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Ohio Court Sides With Media, Lifts Gag Order

Posted on April 16, 2010
The Ohio Supreme Court overturned a gag order that prevented the Toledo media from reporting on one defendant's trial until the jury was impaneled on a second defendant's trial.Jayme Schwenkmeyer and her boyfriend, David Knepley, were charged with child endangering and manslaughter in the death of Schwenkmeyer's child...

SHEPPARD MULLIN RE-ELECTS CHAIRMAN GUY HALGREN

Posted on April 16, 2010
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that the firm's chairman of the executive committee, Guy N. Halgren, has been re-elected to a fourth consecutive, three-year term leading the firm. Halgren was first elected to this management role in 2001...

NY immigration agent pleads guilty to sex coercion

Posted on April 16, 2010
A federal immigration officer who was recorded demanding sex from a woman in exchange for a green card has pleaded guilty.Isaac Baichu pleaded guilty to all the charges against him Wednesday in Queens. The 48-year-old is expected to receive a prison sentence of 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 years...

Pa. court ponders fan suit over Jets-Pats Spygate

Posted on April 15, 2010
The New England Patriots could find themselves defending a lawsuit by NFL fans miffed about their secret videotaping of signals from New York Jets coaches.The NFL bans such videotaping and issued $750,000 in fines against the Patriots and coach Bill Belichick after they were caught taping signals at the Jets' 2007 home opener in Giants Stadium...

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Calif. woman sentenced in forced labor case

Posted on April 15, 2010
A woman convicted of luring a Peruvian to the United States with promises of job then confiscating her travel documents and forcing her to work for no pay was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday.Maribel de la Rosa Dann was found guilty of forced labor and related charges for keeping Zoraida Pena-Canal enslaved as a household servant from summer of 2006 to the spring of 2008...

Court rules against Santarus in patent suit

Posted on April 15, 2010
A U.S. district court ruled against specialty pharmaceutical company Santarus Inc in its patent suit against Par Pharmaceuticals, sending Santarus shares tumbling 48 percent after the bell.The suit filed by Santarus and co-plaintiff University of Missouri relates to Par's application to market a generic version of Santarus' heartburn drug, Zegerid...

Brandy A. Hood, Esq. Joins Tully Rinckey PLLC

Posted on April 15, 2010
Washington, D.C. & Albany, NY ? Tully Rinckey PLLC is pleased to announce the addition of attorney Brandy Hood as an associate in its Washington, D.C. law office. Ms. Hood joins the firm?s federal sector labor and employment law practice. Ms. Hood will provide representation to federal employees in a wide range of employment and labor issues including discrimination, sexual harassment, equal pay, adverse action, and Title VII claims...

Wash. deputy sues over Whopper with spit

Posted on April 15, 2010
A sheriff's deputy in Washington state is suing Burger King and a franchise operator over a Whopper he says a worker spit on.Clark County Sheriff's Deputy Edward Bylsma (BILZ-muh) says in the lawsuit that he stopped for a meal at a Vancouver, Wash., Burger King early one morning in March 2009 and got an "uneasy feeling" about two of its workers...

Ex-NFL QB Leaf gets probation in Texas drug case

Posted on April 14, 2010
Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf on Wednesday was sentenced to 10 years of probation after pleading guilty to eight felony drug charges in Texas.State District Judge John B. Board also fined Leaf $20,000, who pleaded guilty to seven counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and one count of delivery of a simulated controlled substance...

Law firms seek to represent dead miners' families

Posted on April 14, 2010
Little more than a week after the disaster, competition among lawyers to represent the families of 29 men killed in the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster has begun.Massey Energy, the mine's owner, has deep pockets. Lawyers who represent the families could make millions in fees if they can prove company management showed a conscious and deliberate disregard for safety...

Martha Minow considered for Supreme Court

Posted on April 14, 2010
Martha Minow, Harvard Law School dean, who was one of President Obama?s professors at the school, is among about 10 people under consideration to be his nominee for the Supreme Court, a White House official said.Minow joins a number of other Harvard-affiliated possibilities, including the dean she replaced, Solicitor General Elena Kagan...

SHEPPARD MULLIN AND KELLEY DRYE WIN UNFAIR COMPETITION CASE

Posted on April 14, 2010
Perrigo Company of South Carolina, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRGO; TASE) announced today that it won two favorable jury verdicts against Rexall Sundown, Inc. in an unfair competition lawsuit that was brought in the U.S. Eastern District Court of New York. The jury unanimously found that Perrigo?s statement, used on wholesalers? and retailers? store brand packaging for joint care products containing Glucosamine and Chondroitin, inviting consumers to compare the products to Rexall Sundown?s Osteo Bi-Flex, is not false and misleading and does not violate Section 43 of the Lanham Act...

THE TRUTH ABOUT MEDICAL MALPRACTICE SUITS

Posted on April 14, 2010
Emma Mejias died a horrible and painful death, on her very first Christmas Eve in 2004, at the hands of 25 doctors and nurses, another victim of medical malpractice. All 25 of them systematically and willfully ordered and administered the wrong drugs for her life-threatening condition called SLOS (Smith Lemli Opitz Syndrome)...

Appeals Court Nominee Ignites a Partisan Battle

Posted on April 13, 2010
When President Obama nominated Goodwin Liu to be an appeals court judge earlier this year, some on the left cheered. Mr. Obama had previously picked a succession of nominees who they believed were too centrist to counter the conservatives appointed during the Bush administration, they said, but finally he had selected a liberal legal rock star...

Mich. woman pleads no contest to murdering 4 teens

Posted on April 13, 2010
The woman accused of killing four Lake Shore High School teens in a car crash last year pleaded no contest this morning to four counts each of second-degree murder and operating a vehicle while intoxicated, causing death. Frances Dingle, 48, of Mount Clemens, is scheduled to be sentenced on May 19 in Macomb County Circuit Court...

Calif. man pleads guilty to posing as Navy officer

Posted on April 13, 2010
Prosecutors say a California man who posed as a military officer and sought donations that he claimed would help wounded veterans has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges in the scam.Sixty-year-old James Barbee of Pacific Grove pleaded guilty to felony mail fraud and misdemeanor wearing a military uniform unlawfully in U...

US law firms see double revenue dip

Posted on April 13, 2010
SIGNS of the damaging effects of the global recession on law firm business came as the top 10 US law firms with offices in London reported an average double-digit fall in financial figures for 2009.Often described as the bellwether for how the UK?s law firms will report finances for the year, US firms saw an overall average drop of around 12 per cent in London revenue in 2009...

Law firm Thorp Alberga opens Hong Kong office

Posted on April 13, 2010
Richard Thorp and Harriet Unger, formerly with Maples and Calder, will lead the Asian practice.Both are authorised by the Law Society of Hong Kong to practise Cayman Islands law in the firm?s new Hong Kong office and are also admitted in the British Virgin Islands...

Law firm Mayer Brown lays off more lawyers

Posted on April 12, 2010
Mayer Brown continues to hemorrhage lawyers, despite what the Chicago law firm says are "encouraging signs" for 2010.The international firm said Thursday that laid off 28 lawyers in its U.S. offices, which represents 3 percent of the approximately 925 U...

Merrill Joins Bingham McCutchen

Posted on April 12, 2010
Susan Merrill, who is stepping down as the head of enforcement at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street's self-regulatory body, is set to become a partner at the law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP.Ms. Merrill, 53 years old, will lead Bingham's enforcement practice and advise clients on regulatory and securities enforcement matters...

Court Fight Adds Confusion to Senate Climate Effort

Posted on April 12, 2010
The departure of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens adds a crucial task to the Senate schedule, at a minimum, and could peel momentum from looming climate legislation if his successor triggers a searing political fight.Stevens' announcement arrived more than a week before the anticipated release of a Senate bill restricting greenhouse gases...

White Plains Mayor Bradley Back In Court

Posted on April 12, 2010
White Plains Mayor Adam Bradley was back in court Monday for domestic abuse charges. Bradley was arrested again on Thursday after allegedly violating an order of protection from his wife. Bradley was booked on three charges: harassment, tampering with a witness, and contempt of court...

SoCal federal court to hear Toyota lawsuits

Posted on April 12, 2010
A federal judge in Southern California was chosen Friday to preside over more than 200 lawsuits filed against Toyota in the aftermath of the automaker?s sudden acceleration problems, which could potentially mushroom into one of the nation?s biggest product liability cases...

Appeals court nominee Liu causes battle in Senate

Posted on April 09, 2010
A battle is intensifying in the Senate over the appeals court nomination of Goodwin Liu, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley whom some Democrats consider a potential nominee one day to the Supreme Court. Democrats vowed Wednesday to press ahead with plans for an April 16 Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination to the U...

Baltimore Law firm Ober Kaler to move

Posted on April 09, 2010
One of Baltimore's largest law firms, Ober Kaler, will move its headquarters by next April from the Sun Trust Bank building downtown to the 100 Light Street office tower a few blocks away.Lexington Realty Trust, which owns the 35-story office tower, announced Thursday that Ober Kaler has signed a lease for 94,213 square feet over six floors of the tower, formerly known as the Legg Mason building...

North Dakota decisions end Fighting Sioux nickname

Posted on April 09, 2010
The Fighting Sioux nickname is gone for good at the University of North Dakota.On Thursday, decisions by North Dakota's Supreme Court and Board of Higher Education led to the retirement of the long-disputed nickname.The court ruled that the board had the authority to dump the nickname at any time...

Attorneys Urge Quick Action on Estate Tax

Posted on April 09, 2010
The temporary absence of a federal estate tax is expected to be addressed by the U.S. House and Ways Committee this month. Rep. Sander Levin, incoming chair of the committee, indicated action could begin as early as April 12, just after Congress returns from spring recess...

BeBevCo Has New Legal Counsel

Posted on April 09, 2010
BeBevCo announced today they have hired a new legal team: McMullen Associates LLC from Charlotte, North Carolina. McMullen Associates LLC is a Securities and Corporate Law Firm that specializes in Securities Regulation, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Business Law, Private Placement Memorandums, Exchange Listings, Franchising, as well as all general securities law practice and corporate law matters...

FCC plans to move forward with broadband plan soon

Posted on April 08, 2010
The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that it intends to move forward quickly with key recommendations in its national broadband plan ? even though a federal appeals court this week undermined the agency's legal authority to regulate high-speed Internet access...

Health insurers: Mass. illegally denied rate hike

Posted on April 08, 2010
Leading Massachusetts health insurers and state regulators squared off in court Thursday in their dispute about acceptable health insurance premiums for a pivotal sector of the local economy: small-business owners.The insurers argued the state's decision last week to reject nearly all of their proposed 2010 premium increases will cause "destabilizing" losses for them...

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