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N.J. gay-marriage case must begin in lower court

Posted on July 27, 2010
The push for gay marriage in New Jersey suffered a setback Monday when the state Supreme Court said six gay couples who claim New Jersey has denied them the rights granted to married heterosexual couples must argue their case through the lower courts...

Mass. judge who wrote gay marriage ruling retiring

Posted on July 22, 2010
Massachusetts Chief Justice Margaret Marshall said Wednesday that while she understands her tenure on the state's high court will always be linked to the legalization of gay marriage, that case holds no greater importance in her mind than the hundreds of other rulings she authored...

Pa. senator, sister to be tried on ethics charges

Posted on July 22, 2010
A western Pennsylvania lawmaker and one of her sisters will stand trial on charges they used the state senator's taxpayer-funded staff for campaign work for herself and another sister, a state Supreme Court justice, a judge ruled Wednesday. State Sen...

Seton Hall ex-coach Gonzalez pleads not guilty

Posted on July 22, 2010
Former Seton Hall basketball coach Bobby Gonzalez pleaded not guilty Wednesday to shoplifting a satchel at an upscale shopping mall last month. Gonzalez spoke during the five-minute arraignment only to verify his address in Harrison, N.Y. His attorney, Anna Cominsky, entered the plea on his behalf...

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Officer wants Ariz. lawsuit merged with feds' case

Posted on July 19, 2010
The lawyer for a Phoenix police officer who is challenging Arizona's new immigration law in court has asked a federal judge to merge his lawsuit with a challenge filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. The officer's attorney, Stephen Montoya, tells U...

Massey settles lawsuit over miner's death in 2008

Posted on July 19, 2010
Massey Energy has settled a lawsuit filed by the family of a contract worker killed at one of the company's West Virginia coal mines. Boone County Circuit Court records show Massey paid the family of Steven Cain $2.1 million. Cain died in an accident at Massey's Justice No...

Premier's Lawsuit With Bank of America Settled

Posted on July 19, 2010
Premier Information Management, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: PIFR) is pleased to announce the pre-jury trial settlement of its lawsuit against Bank of America. Both parties entered into a settlement conference which eventually resulted in a court ordered settlement...

Judicial Vacancies Slow the Wheels of Justice

Posted on July 12, 2010
As the Senate prepares to vote on whether Elena Kagan should fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, there remain a substantial number of other vacancies in the nation?s lower federal courts that urgently need filling. Currently, there are about 100 vacancies in the lower federal courts...

Self Representation Hurting Individual Cases, Courts

Posted on July 12, 2010
In a survey released today by the American Bar Association, judges indicated that a lack of representation in civil matters is hurting those individuals? cases, and is negatively impacting courtrooms. Approximately 1,000 state trial judges responded to the survey, which posed questions about their dockets, self-representation and the impact on the courts...

Chicago's tough new gun ordinance goes into effect

Posted on July 12, 2010
A new gun ordinance in Chicago that officials say is the strictest of its kind in the country went into effect on Monday.The ordinance was pushed through quickly by Mayor Richard Daley and the City Council after the U.S. Supreme Court last month made the city's 28-year-old handgun ban unenforceable...

Price Waicukauski & Riley, LLC

Posted on July 05, 2010
Price Waicukauski & Riley, LLC offers more than 100 years of litigation experience in state and federal courts throughout Indiana and across the nation.  While our office is in Indianapolis, Indiana, our firm focuses on representing plaintiffs in complex cases throughout Indiana and nationwide...

Chinese court sentences US geologist to 8 years

Posted on July 05, 2010
An American geologist detained and tortured by China's state security agents over an oil industry database was jailed for eight years Monday in a troubling example of China's rough justice system and the way the U.S. government handles cases against its citizens...

Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer

Posted on July 05, 2010
Shahin Zamir Immediately after graduating summa cum laude from the University of Houston with membership in the Honor?s College, Shahin Zamir attended Texas Tech School of Law.  While there, Shahin earned the Henslee/American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts Research Prize and the CALI Excellence for the Future Award...

Gun rights, campaign spending top high court term

Posted on July 01, 2010
Two conservative-driven decisions with potentially broad consequences will likely define the just-completed Supreme Court term: freeing corporations and unions to spend as much as they like in campaigns for Congress and president, and ruling that Americans have a right to a gun for self-defense wherever they live...

AZ to release immigration training plan for cops

Posted on July 01, 2010
Arizona officials plan to release a training program Thursday designed to teach police officers to enforce a tough new crackdown on illegal immigration without racially profiling.An hour-long video and supporting paperwork will be sent to all 170 Arizona police agencies and publicly released Thursday morning...

Court rules against inventors in patent case

Posted on July 01, 2010
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to weigh in on whether software, online-shopping techniques and medical diagnostic tests can be patented, saying only that inventors' request for protection of a method of hedging weather-related risk in energy prices cannot be granted...

Lamb Mcerlane Names New Partner Of Law Firm

Posted on June 28, 2010
Lamb McErlane PC, a full service law firm that has built a reputation on delivering the highest caliber of legal service in an environment focused on personal attention and results, has named Thomas P. Hogan as a partner at the firm. Hogan previously joined the firm after working as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania as well as an Assistant District Attorney in Chester County...

Law firm a low-cost alternative for small companies

Posted on June 28, 2010
When clients call Washington attorney Sue Wang, the clock doesn't start ticking. Phone calls aren't billed in six-minute intervals and each hour of work won't cost several hundred dollars. Wang and the four other lawyers in Clarity Law Group aim to reconfigure the billable-hour business model at law firms that she said tends to shut out small and start-up companies with shallow pockets...

The Lanier Law Firm Investigating 401(k) Retirement Plan for BP Employees

Posted on June 28, 2010
The Lanier Law Firm is investigating possible legal claims related to a 401(k) retirement plan for U.S. employees of energy giant BP /quotes/comstock/13*!bp/quotes/nls/bp. The law firm believes there are potential violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") by those in charge of BP's retirement plan, which is known as the BP Employee Savings Plan ("ESP")...

Martin Ginsburg, justice's husband, dies

Posted on June 28, 2010
Martin Ginsburg, the husband of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a prominent lawyer in his own right, died Sunday from complications of metastatic cancer. He was 78. The Supreme Court said in a statement that Ginsburg died at home.The Ginsburgs celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary last week...

Calif man accused of extortion through hacking

Posted on June 24, 2010
Federal agents have arrested a man accused of hacking into computers to obtain personal data to extort sexually explicit videos from women and teenage girls in exchange for keeping their information private.The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says 31-year-old Luis Mijangos was arrested Tuesday in Santa Ana...

Woman pleads guilty to burglaries while pregnant

Posted on June 24, 2010
An Ohio woman who authorities say burglarized homes while her children waited in her car and at times used her 5-year-old son to help with break-ins has pleaded guilty to various charges. Samantha Brewer, of the Cincinnati suburb of Cleves, pleaded guilty Wednesday to burglary, attempted burglary and child endangering...

Ex NFL player Dillon pleads not guilty to DUI

Posted on June 24, 2010
Former NFL running back Corey Dillon has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor DUI charges stemming from his April arrest in Southern California. Dillon entered his pleas Monday in Malibu Superior Court.The former Cincinnati Bengals and New England Patriots running back was arrested early April 21 in Calabasas in northwestern Los Angeles County...

High court upholds anti-terror law

Posted on June 21, 2010
The Supreme Court has upheld a federal law that bars "material support" to foreign terrorist organizations, rejecting a free speech challenge from humanitarian aid groups.The court ruled 6-3 Monday that the government may prohibit all forms of aid to designated terrorist groups, even if the support consists of training and advice about entirely peaceful and legal activities...

High court to review mental health advocacy suit

Posted on June 21, 2010
The Supreme Court says it will decide whether Virginia's advocate for the mentally ill can force state officials to provide records relating to deaths and injuries at state mental health facilities.The justices agreed Monday to review a federal appeals court ruling dismissing the state advocate's lawsuit against Virginia's mental health commissioner and two other officials...

Prop. 8 Challenge Wrapping Up in Court Today

Posted on June 16, 2010
A federal judge will hear closing arguments Wednesday in a groundbreaking trial on a lawsuit that seeks to establish marriage as a fundamental constitutional right for gays and lesbians. The latest effort to overturn California's Prop. 8 gay-marriage ban is wrapping up in federal court today, with Ted Olson and David Boies--the attorneys for George W...

Texas asks court to intervene in fight with EPA

Posted on June 16, 2010
Texas asked a federal court on Monday to intervene in its fight with the Environmental Protection Agency over how the state regulates emissions from oil refineries and other petrochemicals plants. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to review the EPA's rejection in March of a 1995 state law that allows refineries to be modified without being subject to additional regulation, provided the changes don't increase a facility's overall emissions...

Pa. police sued for hearing aid rule

Posted on June 15, 2010
A Pennsylvania man is suing the state police over guidelines that forbid the use of hearing aids in the certification process for becoming a municipal police officer.Lawyers for 39-year-old Bill Furman have asked in the federal discrimination lawsuit filed Wednesday that the rule be changed so he has the chance to become eligible for certification...

High court rejects appeal in rendition case

Posted on June 14, 2010
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Canadian engineer who was caught up in the U.S. government's secret transfer of terror suspects to other countries.The court did not comment Monday in ending Syrian-born Maher Arar's quest to sue top U.S...

Kagan confirmation would affect major tobacco case

Posted on June 14, 2010
It's a simple matter of math: Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court has complicated the government's effort to force the tobacco industry to cough up nearly $300 billion.If confirmed by the Senate as a justice, Kagan would have to sit out high court review of the government's decade-old racketeering lawsuit against cigarette makers...

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