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Court hears challenge to $65M Facebook settlement

Posted on January 13, 2011
Former Harvard University classmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg want to throw out a $65 million settlement of their lawsuit that alleged the social network was their idea.Lawyers for twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss argued their case before the 9th U...

Former Attorney General Mike Cox will join Dykema Gossett

Posted on January 13, 2011
Former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox will join Detroit-based Dykema Gossett PLLC as a senior attorney in its litigation department, the law firm CEO confirmed today.Cox, 49, who ended eight years as the state's chief law enforcement officer on Jan...

NJ Supreme Court Justice limits protest

Posted on January 13, 2011
A New Jersey Supreme Court justice who refused to participate in all decisions while a temporary judge is assigned to the bench has tempered his protest.Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto said in an opinion published Wednesday that he will issue decisions in cases in which Judge Edwin Stern participates, so long as the judge's vote doesn't affect the outcome...

Judge approves $179M settlement for AK Steel retirees

Posted on January 11, 2011
U.S. District Judge Timothy Black has approved a previously disclosed $179 million settlement and entered a final judgment in a dispute between AK Steel and retirees at its Butler, Pa., steel plant.The AK Steel retirees had filed a class-action lawsuit in June 2009 to stop the company from making changes to their health insurance benefits...

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Rival Calif. Papers Settle Lawsuit Over Ad Pricing

Posted on January 08, 2011
Two San Francisco newspapers engaged in a lengthy legal battle over predatory pricing have settled their dispute outside of court. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Bay Guardian and SF Weekly announced a settlement Monday but did not disclose its terms...

Court backs Uniloc in case against Microsoft

Posted on January 06, 2011
A federal appeals court reinstated a 2009 jury verdict Tuesday that Microsoft Corp. infringed on patents held by software maker Uniloc Inc., reversing a judge's decision to the contrary, but it also granted Microsoft a new trial on damages.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the jury's April 2009 verdict on patent infringement was supported by "substantial" evidence, so it reversed a federal judge's decision in September of that year that overturned the jury's verdict...

Court blocks EPA plan to take over permits

Posted on January 05, 2011
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from taking over greenhouse gas permits in Texas.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued the stay Thursday, pending further action by the court.Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott had asked the federal appeals court in Washington to block the EPA from taking over greenhouse gas permits starting Sunday until the court could review the case...

Judge strikes down NYC's gruesome tobacco ads

Posted on January 05, 2011
The city's campaign to scare smokers with grotesque images of decaying teeth or a diseased lung wherever tobacco products are sold was struck down Wednesday by a federal judge who concluded that only the federal government can dictate warnings that must accompany the promotion of cigarettes...

Iowa Supreme Court upholds taxation of KFC

Posted on January 04, 2011
The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a decision to levy corporate income taxes against fried chicken giant KFC.At question is whether the state can impose income tax on revenue received by a company that doesn't have a presence in Iowa. KFC doesn't own any restaurants or have employees in Iowa...

Federal court denies stay for Texas in EPA case

Posted on January 03, 2011
A federal appeals court has blocked Texas' effort to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from forcing states to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday declined to issue a stay that would delay the EPA's plans as Texas' lawsuit against the federal agency moves forward...

What will the big new tax law mean for you?

Posted on December 19, 2010
It's the most significant new tax law in a decade, but what does it mean for you? Big savings for millions of taxpayers, more if you have young children or attend college, a lot more if you're wealthy.The package, being signed Friday by President Barack Obama, will save taxpayers, on average, nearly $3,000 next year...

Mont. Supreme Court considers access restrictions

Posted on December 19, 2010
The Montana Supreme Court is considering restrictions to public access of certain information now available throughout the court system, including a proposal to seal all documents filed in family law cases except for final orders. Freedom of information advocates say the proposals are unnecessary and would run counter to the right-to-know provisions in the state constitution...

Florida AG urges spill victims to get lawyers

Posted on December 19, 2010
Attorneys general in four Gulf Coast states are urging oil spill victims to check with lawyers before settling claims against BP PLC.They issued consumer advisories Friday in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas. Earlier this week Claims Administrator Kenneth Feinberg completed his plan to give claimants three payment options ? interim, final and quick...

SD attorney on trial on child porn charges

Posted on December 16, 2010
The lawyer for a Sioux Falls defense attorney being tried on child pornography charges told a federal court jury that Leo Flynn sought out the material so he could give legal advice to clients.The 62-year-old Flynn is facing charges including possession and distribution of child porn...

Searchers seek gunman in Utah ranger shooting

Posted on December 16, 2010
Searchers combed the rugged red rock terrain near Moab for a third day Monday in their hunt for a possibly armed and dangerous man they believe was involved in the shooting of a Utah park ranger.The target of their manhunt was Lance Leeroy Arellano, 40, who officials believe may be wounded and in need of medical help after the shootout late Friday...

Lawsuit seeks to keep 3 Iowa justices on bench

Posted on December 16, 2010
The retention vote in which three Iowa Supreme Court justices were ousted was illegal, according to a lawsuit seeking to keep the three justices from being tossed from the bench. The lawsuit claims the vote violated the Iowa Constitution, which requires judicial retention votes to be held on a separate ballot...

Menzer & Hill, P.A., Files an Arbitration Claim Against UBS Financial Services, Inc.

Posted on December 15, 2010
The Securities Law Firm of Menzer & Hill, P.A., www.suemyadvisor.com, announced today it filed an arbitration claim against UBS Financial Services, Inc. (?UBS?), (NYSE: UBS) on behalf of an investor who lost the vast majority of his retirement savings as a result of the purchase of Lehman Brothers principal protected notes (?Notes?)...

Conn. high court to hear immigrant benefits case

Posted on November 29, 2010
The Connecticut Supreme Court will be hearing arguments in a case where state lawmakers voted to end medical benefits for some impoverished legal immigrants. The justices are set to hear the case Tuesday. A Hartford Superior Court judge ruled in December 2009 that a state law approved earlier that year violated the constitutional rights of legal immigrants by denying them medical benefits...

Lawyer: Emanuel broke Chicago mayor residency rule

Posted on November 29, 2010
As he travels about the city, assuring Chicagoans that he is one of them, Rahm Emanuel must be asking himself why he just didn't leave his house vacant when he went off to work in the White House. Or rent it to a buddy or a relative.That's because a cornerstone of an expected legal challenge to his status as a Chicagoan ? a challenge that, if successful, would knock him off the February ballot and out of the city's mayor's race ? is that when Emanuel rented his house he broke the rule that a candidate must live in the city a full year before the election...

Police: Pa. couple hid 5 children from society

Posted on November 29, 2010
They lived outside society, hidden from the world in a squalid row house with no heat, electricity or running water. They had no birth certificates, no schooling, no immunizations or evidence of medical care ? nothing whatsoever to prove their existence...

Leaked US cables reveal sensitive diplomacy

Posted on November 29, 2010
Hundreds of thousands of State Department documents leaked Sunday revealed a hidden world of backstage international diplomacy, divulging candid comments from world leaders and detailing occasional U.S. pressure tactics aimed at hot spots in Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea...

Class action lawsuit against United Water could cost millions

Posted on November 27, 2010
Several Union City residents have filed a class action lawsuit against United Water on allegations that the company cheated customers by selling them useless warranties that do not cover repairs.The warranties, which cost about $150 a year, are supposed to cover the repair of broken water pipes, sewer pipes and other items, the attorneys for three 18th Street plaintiffs, said...

$450m class action launched against NAB

Posted on November 26, 2010
A $450 million class action is being launched on behalf of National Australia Bank shareholders who lost money during the global financial crisis because of NAB's exposure to toxic debt.Legal firm Maurice Blackburn will lodge the claim in a Victorian court tomorrow...

WA voters say no to state income tax Initiative 1098

Posted on November 03, 2010
Early returns show voters rejected Initiative 1098 being rejected with about 65 percent of the vote to 35 percent in unofficial returns.Initiative 1098 would institute a new state tax on the top 1 percent of incomes to pay for education and health programs while trimming state property and business taxes...

Calif. voters give Brown a return trip as governor

Posted on November 03, 2010
Democrat Jerry Brown was elected California governor on Tuesday in an extraordinary political encore, defeating billionaire Republican Meg Whitman and the $142 million she spent of her own fortune as he reclaimed the office he held a generation ago.The 72-year-old state attorney general's victory leaves him with the enormous task of lifting the state out of a recession and joblessness...

Iowans vote to oust all three Supreme Court justices

Posted on November 03, 2010
All three Iowa Supreme Court justices up for retention election have been ousted from the bench.Around 54 percent of Iowans voted not to retain each of the three judges: Supreme Court Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and associate justices Michael J. Streit and David L...

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...

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...

MPs ordered back to work by Iraq's Supreme Court

Posted on October 25, 2010
Iraq's highest court has ordered the country's parliament back to work, in a ruling that could help break a seven-month deadlock in negotiations to form a new government.The chief judge of the Federal Supreme Court, Midhat Mahmoud, said the court had ruled unconstitutional the parliament's failure to meet since June or to fulfil its duty to elect a speaker and a president...

$70 Million Against Morgan Stanley

Posted on October 25, 2010
$70 Million Against Morgan Stanley Its not every lawyer who can say they?ve changed a deeply embedded pattern of discrimination on Wall Street, but the law firm of Moody Warner, P.C., won that right ? and won it big ? for 2,700 women against the investment giant Morgan Stanley...

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