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Leahy won't delay hearing for appeals court pick

Posted on April 08, 2010
Senate Democrats have rejected a Republican effort to delay a hearing for a liberal appeals court nominee, making clear they are ready for a partisan fight.A hearing for University of California-Berkeley, law professor Goodwin Liu will go on as scheduled April 16, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said Wednesday...

US judge seizes $105 million in Argentine funds

Posted on April 08, 2010
Argentina quickly said it would file a court appeal after a U.S. federal judge ruled Wednesday that bondholders can seize $105 million in Argentine central bank deposits held in the United States.A bank spokesman told The Associated Press that Argentina was optimistic because similar rulings had been overturned...

Conflicts Force Big Law Firms to Lose Clients

Posted on April 07, 2010
Big blue-chip law firms are losing potentially lucrative assignments to smaller firms even as the industry sees a spike in lawsuits against banks stemming from the financial crisis. The reason for the change: ethics rules that govern conflicts of interest for lawyers and their firms...

Leahy won't delay hearing for appeals court pick

Posted on April 07, 2010
Senate Democrats have rejected a Republican effort to delay a hearing for a liberal appeals court nominee, making clear they are ready for a partisan fight.A hearing for University of California-Berkeley, law professor Goodwin Liu will go on as scheduled April 16, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said Wednesday...

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Law firm merger scene still slow

Posted on April 07, 2010
There were eight new law firm combinations announced in the United States in the first quarter of the year, with three of them involving Philadelphia law firms, according to consultancy Altman Weil?s MergerLine Web site.Newtown Square-based Altman Weil said data show a continuing slowdown of mergers that began in 2009...

Federal court upholds ruling for AstraZeneca

Posted on April 07, 2010
A federal appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling dismissing the first product liability lawsuit among thousands alleging British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC's antipsychotic drug Seroquel triggered a patient's diabetes.A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the U...

US court rules against FCC on `net neutrality'

Posted on April 06, 2010
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is a big victory for Comcast Corp...

Drug lab suspect in Calif. court for other case

Posted on April 06, 2010
A former technician accused of skimming drugs from San Francisco's crime lab has appeared in court for an unrelated drug case.Deborah Madden pleaded not guilty Monday to a felony cocaine possession charge in San Mateo County Superior Court.The case is due back in court May 18...

Texas man threatened deadly force to stop abortion

Posted on April 06, 2010
A Texas man faces charges after he filed documents in federal court threatening to use deadly force to stop an abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't immediately act to outlaw the practice, federal officials said Monday.Erlyndon Joseph "Joey" Lo, 27, of Plano, filed documents there Friday saying his religious beliefs entitled him to use deadly force to prevent an abortion...

Judge settles key issues in Hopper divorce case

Posted on April 06, 2010
Dennis Hopper's estranged wife and daughter can live on his property while the couple resolve their bitter divorce case and the actor fights prostate cancer, a judge ruled Monday.Superior Court Judge Amy Pellman also ordered the actor to pay $12,000 a month in spousal and child support...

NY top court won't open nursing homes to lawyers

Posted on April 05, 2010
New York's top court is refusing to order nursing homes to give state lawyers access to hundreds of psychiatric patients so they can advocate for alternative treatments, living conditions or even release.The Court of Appeals, divided 4-3, says the New York's Office of Mental Health decided not to license the nursing homes...

Court won't hear appeal from Lupe Fiasco mentor

Posted on April 05, 2010
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from rap artist Lupe Fiasco's mentor, who was convicted on drug charges despite complaints that his jurors weren't asked whether they had any biases against firearms.The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Charles Patton, who was convicted and sentenced to 44 years in prison on drug charges...

Triple Murder Suspect Tries to Plead Guilty

Posted on April 05, 2010
One of the suspects in a brutal Connecticut home invasion that left a mother and her two daughters dead has asked a judge to allow him to plead guilty, but his lawyers objected due to concerns over his mental state. Steven Hayes asked to plead guilty during a competency hearing last week...

Court won't give Saudi citizen new trial

Posted on April 05, 2010
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a Saudi Arabian citizen who blamed anti-Muslim sentiment for his conviction for keeping his housekeeper a virtual slave.The high court on Monday turned away an appeal from Homaidan Al-Turki. He was convicted of false imprisonment, conspiracy, criminal extortion, theft and unlawful sexual contact...

Court Shoots Down Patents on Human Gene Sequences

Posted on April 02, 2010
A federal judge on Monday struck down patents on two genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer. The decision, if upheld, could throw into doubt the patents covering thousands of human genes and reshape the law of intellectual property United States District Court Judge Robert W...

NY court revives Tiffany's false ad claim vs. eBay

Posted on April 02, 2010
EBay Inc. might be violating false-advertising laws if it does not warn consumers that some items billed as upscale jeweler Tiffany Co.'s products by sellers on its Web site are not authentic, a federal appeals court said Thursday.But online auction site operator eBay won significant victories in rulings by the 2nd U...

Officer expected to plead guilty in Katrina probe

Posted on April 02, 2010
A third New Orleans police officer charged in a cover-up of a deadly shooting by police in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is expected to plead guilty, a person familiar with the case said Tuesday.A filing Tuesday in U.S. District Court charges the officer, Michael Hunter, 33, of Slidell, with one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice and one count of misprision of a felony...

Microsoft Dealt Another Blow in i4i Case

Posted on April 02, 2010
Microsoft on Thursday lost its bid for an en banc appeal in a patent case against i4i. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals refused Microsoft's request to hear the case with a full panel of judges. The case stems from a battle over an XML editor in Word, which i4i said infringed on one of its patents...

McHenry & Associates - San Diego Immigration Law

Posted on April 02, 2010
The Law Offices of McHenry & Associates is a San Diego based Immigration Law Firm dedicated to offering exceptional legal services in all matters related to U.S. Immigration Law. Immigration Law can be highly complex and is ever-changing. McHenry & Associates? law practice is limited exclusively to U...

Atlanta Law Firm Gets $700 Million Award for Chevron

Posted on April 01, 2010
Atlanta law firm King & Spalding LLP has won a $700 million judgment for Chevron Corp. in an arbitration between the energy giant and the government of Ecuador.An international tribunal ruled that Ecuador must pay damages for delaying court rulings on commercial disputes with Chevron subsidiary Texaco Petroleum Co...

Daimler bribes: a blown chance to clean up its act

Posted on April 01, 2010
At a 1999 meeting in Germany, board members at Daimler, one of the world's largest vehicle manufacturers, took a step that could have saved the company the trouble it will face in a U.S. courtroom on Thursday.Before a federal judge, Justice Department prosecutors will lay out the dirty laundry of the company best known for its elegant Mercedes-Benz autos: a pattern of bribery that for many decades has helped fuel the company's sales and illicitly added millions of dollars to its profits...

IP Partner Russ Hill Joins Sheppard Mullin

Posted on April 01, 2010
Russell B. Hill has joined the Orange County office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property practice group. Hill most recently practiced at Howrey in Irvine. Hill specializes in patent litigation and trials...

Court Requires Warning About Deportation Risk

Posted on April 01, 2010
The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that lawyers for people thinking of pleading guilty to a crime must advise their clients who are not citizens about the possibility that they will be deported. Likening deportation to the punishments of banishment and exile, Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for five justices, said the Constitution guaranteed competent legal advice on at least some collateral consequences of guilty pleas...

U.S. court rejects Microsoft patent case appeal

Posted on April 01, 2010
A federal appeals court denied on Thursday Microsoft Corp's request that a full panel of judges rehear arguments in its long-running patent dispute with a small Canadian technology company.The decision is a blow to the world's largest software maker, which has been embroiled in a dispute with Toronto-based i4i Ltd over a feature in Microsoft's Word application for more than three years...

Immigrant wins case over bad legal advice

Posted on March 31, 2010
The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that an immigrant's legal right to effective counsel was violated when his attorney mistakenly told him he could plead guilty to drug charges without being deported.The 7-2 decision was a victory for Jose Padilla, a native of Honduras who has lived in the United States for more than 40 years as a legal permanent resident...

Lovells law firm to shut down its Chicago office

Posted on March 31, 2010
The Lovells law firm plans to close its Chicago office by the end of October, sending 22 lawyers and 25 other employees scrambling to find work.The London firm is set to merge with Washington-based Hogan & Hartson on May 1, creating one of the world's largest law firms with $1...

High court restricts whistleblower lawsuits

Posted on March 31, 2010
The Supreme Court on Tuesday placed limits on existing whistleblower lawsuits alleging local governments misused federal money, in a decision that produced newcomer Sonia Sotomayor's first dissenting opinion.But the just-enacted health care overhaul law contains a provision that changed the federal False Claims Act in a way that would appear to allow new, similar lawsuits to go forward...

Philly news lenders appeal auction bid rules

Posted on March 31, 2010
Creditors trying to win control of Philadelphia's two major newspapers have asked a U.S. appeals court to reconsider a key ruling involving the upcoming bankruptcy auction.Secured creditors are owed about $300 million by owners of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News...

The Exoneration Of Ted White Jr.

Posted on March 31, 2010
The Exoneration Of Ted White Jr. Missouri State Penitentiary, known as ?The Walls,? was built in 1836 and was the oldest prison west of the Mississippi River before it was condemned and closed permanently in 2004. In 1963, Time Magazine called ?The Walls? the bloodiest 47 acres in America when a series of violent assaults made national headlines...

Law-firm escrow agent charged with theft

Posted on March 30, 2010
A South Korean woman who worked as an escrow agent at a Seattle law firm for 16 months has been charged with 114 counts of theft after authorities said she embezzled more than $825,000 from her employer.Heather "Veronica" Pak, 41, was arrested by Seattle police last week and has since been charged with the felonies...

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