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WTO rules some EU Airbus subsidies illegal

Posted on July 05, 2010
The WTO on Wednesday dealt the European Union a painful blow in a transatlantic trade row over multibillion dollar subsidies for US and European aircraft, ruling some state support for Airbus illegal.Rival US airplane manufacturer Boeing claimed a "sweeping legal victory" and said it would require Airbus to repay four billion dollars in illegal subsidies, a claim disputed by the European aerospace giant...

Chinese court sentences US geologist to 8 years

Posted on July 05, 2010
An American geologist detained and tortured by China's state security agents over an oil industry database was jailed for eight years Monday in a troubling example of China's rough justice system and the way the U.S. government handles cases against its citizens...

Longtime civil rights lawyer William Taylor dies

Posted on July 05, 2010
William L. Taylor, a Washington lawyer and civil rights activist who fought in courts and in government to desegregate schools, has died. He was 78.His oldest daughter, Lauren Taylor, says he died Monday of complications from a fall.Taylor began advocating for civil rights while working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund alongside Thurgood Marshall...

BP wasted no time preparing for oil spill lawsuits

Posted on July 05, 2010
In the immediate aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, BP publicly touted its expert oil clean-up response, but it quietly girded for a legal fight that could soon embroil hundreds of attorneys, span five states and last more than a decade...

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Canada Law Firm Launches Privacy Class Action against Facebook

Posted on July 02, 2010
The Canadian law firm ?Merchant Law Group? has launched a high profile class action suit against Facebook over the social network allegedly breaching the privacy of its users.Tony Merchant Q.C stated Friday that ?this claim asserts that Facebook shamelessly breached the privacy of people who trusted it...

New trial ordered in NYC for ex-food service boss

Posted on July 02, 2010
A federal appeals court ordered a new trial Thursday for the former chief marketing officer of one of the nation's biggest food products distributors, saying errors by a judge make it necessary to dissolve the conviction and the seven-year prison term that followed...

Former mortgage exec pleads not guilty in Va.

Posted on July 02, 2010
The former head of a mortgage lending company accused of scheming to steal more than $500 million from the government's financial bailout fund has pleaded not guilty in the case.Lee Bentley Farkas entered the not guilty plea Friday in Alexandria, Va., to charges including conspiracy, bank fraud and wire fraud in connection with the alleged plot at Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Corp...

Ex-UFC fighter War Machine gets year in jail

Posted on July 02, 2010
Ultimate Fighting Championship competitor War Machine has been sentenced to a year in jail for violating probation after he assaulted people at two San Diego bars.War Machine pleaded guilty Thursday to two felony counts of assault and to violating probation in a previous assault case...

Kagan on way to Supreme Court confirmation

Posted on July 01, 2010
Elena Kagan is speeding toward confirmation as the 112th Supreme Court justice, with Republicans showing little appetite for a long-shot filibuster attempt after sparring with her over abortion, gays in the military and other divisive issues."Solicitor General Kagan will be confirmed," Sen...

Obama: Fix 'a broken immigration system'

Posted on July 01, 2010
President Obama today called for a "practical, common sense" immigration system that will help the U.S. economy and maintain the steady flow of immigrants who have always enriched the United States."Such an approach demands accountability from everybody," Obama said during his first major immigration speech as president...

Court rejects Pfizer appeal of Nigerians' lawsuits

Posted on July 01, 2010
The Supreme Court is staying out of a dispute between Nigerian families and Pfizer, Inc., over the drug maker's use of a new antibiotic on children during a deadly outbreak of meningitis in the mid-1990s.The justices on Tuesday rejected the pharmaceutical giant's appeal of a court ruling that allowed the lawsuits filed by the Nigerians in U...

Gun rights, campaign spending top high court term

Posted on July 01, 2010
Two conservative-driven decisions with potentially broad consequences will likely define the just-completed Supreme Court term: freeing corporations and unions to spend as much as they like in campaigns for Congress and president, and ruling that Americans have a right to a gun for self-defense wherever they live...

Court lets Vatican-sex abuse lawsuit move forward

Posted on July 01, 2010
The Supreme Court won't stop a lawsuit that accuses the Vatican of transferring a priest from city to city despite repeated accusations of sexual abuse.The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from the Holy See, the legal name for the Vatican...

Supreme Court upholds political party money limits

Posted on June 30, 2010
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reaffirmed the limits on contributions that political parties can raise, and rejected a challenge by the Republican Party that the restrictions violated free-speech rights.The justices sided with the Obama administration and affirmed a ruling that upheld the limits, a cornerstone of the 2002 federal campaign finance law designed to regulate the influence of money in politics...

SEC paying $755K to settle with fired lawyer

Posted on June 30, 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission is paying $755,000 to settle a lawsuit with a former staff lawyer who accused the agency of blocking his investigation of a prominent hedge fund.The SEC settlement of Gary Aguirre's wrongful termination claim resolved a long-running controversy that prompted scrutiny in Congress and by the SEC inspector general...

Courts need $40M for border plan

Posted on June 30, 2010
President Barack Obama's $600 million border security plan seems to have it all: More than 1,000 agents, seven gunrunner teams, five FBI task forces and more prosecutors and immigration judges.But it doesn't include $40 million to help the already overwhelmed federal courts along the U...

Trucker gets life term for attacks on 2 Pa. women

Posted on June 30, 2010
A former trucker serving at least 75 years in prison for knife attacks on women in New Jersey and Massachusetts will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to similar charges in Pennsylvania.Forty-five-year-old Adam Leroy Lane pleaded guilty Monday to charges stemming from the July 2007 murder of a Pennsylvania woman and an attack on another...

BP has options before bankruptcy, lawyers say

Posted on June 30, 2010
BP PLC has several options to explore in dealing with the worst environment disaster in U.S. history, but the oil giant may file for bankruptcy if it faces a never-ending flow of claims, lawyers and bankers said Tuesday. "BP has many options besides bankruptcy and is a long way from exhausting those," said Loretta Cross, a national managing partner at Grant Thornton's corporate-advisory and restructuring-services group, during a conference call organized by the American Bankruptcy Institute...

Dozens of reputed mobsters plead not guilty in NJ

Posted on June 29, 2010
Nearly three dozen alleged members and associates of the New York-based Lucchese crime family have pleaded not guilty to state racketeering, conspiracy and money laundering charges in New Jersey.Among the defendants who appeared in court in Morristown on Monday was Nicodemo Scarfo Jr...

Kagan on guns: Court precedents are 'settled law'

Posted on June 29, 2010
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan says she considers recent high court decisions expanding gun rights to be "settled law."Kagan was asked at her confirmation hearing about two recent decisions, including a 5-4 ruling Monday, which essentially guaranteed citizens' Second Amendment rights to have guns, no matter where they live...

BP Sued Over Employee Stock Plan Losses After Spill

Posted on June 29, 2010
BP Plc was sued by members of its employee savings plan over losses tied to the company?s plunging stock price amid the oil leak disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.BP has lost more than half of its market value since the April 20 explosion that caused the largest oil spill in U...

Guilty verdict in NYC beating death of immigrant

Posted on June 29, 2010
A man was convicted Monday of murder as a hate crime during his retrial on charges that he beat an Ecuadorean immigrant with an aluminum baseball bat after mistaking him and his brother for a gay couple.Jurors deliberated for about seven hours before convicting Keith Phoenix in the death of Jose Sucuzhanay...

Rapper 'Lil Boosie' pleads not guilty to murder

Posted on June 29, 2010
Baton Rouge rapper Torrence "Lil Boosie" Hatch has pleaded not guilty to several charges including first-degree murder.Hatch appeared Monday before state District Judge Mike Erwin.Hatch's attorney, Marcus Allen, spoke after the hearing and said Hatch is "absolutely not guilty...

Supreme Court to hear Arizona immigration law challenge

Posted on June 28, 2010
The nation's highest court agreed to decide whether the 2007 state law infringed on federal immigration powers and should be struck down.The law at issue in the case is different from the strict new Arizona immigration law passed earlier this year and criticized by President Barack Obama that requires the police to determine the immigration status of any person suspected of being in the country illegally...

Bankruptcy judge approves Visteon disclosure plan

Posted on June 28, 2010
A Delaware bankruptcy court judge on Friday cleared the way for auto parts supplier Visteon Corp. to begin soliciting votes on its proposed reorganization plan, which would leave unsecured bond holders in control of the company.Overruling objections from certain shareholders and holders of unsecured trade claims, Judge Christopher Sontchi approved documents describing Visteon's proposed reorganization plan and the process for creditors to vote on it...

Ore. trial court to reconsider $100M tobacco case

Posted on June 28, 2010
The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that Philip Morris does not have to pay $100 million in punitive damages to the family of a smoker who sued the tobacco giant over its low-tar cigarettes.The case, however, is going to another jury to decide just how much the death of Michelle Schwarz from lung cancer in 1999 will cost Philip Morris ? and legal experts say it could easily be another big award...

US top court extends gun rights to states, cities

Posted on June 28, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended gun rights to every state and city in the nation in a ruling involving Chicago's 28-year-old handgun ban.By a 5-4 vote and splitting along conservative and liberal lines, the nation's highest court extended its landmark 2008 ruling that individual Americans have a constitutional right to own guns to all the cities and states for the first time...

Gibson?s Lawyer Slams Grigorieva?s Claims

Posted on June 28, 2010
Mel Gibson?s lawyer slammed Oksana Grigorieva?s claims that she had been treated cruelly by Mel and that he hadn?t been paying child support. His lawyer actually termed her claims as ?sensational allegations? because they were meant to simply tarnish his name in the media...

American Bar Association Finds Kagan ?Well-Qualified?

Posted on June 25, 2010
The American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary has rated U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Elena Kagan as ?well-qualified,? the highest mark the committee offers. Since 1953, the ABA has had a role in reviewing the qualifications of federal court nominees, including Supreme Court nominees...

Immigration back on front burner due to Ariz. law

Posted on June 25, 2010
With the scrawl of a pen, GOP Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona awakened the dormant but explosive issue of illegal immigration, sending shock waves across the political spectrum in an election year when both parties had hoped to sidestep the topic.Two months after Brewer signed a law instructing police to demand proof of a questionable person's legal status, voters have refocused on a topic that had faded into the background after Congress failed to overhaul the immigration system in 2007...

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