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High court turns down Delaware over sports betting

Posted on May 04, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal in which Delaware sought to expand its sports betting lottery beyond professional football. The justices denied Delaware's petition for judicial review without comment, leaving in place a ruling by the U...

Local Law School Programs Benefit From Sheppard Mullin

Posted on May 04, 2010
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has honored partner Dianne Baquet Smith with the firm's first Diversity & Inclusion Award, an award that recognizes the significant diversity and inclusion commitment of a Sheppard Mullin attorney. As part of the award, the firm has made a contribution to two pipeline programs: The USC Street Law Program and Loyola Law School's Young Lawyers Program...

Military court hears Graner's Abu Ghraib appeal

Posted on May 04, 2010
A judge on the U.S. military's highest court asked Monday whether a "Catch-22" prevented the alleged ringleader of detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq from getting a fair trial in 2005.Judge James E. Baker raised the question during oral arguments on Army Pvt...

Shipman & Goodwin, Hartford Law Firm, Opens Washington Office

Posted on May 04, 2010
Hartford-based Shipman & Goodwin today opened an office in Washington -- and the launch came with a major new client: The Hartford.The Washington office will start with six lawyers, all formerly with Hogan and Hartson in Washington. It will be led by partner James P...

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High Court Rejects Pfizer Appeal in Investor Suit

Posted on May 03, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by Pfizer Inc. that sought to thwart a securities lawsuit alleging the drugmaker misrepresented the safety profile of the blockbuster pain drug Celebrex. The plaintiffs alleged that Pfizer's Pharmacia unit deliberately withheld the full results of a medical study that showed no safety advantage to using Celebrex over less expensive anti-inflammatory drugs...

Military court hearing Graner's Abu Ghraib appeal

Posted on May 03, 2010
The alleged ringleader of detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is appealing to the military's highest court.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in Washington will hear arguments Monday from lawyers for Spc. Charles Graner and the government...

Brit on Texas death row loses high court appeal

Posted on May 03, 2010
The Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a British woman on death row in Texas for killing a young mother.The justices on Monday rejected an appeal from Linda Carty, who was convicted of kidnapping and killing a woman whose child she also snatched in Houston in 2001...

BP says it will pay for Gulf spill's cleanup

Posted on May 03, 2010
BP PLC said Monday that it will pay for all the cleanup costs from a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that could continue spewing crude for at least another week.The company posted a fact sheet on its Web site saying it took responsibility for the response to the Deepwater Horizon spill and would pay compensation for legitimate claims for property damage, personal injury and commercial losses...

US women due in court in Philly in terrorism case

Posted on May 03, 2010
Two American women charged in a global terrorism plot allegedly aimed at killing a Swedish artist are due in court in Philadelphia.Court papers show the case is largely built on e-mails and online postings allegedly made by 46-year-old Colleen LaRose of Pennsburg and 31-year-old Jamie Paulin-Ramirez of Leadville, Colo...

Judge from Montana interviewed for Supreme Court?

Posted on April 30, 2010
President Barack Obama has accelerated his search for his next Supreme Court nominee, meeting in the Oval Office with one of the candidates, federal judge Sidney Thomas of Montana, a person familiar with the conversation says.Obama's meeting with Thomas on Thursday was his first known formal interview for the upcoming vacancy on the court...

Florida Probing Law Firm in Foreclosures

Posted on April 30, 2010
The Florida attorney general's office is investigating possible misconduct by a large law firm that files foreclosures for banks, according to a posting on its Web site.The Web site said the office is looking at whether Florida Default Law Group, based in Tampa, was involved in "fabricating and/or presenting false and misleading documents in foreclosure cases...

Teen convicted of Mass. school stabbing gets life

Posted on April 30, 2010
A teenager convicted of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing another student in the bathroom of a suburban Boston high school has been sentenced to life in prison.John Odgren was sentenced Friday to a mandatory life sentence with no possibility for parole by Middlesex Superior Court Judge Jane Haggerty...

NYC woman admits 1990 contract killing of husband

Posted on April 30, 2010
A woman on Thursday admitted having her antique dealer husband killed 20 years ago in front of his girlfriend's Manhattan home, then collecting millions in life insurance after his death.Barbara Kogan pleaded guilty in Manhattan state Supreme Court to first-degree manslaughter, conspiracy to commit second-degree murder and grand larceny...

25-year term sought in Iowa slaughterhouse case

Posted on April 30, 2010
Prosecutors asked a federal judge on Thursday to sentence a former kosher slaughterhouse executive to 25 years in prison, less than the life sentence they have said they were entitled to request.Former Agriprocessors Inc. manager Sholom Rubashkin, who was convicted of 86 counts of financial fraud in November, gave a tearful, halting speech at the end of his sentencing hearing in U...

Lawmakers call for restrictions on political ads

Posted on April 29, 2010
Lawmakers are urging Congress to move swiftly to put restrictions on corporate and union sponsorship of political campaign ads.They are seeking to counteract a January ruling by the Supreme Court which upheld the First Amendment rights of such groups to spend money on ads, greatly increasing their ability to influence federal elections...

Appeals court upholds ruling in Seinfeld cookbook case

Posted on April 29, 2010
The author of a children's cookbook cannot copyright ideas for slipping vegetables into children's food, a federal appeals court said in upholding a ruling in favor of the wife of comedian Jerry Seinfeld in a copyright infringement case.Jessica Seinfeld wrote a cookbook, "Deceptively Delicious," offering tips that were similar to those of author Missy Chase Lapine, author of "The Sneaky Chef...

Law firm sued over referral service

Posted on April 29, 2010
Another lawsuit has been filed against Winters Yonker & Rousselle, asking that it be forced to forfeit all attorneys? fees for allegedly accepting unethical referrals from a for-profit referral service.The complaint, filed Wednesday in Jefferson Circuit Court, asks that the suit be certified as a class action on behalf of all of the firm?s clients in Kentucky...

Ethical hearing held for Detroit text scandal lawyer

Posted on April 29, 2010
A hearing resumed for the last of five lawyers accused of ethical violations in the handling of Kwame Kilpatrick's text messages Wednesday with testimony from the former mayor's lawyer Samuel McCargo. McCargo, who was among the first of the lawyers cited for ethical violations, told the Attorney Discipline Board that Assistant Corporation Counsel Valerie Colbert Osamuede never was shown documents that detailed what the text messages purportedly said...

SAN DIEGO IMMIGRATION LAW FIRM

Posted on April 29, 2010
We are a San Diego Immigration Law Firm specializing in deportation defense, family based and employment based immigration. We provide exceptional legal services to all those who wish to live and work in the United States legally. The Law Offices of McHenry & Associates limits its practice exclusively to U...

Ex-Exec at Fla. Law Firm Charged in Ponzi Scheme

Posted on April 28, 2010
The former chief operating officer at the now-defunct law firm run by admitted Ponzi scheme operator Scott Rothstein was charged Tuesday with money laundering conspiracy for her alleged role in the $1.2 billion scam.Debra Villegas, 42, was accused of helping Rothstein concoct the fake legal settlements used to lure investors ? even forging the names of fictional plaintiffs and defendants on the documents...

Ex-broker's Enron-related case may be near end

Posted on April 28, 2010
A federal judge has ordered a one-month delay in the Enron-related May retrial of a former Merrill Lynch executive.U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. agreed to delay Robert S. Furst's retrial to June 1 to accommodate plea negotiations. Prosecutors and defense attorneys told Werlein during a hearing Friday that they are close to a deal that would resolve the case...

Goldman wages PR fight to clear its name

Posted on April 27, 2010
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is fighting to clear its name, but not in a court of law.Goldman has hit back hard against civil fraud charges with a public relations blitz aimed at poking holes in the Securities and Exchange Commission's case and repairing the bank's reputation...

Capitol & K roundup: Lanny Davis starting own law firm

Posted on April 27, 2010
Lanny J. Davis, former special counsel to President Clinton, said last week that he is organizing his own law firm, Lanny J. Davis & Associates, to market his services to other law firms and to do work for communications and political strategists on either side of the political aisle...

Law firm bringing 187 jobs to southwest Ohio

Posted on April 27, 2010
An international law firm says it will bring 187 jobs to a business services center it's establishing in southwest Ohio.Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP made the announcement Monday at the Miami Valley Research Park in Kettering. The law firm with headquarters in Washington, D...

Law school tuition hikes spark talk of bubble

Posted on April 27, 2010
The rising cost of law school is becoming a sore subject as the number of high-paying jobs shrink.With large numbers of unemployed or underemployed lawyers who borrowed heavily to pay for their educations, legal educators face growing skepticism about the value of a law degree...

Court says Vioxx lawsuits can proceed

Posted on April 27, 2010
The Supreme Court says investors who lost millions when Merck & Co. pulled its blockbuster drug Vioxx off the market can go ahead with a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical giant.The high court on Tuesday agreed with a federal appeals court's decision to allow a class-action securities lawsuit...

Supreme Court questions ban of biotech alfalfa

Posted on April 27, 2010
Supreme Court justices on Tuesday sharply questioned a lower court's decision that has prohibited biotech giant Monsanto Co. from selling genetically engineered alfalfa seeds, possibly paving the way for the company to distribute the seeds for the first time since 2007...

Supreme Court Stays out of Asian Carp Dispute

Posted on April 26, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to get involved in a dispute over how to prevent invasive Asian carp from making their way into the Great Lakes.The justices turned down a new request from Michigan to consider ordering closure of Chicago-area shipping locks to prevent the fish from threatening the Great Lakes...

U.S. top court to rule on California video game law

Posted on April 26, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether a California law banning the sale and rental of violent video games to minors violated constitutional free-speech rights, the first time it will consider a video game case.The justices agreed to hear an appeal by the state after a U...

Lorillard 1Q profit up, excise tax helps revenue

Posted on April 26, 2010
Lorillard, the maker of Newport, Maverick and True cigarettes, says its first-quarter profit climbed 26 percent as domestic wholesale shipments and average prices grew.The nation's third-biggest cigarette maker said higher federal excise taxes on smokes helped boost its revenue...

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