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California: Court Rejects Marijuana Limit

Posted on January 22, 2010
The State Supreme Court struck down a law that sought to limit the amount of marijuana a medical patient can legally possess. The court, in a unanimous decision, ruled that state lawmakers were wrong to change provisions of a voter-approved proposition in 1996 that allowed patients with a doctor?s recommendation to possess an unspecified amount of marijuana...

Pool maker Latham says court OKs bankruptcy plan

Posted on January 22, 2010
Latham International, which makes swimming pools and parts such as liners, steps and ladders, said on Friday that a bankruptcy court approved a debt restructuring plan that will put the company into the hands of its lendersate Constitution through the initiative process...

Court Sides With Trojans in "USC" Logo Dispute

Posted on January 21, 2010
After further review, the U.S. Patent and Trademark review board's decision stands.A federal appeals court rejected South Carolina's petition to use the letters "USC" on the Fighting Gamecocks baseball team's uniforms. The decision upholds the Patent and Trademark Office board's ruling regarding the University of Southern California's claim to the logo...

Supreme Court Upholds Ala. Man's Death Penalty

Posted on January 21, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of an Alabama man who claimed his attorneys failed to present key evidence of his borderline mental retardation. The justices said the defense made a strategic decision, not a negligent omission. Holly Wood shot and killed his ex-girlfriend as she slept in her Troy, Ala...

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Judge: Kilpatrick at fault, he must pay $320,000

Posted on January 21, 2010
The end was almost certainly worse than what Kwame Kilpatrick expected.Grilled for six days on the witness stand -- his integrity questioned by prosecutors who said that if they couldn't send him to jail, they'd settle for $225,000 -- Kilpatrick's restitution hearing ended after four months Wednesday with a judge calling him a liar and demanding he cut a check for far more than even prosecutors expected...

Report: Judge shouldn't lose job for closing court

Posted on January 21, 2010
An embattled Texas judge who closed her court before a death-row inmate could file his final appeal should not lose her job or receive any further punishment beyond the "public humiliation" she has faced, a judge presiding over her ethics trial said in a report released Wednesday...

Ex-Manhattan Prosecutor Morgenthau Joins Wachtell

Posted on January 20, 2010
Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said he?s joining the New York-based law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.Morgenthau, 90, left office last month after 34 years as New York City?s top prosecutor. At Wachtell, the firm known for advising Wall Street clients on merger advice, he will be of counsel, a non-partner position...

Eugine Criminal Defense Law & Family Law

Posted on January 20, 2010
The Law Office of Max J Mizejewski was founded to provide clients with quality representation in criminal defense and family law matters. Our practice areas include: DUII, DUI, DWIDriving OffensesDrug CrimesProperty CrimesViolent CrimesStalkingExpungementsDivorceChild CustodyParenting TimeChild / Spousal SupportGrandparents RightsPost Divorce ModificationsRestraining OrdersMax Mizejewski (pronounced Majeski) received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993...

Judge to rule on Kilpatrick restitution payments

Posted on January 20, 2010
A judge is expected to rule how much ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should be paying each month toward his $1 million court-ordered restitution to the city of Detroit.Kilpatrick is required to appear in the afternoon hearing before Wayne County Circuit Court Judge David Groner...

Prisoner release plan halted pending review

Posted on January 20, 2010
A federal court order to release 40,000 inmates to relieve prison crowding in California was delayed for up to a year on Tuesday, pending a final review by the U.S. Supreme Court. Justices turned down a challenge by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration to the court order that forces the state to reduce its prison population...

No Misconduct Found in Blackwater Case

Posted on January 20, 2010
A federal judge has opted not to impose a finding of prosecutorial misconduct on Justice Department lawyers for their handling of a case against Blackwater security guards involved in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad.In Federal District Court here last month, Judge Ricardo M...

Bryan A Lowe & Associates

Posted on January 19, 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...

Court dismisses California prisoner release case

Posted on January 19, 2010
The high court's decision to dismiss the appeals for lack of jurisdiction occurred as part of a long-running legal battle over California's 33 adult prisons and their often-criticized medical care for inmates.A panel of three federal judges in August ordered the state's prison population be reduced in stages over two years to relieve the overcrowding that has caused inadequate medical and mental health care...

Court throws out ruling favorable to suspect

Posted on January 19, 2010
The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a court ruling that invalidated a former Black Panther's death sentence for killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981. The move was the latest twist in Mumia Abu-Jamal's racially tinged case that has drawn international attention...

Court sends shaken baby case back to 9th Circuit

Posted on January 19, 2010
The Supreme Court has again reinstated the conviction of a California woman for shaking her 7-week-old grandson in a case that has become a tug-of-war with the federal appeals court in San Francisco. Shirley Ree Smith was convicted in December 1997 and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison...

US militant suspects allege torture in Pakistan

Posted on January 19, 2010
Five Americans facing charges for allegedly plotting attacks against Pakistan and its allies alleged they were tortured in custody, as a Pakistani court on Monday extended their detention.The five young men were arrested in December on suspicion of trying to contact Al-Qaeda-linked groups, with police officials accusing them of trying to travel to Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban against US and NATO troops...

Justice for Oil & Gas Injury Victims

Posted on January 15, 2010
http://www.insiderexclusive.com/show-titles/36-justice-for-oil-a-gas-injury-victims.html On a beautiful Wyoming afternoon, June 26, 2007, a 30-foot fiery flame erupted from a gas well savagely burning Shannon Kelley, a 36-year-old mother and self-employed oil well pumper...

Mo. Court Hears Challenge to Malpractice Limits

Posted on January 15, 2010
Missouri's top judges questioned on Thursday whether a 2005 law limiting medical malpractice lawsuits is being wrongly applied to people retroactively and is discriminating against the spouses of those injured.Attorneys for patients argued to the state Supreme Court that the law violates numerous provisions of the Missouri Constitution and that lawmakers had no rational basis to reduce the amount of money that people who had been harmed could win from medical providers...

Court: Mass. Law on Wine Shipping Unconstitutional

Posted on January 15, 2010
A Massachusetts law that sharply restricts out-of-state winemakers from shipping their products directly to consumers in the state is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled.Thursday's decision by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a lower court ruling could open the door for connoisseurs in Massachusetts to purchase more of their favorite wines online or by mail order from domestic producers...

Probation for Ohio lawyer in green card fraud

Posted on January 15, 2010
A federal judge in Ohio has ordered two years' probation for an immigration lawyer who illegally married to gain permanent U.S. residence. U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost issued the sentence Friday for Lillian Asante (uh-SAN'-tay), who must return to her native Ghana...

Charlie Sheen's lawyers request courtroom TV ban

Posted on January 15, 2010
Charlie Sheen's lawyers have asked a judge to ban TV cameras during the actor's court hearing over his bust-up with wife Brooke Mueller to avoid a "media frenzy."The star was ordered not to contact Mueller after a domestic dispute in Aspen, Colo., on Christmas Day, which landed him in police custody...

Scott Rothstein law partners probed

Posted on January 14, 2010
The Florida Bar is investigating at least 35 former senior lawyers in the now-bankrupt Fort Lauderdale law firm headed by Scott Rothstein, who was disbarred before he was criminally charged last month with using the firm to run a $1.2 billion investment racket...

L.A. Law firm suing China suffers attack

Posted on January 14, 2010
Chinese software developers over the Green Dam Youth Escort monitoring program suffered several targeted attacks earlier this week, when documents containing malicious exploits were sent to attorneys, the firm stated late Wednesday.On Monday evening, lawyers at the firm of Gipson Hoffman & Pancione received e-mails that appeared to have been sent by associates, the group said in its statement...

Supreme Court bars broadcast of Prop 8 trial in California

Posted on January 14, 2010
The Supreme Court split along ideological lines Wednesday as it barred a federal judge in San Francisco from broadcasting a high-profile trial involving same-sex marriage. The court issued an unsigned opinion that said lower courts had not followed proper procedure in approving plans for the broadcast...

Schwarzenegger Files Appeal in Furlough Case

Posted on January 14, 2010
The Schwarzenegger administration filed an appeal Wednesday in a lawsuit over his furloughs of state workers, contesting a decision by the controller to restore pay for prison guards.Last year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered some 200,000 state employees to take three days off a month without pay, cutting their paychecks by 14 percent to help close the state's budget gap...

State high court denies tobacco company appeals

Posted on January 14, 2010
The state Supreme Court on Wednesday denied tobacco companies' appeals of a San Francisco jury's award of $2.85 million in damages to the family of a woman who died of lung cancer after smoking cigarettes for 26 years.Leslie Whiteley of Ojai sued Philip Morris and R...

Supreme Court rules against Nev. man in DNA case

Posted on January 13, 2010
A Nevada inmate lost a U.S. Supreme Court bid to challenge what jurors were told about DNA evidence against him in the 1994 sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl.The nation's highest court ruled Monday that it would not hear the evidence issue but did give Troy Don Brown, 38, another chance to argue before a federal appeals court that he received ineffective legal representation at trial...

U.S. court revives antitrust suit on music downloads

Posted on January 13, 2010
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said a lower court judge erred in dismissing the complaint alleging violations of the federal Sherman Act in October 2008.Among the named defendants in the case are Bertelsmann AG, EMI Group, Sony Corp, Time Warner Inc, Vivendi SA and Warner Music Group Corp or various affiliates...

Court Mulls California's Proposition 8

Posted on January 13, 2010
A federal court turned to historians Tuesday as it considers the constitutionality of Proposition 8, an amendment that banned same-sex marriage in California. Harvard professor Nancy Cott told a federal court in San Francisco that child rearing was only one of several purposes of marriage, not "the central or defining purpose," the Los Angeles Times reports...

Mass. parents in OD case to be tried separately

Posted on January 13, 2010
The Massachusetts parents accused of killing their 4-year-old daughter by overdosing her with prescription drugs will be tried separately.Assistant District Attorney Frank Middleton said in court Wednesday that prosecutors decided to hold separate trials for Carolyn and Michael Riley after the judge ruled certain statements each of the Rileys made might incriminate the other and could not be heard...

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