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Republican win to deal only tweaks to healthcare

Posted on November 03, 2010
Republicans' big victories in Congress could compel a second look at parts of President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul, but any changes will be subtle and a far cry from the blanket repeal vowed by party leaders.Democrats' continued control of the Senate, albeit with a smaller majority, and Obama's presidential veto power leave the Republicans with only a weak hand in trying to push through aggressive changes...

MGM Studio Files for Bankruptcy, Icahn Backs Plan

Posted on November 03, 2010
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, under a plan that would put one of Hollywood's most storied film studios under the control of its lenders.The Chapter 11 filing follows a vote by MGM creditors last week to endorse a "prepackaged" bankruptcy that would put MGM under the control of Hollywood executives Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, who control the Spyglass Entertainment film company...

Californians Reject Proposal To Suspend Climate Law

Posted on November 03, 2010
A California ballot measure that would suspend the state's climate law was failing early Wednesday after most ballots had been counted. The measure, called Proposition 23, was rejected by 61.4% of the voters, compared to 38.6% who voted in favor, after 95% of election precincts reported, according to the California Secretary of State's office...

Court Voices Doubts on Violent Videogame Law .

Posted on November 02, 2010
The Supreme Court expressed doubts Tuesday about the constitutionality of a California law that seeks to ban the sale of violent videogames to minors.During an hour-long oral argument, several justices suggested the law violated free-speech protections of the First Amendment...

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Court signals backing for Arizona immigration law

Posted on November 02, 2010
A federal appeals court appeared willing Monday to reinstate, but weaken, a central provision of an Arizona law allowing police to stop and question suspected illegal immigrants.A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals indicated that it would authorize police to demand papers from those they reasonably suspected of being in the country illegally, but would not allow authorities to arrest or prosecute them under state law...

Appeals court blocks order to end 'don't ask, don't tell'

Posted on November 02, 2010
A panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday blocked a U.S. district judge from demanding that the military enforce her order against the Pentagon's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy that bars gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military...

Ontario woman who faked cancer pleads guilty to fraud

Posted on November 02, 2010
An Ontario woman has pleaded guilty to keeping thousands of dollars in donations after faking terminal cancer.Ashley Kirilow of Burlington was charged with six counts of fraud under $5,000 and one count of fraud over $5,000.In a soft voice, Ms. Kirilow pleaded guilty to defrauding Donna Michalowski of close to $7,400 collected at a fundraiser held at a bar...

T.I.'s Wife Pleads Not Guilty to Drug Charges

Posted on November 02, 2010
On the same day that her husband T.I. turned himself in to begin his 11-month stint in prison, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle has plead not guilty to charges brought against her stemming from their arrest in early September.A lawyer for the 35-year-old Atlanta native -- slapped with a single count of misdemeanor drug possession last Friday -- entered the plea on her behalf, as she was not present in the Beverly Hills, Calif...

High court turns down Patriot Act challenger

Posted on November 01, 2010
The Supreme Court is refusing to take up a constitutional challenge to provisions of the Patriot Act from a lawyer who was once wrongly suspected in deadly terrorist bombings in Spain. The justices on Monday turned down an appeal from Brandon Mayfield, the Oregon lawyer who was arrested by federal agents after they mistakenly matched him to a fingerprint from the train bombings in Madrid in 2004...

Ga. Supreme Court reinstates tax lawsuit

Posted on November 01, 2010
The Georgia Supreme Court has reversed a lower court's decision and reinstated a lawsuit by a man who claims that some private Atlanta development projects have received unconstitutional tax breaks.By a 4-3 vote, the court ruled Monday that the lower court prematurely dismissed a lawsuit by John Sherman, president of the Fulton County Taxpayers Foundation, before reviewing all the facts...

"20th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law"

Posted on November 01, 2010
The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security will host its premier conference to review the state of national security at the Renaissance Washington D.C. Hotel Nov. 4-5. This year?s review will include topics such as a discussion of developments in national security law with executive branch general counsels; oversight and policy issues of domestic intelligence; environmental change and national security; drone usage; ethics challenges for national security lawyers; and cyber security...

Madoff, Halliburton, Wells Fargo in Court News

Posted on November 01, 2010
Irving Picard, the trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of Bernard Madoff?s investment firm, spent $26.9 million in the six months ended Sept. 30 while recovering $849,000 for victims of Madoff?s Ponzi scheme, according to a report filed in Manhattan federal court...

Poll shows voters split over Supreme Court judges

Posted on November 01, 2010
A Des Moines Register poll shows more than one-third of voters want to remove three Iowa Supreme Court justices who joined a unanimous ruling that legalized gay marriage. The poll published Sunday found that 37 percent of likely voters intend to vote to remove all three justices and 34 percent say they will vote to retain all the judges...

Justice O'Connor says she regrets Nev. robo calls

Posted on October 29, 2010
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is apologizing for the 50,000 recorded telephone calls made to Nevada voters in which she supports a ballot measure to change the way state judges are selected.O'Connor said Wednesday that she did not authorize the use of her recorded statement in the robo calls, which awakened many Nevadans after midnight Monday...

New claims made against Toyota in defects case

Posted on October 29, 2010
New court documents filed in a case against Toyota Motor Corp. claim the auto giant bought back cars with sudden acceleration defects and failed to report the problem to federal regulators.The allegations made in court documents filed Wednesday also say Toyota compelled car owners to sign confidentiality agreements that prevented them from speaking publicly about sudden acceleration in their vehicles...

Supreme Court OKs Foreign Lethal Injection Drug

Posted on October 28, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court has for now cleared the way for states to use foreign sources in obtaining a lethal injection drug used in carrying out the death penalty.Although the Supreme Court has upheld death by lethal injection, the regimen it has approved includes injection with a dose of sodium thiopental that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration to render the prisoner unconscious so he does not feel pain...

Supreme Judicial Court rejects appeal in school killing plot

Posted on October 28, 2010
The highest court in Massachusetts has rejected an appeal by a former high school student who was convicted of planning a Columbine-style attack at his high school in Marshfield.Joseph Nee was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and served nine months in prison...

Laurence Tucker Named KC Best Insurance Lawyer

Posted on October 28, 2010
Kansas City, Missouri ? Laurence R. Tucker, managing attorney of Armstrong Teasdale?s Kansas City and Overland Park offices, has been named as the ?Kansas City, MO Best Lawyers Insurance Lawyer of the Year? for 2011. A civil trial lawyer, Tucker concentrates his practice on business torts including insurance litigation, product liability, contractual disputes and professional liability...

Supreme Court strikes down NO cameras

Posted on October 28, 2010
The Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld a judge's order invalidating traffic tickets issued through New Orleans' red-light and speed-enforcement camera systemThe court's 6-0 vote on Wednesday could create a budget problem for the city, which collected $9...

Federal Court Overturns Arizona ID Law

Posted on October 28, 2010
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court has ruled against ruled against Proposition 200, a law that requires people to show proof of U.S. citizenship before registering to vote. The decision did, however, uphold the portion of the law that requires voters to show identification before entering the ballot box, CNN reports...

US Fed won't join banks in appeal to Supreme Court

Posted on October 27, 2010
The Federal Reserve has decided not to join major banks in asking the US Supreme Court to let the central bank keep secret the details of its emergency lending programs during the financial crisis.A group representing US and European commercial banks on Tuesday appealed to the Supreme Court asking it not to force the Fed to disclose details of its bailouts, as a federal appeals court in New York had ordered in March...

Advocate appeals secret Kan. case to Supreme Court

Posted on October 27, 2010
An advocate for chronic pain patients who is under investigation for obstruction of justice has challenged grand jury subpoenas in a rare case that climbed secretly through the judicial system to the U.S. Supreme Court. Siobhan Reynolds, president of the Pain Relief Network, has asked the nation's highest court to quash subpoenas issued to her and her nonprofit group and make public the proceedings against her...

US court shuts down file-sharing service LimeWire

Posted on October 27, 2010
A federal judge in New York issued an injunction yesterday that will essentially shut down LimeWire, the big music file-sharing service that has been mired in a four-year legal struggle with the music industry. The case has already resulted in the company and its founder, Mark Gorton, being found liable for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in damages...

Miss. man awarded $103M in lawsuit against lawyer

Posted on October 27, 2010
A Mississippi businessman has been awarded $103 million in a lawsuit against the Chicago-based law firm that he accused of defrauding his oil and gas business. Lavon Evans Jr. filed the lawsuit in Jones County Circuit Court in Mississippi in 2008. It sought $150 million in damages from attorney Joel Held, who worked at the Dallas office of the Baker & Mackenzie law firm...

Arizona executes man after Supreme Court green light

Posted on October 27, 2010
The southwestern US state of Arizona executed a prisoner for a 1989 murder late Tuesday, after the US Supreme Court ruled the state can use a non-approved drug for the lethal injection amid a US shortage.Jeffrey Landrigan was pronounced dead in the state prison in Florence at 10:26 pm Tuesday, KVOA News 4 in Tucson, Arizona reported...

Fed Reserve won't appeal to withhold names: report

Posted on October 26, 2010
The Federal Reserve won?t join a banking industry trade group in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to let the government continue to withhold details of emergency loans made to financial firms in 2008. The Clearing House Association LLC, a group of the biggest commercial banks filed the appeal today...

Amazon Wins in Court Against NC for Now

Posted on October 26, 2010
Amazon and the state of North Carolina have been fighting in court as NC tries to get residents that purchased on Amazon to pay sales tax the state feels it is owed. NC has demanded that Amazon reveal all sorts of buyer information like names, addresses, and the exact products purchased so it can asses sales tax on the items...

Arms dealer in Pentagon scheme guilty in new case

Posted on October 26, 2010
A Florida arms dealer convicted in a $300 million Pentagon scheme is pleading guilty to another federal weapons charge.A plea agreement filed in Orlando federal court shows that 24-year-old Efraim Diveroli of Miami Beach will plead guilty at a hearing Tuesday to firearms possession by a convicted felon...

Christopher H. Tovar Joins Hertz Schram PC

Posted on October 26, 2010
Nationally-recognized law firm Hertz Schram PC today announced the hiring of Christopher H. Tovar, former General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Investment Professionals, Inc., a San Antonio, Texas-based brokerage and investment advisory firm, as a partner in its securities practice...

Law Firms Feel Pressure From New Breed of Competitors

Posted on October 26, 2010
The legal industry is falling apart. Not in the sense pundits meant when they gave that diagnosis in 2008 as firms were hit with the harsh reality of the recession. Rather, the industry is moving away from a monolithic provider of legal services -- the law firm -- to a fragmented service platform where the competition isn't just a broadening array of law firms, but legal process outsourcers and other non-law firm legal service providers as well...

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