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Appeals court will decide sick leave lawsuit

Posted on October 15, 2010
Both sides of Milwaukee's sick leave ordinance say they're confident they will prevail now that the lawsuit over the ordinance is heading to a state appeals court.The state Supreme Court deadlocked 3-3 today on whether to uphold a circuit court ruling overturning the ordinance and sent the case to the appeals court for review...

Administration launches China trade investigation

Posted on October 15, 2010
The Obama administration has decided to launch an investigation into various Chinese practices that a major U.S. union says are robbing American workers of jobs in the burgeoning field of clean energy such as solar and wind power.U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in announcing the decision that the administration considered the whole area of green technology as vitally important to America's future economic prospects...

Federal appeals court upholds Texas pledge wording

Posted on October 14, 2010
A federal appeals court has rejected a Dallas-area parent's bid to have "under God" removed from the Texas pledge of allegiance that is recited every day by public schoolchildren.Attorney General Greg Abbott says Wednesday's ruling is a victory for the constitutionally protected rights and freedoms of all Texans...

Man charged in airline bomb attempt back in court

Posted on October 14, 2010
A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas has represented himself at a quick hearing in Detroit federal court.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (OO'-mahr fah-ROOK' ahb-DOOL'-moo-TAH'-lahb) was accompanied at Thursday's 15-minute hearing by standby counsel Anthony Chambers, who can give advice...

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Court date set in New York City anti-gay beatings

Posted on October 14, 2010
The 10 suspects accused in anti-gay attacks on four men in the Bronx are due in court.They have been charged with crimes including assault, sexual abuse and harassment, all as hate crimes. The men are scheduled to appear in Bronx state Supreme Court on Thursday...

September home foreclosures top 100,000 for first time

Posted on October 14, 2010
The number of homes taken over by banks topped 100,000 for the first time in September, though foreclosures are expected to slow in coming months as lenders work through questionable paperwork, real estate data company RealtyTrac said on Thursday.Banks foreclosed on 102,134 properties in September, the first single month above the century mark, RealtyTrac said...

Ex-NY prof pleads guilty to strangling wife in '09

Posted on October 14, 2010
A former associate professor at Rochester Institute of Technology admitted Wednesday that he strangled his wife last year and took her body to a suburban Rochester park because it was her favorite place.Timothy Wells, 58, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Monroe County Court while friends of the couple looked on...

SEC watchdog blunts accusations on Goldman timing

Posted on October 13, 2010
The watchdog of the Securities and Exchange Commission has found no hard evidence that the SEC timed the announcement of its fraud case against Goldman Sachs to eclipse negative news about a separate case.Inspector General David Kotz's report Wednesday was a response to demands from congressional Republicans who had questioned the timing of the Goldman charges...

States' probe of foreclosures could force reforms

Posted on October 13, 2010
A joint investigation by every state and the District of Columbia could force mortgage companies to settle allegations that they used flawed documents to foreclose on hundreds of thousands of homeowners.It could take months, at least, for any settlement to be reached...

SEC proposes caps on trading venue stakes

Posted on October 13, 2010
Federal regulators on Wednesday proposed to cap the stake that banks and other market players can own in exchanges where the complex investments blamed for hastening the financial crisis are traded.The Securities and Exchange Commission voted to seek public comment on the proposed rules, which are designed to prevent conflicts of interest in the operations of clearinghouses and exchanges for derivatives...

Court won't reconsider tax targeting nude bars

Posted on October 13, 2010
The Supreme Court won't stop Utah from enacting a tax that hits only adult-oriented businesses.The high court on Tuesday refused to hear an appeal from Denali, LLC, which wanted to overturn a decision by the Utah Supreme Court.That court upheld a 2004 decision by the Utah Legislature to enact a 10 percent tax on sexually explicit businesses in an effort to pay for sex offender treatment...

Lions Gate proposes merger with MGM

Posted on October 13, 2010
Lions Gate is offering to combine its business with MGM in a deal supported by billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who owns stakes in both studios.Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. said Tuesday it has sent a proposal for a combination with financially troubled Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc...

Price Waicukauski & Riley, LLC

Posted on October 12, 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...

Armstrong Teasdale Listed as Frequently Used Firm by GE, Boeing

Posted on October 12, 2010
Armstrong Teasdale LLP is listed in the 2010 National Law Journal survey ?Who Represents Corporate America? as a firm frequently used by General Electric Co. and The Boeing Co. for intellectual property services.The report, which appears in the September 13th issue, is based on the trade paper?s research of Fortune 100 companies and the law firms they used in 2009...

Court won't stop hormone replacement lawsuits

Posted on October 12, 2010
The Supreme Court won't reconsider a decision to reinstate more than 100 lawsuits filed by women who claimed that hormone replacement therapy caused breast cancer.The high court refused on Tuesday to hear an appeal from Wyeth LLC and other pharmaceutical companies...

High court hears case about vaccine side effects

Posted on October 12, 2010
The Supreme Court is trying to sort out whether drug companies can be sued for claims of serious side effects from childhood vaccines without driving vaccine makers from the market and risking a public health crisis.The court heard argument Tuesday in an appeal filed by Pittsburgh area parents who want to sue Pfizer Inc...

NY engineer admits he let passenger in train booth

Posted on October 12, 2010
A former engineer for a New York commuter railroad has pleaded guilty to official misconduct after admitting he allowed a passenger into the control booth.Ronald Cabrera entered the guilty plea Tuesday in Nassau County Court. He was fined $500 and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service...

President Obama signs space program agenda into law

Posted on October 11, 2010
President Obama signed legislation Monday that authorizes $19 billion for NASA in fiscal 2011, funding an additional shuttle flight, accelerating development of a new heavy lift rocket for deep space exploration and pressing ahead with plans to use commercial spacecraft to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station...

Lincoln may seek compromise on Bush tax cuts

Posted on October 11, 2010
Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Monday she may propose extending the Bush-era tax cuts to wealthier Americans, as well as the middle-class tax cuts that President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Washington want to maintain.Lincoln, who last week said she may support including those who make as much as $1 million a year in the cuts, said she's researching to see if a compromise is possible on the cuts...

Frank Ioppolo Jr. launches new law firm

Posted on October 11, 2010
Frank Ioppolo Jr. has launched a new law firm in Lake Mary called the Ioppolo Law Group. Ioppolo Jr. previously had been a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP?s Orlando office before leaving to serve as the chief operating officer and general counsel of Orlando-based MarketLeverage Interactive Advertising Inc...

Law punishing fake heroes may go to Supreme Court

Posted on October 11, 2010
The Justice Department is battling to save a federal law that makes it illegal to lie about being a war hero.A federal appeals court in California and a federal district court in Denver have both ruled the Stolen Valor Act is unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds...

Final defense lawyer offers argument in Smith case

Posted on October 08, 2010
Defense lawyers are urging jurors to keep in mind Anna Nicole Smith's persistent pain when they deliberate on a drug conspiracy case against two of her doctors and her lawyer-boyfriend.Howard K. Stern and Drs. Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to provide excessive prescription drugs to the former Playboy model while knowing she was an addict...

Pa. woman in Boston bridal scam pleads guil

Posted on October 08, 2010
A Pittsburgh woman has pleaded guilty to allegations she defrauded advertisers and exhibitors out of thousands of dollars with a fake bridal show in Boston.Prosecutors are recommending a five-year prison sentence for Karen Tucker, who pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in U...

Girlicious singer pleads guilty to cocaine charge

Posted on October 08, 2010
A member of the pop group Girlicious has pleaded guilty to felony cocaine possession and has received a deferred judgment that could result in the charge being dismissed.Los Angeles district attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison says Natalie Mejia entered the plea Wednesday in a Pasadena courtroom...

Houston Criminal Attorney - Shahin Zamir

Posted on October 08, 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...

Price Waicukauski & Riley, LLC

Posted on October 08, 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...

ABA?s Rule of Law Celebrates Twenty Year Anniversary

Posted on October 07, 2010
The American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative is marking two decades of work advancing improvements to laws and legal systems in developing nations around the world. Among its many efforts, ABA ROLI works against systemic rape in Congo, trains judges to handle election disputes in Kyrgyzstan and boosts public attorney effectiveness in the Philippines...

Ex-Detroit mayor strikes out at appeals court

Posted on October 07, 2010
The Michigan appeals court says it won't review the prison sentence of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who's in prison for violating probation in a criminal case.The decision means Kilpatrick will remain in prison at least until next summer unless another court intervenes...

Court asked to OK new Hanford cleanup schedule

Posted on October 07, 2010
State and federal agencies asked a federal judge Wednesday to approve a new cleanup schedule for the Hanford nuclear reservation, the nation's most polluted nuclear weapons site.The motion filed by the U.S. Department of Energy and the state Department of Ecology would govern the complicated cleanup of underground storage tanks for the next four decades and allow federal courts to ensure the work is completed...

Court seems skeptical on $14 million judgment

Posted on October 07, 2010
The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed skeptical of a $14 million judgment given to a former death row inmate who accused New Orleans prosecutors of withholding evidence to help convict him of murder.John Thompson, who at one point was only weeks away from being executed, successfully sued the district attorney's office in New Orleans, arguing that former District Attorney Harry Connick showed deliberate indifference by not providing adequate training for assistant district attorneys...

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