Cycle and Tour De Palm Springs Charity Ride...

McLane Law Firm expands

Posted on March 22, 2010
The McLane Law Firm ? with offices in Manchester, Portsmouth and Concord as well as Woburn, Mass. ? announced the firm has absorbed the Colucci Norman Law Firm, of Beverly, Mass.John Colucci, William Norman, Larry Plavnik, all corporate lawyers and Andrew Botti, a litigator, join McLane's business-focused firm of more than 90 attorneys, 44 of whom actively serve Massachusetts businesses in some capacity...

Philly Newspaper Creditors Can't Bid With Credit

Posted on March 22, 2010
A federal appeals court says Philadelphia's two major daily newspapers can deny creditors the right to use about $300 million owed them to bid at an upcoming bankruptcy auction.Monday's split 2-1 decision upholds a lower court ruling in a bitter dispute for control of The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News...

Woman sentenced after embezzling from law firm

Posted on March 22, 2010
A woman was sentenced Monday after she pleaded guilty to stealing from the law firm she worked for.In January, 24-year-old Christina Coronado admitted she had stolen more than $30,000 from her former employer, Zimmerman Law Firm in Waco. She claimed the money was spent on her children and bills payments...

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Cyber-bullying case going forward, state appeals court decides

Posted on March 19, 2010
A state appeals court says a 15-year-old boy whose Web site was flooded with anti-gay slurs and threats can sue a schoolmate who admitted posting a menacing message but described it as a joke.In a 2-1 ruling Monday, the Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles said the violent language of the message - threatening to "rip out your ...

NJ gay marriage battle back in court

Posted on March 19, 2010
Gay couples who sued New Jersey for the right to marry once before are taking their case back to court.Six couples plus the surviving partner from a seventh filed a motion Thursday claiming the state continues to discriminate against them even though it offers civil unions to same-sex couples...

Obama optimistic on weekend healthcare vote

Posted on March 19, 2010
President Barack Obama said on Friday he expected a tough vote this weekend, but Democrats were poised to make history when the House of Representatives votes on his healthcare overhaul bill."Right now we are at the point where we are going to do something historic this weekend," Obama told a raucous audience at George Mason University, as Democratic congressional leaders scrambled to round up support for the plan to revamp the $2...

Court OKs ex-Guatemalan leader's extradition to US

Posted on March 19, 2010
A Guatemalan court has approved former President Alfonso Portillo's extradition to the U.S. to face money laundering charges.Portillo does not face imminent extradition, however. Under Guatemalan law, he must first be tried at home in a separate corruption case before facing charges abroad...

Obama says healthcare bill would cut U.S. deficit

Posted on March 18, 2010
President Barack Obama said on Thursday a report on his proposed legislation to overhaul the healthcare system showed it would reduce the nation's budget deficit over the long term. House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Barack Obama's promise to expand coverage while slashing the deficit, a strategy aimed at attracting support from the party's fiscal conservatives...

AstraZeneca wins 1st trial over alleged drug harm

Posted on March 18, 2010
British drugmaker AstraZeneca wins the first trial brought by a patient alleging its psychiatric drug Seroquel caused harm.AstraZeneca says a jury in Middlesex County Superior Court in New Jersey ruled in favor of the drugmaker.The case was brought by a 61-year-old Louisiana man who claims he developed diabetes after taking the drug for a few years...

Idaho high court: No new trials for 6 on death row

Posted on March 18, 2010
The Idaho Supreme Court has denied requests from six death row inmates who said they were entitled to new trials because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling made after their convictions called on juries, not judges, to impose the death penalty.All the men argued that the state violated their Sixth Amendment due process rights because they were sentenced to death by a judge instead of a jury, as required under the 2002 federal decision...

Obama taps NPR reporter's sister for federal bench

Posted on March 18, 2010
President Barack Obama has nominated the sister of National Public Radio legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg (TOH'-ten-burgh) for a federal judgeship.Obama on Wednesday tapped Amy Totenberg for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia...

Judge rejects request to delay Blagojevich trial

Posted on March 18, 2010
A federal judge refused Wednesday to postpone the June start of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial, brushing aside defense attorneys' claims that they won't have enough time to prepare.U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel also dismissed defense attorneys' concerns that U...

Bryan A. Lowe & Associates - Las Vegas bankruptcy Lawyer

Posted on March 17, 2010
The firm was founded on a philosophy of service that not only emphasizes quality representation in terms of experience and expertise - but places a high value on initiating appropriate actions to meet the client's legal needs and objectives. Particular stress is also placed on providing individualized service and achieving the desired results while working in a cost-effective manner...

Eugene, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyer

Posted on March 17, 2010
Max Mizejewski (pronounced majeski) received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993. In 1997, Max graduated from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College and went on to work in the public sector before entering private practice...

Jury awards VirnetX $106M in Microsoft dispute

Posted on March 17, 2010
A jury has awarded communications company VirnetX Holding nearly $106 million after determining Microsoft violated two of its patents.The verdict came Tuesday after a weeklong trial in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.Lawyers for VirnetX, which is based in Scotts Valley, say the $105...

Judge allows genetically engineered beet harvest

Posted on March 17, 2010
A federal judge on Tuesday said farmers can harvest their genetically engineered sugar beets this year, ruling the economic impact too great and that environmental groups waited too long to request that the crop be yanked from the ground and otherwise barred from the market...

DMX Sentenced To Six Months For Probation Violation

Posted on March 17, 2010
DMX was sentenced to six months in an Arizona jail on Tuesday for violating his probation by using drugs. The rapper (born Earl Simmons), who has been in jail since his arrest on March 9 for five counts of probation violation, admitted to a single violation for failing a court-mandated drug test last June and testing positive for cocaine, according to The Arizona Republic...

Soldier faces Army trial in killings of 3 in NC

Posted on March 16, 2010
A soldier acquitted of killing a mother and two of her young daughters in North Carolina about 25 years ago is now going on trial in military court after prosecutors say new DNA tests link him to the crimes.Master Sgt. Timothy Hennis, 51, is charged with premeditated murder in the May 1985 stabbing deaths of Kathryn Eastburn and two of her daughters ? 5-year-old Kara Sue and 3-year-old Erin Nicole...

NJ court OKs tea party group's bid to oust senator

Posted on March 16, 2010
A New Jersey appeals court is allowing a conservative tea party group to proceed with an effort to throw a Democratic U.S. senator out of office.The three-judge panel Tuesday ordered the secretary of state to accept the group's petition seeking to recall Sen...

Feds urge judge not to delay Blagojevich trial

Posted on March 16, 2010
Prosecutors urged a federal judge Monday to turn down ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's request to delay his corruption trial, saying public interest in the case warrants a speedy resolution.Blagojevich's attorneys asked U.S. District Judge James B...

Law firm to investigate Broadview acquisition

Posted on March 16, 2010
Robbins Umeda LLP, a California-based law firm, announced this week that it has launched an investigation into the recent acquisition of Broadview Security by Tyco International.According to a statement issued by the firm, the investigation will look into possible breaches of "fiduciary duty" and other state laws by the Broadview board of directors...

Tax service drops legal action against Portsmouth

Posted on March 16, 2010
Portsmouth's survival hopes have been helped by Britain's tax authority dropping a legal challenge against the club entering a form of bankruptcy protection.London's High Court on Tuesday suspended a winding-up order against the debt-ridden Premier League club that was being pursued by the revenue and customs service...

Las Vegas Estate Planning - Bryan A. Lowe & Associates

Posted on March 15, 2010
Founded in 1982, Bryan A Lowe & Associates is a law firm based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The firm provides a wide range of services, primarily in the areas of estate planning, probate, bankruptcy, general business (corporate, partnership, and proprietorship), taxation, real estate, asset protection, and elder care...

Geothermal firm Ormat faces class action suit

Posted on March 15, 2010
Law firms are circling geothermal energy company Ormat Technologies, after a class action law suit was filed accusing the firm and its executives of knowlingly falsifying its accounts.Pennsylvania firm Howard G Smith filed the class action lawsuit on behalf of investors, after Ormat revealed back in February that it would have to revise its accounts for the year up to December 2008...

Dentist pleads guilty to dumping waste in NJ ocean

Posted on March 15, 2010
A Pennsylvania dentist has pleaded guilty to dumping medical waste into the ocean, causing numerous beach closures in New Jersey.Thomas McFarland had unsuccessfully sought to enter a pretrial intervention program that would have spared him a criminal record...

Jackson Township law firm opens fifth office

Posted on March 15, 2010
The law firm Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co. has opened an office in downtown Akron, the firm?s first in Summit County.The firm has offices in Jackson Township, Alliance, New Philadelphia and Sugarcreek.Managing Director Terry A. Moore said the firm?s clients in and around Summit County have asked for a location in Akron, and it appeared the timing was right...

South African youth leader convicted of hate speech

Posted on March 15, 2010
A court convicted the governing party's youth leader of hate speech Monday after he said the woman who once accused South Africa's president of rape had had a "nice time" because she stayed the night and asked for taxi money.A gender justice group took African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema to the Johannesburg Equality Court after he made the comment to students in January 2009...

Federal court says Nevada can limit brothel ads

Posted on March 12, 2010
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a Nevada law that bars legal brothels that operate in some of the state's rural areas from advertising by newspaper, leaflets and billboards in Las Vegas, Reno and other places where prostitution is illegal.Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto hailed the ruling by the 9th U...

Court OKs TV rules opposed by Comcast, Cablevision

Posted on March 12, 2010
A federal court has upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make channels they own available to satellite TV providers and other rivals on equal terms.Friday's ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia leaves in place the Federal Communications Commission "program access" rules...

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