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Polanski Lawyer: U.S. Wants Director 'In Shackles'

Posted on April 26, 2010
Roman Polanski?s lawyers lashed out against U.S. courts on Saturday, accusing them of wanting to see the award-winning director ?in shackles.?On Thursday, a California appeals court ruled that Polanski must return to the state before being sentenced. The Polish-born director was convicted of having a sex with a minor in 1977 but fled the country before he could be sentenced...

Obama counsel on court choice: firmness, finesse

Posted on April 25, 2010
White House counsel Bob Bauer, President Barack Obama's point man in the search for a new Supreme Court justice, manages to get credit both for an even temperament and his finesse with a sledge hammer.The combination is evident in one of Bauer's favorite memories from the 2008 presidential primaries, when Obama campaign aides worried that opposing forces were trying to depress voter turnout...

S. Korea: Former gov?t officials for law firm jobs

Posted on April 25, 2010
When the Gangwon provincial government was preparing a bid to host the Special Olympics Winter Games in 2013, the Special Olympics headquarters in Washington recommended it hire Seoul-based law firm Yulchon, known for expertise in the fields of culture and sports...

Mass. court leaders to lead talk on budget cuts

Posted on April 25, 2010
Suffolk University Law School plans to host a roundtable discussion on the effect of state budget cuts on the Massachusetts court system.Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall will be among the panelists Monday at the law school in Boston...

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Budget crisis puts LA court system at risk

Posted on April 23, 2010
The nation's largest court system is in the midst of a painful budget crisis that has shut down courtrooms and disrupted everything from divorce and custody proceedings to traffic ticket disputes.The Los Angeles court system has already closed 17 courtrooms and another 50 will be shut down come September unless something is done to find more money...

Judge removed from case of 11 Cleveland killings

Posted on April 23, 2010
The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered a judge removed from the trial of a man suspected of killing 11 women whose remains were found around his home.An order signed by acting Chief Justice Paul Pfeifer on Thursday says Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH'-guh) County Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold must step down to avoid an appearance of bias or prejudice...

Atlanta Lawyers Launch New Intellectual Property Law Firm

Posted on April 23, 2010
Attorneys from top Atlanta law firms announced this week the formation of a new law firm, focused exclusively on intellectual property law. McKeon, Meunier, Carlin & Curfman, LLC launched in Atlanta on Monday, April 19, 2010. The new firm will provide patent prosecution, IP transaction and trademark services along with intellectual property strategy and management services...

California court denies appeal by Roman Polanski

Posted on April 23, 2010
A California appeals court has denied Roman Polanski's bid to have a special counsel review his decades-old sex case.Records show the Second District Court of Appeal denied Polanski's petition on Thursday without comment.The court's decision not to revisit Polanski's case came hours after it denied a request by the Oscar-winning director's victim to have the case dismissed...

Senate confirms Asian-American for appeals court

Posted on April 23, 2010
The Senate has voted 98-0 to confirm Judge Denny Chin to fill an opening on a New York-based appeals court. He will be the only Asian-American currently serving on a U.S. Court of Appeals.Chin is a U.S. district judge in New York. He will serve on the 2nd Circuit, covering New York, Connecticut and Vermont...

US court gives government victory against ACORN

Posted on April 22, 2010
A federal appeals court has handed the government a victory by temporarily blocking a judge's finding that Congress shouldn't have halted federal funding to the activist group ACORN.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued the order Wednesday, a day after the government lawyer argued the stay of the ruling was necessary...

Texas tries to block gay divorce in appeals court challenge

Posted on April 22, 2010
A lawyer for a Dallas man trying to divorce the man he married in Massachusetts told a Texas appeals court Wednesday that his client is entitled to a divorce because he had a valid marriage.But the Texas Attorney General's Office argued before the three-judge 5th Texas Court of Appeals panel that the marriage isn't recognized by Texas, so they cannot get a divorce...

Detroit law firm Bodman follows client to Dallas

Posted on April 22, 2010
Detroit law firm Bodman LLP has opened for business in Dallas by affiliating with Strong & Willcox LLP, a Dallas firm.Two partners at Strong & Willcox have joined Bodman "of counsel" and will work on transactions requiring a presence in Texas...

ICC Prosecutor condemns Sudan noncooperation

Posted on April 22, 2010
The International Criminal Court prosecutor wants judges to report Sudan to the U.N. Security Council for refusing to hand over a government minister and a militia leader accused of atrocities in Darfur.Luis Moreno Ocampo said in a written request to the court's judges publicized Thursday that Sudan is refusing to arrest Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ahmed Harun and Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb...

Debt Collectors Can Face Lawsuits for Mistakes

Posted on April 21, 2010
The Supreme Court Wednesday made it easier for consumers to sue debt collectors for sending erroneous collection notices. The high court, in a 7-2 opinion by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, ruled that debt collectors can't shield themselves from such lawsuits by arguing that they made a legal error when sending a collection notice...

Milbank Is Latest U.S. Law Firm to Set Up in Brazil

Posted on April 21, 2010
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP, a New York law firm, is opening an office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, joining other U.S. firms that have set up shop during the past year in Latin America?s largest economy.Andrew B. Janszky of New York law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP, a New York-based law firm, will head Milbank?s new office in Sao Paulo, Milbank said in a statement...

Judge says ex-Detroit mayor violated probation

Posted on April 21, 2010
A judge ruled Tuesday that former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick violated terms of his probation by failing to report some of his assets but held off deciding whether to send him to jail.Wayne County Circuit Court Judge David Groner said Kilpatrick could remain free on bond pending his sentencing on May 20, but strongly suggested Kilpatrick may be headed to jail and ordered state corrections officials to prepare a pre-sentence report and submit it to the court...

Law Firm Expands CRE Services With Dallas Office

Posted on April 21, 2010
Seattle-based Perkins Coie has opened an office in Dallas, which the law firm says will allow it to better serve the interests of national clients in Texas. Former Greenberg Traurig shareholder Steven R. Smith has joined the firm and will head the new office, focusing his practice on real estate workouts and lending...

U.S. Attorney David Dugas says he is joining a private law firm

Posted on April 21, 2010
United States Attorney David R. Dugas announced Wednesday he will step down from his position effective April 24.Dugas said he will join a national private law firm which has offices in Baton Rouge.He called serving as U.S. attorney "the greatest honor and most rewarding experience" of his professional career...

Leading law firm named for Goldman Sachs defence

Posted on April 20, 2010
Top Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell is to take the lead in representing Goldman Sachs against the formal investigation brought by the Financial Services Authority. The investment bank had already retained Sullivan & Cromwell to defend it against fraud allegations brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission and today said the legal giant would at least for now be taking charge of the FSA case...

High court to look at Costco sale of Swiss watches

Posted on April 20, 2010
The Supreme Court is stepping into a legal fight over Omega's effort to stop Costco from offering the Swiss maker's watches for up to a third less than they cost elsewhere.The case has important implications for discount sellers like Costco and Target as well as eBay, Amazon and other companies that form an estimated $58 billion annual market for goods that are purchased abroad, then imported and resold without the permission of the manufacturer...

Court takes up public employees' privacy case

Posted on April 20, 2010
The Supreme Court appears likely to rule against public employees who claimed a local government violated their privacy by reading racy text messages they sent on their employers' account.Several justices said Monday that the employer, the Ontario, Calif...

Supreme Court kills animal cruelty law

Posted on April 20, 2010
The Supreme Court by an 8-1 vote Tuesday struck down a federal law that makes it a crime to sell videos and other depictions of animal cruelty, saying the law infringed on free speech rights."We read (the law) to create a criminal prohibition of alarming breadth," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority, noting that nowhere in the disputed law was there a requirement that the depicted conduct actually be "cruel...

Court splits sharply on campus Christian argument

Posted on April 20, 2010
The Supreme Court seemed to split sharply Monday on whether a law school can deny recognition to a Christian student group that won't let gays join, a case that could determine whether nondiscrimination policies trump the rights of private organizations to determine who can ? and cannot ? belong...

Law Firm Advertising to Represent Mine Disaster Families

Posted on April 19, 2010
With tragedy comes an outpouring of support but an area law firm's way of helping is raising some eyebrows. Underwood Law Firm wasted no time putting ads in local newspapers a week after the deadly blast killed 29 miners at Massey's Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County...

Strict new Neb. abortion law faces long legal road

Posted on April 19, 2010
It's been called a groundbreaking law, but a measure approved in Nebraska last week that changes the rationale for abortion bans probably won't go into effect anytime soon ? if ever.Instead, abortion opponents are hoping it will become the most important case on abortion to reach the U...

Court to hear arguments on campus Christian group

Posted on April 19, 2010
In a case that pits nondiscrimination policies against freedom of religion, the Supreme Court is grappling with whether universities and colleges can deny official recognition to Christian student groups that refuse to let non-Christians and gays join...

The Shuman Investigates Ormat Technologies Inc.

Posted on April 19, 2010
The Shuman Law Firm today announced that it is investigating potential breaches of fiduciary duty by certain officers and directors at Ormat Technologies Inc.The investigation concerns whether the Company's directors and officers caused the Company to issue materially false and/or misleading financial statements...

Airline losses from ash spiral over $1 billion

Posted on April 19, 2010
As airline losses from the volcanic ash cloud spiraled over $1 billion on Monday, the industry demanded EU compensation and criticized European governments for not using scientific measures to evaluate the ash and open up their airspace.Shares of some European airlines fell as flight disruptions from the volcanic cloud moved into a fifth day, and the International Air Transport Association complained of "no leadership" from government leaders ? one of whom admitted to EU dissension about how to respond...

Former Clinton Counsel Lanny Davis Forms Own Law Firm

Posted on April 16, 2010
Lanny J. Davis, a high-profile Washington lawyer who was the special counsel to President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, is leaving McDermott Will & Emery to form his own law firm. The new firm, Lanny J. Davis & Associates, will specialize in general litigation issues, media crisis and public policy issues...

Wash. court: Illegal worker status inadmissible

Posted on April 16, 2010
The Washington state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a man's undocumented immigrant status in the U.S. should not have been introduced in a trial while the man sought damages in a negligence lawsuit against a construction contractor.In a 7-2 ruling, the state's high court reversed a state Court of Appeals decision to uphold a jury verdict against Alex Salas...

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