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Irvine law firm ranked among best in nation

Posted on September 29, 2010
Fisher & Phillips LLP's Irvine office has been ranked among the nation's best management-side labor and employment law firms in a new collaboration between U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers. The inaugural Best Law Firms rankings cover 8,782 law firms in 81 practice areas in 171 metropolitan areas and seven states...

Gallop, Johnson & Neuman IP Practice Expanding

Posted on September 28, 2010
The Intellectual Property Practice Group at Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C., is assembling a formidable team of legal talent with new attorneys Donald R. Holland, Ph.D., and William E. Lahey, two experienced, highly-regarded patent attorneys who have joined the firm...

High court takes case on corporate privacy

Posted on September 28, 2010
The Supreme Court is getting involved in an unusual freedom of information dispute over whether corporations may assert personal privacy interests to prevent the government from releasing documents about them.The court on Tuesday agreed to a request from the Obama administration to take up a case involving claims made by telecommunications giant AT&T to keep secret the information gathered by the Federal Communications Commission during an investigation...

High court enters legal fight over Navy plane

Posted on September 28, 2010
The Supreme Court is getting involved in the longstanding dispute between the Pentagon and two contractors contesting the government's demand for $3 billion over the Navy's ill-fated A-12 Avenger attack plane.The justices on Tuesday agreed to hear an appeal from the Boeing Co...

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Rapper Kid Cudi pleads guilty in NY drug case

Posted on September 28, 2010
Rapper Kid Cudi has pleaded guilty in New York City to misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance.The Manhattan district attorney's office said Tuesday that the charge will be dismissed if the entertainer stays out of trouble for six months and serves two days of community service...

Conn. lawyer called to court over remarks to media

Posted on September 28, 2010
A judge has ordered an attorney for one of two Connecticut men charged with killing a mother and her two daughters in a 2007 home invasion to explain why he shouldn't face criminal contempt proceedings after speaking out about the case.New Haven Superior Court Judge Roland Fasano on Monday ordered attorney Jeremiah Donovan to appear at an Oct...

Calif. inmate asks federal court to halt execution

Posted on September 27, 2010
A death row inmate has asked a federal appeals court to halt his execution and has refused to choose a method of lethal injection.Lawyers for Albert Greenwood Brown filed court papers Sunday saying he is appealing a federal court judge's refusal to block his execution, which is scheduled for Wednesday...

Serb pleads guilty in NY student beating case

Posted on September 27, 2010
A Serb basketball player has pleaded guilty to beating an American student into a coma. The plea was part of a plea bargain under which Miladin Kovacevic is expected to serve about two years in prison in his homeland.Under the agreement, Kovacevic, 23, could be sentenced to two years and three months for the beating of Bryan Steinhauer in May 2008 near Binghamton University in upstate New York...

NY wife-killing case back in court after hung jury

Posted on September 27, 2010
The case of a New York man accused of killing his wife and incinerating her in an oil drum is going back to court.Opening arguments in the retrial of Werner Lippe of Cortlandt, N.Y., are set for Monday at the Westchester County Courthouse.Lippe confessed three times to killing his wife Faith...

Man pleads guilty to double murder

Posted on September 27, 2010
A man has pleaded guilty to murdering a woman and her 11-year-old son.Polish national Krystian Krysztof Rozek, 27, admitted killing Monika Wasko, 29, and her son Patryk in a knife attack at their home in Cae Hir, Flint, North Wales, where he had been lodging...

Court urged to uphold order on immigration law

Posted on September 26, 2010
Arizona's new immigration law illegally conflicts with federal statutes and undermines the nation's foreign policy, attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice argued Friday.Assistant Attorney General Tony West argued to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that U...

Hyundai recalls 139,500 Sonatas in US on steering

Posted on September 26, 2010
Hyundai Motor Co. said it is voluntarily recalling 139,500 Sonata sedans in the U.S. because of a manufacturing defect that could cause drivers to lose steering control.The recall affects 2011 models built between Dec. 11, 2009 and Sept. 10, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration noted on its website Sunday...

2 Iowa women plead guilty to embezzling millions

Posted on September 24, 2010
Two Iowa women pleaded guilty Thursday to federal felony charges that they embezzled nearly $6 million from West Des Moines insurer Aviva USA.The charges come nearly a year after Phyllis Stevens, 59, was arrested at a Las Vegas hotel. An Aviva employee discovered more than $5...

Lindsay Lohan returns to court, may face more jail time

Posted on September 24, 2010
Actress Lindsay Lohan is expected to appear in court Friday after a judge revoked her probation earlier in the week.Judge Elden Fox revoked Lohan's probation Monday and signed a bench warrant for her arrest, but the judge is holding it until a hearing at 8:30 a...

Philippine dad convicted of rape gets 14,400 years

Posted on September 24, 2010
A Philippine court has sentenced a father to 14,400 years in prison after he was convicted of the near-daily rape of his teenage daughter over the course of a year.A trial court originally condemned the man, a motorcycle taxi driver, to die in March 2006 after he was convicted of 360 counts of rape allegedly carried out during the year his wife worked in Hong Kong...

Judge mulls blocking NY tax on reservation sales

Posted on September 24, 2010
The dominant Indian nation in New York's lucrative tax-free cigarette market says it should remain exempt from the state's plans to tax most reservation sales because those plans are flawed.Lawyers for the Seneca Nation, along with Cayuga Nation lawyers, argued in federal court in Buffalo on Thursday for a preliminary injunction, saying the state's untested system for collecting the $4...

Dream Act Dies in Senate, Immigration Reform

Posted on September 24, 2010
A measure called the Dream Act that would have given some illegal immigrants a path to citizenship died Tuesday in the U.S. Senate.It would have given illegal immigrants who came here before they turned 16, a chance to become citizens if they meet certain conditions...

O'Melveny Lawyer Christina Brown Honored by State Bar

Posted on September 23, 2010
Christina Brown, a lawyer with O?Melveny & Myers LLP, has received one of the State Bar of California?s eight 2010 President?s Pro Bono Service Awards for contributing hundreds of hours of pro bono legal work in 2009 through the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area...

Warren Buffett: 'We're still in a recession'

Posted on September 23, 2010
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said the U.S. economy remains in recession, disputing this week's assessment by a leading arbiter of economic activity that the downturn ended more than a year ago."We're still in a recession," Buffett told CNBC television in an interview broadcast on Thursday...

5 in Lockhart mortgage case have pleaded guilty

Posted on September 23, 2010
Five of the 11 defendants in an alleged $20.5 million mortgage fraud scheme purportedly involving former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Eugene Lockhart have pleaded guilty.The U.S. Attorney's Office in Dallas said Wednesday that four of the defendants have entered guilty pleas or are scheduled to do so this month...

York County man pleads guilty in fraud case

Posted on September 23, 2010
A York County IT consultant and a Maryland executive have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and criminal forfeiture, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Donald J. Cochran Jr., 44, of New Park and David B. Bossi, 43, of Phoenix, Md...

Texas court reverses conviction in dog scent case

Posted on September 23, 2010
A man convicted of murder after three bloodhounds allegedly matched his scent to the victim should be set free because the evidence against him was not legally sufficient, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Wednesday.The court acquitted Richard Winfrey Sr...

Court affirms overturning Fla. gay adoption ban

Posted on September 22, 2010
Florida's strict ban on adoption by gay people is unconstitutional because no other group, even people with criminal backgrounds, are singled out for a flat prohibition by state law, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.The ruling by the 3rd District Court of Appeal upholds a 2008 decision by a Miami-Dade County judge who found "no rational basis" for the ban when she approved the adoption of two young brothers by Martin Gill and his male partner...

American Bar Association Honors Philadelphia Firms

Posted on September 22, 2010
The American Bar Association?s Death Penalty Representation Project will acknowledge Philadelphia law firms Reed Smith LLP and Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP?s role in ground-breaking, pro bono litigation of capital punishment appeals with an Exceptional Service Award on Wednesday, Sept...

Penny Stock Risks ? Caveat Emptor

Posted on September 22, 2010
The securities industry has tough rules when it comes to brokers soliciting the purchase of ?penny stocks.? Typically a stock is considered a ?penny stock? when it trades for less than $5 a share and it does not trade on a major exchange (e.g., New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ)...

ANZ says to vigorously defend class action suit

Posted on September 22, 2010
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group said on Wednesday it will vigorously defend a class action suit by customers for recovery of bank fees.Earlier class-action law firm Maurice Blackburn said it would file a $48 million class action suit against ANZ, with up to 11 other lenders at risk of similar suits in the future...

K-Rod in NYC court on restraining order violation

Posted on September 22, 2010
Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez is to be arraigned on criminal contempt charges after he sent text messages to his girlfriend despite a restraining order issued in his New York assault case.The new charges were announced last week after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend's father outside a family lounge at Citi Field...

Int'l court to launch cases in Kenya violence

Posted on September 21, 2010
The International Criminal Court will launch cases against as many as six suspected instigators of postelection violence in Kenya that left more than 1,000 people dead in 2007-08, the chief prosecutor announced Tuesday.Luis Moreno Ocampo said in a statement that he will present two separate cases to judges before the end of the year charging between four and six people he believes "bear the greatest responsibility for the most serious crimes...

Suspect in NC woman's slaying due in NY court

Posted on September 21, 2010
The man accused of killing a North Carolina police chief's daughter is expected in an upstate New York courtroom where he will be arraigned as a fugitive from justice.Police say Michael Neal Harvey killed 23-year-old Valerie Hamilton last week and dumped her body in a self-storage unit...

Court denies Burris request to stop election

Posted on September 21, 2010
The Supreme Court says it won't stop a special election for President Barack Obama's old Senate seat that leaves out current Illinois Sen. Roland Burris.Burris earlier this month asked the high court to block plans for a special Senate election that would exclude him...

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