Legal News

Judge Rejects Moving Ex-Sheriff's Trial Over Shock Jock Comments
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 22, 2008. "Two Southern California talk show hosts say they are engaging in 'blatant tainting' of a jury, says the Washington Post. The actions of the shock jocks, John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of KFI-AM in Los Angeles, have prompted defense attorneys for a former Orange County sheriff facing federal corruption charges to ask the judge to move the trial...

South Africa court delays Zuma corruption trial
[JURIST] A South African court delayed the scheduled August corruption trial of South African politician Jacob Zuma [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] Thursday after his lawyer filed an application to have the case declared unlawful...

"Appeal to stall Jefferson trial for months"
"Appeal to stall Jefferson trial for months": The Times-Picayune of New Orleans provides a news update that begins, "New Orleans Congressman William Jefferson on Wednesday appealed a key ruling in his public corruption case, a move certain to delay the trial -- possibly until the fall election season...

Judge refuses to delay war crimes trial
UPDATED 3:55 p.m. Bowing to the President, Congress and a higher court, U.S. District Judge James Robertson in Washington refused on Thursday to delay the trial of a Yemeni national on war crimes charges — a trial, the first of its kind, scheduled to begin next Monday before a military commission at the U...

Cops Arent Always Right
Do you assume that a cop must be telling the truth or must be abiding by all of the laws just because they are a cop? This is certainly not the case! Time and time again we see cops who do not follow the laws that they took an oath to uphold and in turn violate the constitutional rights that every single American has! They do it for a variety of reasons including: to get a conviction, because they are corrupt, etc...

COURTS: Judge Bertlesman rules diet drug lawyers' trial will go as planned on May 12
Courier Journal reports that Judge won't delay fraud trial of three lawyers A federal judge in Covington has denied defense motions seeking a delay in the trial of three lawyers charged with wire fraud conspiracy in a diet drug settlement.

County Corruption
Bastrop to pay $187,500 settlement in whistleblower lawsuit.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...