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Judge delays injunction in Neb. immigration suits

Posted on July 29, 2010
A judge says she's not sure whether lawsuits filed to block a Nebraska city's ban on hiring and renting to illegal immigrants should be heard in federal or state court.U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp on Wednesday gave attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund two weeks to submit briefs explaining why their suits belong in federal court...

Feds oppose merger of immigration law challenges

Posted on July 29, 2010
Lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department oppose a request to merge their challenge to the new Arizona immigration law with a lawsuit by a police officer who also is seeking to overturn the law.The federal lawyers oppose Phoenix police Officer David Salgado's request to consolidate the cases because they say it would prejudice or delay their challenge...

N.J. gay-marriage case must begin in lower court

Posted on July 27, 2010
The push for gay marriage in New Jersey suffered a setback Monday when the state Supreme Court said six gay couples who claim New Jersey has denied them the rights granted to married heterosexual couples must argue their case through the lower courts...

Neb. town may halt immigration law to save money

Posted on July 27, 2010
Faced with expensive legal challenges, officials in the eastern Nebraska town of Fremont are considering suspending a voter-approved ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants until the lawsuits are resolved.The City Council narrowly rejected the ban in 2008, prompting supporters to gather enough signatures for the ballot measure...

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Goldman Allowed to Keep Issuing Securities

Posted on July 27, 2010
Goldman Sachs will remain qualified as an issuer of securities after settling civil fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission this month, the agency ruled.In a letter to Goldman?s legal counsel at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, the S...

Supreme Court to hear Arizona immigration law challenge

Posted on July 20, 2010
The nation's highest court agreed to decide whether the 2007 state law infringed on federal immigration powers and should be struck down.The law at issue in the case is different from the strict new Arizona immigration law passed earlier this year and criticized by President Barack Obama that requires the police to determine the immigration status of any person suspected of being in the country illegally...

Court grants bail to jailed ex-media mogul Black

Posted on July 20, 2010
Conrad Black, the brash former newspaper magnate who lived extravagantly before his 2007 federal conviction for defrauding shareholders, may soon be released from a Florida prison after a federal appeals court granted him bail Monday.The ruling from the 7th Circuit U...

US to watch Arizona for racial profiling

Posted on July 20, 2010
According to a Press Release: The Justice Department hasn't ruled out filing a second lawsuit challenging Arizona's immigration law if evidence shows racial profiling at work, Attorney General Eric Holder says.The Obama administration sued Arizona last week, arguing that the state is impinging on federal responsibilities for dealing with immigration...

Judicial Vacancies Slow the Wheels of Justice

Posted on July 12, 2010
As the Senate prepares to vote on whether Elena Kagan should fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, there remain a substantial number of other vacancies in the nation?s lower federal courts that urgently need filling. Currently, there are about 100 vacancies in the lower federal courts...

Self Representation Hurting Individual Cases, Courts, Say Judges

Posted on July 12, 2010
In a survey released today by the American Bar Association, judges indicated that a lack of representation in civil matters is hurting those individuals? cases, and is negatively impacting courtrooms. Approximately 1,000 state trial judges responded to the survey, which posed questions about their dockets, self-representation and the impact on the courts...

Court: Insurance rates can reflect credit scores

Posted on July 12, 2010
Insurance companies can use a person's credit report to determine rates, the Michigan Supreme Court said Thursday in declaring that state regulators exceeded their authority when they banned the practice as discriminatory.The decision ends a legal battle between insurance companies and Gov...

US top court extends gun rights to states, cities

Posted on June 28, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended gun rights to every state and city in the nation in a ruling involving Chicago's 28-year-old handgun ban.By a 5-4 vote and splitting along conservative and liberal lines, the nation's highest court extended its landmark 2008 ruling that individual Americans have a constitutional right to own guns to all the cities and states for the first time...

Ore. trial court to reconsider $100M tobacco case

Posted on June 28, 2010
The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that Philip Morris does not have to pay $100 million in punitive damages to the family of a smoker who sued the tobacco giant over its low-tar cigarettes.The case, however, is going to another jury to decide just how much the death of Michelle Schwarz from lung cancer in 1999 will cost Philip Morris ? and legal experts say it could easily be another big award...

Court to hear Arizona immigration law challenge

Posted on June 28, 2010
The nation's highest court agreed to decide whether the 2007 state law infringed on federal immigration powers and should be struck down.The law at issue in the case is different from the strict new Arizona immigration law passed earlier this year and criticized by President Barack Obama that requires the police to determine the immigration status of any person suspected of being in the country illegally...

Kan. doc to appeal conviction in painkiller case

Posted on June 26, 2010
Defense attorneys plan to seek the release of a Kansas doctor and his wife while they appeal their convictions on charges they conspired to profit from illegally prescribing painkillers to patients who later died.Jurors found Dr. Stephen Schneider and his wife, Linda, guilty Thursday...

Major Class Action Settlement Hung Up Over Legal Fees

Posted on June 21, 2010
Congressional approval of one of the largest class action settlements in U.S. history is getting hung up on the issue of legal fees for plaintiffs lawyers. The $3.4 billion Indian trusts settlement agreed to in December could be scuttled if Congress doesn't approve the terms of the agreement by May 28, according to The Associated Press...

Fla. homeowners lose beach dispute at high court

Posted on June 21, 2010
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Florida can undertake beach-widening projects without paying beachfront property owners who lose exclusive access to the water.The court, by an 8-0 vote, rejected a challenge by six homeowners in Florida's Panhandle who argued that a beach-widening project changed their oceanfront property into oceanview...

US court tosses protester's arrest at Liberty Bell

Posted on June 21, 2010
An anti-abortion protester arrested in 2007 had a First Amendment right to demonstrate on a sidewalk near the entrance the building that houses the Liberty Bell, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.The decision overturns lower-court rulings that upheld the arrest of Christian evangelical leader Michael Marcavage...

Family Services Abuses ? Nations v. Wyoming DFS

Posted on June 16, 2010
http://www.lawpromo.com/lawyer-website-design-portfolio/online-video-a-media/law-firm-tv-shows/298-law-firm-websites-family-services-abuses Despite constitutional guarantees, Americans? civil rights and liberties are constantly in danger of violation, whether by individuals, corporations or government institutions...

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...

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...

NY appeals court tosses ruling on RNC surveillance

Posted on June 14, 2010
A court overstepped its authority by trying to force the New York Police Department to release of hundreds of pages of documents about its infiltration of protest groups before the 2004 Republican National Convention, an appeals court found Wednesday...

Former Twin Cities lawyer pleads guilty of cheating firm

Posted on June 09, 2010
Former Twin Cities attorney Michael S. Margulies pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to wire fraud, admitting that he embezzled $2 million from his former law firm and its clients. The plea was the result of a deal Margulies, 56, struck with federal prosecutors...

Ex-lawyer faces sentencing for Ponzi scheme

Posted on June 09, 2010
The sentence was more than the 40 years federal prosecutors had recommended for Rothstein, a disbarred lawyer who pleaded guilty to racketeering and fraud conspiracy charges in January.He had faced up to 100 years in prison but his lawyer had asked U...

Phoenix bankruptcy filings fall in May

Posted on June 09, 2010
Bankruptcy filings in the Phoenix metropolitan area fell in May for the second straight month.However, officials say the 2,763 filings in the metro area represent a 35 percent increase compared with May 2009.Experts say soft housing prices, a bleak employment scenario and other financial issues continue to plague many Phoenix-area residents...

Weinberg Law Firm - Dallas Employment Law

Posted on May 29, 2010
Overtime claims and compliance 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...

Medical Malpractice Case: The Emma Mejias Story

Posted on May 29, 2010
Medmal Emma Mejias died a horrible and painful death, on her very first Christmas Eve in 2004, at the hands of 25 doctors and nurses, another victim of medical malpractice. All 25 of them systematically and willfully ordered and administered the wrong drugs for her life-threatening condition called SLOS (Smith Lemli Opitz Syndrome)...

Stevens denies Blagojevich request for delay

Posted on May 29, 2010
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to delay ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's trial on corruption charges, set to begin next week.Justice John Paul Stevens rejected Blagojevich's request without comment. His decision came shortly after the Obama administration told the high court that it opposed Blagojevich's request...

Man acquitted of arson in Cleveland house blast

Posted on May 28, 2010
A Cleveland man has been acquitted of charges he caused an explosion at a vacant house resulting in damage to more than 70 homes in the area.Fifty-seven-year-old William Calderwood was acquitted Friday of 55 counts of aggravated arson in Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH'-guh) County Common Pleas Court...

US defends attending Sudan leader's inauguration

Posted on May 28, 2010
The Obama administration is defending its decision to send a representative to the inauguration of Sudan's president, who won re-election despite facing an international arrest warrant for war crimes.Omar al-Bashir was sworn in Thursday to another five-year term...

China to frame its first immigration law to attract foreigners

Posted on May 24, 2010
China has kick-started a key process to frame its first immigration law to better manage immigrants as the world's fastest economy seeks to attract more foreigners to boost its development. Experts on migration have advised the government to learn from other countries in regulating immigration, said Zhang Jijiao, researcher with the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology under the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)...

As immigration fades, Emanuel role under scrutiny

Posted on May 24, 2010
Prospects for an immigration overhaul are fizzling this year and some Democratic lawmakers are focusing blame on the pugnacious Democratic operative who works just down the hall from President Obama.Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff and longtime party strategist, has argued privately that it's a bad time for Democrats to push an immigration bill, a potential landmine in the midst of a crucial mid-term election...

Eugene, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyer

Posted on May 24, 2010
Max Mizejewski 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...

Starbucks Sued over "Unreasonably" Hot Tea

Posted on May 17, 2010
Starbucks Corp has been sued by a customer who allegedly suffered second-degree burns after being served tea that was too hot.According to the complaint, the plaintiff Zeynep Inanli was served tea that was "unreasonably hot, in containers which were not safe," at a Starbucks store at 685 Third Avenue in Manhattan...

Spain clears way for super-judge's trial

Posted on May 17, 2010
Spain's Supreme Court has removed the last potential obstacle to putting on trial the crusading judge who indicted Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden.Judge Baltasar Garzon, who became world famous with cross-border justice cases, faces charges of knowingly overstepping his jurisdiction by launching a probe of Spanish Civil War atrocities that were covered by an amnesty...

Vatican details US sex abuse defense

Posted on May 17, 2010
The Vatican on Monday will make its most detailed defense yet against claims that it is liable for U.S. bishops who allowed priests to molest children, saying bishops are not its employees and that a 1962 Vatican document did not require them to keep quiet, The Associated Press has learned...

Trial for Chandra Levy slaying suspect stays in DC

Posted on May 17, 2010
A judge has decided to keep the trial of a man charged in the killing of federal intern Chandra Levy in the District of Columbia.Attorneys for 28-year-old Ingmar Guandique (gwan-DEE'-kay) had argued he would not get a fair trial in Washington because of the extensive publicity...

WilmerHale moving support staff to Ohio

Posted on May 03, 2010
WilmerHale announced last week it was relocating its administrative support base to a new campus in Dayton, Ohio, as it seeks to streamline internal business operations across its many offices. When the business services center opens in September, it will house the majority of the firm's technical support, finance, document services, new business clearance and human resources staff...

Goldman Sachs has mounting legal woes

Posted on May 03, 2010
Goldman Sachs' legal headaches don't start and end with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Reports surfaced late Thursday that federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Goldman and its employees, over whether it may have committed securities fraud in its mortgage trading operations...

Court won't hear appeal on Boy Scouts land rental

Posted on May 03, 2010
The Supreme Court will let stand a ruling saying the Boy Scouts cannot lease city-owned parkland in San Diego.The court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from San Diego-area Boy Scouts who have traditionally leased Balboa Park camp space.Federal judges have said the Scouts are a religious organization and the lease violated federal law that prohibits the government promotion of religion...

Ex-SEC lawyer gets 8 years for pump-and-dump fraud

Posted on April 28, 2010
A former enforcement attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for his role in a a series of multimillion dollar pump-and-dump stock fraud schemes.Dallas-based attorney Phillip Offill Jr., 51, was convicted by a jury earlier this year on 10 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy...

Howrey law firm shifts pay, development of entry-level attorneys

Posted on April 28, 2010
When the Howrey law firm called its incoming associates into a conference room last June to announce it was breaking from industry custom and changing the role of its entry-level attorneys, there was a fair amount of apprehension. After all, the news came at a time when the economic downturn was forcing other firms to cut salaries or tell associates to delay their start...

Enron law firm sues Goldman Sachs

Posted on April 27, 2010
The law firm that won Enron investors $7.2 billion in what was one of the largest class action suits in the history of securities law filed charges against Goldman Sachs on Monday.Robbins Geller Rudman and Dowd filed the lawsuit in U.S. district court in Manhattan, aiming to recover investors' losses stemming from the fraud charges issued earlier this month by the Securities and Exchange Commission...

Clinton: Look beyond judges for high court pick

Posted on April 19, 2010
Bill Clinton says someone who hasn't been a judge should be considered for the Supreme Court. But scratch the idea of the ex-president or his wife as a justice.Clinton suggested that President Barack Obama follow a model that Clinton used when he tried unsuccessfully to persuade then-New York Gov...

Poll: 4 out of 5 Americans don't trust Washington

Posted on April 19, 2010
America's "Great Compromiser" Henry Clay called government "the great trust," but most Americans today have little faith in Washington's ability to deal with the nation's problems.Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center...

NY judge prefers open records in Sept. 11 cases

Posted on April 18, 2010
A federal judge who rejected a Sept. 11 health settlement says he would prefer more open records in litigation stemming from the World Trade Center attack and might consider unsealing all records.Judge Alvin Hellerstein commented Thursday after hearing lawyers argue whether a settlement related to claims of property damages resulting from the terrorist attacks should be public...

SHEPPARD MULLIN RE-ELECTS CHAIRMAN GUY HALGREN

Posted on April 16, 2010
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that the firm's chairman of the executive committee, Guy N. Halgren, has been re-elected to a fourth consecutive, three-year term leading the firm. Halgren was first elected to this management role in 2001...

NY immigration agent pleads guilty to sex coercion

Posted on April 16, 2010
A federal immigration officer who was recorded demanding sex from a woman in exchange for a green card has pleaded guilty.Isaac Baichu pleaded guilty to all the charges against him Wednesday in Queens. The 48-year-old is expected to receive a prison sentence of 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 years...

Miami-Dade clinic operator pleads guilty to Medicare fraud

Posted on April 12, 2010
Ihosvany Marquez spent his Medicare millions on a fleet of luxury cars, authorities say, including a Lamborghini Murcielago with spaceship-like doors that cost $455,959.Early Monday, he pleaded guilty in Miami federal court to healthcare fraud charges alleging he submitted $55 million in false Medicare claims for HIV and cancer services at his seven Miami-Dade and Orlando clinics...

Ex-NJ lawmaker pleads guilty in child porn case

Posted on April 12, 2010
A former New Jersey lawmaker who championed legislation fighting child pornography pleaded guilty Monday to distributing nude images of underage girls.Neil Cohen, 59, acknowledged viewing and printing images meant for sexual gratification from a computer in his former legislative office...

The Wrongful Conviction Of Ted White Jr.

Posted on April 11, 2010
On April 10, 1998, Ted White, Jr. was charged with 13 felony criminal counts ranging from rape, child molestation, sodomy, and accused of ?deviate sexual intercourse? with his12-year-old (step) daughter. In 1999, he was convicted in a Missouri courtroom by a prosecutor who withheld important exculpatory evidence, which would have proved Ted?s innocence! Ted then spent the next 5 years at the Missouri State Penitentiary, incarcerated at the infamous ?Walls Prison? in Jefferson City, Missouri, which TIME Magazine called the ?bloodiest 47 acres in America...

Asbestos Illnesses ? Alcoa's Defeat

Posted on March 24, 2010
The Tennessee Supreme Court has issued a ?huge victory? for workers nationwide, especially for victims of mesothelioma lung cancer and other asbestos-related diseases, in a ruling saying a corporation, Alcoa, ?has a full duty to prevent its employees from going home at the end of the workday in clothes that are contaminated with asbestos fibers...

SAN DIEGO IMMIGRATION LAW FIRM

Posted on March 24, 2010
PROVIDING EXCEPTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES TO IMMIGRANTS The Law Offices of McHenry & Associates is a San Diego based Immigration Law Firm dedicated to offering exceptional legal services in all matters related to U.S. Immigration Law. Immigration Law can be highly complex and is ever-changing...

Eugene, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyer

Posted on March 11, 2010
Max Mizejewski 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...

Bryan A. Lowe & Associates - Las Vegas Tax Law

Posted on March 11, 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...

The Law Offices of Steven M. Simrin - Bay Area Probate Attorney

Posted on March 03, 2010
IRS Tax RepresentationCalifornia State and Local Tax RepresentationProbateTrust AdministrationTrust LitigationConservatorships Steven M. Simrin has more than 12 years experience as both an attorney and a certified public accountant advising clients on tax, probate, trusts, and conservatorships...

Supreme Court scrutinizes state, local gun control

Posted on February 27, 2010
Gun control advocates are hoping they can win by losing when the Supreme Court rules on state and local regulation of firearms.The justices will be deciding whether the right to possess guns guaranteed by the Second Amendment ? like much of the rest of the Bill of Rights ? applies to states as well as the federal government...

Lawyer & Law Firm Website Design News

Posted on February 27, 2010
Law Promo is a specialized web design and internet marketing agency that has been providing the legal community with website services since 2004. In that time, we have helped over two hundred and sixty clients to establish themselves online and expand their businesses through internet marketing...

Oklahoma City hires private law firm for union talks

Posted on February 25, 2010
Oklahoma City Council members hired a private law firm Tuesday to lead upcoming contract negotiations with the city?s police and firefighter unions. The firm, McAfee and Taft, was hired in part because negotiations with the unions have gone poorly in recent years...

Obama nominates Berkeley prof to appeals court

Posted on February 25, 2010
Goodwin Liu, 39, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, learned English in kindergarten and later became an honors graduate at Stanford and a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught at Berkeley since 2003 and was named associate dean of the law school in 2008.He also worked as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and as a special assistant to the deputy secretary of the U...

Failed mobile phone dealer ran law firm, say staff

Posted on February 22, 2010
The former owner of two failed companies was the person in ?de facto? charge of Cheadle-based law firm Wolstenholmes prior to its collapse in December, Crain's has discovered.Ex-staff who spoke on condition of anonymity said that Wasim Saddique, who was brought in by former managing partner Nasser Ilyas as consultant to advise the firm, was effectively running it...

State won't pay legal fees for computer lawsuit

Posted on February 22, 2010
The state Finance Department has refused to pay the legal fees of a Montgomery law firm that was hired by a legislative oversight committee to stop the state from proceeding with an unbid $13 million computer contract.State Comptroller Thomas White has written to House Clerk Greg Pappas saying the committee didn't have the authority to hire the firm of Thomas, Means, Gillis & Seay...

Law Firm SEO by Law Promo - See Results, Get Clients

Posted on February 16, 2010
Search engine marketing is a huge factor for lawyer and law firm websites these days, and Law Promo utilizes the latest and greatest methods to ensure your law firm?s website is high on the search engine results lists. Marketing your law firm website through search engine optimization (SEO) is just as important as the way your website looks and functions...

The Sharon Boxie Louisiana Injustice Story

Posted on February 16, 2010
http://www.insiderexclusive.com/component/content/article/1-shows/106-the-sharon-boxie-louisiana-injustice-story-nelson-a-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...

UBS Lawyer Schmid Takes Job at Swiss Law Firm

Posted on February 09, 2010
Bernhard Schmid, the head of UBS AG?s legal department, left Switzerland?s biggest bank by assets to become a partner at a Zurich law firm founded by a former banker.Schmid joined Kuoni Attorneys at Law on Feb. 1 to help the company increase its work advising banks, founding partner Wolfram Kuoni said by telephone yesterday...

New SEC-Bank of America settlement proposal faulted

Posted on February 09, 2010
A federal judge who rejected the government's first bid to settle civil charges against Bank of America Corp. showed little enthusiasm Monday for a new proposed settlement.U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff sharply questioned the merits of the latest proposal, which calls for the company to pay $150 million to resolve allegations that it lied to shareholders at the height of the financial crisis about its pending acquisition of brokerage Merrill Lynch...

Bryan A. Lowe & Associates - Las Vegas Bankruptcy

Posted on January 31, 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 results...

WaMu shareholders get their voice in bankruptcy

Posted on January 30, 2010
Shareholders of Washington Mutual Inc will have a voice in the company's bankruptcy after a judge refused on Thursday to disband their committee, which Washington Mutual said would complicate the case.The U.S. Trustee, who plays an oversight role in bankruptcy, appointed the committee earlier this month after being petitioned by 3,500 shareholders...

Samsung to pay Rambus $700 million in settlement

Posted on January 20, 2010
Samsung Electronics will pay Rambus Inc. $700 million over five years, and invest another $200 million in the chip design company as part of a settlement ending their legal disputes, the two companies said Tuesday. Samsung will make an upfront payment of $200 million, and a quarterly payment of about $25 million for the next five years as part of the agreement, the companies said...

Woman with .708 blood-alcohol level pleads guilty

Posted on January 20, 2010
A South Dakota woman who prosecutors say had a blood-alcohol level almost nine times the legal driving limit has pleaded guilty to two drunken driving charges. Authorities said 45-year-old Marguerite Engle was arrested Dec. 1 when she was found passed out behind the wheel of a stolen delivery van along Interstate 90, with a blood alcohol level at 0...

Former FTC Chairwoman Named Top P&G Legal Officer

Posted on January 20, 2010
A former Federal Trade Commission chairwoman will become the chief legal officer at Procter & Gamble Co.The consumer products maker says Deborah Platt Majoras, who joined P&G two years ago, will succeed Steven Jemison on Feb. 1.P&G says the 58-year-old Jemison will retire Sept...

NM Supreme Court orders arrest records expunged

Posted on January 06, 2010
The New Mexico Supreme Court has unanimously ordered arrest records expunged for 32 people who were jailed overnight because a state judge said they were screaming during a hearing for a convicted rapist.Chief Justice Edward Chavez said Tuesday that the court will publish a formal opinion on the case of state District Judge Sam Sanchez, stressing that judges should know it's important to distinguish between crowd control and contempt proceedings...

Appellate court overturns Kickapoo conviction

Posted on January 06, 2010
A federal appellate court has overturned the conviction of a former tribal casino manager and his family for allegedly stealing from a tribal casino near the Texas-Mexico border. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans overturned the embezzlement convictions of Isidro Garza Jr...

UW Madison's patenting arm wins lawsuit

Posted on January 05, 2010
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's patenting arm has won an appeal in federal court against Canadian drug company Xenon. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in favor of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The lawsuit dealt with how Xenon handled patent rights to an enzyme that can lower cholesterol levels in the human body...

NYC victim's mom: EMTs were 'inhuman' not to help

Posted on December 29, 2009
Two emergency medical technicians accused of refusing to help a dying pregnant woman are "inhuman," her mother said Tuesday as a lawyer for the EMTs argued his clients are being vilified in a rush to judgment.Cynthia Rennix, the mother of 25-year-old Eutisha Revee Rennix, told The Associated Press that the EMTs shouldn't have taken the jobs if they weren't willing to get involved...

Hedge fund operator Rajaratnam pleads not guilty

Posted on December 29, 2009
Wealthy hedge fund operator Raj Rajaratnam and a codefendant pleaded not guilty Monday to charges they were major players in a scheme that used inside information to make stock trades that generated millions of dollars in profits.Prosecutors, who have described the case as a "wake up call for Wall Street," promised to hand over to defense attorneys 100 hours of intercepted phone calls made over eight months that they say implicate the defendants...

Randy, Evi Quaid plead not guilty in fraud case

Posted on December 28, 2009
Randy and Evi Quaid finally appeared in court Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to felony charges of defrauding an innkeeper.The couple skipped previous court hearings without explanation after being accused of using an invalid credit card to defraud San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito of more than $10,000...

Kansas gov to propose tobacco tax increase in 2010

Posted on December 24, 2009
Gov. Mark Parkinson will propose increasing Kansas' tobacco taxes next year, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.The Democratic governor's plan is likely to face strong opposition in the Republican-controlled Legislature, although the Senate's top leader said he'd support the idea...

Pa. teens plead not guilty to hate crime charge

Posted on December 24, 2009
A federal judge denied bail Tuesday for two Pennsylvania teens who pleaded not guilty to a hate crime charge in the death of a Mexican immigrant, noting that one defendant is accused of kicking the victim in the head "as if you were kicking a field goal...

TVA coal ash spill has hundreds suing for damages

Posted on December 23, 2009
Hundreds of people sued the Tennessee Valley Authority for damages before a one-year deadline to file personal injury claims related to the utility's huge coal ash spill at Kingston.Court clerks said 20 more federal lawsuits were filed in Knoxville on the final day before the Monday deadline, most of them seeking damages for multiple plaintiffs...

Lingle: Use hotel tax money for state budget

Posted on December 23, 2009
Faced with a $1.2 billion budget gap, Gov. Linda Lingle on Monday proposed the state take about $100 million in hotel taxes from Hawaii's four counties next year and delay the payment of some personal and corporate income tax refunds.The governor's supplemental budget for the 2011 fiscal year that begins July 1 does not call for wholesale layoffs or an increase in the number of furlough days state workers are already taking...

Pittsburgh won't tax tuition; nonprofits to donate

Posted on December 22, 2009
Pittsburgh officials shelved an idea for a first-of-its-kind tax on college tuition after two universities and a nonprofit health insurer agreed on Monday to make large contributions to the city.Mayor Luke Ravenstahl hopes the contributions from the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University or Highmark Inc...

Citadel Broadcasting: court grants 1st-day motions

Posted on December 22, 2009
Citadel Broadcasting Corp. said Monday that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has granted all of its first-day motions ? including allowing the company access to over $36 million in cash it has on hand and cash it brings in from daily operations to pay workers and vendors...

Supreme Court halts release of 2 murderers

Posted on December 19, 2009
North Carolina's Supreme Court has temporarily halted the release of two convicted murderers under life sentences.The court granted a request from the state attorney general's office Friday afternoon, shortly before Alford Jones and Faye Brown were set to go free...

Lawsuit says ads in social games are scamming players

Posted on December 07, 2009
Gamers are crying foul play over what they claim are misleading ads on social games. A class-action lawsuit last month highlights what thousands of consumers say are bogus offers tied to social games available on Facebook and other social networks. The 16-page lawsuit, filed in U...

Lawsuit: Botched Diagnosis Led to 30-Year-Old New York Teacher's Brain Hemorrhage Death

Posted on November 23, 2009
Page rank5Doctors at a Long Island hospital failed to properly diagnose a 30-year-old Queens teacher's head pain in the days leading up to her death from a brain hemorrhage, a lawsuit alleges. Melissa Fudge, who taught at PS 16 in Corona, died a year ago tomorrow...

Idaho to pay $50K to settle grazing lease lawsuit

Posted on November 18, 2009
Idaho agreed Tuesday to pay $50,000 and pledged to follow anti-discrimination rules to settle a federal lawsuit against state officials who awarded grazing leases to ranchers, not the environmentalist who had offered more money.The Idaho Board of Land has also committed to revising its rules to allow conservation groups to lease state endowment trust lands, a big change after years of fierce litigation...

Oregon criminal defense lawyer

Posted on November 18, 2009
Max J. Mizejewski 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...

Court again upholds Fla. homeowner tax breaks

Posted on November 18, 2009
A three-judge panel Tuesday rejected another challenge to state constitutional amendments that give property tax breaks to Florida's primary homeowners, but not to owners of second homes.The panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal disagreed with arguments that the amendments violate U...

Fla. lawyer suspected in $1B fraud losing license

Posted on November 18, 2009
A South Florida lawyer suspected of operating a $1 billion Ponzi scheme is asking for his own disbarment.A Florida Bar committee has approved the disbarment request submitted by attorney Scott Rothstein. A spokeswoman said Wednesday the final decision must be made by the state Supreme Court...

Guilty plea in Wash. shooting spree that killed 6

Posted on November 18, 2009
A man who killed six people, including a sheriff's deputy, in a northwest Washington shooting rampage last year pleaded guilty Tuesday and will spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital or prison.Isaac Zamora entered the pleas to 18 charges, including aggravated murder, attempted murder and burglary, after prosecutor Rich Weyrich agreed he would not seek the death penalty...

Court gives $1.1B tanker contract back to Boeing

Posted on November 17, 2009
A federal appeals court has reversed a ruling that overturned Boeing Co.'s $1.1 billion contract for maintenance of an Air Force refueling tanker jet.The decision Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reinstates Chicago-based Boeing's 10-year contract for work on the KC-135 Stratotanker ? the Air Force's primary mid-flight refueling aircraft...

Obama administration: Toss wiretap lawsuit

Posted on November 02, 2009
Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out. In making the argument, the Obama administration agreed with the Bush administration's position on the case but insists it came to the decision differently...

Nokia?s lawsuit against Apple over iPhone likely a negotiating tactic over licensing fees

Posted on October 26, 2009
CrunchGear's Jeremy Kessel recnetly spoke with "Barry L. Cohen, Esq.,who specializes in commercial and business litigation and intellectualproperty litigation and licensing at Thorp Reed & Armstrong,[regarding] his thoughts on the Nokia v. Apple matter at large...

DUI Lawyer Los Angeles

Posted on October 19, 2009
Los Angeles DUI LawyerLaw Firm Highlight of the Week Michael Bialys, a Los Angeles DUI lawyer also known as theDUI Guy, is the former managing partner of a large criminal defense firm. In his time in that role, he saw manymismanaged DUI cases and realized his true calling was to go into DUIdefense...

Prop 8 To be Decided on Soon

Posted on June 17, 2009
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says a federal lawsuit challenging California's gay marriage ban poses a valid legal question that should be decided by the courts. Schwarzenegger's position came in a court filing Tuesday in response to the lawsuit filed on behalf of two unmarried same-sex couples who want to overturn Proposition 8...

John Hinckley Gets More Freedom

Posted on June 17, 2009
The man who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan is now allowed to visit his mother more, to get a driver's license and spend more time away from the mental hospital where he lives, a federal judge ruled. John Hinckley shot President Reagan and wounded three others because of an obsession with actress Jodie Foster...

Conrad Black Asks for Release from Prison

Posted on May 29, 2009
Former media executive Conrad Black is seeking his release from prison, at least until the Supreme Court decides whether to uphold his fraud conviction. Black has served nearly 15 months of a 6 1/2-year prison term following his conviction in July 2007...

Judge Sonia Sotomayor Accepts Nomination to Supreme Court

Posted on May 26, 2009
President Obama on Tuesday nominated federal appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Sotomayor "is an inspiring woman who I believe will make a great justice," Obama said at a White House announcement.She "has worked at almost every level of our judicial system, providing her with a depth of experience and a breadth of perspective that will be invaluable as a Supreme Court justice," he added...

Some possible nominees had easy Senate path before

Posted on May 24, 2009
Some of the people President Barack Obama is considering for the Supreme Court got significant support from Republicans when they were last before the Senate seeking jobs in the judiciary or executive branches of government. But a yes vote then doesn't necessarily mean a yes vote now...

Calif. wants US Supreme Court OK of video game ban

Posted on May 22, 2009
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to reinstate a state law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. In February, the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals struck down the law as a free speech violation that could limit minors' access to other material under the guise of protecting children...

Key player in sports-bribery case appears in court

Posted on May 15, 2009
Two former University of Toledo football players charged in a point-shaving scheme were arraigned in federal court Wednesday, including an ex-running back from Canada who is described as a key contact for Detroit-area gamblers. Not guilty pleas were entered on behalf of Adam Cuomo of Hagersville, Ontario, and Quinton Broussard of Carrollton, Texas...

US judge OKs $116M ruling in deadly terror attack

Posted on May 14, 2009
A federal judge in Rhode Island has upheld a $116 million verdict against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority over a 1996 terror attack that killed a U.S. citizen and his wife. U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Lagueux (LAH'-guh) ruled Wednesday the defendants cannot set aside the judgment against them because they didn't respond to the accusations from the victims' family...

Conservative Sessions leads court nomination fight

Posted on May 07, 2009
The top Republican in the Senate served notice on President Barack Obama Tuesday that the GOP won't rubber-stamp his choice to succeed the retiring Justice David Souter. "The president is free to nominate whomever he likes," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky...

Judge Upholds $100M Verdict for Mattel

Posted on April 28, 2009
A federal judge upheld a $100 million jury verdict Monday for MattelInc. in a lengthy legal battle over rights to the Bratz doll, a rivalto Mattel's Barbie. U.S. District Judge Stephen Larson also confirmed in his ruling lateMonday that the Bratz doll ? marketed by MGA Entertainment Inc...

Supreme Court Takes on Special Ed Case

Posted on April 23, 2009
The Supreme Court is again trying to decide when taxpayers must footthe bill for private schooling for special education students. The court will hear arguments Tuesday in an Oregon case in which alocal school district contends that students should at least givepublic special education programs a try before seeking reimbursementfor private school tuition...

Supermarket Mogul Guilty of Charges

Posted on April 21, 2009
George Torres, a feisty entrepreneur who built a multimillion-dollargrocery store chain by catering to some of Los Angeles' poorestcommunities, was convicted of racketeering, solicitation of murder,bribery and other crimes Monday by a federal court jury...

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