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Circumstantial Evidence 101 on NPR
After a report by Laura Sullivan that was described as the "first sit-down interview" with anthrax suspect Bruce Ivins' attorney, Paul Kemp, NPR's Ari Shapiro used his reporting to contribute to the ongoing debate over the strength of the government's case against Ivins...

Circumstantial Evidence in Domain Disputes
The Nominet UK Dispute Resolution Service has just issued a decision in the Apple Computer Inc. v CyberBritain Group Ltd...

New York Court Rules Circumstantial Evidence of Product Defect Inadequate
In Ramos v. Howard Industries, N.Y., No. 26, March 13, 2008), the New York Court of Appeals dimissed an electrical lineman's suit against an electrical transformer manufacturer for his failure to rule out causes of the transformer's explosion other than...

Circumstantial Evidence May Prove Lack of Informed Consent, Says Pa. Supreme Court
"Circumstantial Evidence May Prove Lack of Informed Consent, Says Pa. Supreme Court": Today in The Legal Intelligencer, Amaris Elliott-Engel has an article that begins, "The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that circumstantial evidence provided by a plaintiff's spouse may be sufficient to prove a lack of informed consent claim...

Circumstantial probable cause was sufficient in child porn case
Probable cause in this child pornography case was circumstantial and based on comments by a child molestation victim about defendant's concern about his computer and the officer's general knowlege of that child molesters often have child porn...

Evidence Discovered of Prosecutor Wanting to Downplay Evidence in Innocent Man's trial
From jacksonville.com: Only weeks before Chad Heins' murder trial in 1996, a Jacksonville prosecutor sent a memo asking a state crime lab supervisor to downplay findings that stray hairs found on the victim's body came from an unknown person...

Can my employer threaten me with termination if I don't seek a transfer to another department?
In many jurisdictions, employees are "at will". This means that their employmen...

How can a sexual harrasment case be dismissed even with evidence?
American law has very strict evidence requirements that are intended to insure t...

Is an email from an attorney admissable evidence in court (NY)?
First of all these writings from your attorney would be considered confidential ...

What can I do about someone threatning to kill me?
Take this evidence to the police. Your neighbours have committed a criminal offe...