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Ruling on Wal-Mart class-action case may have broader impact

Posted on November 29, 2010
The fate of the largest job bias lawsuit in the nation's history ? a claim that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. shortchanged women in pay and promotions for many years ? hinges on whether the Supreme Court will let the class-action case go to trial.The court is likely to announce as soon as Monday whether it will hear the retail giant's appeal asserting that a single lawsuit cannot speak for more than 1...

Klayman & Toskes Files Arbitration Claim Lawsuit

Posted on November 27, 2010
The Securities Law Firm of Klayman & Toskes ("K&T"), www.nasd-law.com, announced today that it filed a securities arbitration claim against Securities America on behalf of a 69 year old retiree from Arizona, seeking to recover $230,000 which was invested in Medical Capital Notes...

Court hears arguments on violent video games

Posted on November 03, 2010
The Supreme Court expressed sympathy for a California law that aims to keep children away from ultra-violent video games, but several justices said the law faces a high constitutional hurdle.The high court heard arguments Tuesday over a California ban that would make it illegal for retailers to sell or rent violent video games to anyone under 18...

California voters reject legalization of marijuana

Posted on November 03, 2010
California voters said no thanks to a ballot initiative that would have made it the first state to legalize marijuana for recreational use and sales.Proposition 19, rejected Tuesday, would have made it legal for adults 21 and over to possess up to an ounce of marijuana, smoke the drug in nonpublic places and grow it in private plots...

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Court Appoints Lawyer for Bernard Kilpatrick

Posted on November 03, 2010
It's the ongoing public corruption investigation that's led to charges against numerous city officials, including former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. It now appears his father could soon be at federal court, as well."The case looks like it's at a point where decisions have to be made both by the prosecutors and by Mr...

Home sales up in Sept. but more troubles ahead

Posted on October 25, 2010
Sales of previously occupied homes rose last month after the worst summer for the housing market in more than a decade. And fears over flawed foreclosure documents could keep buyers on the sidelines in the final months of the year.Sales grew 10 percent in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4...

Racism in America ? Bird v. Regents of New Mexico State University

Posted on October 25, 2010
Las Cruces, is "The City of the Crosses," the second largest city in New Mexico and the home of New Mexico State University (NSMU), founded in 1888, New Mexico's only land grant university. New Mexico State University began as an agricultural college and now it is a comprehensive institution dedicated to teaching, research, and service at the graduate and undergraduate level...

When Doctors Go Bad ? Misdiagnosis of Cervical Cancer

Posted on October 25, 2010
Every day, somewhere in America more than 300 innocent men, women, and children become victims of medical malpractice at the hands of incompetent and negligent doctors. Maybe just like your own family doctor. And these people end up either dead or permanently injured...

Armstrong Teasdale LLP New Associate Announcement

Posted on October 04, 2010
Armstrong Teasdale LLP announces the addition of attorney Angie Fletcher as an associate in the St. Louis office. Fletcher is a member of the Corporate Services practice group and focuses primarily on securities, corporate governance, and commercial and general business law...

New Supreme Court term opens with Kagan aboard

Posted on October 04, 2010
The Supreme Court is starting its new term with a new justice, Elena Kagan, and bad news for hundreds of parties trying to get their cases heard at the nation's highest court.The justices are expected to start work Monday by denying many of the nearly 2,000 appeals that piled up in recent months...

Court won't speed challenge to MN disclosure law

Posted on October 04, 2010
A federal appeals court has declined to fast-track a challenge against a Minnesota law requiring disclosure of corporate political spending.In an order Monday, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals denied a motion to expedite the case, and it scheduled oral arguments for Jan...

Court urged to uphold order on immigration law

Posted on September 27, 2010
Arizona's new immigration law illegally conflicts with federal statutes and undermines the nation's foreign policy, attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice argued Friday.Assistant Attorney General Tony West argued to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that U...

Kaplan Fox Files Securities Class Action

Posted on September 27, 2010
Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP has filed a class action suit against Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. that alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Securities Act of 1933 on behalf of purchasers of Arena securities during the period May 11, 2009 and September 16, 2010 inclusive, including investors who purchased Arena shares in the Company's public offerings of common stock during the Class Period (the "Class")...

Fraudulent Practices in the Sale of Indexed Annuities

Posted on September 22, 2010
If approached by your broker (or financial advisor or insurance agent) to purchase an indexed annuity there are some things an investor should consider. First, an indexed annuity (also known as, equity-indexed annuity or fixed indexed annuity) is a fixed annuity, either immediate or deferred, that earns interest or provides benefits that are often linked to an equity or stock market index...

American Bar Association Honors Philadelphia Firms

Posted on September 22, 2010
The American Bar Association?s Death Penalty Representation Project will acknowledge Philadelphia law firms Reed Smith LLP and Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP?s role in ground-breaking, pro bono litigation of capital punishment appeals with an Exceptional Service Award on Wednesday, Sept...

Court affirms overturning Fla. gay adoption ban

Posted on September 22, 2010
Florida's strict ban on adoption by gay people is unconstitutional because no other group, even people with criminal backgrounds, are singled out for a flat prohibition by state law, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.The ruling by the 3rd District Court of Appeal upholds a 2008 decision by a Miami-Dade County judge who found "no rational basis" for the ban when she approved the adoption of two young brothers by Martin Gill and his male partner...

Defendant pleads guilty in NJ in $880M fraud case

Posted on September 16, 2010
A Florida man known for his sports-related philanthropy pleaded guilty Wednesday to running a multistate Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say left investors with up to $100 million in losses.Nevin Shapiro pleaded guilty in New Jersey federal court to one count of securities fraud and one count of money laundering as part of an agreement that still has him facing up to 17 years in prison at his Jan...

Court lets part of organic-milk case proceed

Posted on September 16, 2010
A federal appeals court says a group of dairy consumers can proceed with parts of a lawsuit alleging that several national retailers and an organic dairy company falsely labeled the dairy's milk.Aurora Organic Dairy, based in Boulder, Colo., is the nation's largest provider of store-brand organic milk...

Appeals court oveturns Wash. ecoterror conviction

Posted on September 16, 2010
An appeals court overturned the conviction of a woman found guilty of helping with a notorious 2001 ecoterror attack that destroyed a university research center, concluding the judge made mistakes that cast doubt on the fairness of her trial.Briana Waters, 34, was convicted of serving as a lookout during the Earth Liberation Front attack on the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle and was sentenced to six years in prison plus $6 million in restitution...

Officials rescue 37 immigrants from Calif. house

Posted on September 09, 2010
Immigration authorities have rescued more than three dozen immigrants who were locked inside a sweltering boarded-up bedroom in a Southern California house.Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Wednesday some of the 37 immigrants from six Latin American countries had been held for weeks in the 10-by-10-foot room in Riverside and had gone several days without food...

Menzer & Hill, P.A. Announces Investigation

Posted on September 09, 2010
The Securities Arbitration Firm of Menzer & Hill, P.A. Announces Investigation Into The Sales Practices Of Broker-Dealers That Solicited Purchases of Inverse and Leveraged Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) The Securities Arbitration Firm of Menzer & Hill, P...

Bankruptcy Court Is Latest Battleground for Traders

Posted on September 08, 2010
In Six Flags Inc.'s bankruptcy case last fall, a hedge fund that owned senior bonds negotiated the theme-park company's reorganization plan, then dumped lower-ranking bonds it figured would lose value under the deal.Other creditors cried foul. The hedge fund had used knowledge learned during its negotiations to gain an unfair edge, they suggested, accusing the fund of a "hijacking of the reorganization process...

Support for Fiduciary Duty Standard

Posted on September 02, 2010
On August 30, 2010 the Securities Law Firm of Menzer & Hill, P.A. submitted comments to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission?s congressionally mandated study of implementing a fiduciary duty standard for brokers.COMMENTS SUBMITTED TO SEC:Michael Hill, Esq...

NY appeals court halts Indian cigarette tax plan

Posted on September 02, 2010
The latest in a tangled series of state and federal court decisions has halted New York state's plan to collect taxes on cigarettes sold by Native American retailers to non-Indian customers.A state appellate court judge in western New York on Wednesday restored an order stopping the collections, Gov...

Facebook sued in California over teen endorsements

Posted on August 30, 2010
Two Los Angeles County teenagers are suing Facebook, claiming the social network effectively sold their names and images to advertisers without parental permission.The lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles challenges a Facebook feature that allows members to note that they like an advertised service or product...

Utah court rejects appeal from polygamous sect

Posted on August 30, 2010
Utah's Supreme Court has rejected a petition from members of a southern Utah-based polygamous sect seeking a reversal of changes made to its communal land trust.In a ruling issued Friday, justices say members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints waited too long to challenge the state's intervention in the United Effort Plan Trust...

Ginsburg talks about television and the high court

Posted on August 30, 2010
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says television has profoundly changed confirmation hearings but declined to say whether she'd oppose televising arguments.Ginsburg told a Colorado judicial conference Friday that TV has made Supreme Court confirmation hearings much longer because senators posture for cameras...

Ruling overturning Prop 8 shaped for higher courts?

Posted on August 23, 2010
When U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker struck down California's Proposition 8?the 2008 ballot initiative to outlaw gay marriage?he said the motivation for the majority of voters was clear."The evidence shows conclusively that moral and religious views form the only basis for a belief that same-sex couples are different from opposite-sex couples," Walker wrote in his sweeping, 136-page decision announced August 4 in San Francisco...

Medical Malpractice Case: The Emma Mejias Story

Posted on August 23, 2010
The Sharon Boxie Louisiana Injustice Story - Nelson & Hammons Every day, somewhere in America, more than 300 innocent men, women and children become victims of medical malpractice at the hands of incompetent and negligent doctors, maybe just like your own family doctor, and end up either dead or permanently injured...

Armstrong Teasdale Adds Three New Associates

Posted on August 23, 2010
Armstrong Teasdale LLP announces the arrival of associates Irina Sandler, Lauren Ashley Smith, and Adam R. Wuller. ?The subtle shift in the economy has brought about additional business and afforded us the opportunity to add talent,? said Michael A. Chivell, Armstrong Teasdale?s managing partner...

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