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Los Angeles area attorney fatally shot at his home

Posted on December 09, 2009
A California attorney has died after being shot in the head outside his Los Angeles area home.Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says the lawyer died in a hospital at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. He was shot 11 hours earlier and found on the driveway of his home in Rolling Hills Estates, about 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles...

Neo-Nazi in murder trial gets makeover for trial

Posted on December 09, 2009
A Florida judge has ruled that the state must pay for a costmetologist to cover up neo-Nazi tattoos on a man on trial in a murder case.Judge Michael Andrews, acting on a request by the man's lawyer, ruled that the tattoos are potentially offensive and could influence a jury's opinion...

Smart case competency hearing begins second week

Posted on December 08, 2009
A New York psychiatrist is expected in federal court to discuss the religious writings of the man accused of abducting Elizabeth Smart.According to Dr. Michael Welner, some of Brian David Mitchell's writings claim that Smart went with him willingly and with the permission of her parents...

Ohio inmate to get 1-drug, slower execution

Posted on December 08, 2009
Condemned killer Kenneth Biros could become the first person in the country put to death with a single dose of an intravenous anesthetic instead of the usual ? and faster-acting ? three-drug process if his execution proceeds Tuesday.The execution could propel other states to eventually consider the switch, which proponents say ends arguments over unnecessary suffering during injection...

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Lawyer: Blagojevich would take 5th in casino suit

Posted on December 08, 2009
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich would claim his 5th Amendment right against self incrimination if asked to testify in a civil lawsuit spurred by his federal corruption indictment, his lawyer says.Attorney Jay Edelson told The Associated Press on Thursday night that the former governor also would assert legislative privilege...

RI federal prosecutor pleads not guilty to DUI

Posted on December 08, 2009
A federal prosecutor from Rhode Island has pleaded not guilty to drunken driving after police decided to charge him following questions about whether he was let off the hook because of his connections.Assistant U.S. Attorney Gerard Sullivan appeared in District Court Friday and was released after he promised to appear at his next court hearing Dec...

Ind. teen pleads not guilty in killing of brother

Posted on December 08, 2009
An Indiana teenager accused of strangling his 10-year-old brother and dumping his body in a park has pleaded not guilty to murder.Seventeen-year-old Andrew Conley showed no emotion during Friday's court appearance in Ohio Circuit Court in Rising Sun, the teen's hometown along the Ohio River about 90 miles southeast of Indianapolis...

Law Office of Max J. Mizejewski - Eugene, Oregon DUI

Posted on December 03, 2009
Most people agree that driving while you are high and/or drunk is not a good idea, but it is also a very common and sometimes difficult to avoid occurrence in America?s geographically dispersed car culture. Residents of Oregon should be aware that the state?s drunk driving laws are some of the toughest in the country, making DUII (Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants) an extremely serious offense...

Nortel wins approval for sale of businesses

Posted on December 03, 2009
Nortel Networks Corp. said late Wednesday it won court approval in the U.S. and Canada to sell two of its business units.The larger unit, Nortel's global optical networking and carrier ethernet businesses, is going to Ciena Corp. The business is one of the most sought-after assets of Nortel, a once-dominant network gear maker that is selling itself off in pieces after filing for Chapter 11 protection in January...

Texas man with low IQ asks court to spare his life

Posted on December 03, 2009
A condemned Texas inmate is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court keeps him from the death chamber for the fatal slashing of an 11-year-old girl.Bobby Wayne Woods is set for lethal injection Thursday evening in Huntsville for the April 1997 abduction, rape and slaying of Sarah Patterson, his ex-girlfriend's daughter...

W.Va. court asked to reconsider Massey ruling

Posted on December 03, 2009
West Virginia's Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled against him, but the head of a bankrupt coal company is asking it to reconsider its recent decision in favor of Massey Energy Co.For the third time, the court last month overturned the $50 million verdict that Hugh Caperton and his Harman Mining won against Massey...

FairPoint asks court to put rebates on hold

Posted on December 03, 2009
FairPoint Communications has filed a court motion asking that it not be forced to give Maine customers rebates because of its poor service as the company works through bankruptcy.The company is objecting to the Maine Public Utilities Commission's regulatory order Monday that it pay rebates in the form of $1...

Mich. board asks gov, lawmakers to reduce ed cuts

Posted on October 27, 2009
Michigan's bipartisan State Board of Education urged Gov. Jennifer Granholm and lawmakers to find money to reduce cuts in public education and buy time for a long-term funding solution.The 8-0 vote on Monday came after a series of blows delivered to public schools last week...

Dallas Terror Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Charges

Posted on October 27, 2009
A Jordanian man accused of trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper with what he thought was a car bomb pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Monday.Hosam Maher Smadi, 19, told the judge "I'm not guilty on both counts" before she formally asked for his plea on one count of attempting to use of a weapon of mass destruction and one count of bombing a public place...

China Mobile Settles Anti-Monopoly Lawsuit

Posted on October 27, 2009
China Mobile Communications Corp., owner of the world?s biggest phone company by subscribers, settled a lawsuit filed by a customer alleging the carrier abused its market position to charge users fees. Zhou Ze, a lawyer with the Beijing Wentian Law Firm who sued China Mobile under the nation?s new anti-monopoly law, said today the company agreed to pay him 1,000 yuan ($146)...

Conviction of Berlusconi-linked lawyer upheld

Posted on October 27, 2009
An appeals court has upheld the conviction of British lawyer David Mills for accepting a bribe to lie in court to protect Silvio Berlusconi.The decision Tuesday is a potential embarrassment for the Italian premier, whose trial in the same corruption case is expected to restart soon following an Italian high court's ruling that a law granting immunity to Italy's highest public officials is unconstitutional...

Man who threw feces in CA courtroom gets 31 years

Posted on October 27, 2009
A man who sneaked a bag of his feces into a San Diego courtroom during his home-invasion robbery trial, smeared it on his lawyer and threw it at jurors has been sentenced to 31 years in prison.Superior Court Judge Frank Brown on Monday sentenced Weusi McGowan for robbery, burglary and two assault charges stemming from the feces-flinging incident during his January trial...

Prosecutors seek 145 years in prison for lawyer

Posted on July 09, 2009
A prominent lawyer trained at Harvard and Yale universities who admitted defrauding hedge funds of more than $400 million should be sentenced to 145 years in prison, prosecutors told a judge Wednesday.Prosecutors cited the privileged education and his comfortable upbringing as they urged the maximum sentence for 59-year-old Marc Dreier...

Gay legal groups want in on Calif court case

Posted on July 09, 2009
Three gay-friendly legal groups have asked to be part of a federal lawsuit challenging California's same-sex marriage ban ? a request that drew an icy reception from the activists behind the case.After publicly questioning the wisdom of the suit and then submitting papers in support of it, the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights said they want to represent gay community groups in the proceedings...

It's not slang! Nev. court permits 'HOE' license

Posted on July 09, 2009
A Las Vegas man won a courtroom battle Wednesday with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his "HOE" license plate, which the agency tried to cancel on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.The high court said the DMV based its opposition to William Junge's plate on definitions found in the Web-based Urban Dictionary, which includes user contributions...

Astor's son back in NYC court, day after falling

Posted on July 09, 2009
Brooke Astor's son is back at his Manhattan trial, a day after he fell and hit his head in a courthouse restroom.Anthony Marshall, who's 85, had heart surgery last fall. He takes blood thinners and walks unsteadily with a cane. He also has reportedly suffered a mild stroke...

Analysis: Sotomayor record thin on executive power

Posted on July 09, 2009
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's thin record on the limits of presidential power suggests she will be neither reflexively hostile to broad expansion of a president's authority nor a reliable rubber stamp in support of it.Three cases in particular offer clues:_ As a judge on the 2nd Circuit U...

Wis. Supreme Court deadlocks on corporate law case

Posted on July 08, 2009
The Wisconsin Supreme Court deadlocked Tuesday on whether the former owners of a manufacturing business must pay millions in damages for enriching themselves while the company couldn't pay its bills.The court divided 3-3 on whether to uphold a jury's decision ordering Daniel Virnich and Jack Moores to pay $6...

Nevada high court gets follow-up OJ bail request

Posted on July 08, 2009
O.J. Simpson is promising not to disappear or endanger the community if he's freed from prison pending his appeal in an armed hotel room heist, his lawyers told the Nevada Supreme Court."Simpson recognizes that he has a heavy burden in demonstrating that his release will pose no danger to the community and that he is not a flight risk," attorneys Yale Galanter and Malcolm LaVergne said in a follow-up document filed Monday with the state's only appellate court...

Six charged in $140 million NY brokerage fraud

Posted on July 08, 2009
Six employees of Wall Street retail brokerage Sky Capital Holdings Ltd surrendered to the FBI on Wednesday on charges of a $140 million investment fraud and stock manipulation in the United States and Britain, officials said.The firm's founder, President and Chief Executive Officer Ross Mandell and five others were charged in a criminal indictment announced by U...

Appeals court rules for Abbott in AIDS drug case

Posted on July 08, 2009
A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit accusing Abbott Laboratories of antitrust violations over a sudden 400-percent price hike of a popular AIDS drug.Advocacy groups and drug benefit providers sued Abbott in 2004. They alleged the North Chicago, Ill...

Lear files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Posted on July 07, 2009
Struggling automotive parts supplier Lear Corp. said it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after receiving the support it needed from lenders and bondholders.The company, which makes automotive seating systems and electronics, had been negotiating with its lenders and bondholders for additional support for its restructuring plan...

Lawyers' group: Sotomayor well qualified for court

Posted on July 07, 2009
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor earned a "well-qualified" rating from the American Bar Association on Tuesday as she prepared for Senate hearings next week.The ABA committee that reviewed her qualifications came out with that unanimous rating of the federal appeals court judge and released it in a letter to White House lawyer Greg Craig...

Woman seeks to decrease $1.92M fine for downloads

Posted on July 07, 2009
A central Minnesota woman ordered to pay $1.92 million for illegally sharing copyright-protected music is asking a federal judge to reduce the damages she must pay or grant a new trial, while the recording industry is taking steps to make sure she doesn't share music again...

Scientist in NYC says she's not against America

Posted on July 07, 2009
A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist accused of helping al-Qaida has repeatedly interrupted her competency hearing to declare her innocence and insist she's not anti-American.The outbursts came during a daylong hearing in federal court in Manhattan to decide whether 37-year-old Aafia Siddiqui is competent to stand trial...

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