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Appeals court oveturns Wash. ecoterror conviction

Posted on September 16, 2010
An appeals court overturned the conviction of a woman found guilty of helping with a notorious 2001 ecoterror attack that destroyed a university research center, concluding the judge made mistakes that cast doubt on the fairness of her trial.Briana Waters, 34, was convicted of serving as a lookout during the Earth Liberation Front attack on the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle and was sentenced to six years in prison plus $6 million in restitution...

Bryan A Lowe & Associates - Corporate and Tax Law

Posted on September 15, 2010
At Bryan A Lowe & Associates, we handle a wide variety of legal cases, including the areas listed below. If you need an elder law, estate planning, corporate, tax, or probate lawyer, see the information below or contact an attorney.     Elder Law     Estate Planning     Corporate and Tax Law     Probate and Estate Administration     Bankruptcy Three reasons to consider us as your legal counsel...

Menzer & Hill, P.A. Announces Investigation

Posted on September 09, 2010
The Securities Arbitration Firm of Menzer & Hill, P.A. Announces Investigation Into The Sales Practices Of Broker-Dealers That Solicited Purchases of Inverse and Leveraged Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) The Securities Arbitration Firm of Menzer & Hill, P...

Court asked to keep stem cell money flowing

Posted on September 09, 2010
The Obama administration is asking a federal appeals court to lift an order blocking federal funding for some stem cell research, a day after being turned down by the judge who issued the order. The administration told a federal appeals court in Washington on Wednesday that the order by U...

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Bankruptcy Court Is Latest Battleground for Traders

Posted on September 08, 2010
In Six Flags Inc.'s bankruptcy case last fall, a hedge fund that owned senior bonds negotiated the theme-park company's reorganization plan, then dumped lower-ranking bonds it figured would lose value under the deal.Other creditors cried foul. The hedge fund had used knowledge learned during its negotiations to gain an unfair edge, they suggested, accusing the fund of a "hijacking of the reorganization process...

Securities Arbitration / Litigation Lawyers

Posted on September 02, 2010
Menzer & Hill, P.A. represents investors in the recovery of losses at the result of brokerage firms' failure to supervise their financial advisors who engage in unsuitable investment recommendations, the excessive trading of investors' accounts, inappropriate allocation of portfolio assets, misrepresentations and/or material omissions of fact resulting in fraud, negligence, breach of fiduciary duties, selling away, failure to advise their clients of risk management strategies and excessive use of margin...

Mass. man accused of killing kin pleads not guilty

Posted on September 02, 2010
A Massachusetts man accused of killing his wife, two children and mother-in-law pleaded not guilty Thursday to four counts of first-degree murder as a prosecutor described how he left two copies of a letter confessing to the slayings.Thomas Mortimer IV was arraigned in Woburn Superior Court on Thursday following his indictment last week...

"Quote stuffing" a focus in flash crash probe

Posted on September 02, 2010
U.S. regulators probing the May flash crash are focusing on a trading practice known as "quote stuffing", in which large numbers of rapid-fire orders to buy or sell stocks are placed and canceled almost immediately.CFTC commissioner Scott O'Malia told Reuters on Thursday that the futures regulator was reviewing data from Nanex LLC, a trade database developer that issued a study suggesting that computer algorithms used quote stuffing to gain an edge during the May 6 crash...

DOJ's elite Public Integrity unit gets new leader

Posted on August 30, 2010
The Justice Department's Public Integrity Section has a storied 34-year history of pursuing corruption in government and safeguarding the public trust.That trust was breached, however, when some of the unit's prosecutors failed to turn over evidence favorable to the defense in their high-profile criminal trial of Sen...

Thousands sign on for $10 billion BP suit

Posted on August 30, 2010
The revelation that BP's Texas City refinery emitted toxic benzene for more than a month has ignited a furor in the port community that has suffered its share of deadly industrial accidents and toxic spills.Thousands of residents who fear they may have been exposed to the known carcinogen released at the oil refinery from April 6 to May 16 have been flooding parking lots and conference halls where local trial attorneys hosted information sessions and sought clients for class-action lawsuits against the oil giant...

Facebook sued in California over teen endorsements

Posted on August 30, 2010
Two Los Angeles County teenagers are suing Facebook, claiming the social network effectively sold their names and images to advertisers without parental permission.The lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles challenges a Facebook feature that allows members to note that they like an advertised service or product...

Shapiro & Fishman accuses McCollum of grandstanding

Posted on August 23, 2010
Law firm Shapiro & Fishman has accused Attorney General Bill McCollum of pre-election grandstanding and ?abuse of power? in connection with McCollum?s recent announcement that his office is conducting a foreclosure fraud investigation into that firm and two others...

Doctor charged in Jackson's death due in court

Posted on August 23, 2010
The doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death is due back in court for a scheduling hearing that will determine when prosecutors will publicly present some of their evidence.Dr. Conrad Murray is required to attend Monday's hearing, during which a Los Angeles judge is expected to schedule a preliminary hearing for later this year...

'Grim Sleeper' arraignment set for Monday

Posted on August 23, 2010
Lonnie Franklin Jr., the suspect in the "Grim Sleeper" serial killings, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning in a Los Angeles, California, courtroom on 10 counts of murder.Franklin is accused of killing 10 women in the south Los Angeles area between 1985 and 2007...

Court says California mall's chat policy illegal

Posted on August 16, 2010
A Northern California appeals court has struck down a shopping mall's policy barring people from approaching strangers to chitchat.The 3rd District Court of Appeal this week said the rules at Roseville's Westfield Galleria violate the California Constitution's free speech guarantee...

Ex-money manager to plead guilty to Indiana fraud

Posted on August 16, 2010
A former money manager convicted of trying to fake his own death in a Florida plane crash has agreed to plead guilty to securities fraud charges in Indiana.Marcus Schrenker could face 10 years in prison in exchange for pleading guilty to five of 11 counts under a proposed plea agreement with Hamilton County prosecutors...

Professional law firm website design

Posted on August 15, 2010
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Houston Criminal Attorney Shahin Zamir

Posted on August 10, 2010
Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer If you have been charged with either a felony or misdemeanor, you need a proven to inform you of your rights and fight to protect them in court. At The Law Office of Shahin Zamir, our attorneys have experience serving as advocates for our clients in criminal defense cases like yours...

BP Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over Release of Benzene

Posted on August 09, 2010
A $10 billion toxic tort class action lawsuit has been filed against BP over alleged emissions from its troubled Texas City oil refinery, alleging that workers and residents in the area were exposed to benzene and other chemicals.   More than 2,200 workers at the refinery and residents from the surrounding area filed the BP class action lawsuit on August 3 in the Galveston Division of the Southern District of Texas...

Children in Dependency Proceedings Need Lawyers

Posted on August 09, 2010
Lawyers who represent children in dependency proceedings say it?s time for these children ? regardless of which state they live ? to have a right to legal counsel.Meeting yesterday at the 2010 American Bar Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, a panel of children?s rights advocates discussed eliminating the barriers that prevent lawyers from representing these children in life-impacting legal proceedings...

Kaine: Don't politicize Michelle Obama's travels

Posted on August 09, 2010
Democratic Party Chairman Tim Kaine is defending first lady Michelle Obama's vacation trip to Spain, saying critics of her travels are trying to politicize the issue.Kaine tells NBC's "Today" show he thinks "it's wrong" to talk critically about her trips...

David Boies Urges ABA Members

Posted on August 08, 2010
David Boies challenged America?s lawyers to ?bring the rule of law to its full fruition here in this country ? to fulfill the goals and lofty rhetoric of our founding fathers,? as the keynote speaker at the Opening Assembly of the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco...

Murder conviction of mom reversed in California

Posted on August 03, 2010
An appeals court panel has reversed the murder conviction of a mother accused of driving her teenage son and his friends to a Southern California park where a 13-year-old rival gang member was stabbed to death.The 2nd District Court of Appeal panel ruled 2-1 on Monday that jurors in the case of 33-year-old Eva Daley were given an "impermissibly ambiguous" jury instruction during the 2008 trial...

Groups seek judge's removal from drilling case

Posted on August 03, 2010
Several environmental groups have asked a federal appeals court to disqualify a judge from a lawsuit over the Obama administration's initial six-month moratorium on deep-water oil drilling.U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman overturned the temporary drilling ban in June and refused last month to withdraw from the case...

Calif. high court upholds affirmative action ban

Posted on August 03, 2010
California's high court on Monday upheld the state's 14-year-old law barring preferential treatment of women and minorities in public school admissions, government hiring and contracting.In a 6-1 ruling, the state Supreme Court rejected arguments from the city of San Francisco and Attorney General Jerry Brown that the law, known as Proposition 209, violates federal equality protections...

2 re-sentencings ordered in $1.9B Ohio fraud case

Posted on July 29, 2010
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered new sentences for two former National Century executives convicted in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud case once likened to the Enron scandal, saying the government had proved some but not all of its case.A three-judge panel of the 6th U...

BP spill cases head to court as Shell counts cost

Posted on July 29, 2010
The tide of lawsuits unleashed by BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico breaks into an Idaho courtroom on Thursday, just as the company's rivals are counting the cost of a ban on offshore drilling.Attorneys hoping to lead the legal fight against BP are set to descend on Boise, Idaho, to address a special judicial panel considering how to bring order to the hundreds of civil lawsuits spawned by the spill after a rig explosion on April 20...

Family of victims sues over Marine jet crash in SD

Posted on July 29, 2010
The family of four people killed in the crash of a Marine Corps jet in a San Diego County neighborhood two years ago sued the federal government and Boeing Wednesday.The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court by Dong Yun Yoon, whose wife, two daughters and mother-in-law were killed in the December 2008 crash that incinerated two homes and damaged others in University City...

Jury finds south Texas man guilty of beheadings

Posted on July 27, 2010
A South Texas man accused of beheading his common-law wife's three children was found guilty of capital murder Monday at his second trial. A state appeals court had overturned John Allen Rubio's previous conviction and death sentence in 2007, saying the children's mother had wrongly been allowed to testify...

Neb. town may halt immigration law to save money

Posted on July 27, 2010
Faced with expensive legal challenges, officials in the eastern Nebraska town of Fremont are considering suspending a voter-approved ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants until the lawsuits are resolved.The City Council narrowly rejected the ban in 2008, prompting supporters to gather enough signatures for the ballot measure...

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