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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...

Jackson doctor fighting to keep medical license

Posted on June 14, 2010
Michael Jackson's doctor will be fighting to keep his medical license at his latest court hearing.Dr. Conrad Murray is due in court Monday for a pretrial hearing, a large part of which likely will deal with a motion from the attorney general's office to suspend Murray's medical license in California...

NY appeals court tosses ruling on RNC surveillance

Posted on June 14, 2010
A court overstepped its authority by trying to force the New York Police Department to release of hundreds of pages of documents about its infiltration of protest groups before the 2004 Republican National Convention, an appeals court found Wednesday...

Florida Ponzi mastermind gets 50-year sentence

Posted on June 09, 2010
Disbarred attorney Scott Rothstein faces decades in prison when he's sentenced in South Florida for operating a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.A federal judge is scheduled Wednesday to impose a sentence on Rothstein, who turns 48 on Thursday. Rothstein could get anywhere from 30 years to the maximum 100-year sentence for five felony convictions...

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NY appeals court tosses ruling on RNC surveillance

Posted on June 09, 2010
An appeals court has thrown out a ruling that ordered the release of documents related to NYPD surveillance of protesters at the 2004 Republican National Convention.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan found Wednesday that the district court overstepped its authority by trying to force the department to make the material public...

Court sides with paper mill in Fox River cleanup

Posted on June 09, 2010
A lawyer for Appleton Papers, Inc. says a court has ruled that two insurance companies will have to contribute $10 million toward the cleanup of the Fox River. Madison attorney Ron Ragatz says Tuesday's ruling by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals means Munich Re AG and Westport Insurance Corp...

Bradley S. Wallace, Attorney at Law

Posted on June 04, 2010
Bradley S. Wallace is a trial attorney and a litigation specialist. He focuses his practice exclusively to representing injured people. His objective, in every case, is to protect the interests of his clients, fight to obtain the most fair and reasonable result on their behalf, and aggresively pursue every legal avenue to achieve that goal...

Medical Malpractice Case: The Emma Mejias Story

Posted on May 29, 2010
Medmal Story The Sharon Boxie Louisiana Injustice Story - Nelson & Hammons Every day, somewhere in America, more than 300 innocent men, women and children become victims of medical malpractice at the hands of incompetent and negligent doctors, maybe just like your own family doctor, and end up either dead or permanently injured...

McHenry & Associates, LLP - San Diego Immigration Law Firm

Posted on May 24, 2010
At the Law Offices of McHenry & Associates, we are committed to providing exceptional legal representation to individuals, families and businesses that require immigration assistance. Our law firm is experienced in all aspects of U.S. Immigration law and is committed to helping people live and work in the United States legally...

Hard line on immigration marks GOP race in Arizona

Posted on May 24, 2010
J.D. Hayworth is a voluble man who wants people to know where he stands. One recent day, he was standing a dozen miles from the porous Mexican border -- the problem he hopes will catapult him past incumbent John McCain (R-Ariz.) into the U.S. Senate. "If you enforce the law, people will obey the law," Hayworth told the Thunder Mountain Republican Women, praising a strict new statute designed to curb illegal immigration...

Lindsay Lohan due in court after skipping hearing

Posted on May 24, 2010
Lindsay Lohan faces admonishment from a judge at a hearing Monday in Beverly Hills. Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel issued a warrant for Lohan's arrest after the 23-year-old actress skipped a mandatory court appearance last week.Revel also ordered that the star abstain from alcohol, wear an alcohol-monitoring bracelet and submit to random weekly drug testing...

WaMu files amended Chapter 11 plan

Posted on May 17, 2010
Bank holding company Washington Mutual Inc. has filed an amended Chapter 11 reorganization plan.The plan filed Sunday in Delaware bankruptcy court is based on a settlement involving WMI, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and JPMorgan Chase Bank, which filed lawsuits against one another after the FDIC seized Washington Mutual's flagship bank in 2008 and sold its assets to JPMorgan for $1...

CANCER CLUSTER TRIAL APPROACHES

Posted on May 17, 2010
CDC, COUNTY AND ILLINOIS STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT REPORTS ARE ?INADMISSIBLE,? JUDGE RULES; A state court judge is barring from evidence studies by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Illinois Department of Health, and the McHenry County Health Department in what is believed to be the largest brain cancer cluster cases in the U...

The Brualdi Law Firm, P.C. Announces Class Action Lawsuit

Posted on May 14, 2010
The Brualdi Law Firm, P.C. announces that a lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Pfizer, Inc. ("Pfizer") stock during the period between July 20, 2005 and January 23, 2009, inclusive (the "Class Period") for violations of the federal securities laws...

NY men pleads not guilty to murder in Harvard death

Posted on May 13, 2010
One of three New York City men charged in a fatal shooting last year at a Harvard University dormitory is now facing a murder count.Jason Aquino was held without bail after pleading not guilty Tuesday to charges of murder, armed robbery and intimidation of a juror...

Florida Probing Law Firm in Foreclosures

Posted on May 10, 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...

McKool Smith's Baxter Inducted Into the American College of Trial Lawyers

Posted on May 10, 2010
The law firm of McKool Smith is pleased to announce the induction of firm principal Sam F. Baxter as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.Mr. Baxter, who practices in the firm's Dallas and Marshall offices, is routinely recognized by his peers and the media as one of the top courtroom lawyers in the country...

Esbin Joins Cinnamon Mueller to Head Washington Office

Posted on May 10, 2010
Barbara Esbin, a senior fellow at free market think tank the Progress & Freedom Foundation in Washington has joined law firm Cinnamon Mueller as head of its Washington office.Esbin will head of the team representing the American Cable Association at the FCC and other agencies...

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...

Popcorn Lung Disease - The Jerry Blaylock Story

Posted on May 03, 2010
Popcorn Lung Disease, or Popcorn Workers Lung, appears mostly among factory workers in microwave popcorn plants. The illness is thought to be caused by the inhaled vapors of the butter flavoring (Diacetyl) used in microwave popcorn.The most likely victims of this illness are workers who mix the paste or powder forms of Diacetyl with oil to prepare it for use in the popcorn packets...

Supreme Court Gives Go Ahead to Vioxx Investor Lawsuit

Posted on April 28, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for a securities fraud lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co Inc., over its disclosures to investors about Vioxx, said Reuters.Vioxx, was approved for use in 1999, quickly becoming a bestseller for Merck, with annual sales of $2...

Cross in National Preserve Backed by U.S. High Court

Posted on April 28, 2010
A divided U.S. Supreme Court bolstered efforts to keep a Christian cross erected as a war memorial in a national preserve, reviving a federal law designed to protect the display and declaring that religion has a place in public life.In a 5-4 decision, the court said a federal judge was wrong to invalidate a federal law that authorized transfer of the land on which the cross sits to a private party...

Top court candidates differ on use of presidential power

Posted on April 28, 2010
When President George W. Bush and his lawyers were insisting the commander in chief had the sole power to run the new "war on terror," Judge Diane Wood sharply criticized that view.Wood, now on President Obama's list as a possible Supreme Court nominee, wrote in a 2003 Chicago law review article that "in a democracy, those responsible for national security must do more than say ?trust us, we know best...

Dugas to stay in BR, head law practice?

Posted on April 27, 2010
Former U.S. Attorney David R. Dugas will remain in Baton Rouge to head a New Orleans-based law firm?s nationwide energy practice, officials announced Tuesday.Dugas, who resigned his federal post last week, will join McGlinchey Stafford on May 1, the law firm said in a press release...

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...

Ohio Court Sides With Media, Lifts Gag Order

Posted on April 16, 2010
The Ohio Supreme Court overturned a gag order that prevented the Toledo media from reporting on one defendant's trial until the jury was impaneled on a second defendant's trial.Jayme Schwenkmeyer and her boyfriend, David Knepley, were charged with child endangering and manslaughter in the death of Schwenkmeyer's child...

Kennedy cousin loses appeal in murder conviction

Posted on April 12, 2010
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel lost his bid for a new trial in the 1975 slaying of his 15-year-old neighbor when the state Supreme Court on Monday rejected his appeal that cited a claim implicating two other men.The court ruled 4-1 against Skakel's request, saying the evidence doesn't back up the alternate claim...

Illinois State Bar Donates Lincoln Books to Library

Posted on April 12, 2010
The Illinois State Bar Association has provided a gift of sorts to the Galesburg Public Library to commemorate what was the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.The Bar Thursday presented the library with a four-volume set of the books in the series "The Papers of Abraham Lincoln" -- something it did for all of the state's 102 counties...

The New York Bar Foundation Hosts Inaugural Statewide New York State Youth Court Conference

Posted on April 09, 2010
Youth court advocates from across the State today gathered at the headquarters of the New York State Bar Association in Albany for the first-ever statewide New York State Youth Court Conference. Hosted by The New York Bar Foundation, and co-sponsored by the Center for Court Innovation, the Association of New York State Youth Courts, and New York State Courts Access to Justice, the conference consisted of several workshops designed for participants to learn about ways to support, advance and strengthen New York's youth court system...

State Bar President Michael E. Getnick Comments on Report Recently Issued by State Comptroller Dinapoli

Posted on April 06, 2010
New York State Bar Association President Michael E. Getnick (Getnick Livingston Atkinson & Priore, LLP of Utica and of counsel to Getnick & Getnick of New York City) today issued the following statement in response to State Comptroller Thomas P...

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