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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...

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