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Charges in Jackson?s death to be filed Monday

Posted on February 08, 2010
Dr. Conrad Murray, personal physician to Michael Jackson, will surrender to authorities Monday afternoon, his attorneys said.Murray will turn himself in at a courthouse at 1:30 p.m., they said in a written statement.Los Angeles County prosecutors have said criminal charges related to Jackson's death last summer would be filed Monday...

Campaign case may have set course for Supreme Court

Posted on February 08, 2010
As the Supreme Court nears the midpoint of its annual term and prepares to hear several momentous cases, one question looms: Will the justices' split decision reversing past rulings and allowing new corporate spending in political races set the tone for the term, or will Citizens United v...

Medical Malpractice Case: The Emma Mejias Story

Posted on February 07, 2010
http://www.insiderexclusive.com/show-titles/120-medical-malpractice-case-the-emma-mejias-story- 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...

Prop 8 Attorneys Already Looking To Supreme Court

Posted on February 07, 2010
Lawyers in the Proposition 8 trial are keeping an eye on Washington as they draft papers for the federal judge in San Francisco. The two sides in the legal battle over California's ban on same sex marriage have two more weeks to tell Judge Vaughn Walker exactly how they'd like him to rule and why...

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Alabama court sides with governor on casino raid

Posted on February 07, 2010
Gov. Bob Riley's gambling task force won another victory Thursday when the Alabama Supreme Court tossed out a court order blocking a raid on the state's largest casino.In a 7-2 decision, the court said a Macon County judge lacked jurisdiction to halt the pre-dawn raid Jan...

Google Book Settlement Falls Short For Justice Dept.

Posted on February 05, 2010
Google's latest effort to settle the copyright lawsuit brought against it by The Authors Guild and several publishers in 2005 suffered a setback on Thursday when the U.S. Department of Justice said that copyright and antitrust issues arising from the revised settlement proposal haven't been adequately addressed...

Illinois Court Overturns Malpractice Statute

Posted on February 05, 2010
In a case that could resonate in Washington, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the state?s five-year-old medical malpractice law because it limited compensation to injured patients for pain, suffering and other non-economic harms.The ruling came down as federal proposals to cap malpractice awards are receiving fresh attention on Capitol Hill...

Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig Settle Lawsuit Over Ads

Posted on February 05, 2010
Weight Watchers International Inc. settled a lawsuit in which it accused rival Jenny Craig Inc. of running a misleading ad campaign.?Jenny Craig has permanently agreed to terminate its advertising campaign,? Weight Watchers said today in a statement that didn?t mention money damages...

Construction Accident Lawyers

Posted on February 04, 2010
Construction Accident Lawyers ? Block O?Toole & Murphy Every year thousands of construction workers are seriously injured in New York City. Construction workers find themselves confronted by dangerous, unsafe work conditions on a daily basis. New York State has enacted laws and regulations to protect all workers, whether they are ironworkers, construction workers, electricians, mechanics, bricklayers, painters or carpenters...

Obama's aunt fights Kenya deportation in US court

Posted on February 04, 2010
President Barack Obama's aunt, an illegal immigrant from Kenya, pleaded for political asylum before a Boston court Thursday in a case that risks embarrassing the embattled president.Zeituni Onyango, 57, arrived at the Boston federal immigration court in her second attempt to secure asylum after ignoring a 2004 deportation order...

Bryan A. Lowe & Associates - Las Vegas Bankruptcy

Posted on January 29, 2010
The firm was founded on a philosophy of service that not only emphasizes quality representation in terms of experience and expertise - but places a high value on initiating appropriate actions to meet the client's legal needs and objectives. Particular stress is also placed on providing individualized service and achieving results...

WaMu shareholders get their voice in bankruptcy

Posted on January 29, 2010
Shareholders of Washington Mutual Inc will have a voice in the company's bankruptcy after a judge refused on Thursday to disband their committee, which Washington Mutual said would complicate the case.The U.S. Trustee, who plays an oversight role in bankruptcy, appointed the committee earlier this month after being petitioned by 3,500 shareholders...

Man accused of keeping arsenal due in NJ court

Posted on January 29, 2010
A man who authorities say had a cache of weapons and a map of an Army base in a New Jersey motel room is due in court on Friday. Lloyd Woodson was arrested Monday after a convenience store clerk in Branchburg called police to report he was acting strangely...

Court rejects NH's claim to $110M malpractice fund

Posted on January 29, 2010
The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday put a dent in the state budget by rejecting the state's claim to $110 million in surplus from a fund that underwrites medical malpractice insurance.In a 3-2 decision, the court upheld policyholders' claim they had a constitutionally protected contractual right to the money...

High court's ruling is a blow to campaign finance reform

Posted on January 28, 2010
A conservative legal foundation on Wednesday asked federal regulators to give a green light to corporations and unions to begin spending their treasuries to influence this year's congressional elections. The James Madison Center for Free Speech asked the Federal Election Commission to formally throw out its rules that restrict corporate and union spending on politics, saying the step is needed to implement last week's Supreme Court decision that freed such groups to get more directly involved in election campaigns...

Ex-New Castle exec pleads guilty to insider trading

Posted on January 28, 2010
A former executive at the New Castle Funds LLC hedge fund pleaded guilty on Wednesday to an insider trading conspiracy that also ensnared Galleon fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, but he is not cooperating with the investigation.The executive, Mark Kurland, 61, is the eighth person to plead guilty in Manhattan federal court in the probe of illegal trading involving the earnings forecasts and mergers and acquisitions of some of America's best-known companies...

Calif court wants proof on confining sex predators

Posted on January 28, 2010
The California Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the constitutionality of a provision of "Jessica's Law" that lets authorities indefinitely confine sexually violent predators. It's the first of two decisions the court is expected to issue in the coming days over the legality of the law that was passed as Proposition 82 by 70 percent of voters in 2006...

After strangling, wife sues ex-Bush attorney for $30 million

Posted on January 28, 2010
The wife of a former high-ranked Bush administration lawyer who was charged earlier this month with her attempted murder has brought a civil suit against him for $30 million.As previously reported, John Michael Farren is accused of flying into a rage after his wife served him with divorce papers on January 6, beating her unconscious with a metal flashlight, and then attempting to strangle her...

Critics: Court decision allows `corporate looting'

Posted on January 28, 2010
In a landmark decision over corporate governance, a Wisconsin appeals court on Thursday threw out a $6.5 million jury verdict against business owners accused of looting their company.Banks and labor unions blasted the decision, saying it would allow corporate insiders to enrich themselves at the expense of their creditors and employees...

Oklahoma high court allows some use of line-item veto

Posted on January 27, 2010
The state Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 vote Tuesday that the governor has line-item veto power on sections of legislation that place "conditions or restrictions on previously appropriated funds.? The decision handed down Tuesday ends a legal challenge from Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn Coffee, R-Oklahoma City, and House Speaker Chris Benge, R-Tulsa...

UBS chairman unhappy with court ruling on tax

Posted on January 27, 2010
Villiger was reacting to a ruling by the Federal Administrative Court last week that the transfer of customer data broke the law. His comments were published by the German-language Tages-Anzeiger newspaper on Wednesday.The court decision has cast doubt on the agreement reached between the authorities in the US and Switzerland last year under which the Swiss agreed to hand over data on an estimated 4,450 bank customers...

Court Kills Death Penalty for Retarded Man

Posted on January 27, 2010
The Missouri Supreme Court overturned a death penalty sentence for man who is mentally retarded. Andrew Lyons, 52, was convicted of first-degree murder in 1996 and sentenced to death for the 1992 killing of his estranged girlfriend. Lyons filed a petition in mandamus, claiming to be mentally retarded and therefore ineligible to be executed...

Will California gay-marriage trial go to Supreme Court?

Posted on January 27, 2010
On the 17th floor of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in a city known for being at the edge of social change, a federal trial is under way that could lead to a landmark ruling on same-sex marriage in America.Perry v. Schwarzenegger, which began Jan...

SEC and Galleon defendants tussle over wiretaps

Posted on January 26, 2010
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is demanding that Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and others accused of insider trading hand over recordings of wiretap evidence, but the defendants have refused to give them up. In a flurry of letters made public on Monday in the high-profile Manhattan federal court case involving employees of some of America's best-known companies, Rajaratnam and his co-accused argue that the recorded conversations belong only in a parallel criminal investigation...

Corporations have rights, but what of the unborn?

Posted on January 26, 2010
Among the interesting arguments in last week's 5-4 Supreme Court decision granting corporations First Amendment protections when making campaign contributions was the majority's decision to effectively treat corporations as persons. Liberal Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, who disagrees with the ruling, wrote, "...

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Virginia killer

Posted on January 26, 2010
A new execution date could be set soon for death-row inmate Paul Warner Powell, whose most recent appeal was rejected yesterday by the U.S. Supreme Court. Powell, 31, twice has been sentenced to death for the Jan. 29, 1999, murder of Stacie Lynn Reed, 16, in her Manassas-area home...

Yale killing suspect plans to plead not guilty

Posted on January 26, 2010
An animal research technician charged with killing a Yale graduate student is expected to plead not guilty. Twenty-four-year-old Raymond Clark III is scheduled to appear in New Haven Superior Court on Tuesday. Joe Lopez, Clark's attorney, said Clark also plans to waive his right to a probable cause hearing at which prosecutors would have to prove they have enough evidence to justify the murder charge...

Court Stops NYC Suit Vs. Online Cigarette Vendor

Posted on January 26, 2010
The Supreme Court has ruled against New York City in its effort to use federal racketeering law to sue Internet cigarette sellers for lost tax revenue. By a 5-3 vote Monday, the court ended the city's lawsuit against Hemi Group, a New Mexico-based company that sells cigarettes online...

RIAA in pickle over Jammie Thomas ruling

Posted on January 26, 2010
The music industry will have to make some very tough choices within the next week about file sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset. The Recording Industry Association of America wants to put the Thomas-Rasset affair behind it. The Brainerd, Minn., mother--who refused to settle with the RIAA for $5,000 over copyright infringement allegations, instead fighting it out in court--has been found liable of willful copyright infringement by two different juries and was ordered to pay damages of $222,000 in her first trial (a decision later thrown out) and $1...

Supreme Court Voids Campaign Spending Curbs

Posted on January 22, 2010
A divided U.S. Supreme Court struck down decades-old restrictions on corporate campaign spending, reversing two of its precedents and freeing companies to conduct advertising campaigns that explicitly try to sway voters. The 5-4 majority, invoking the Constitution's free-speech clause, said the government lacks a legitimate basis to restrict independent campaign expenditures by companies...

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