Recent Updates
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Evidence challenged: Miss. court blocks execution
Headline News 05/09/2013The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday's scheduled execution of Willie Jerome Manning amid questions involving evidence in the case, intervening hours before he was set to die for the slayings of two college students. Manning,...
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Crone Hawxhurst LLP
Lawyer Blogs 05/09/2013We are trial lawyers based in Los Angeles, California. We focus on business litigation, including intellectual property, employment and consumer class action defense. Although headquartered in California, we represent clients in courts and arbitratio...
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Doctor to plead guilty in CA prescription case
Headline News 04/12/2013A Southern California doctor has agreed to plead guilty to charges of illegally prescribing drugs to his patients at nightly meetings in Starbucks stores. Court documents show 44-year-old Alvin Mingczech Yee entered into a plea agreement earlier this...
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Securities Arbitration & Litigation Attorneys - Conway & Conway
Headline News 04/02/2013With a respected name, the Securities Arbitration Attorneys at Conway & Conway are known within the legal community of New York for their unique and aggressive approach on how they resolve security disputes through arbitration, litigation, and me...
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Supreme Court: Ruling against gold miners stands
Headline News 03/25/2013The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a ruling that makes it tougher for small-time gold miners to work their claims on federal lands across the West. The high court on Monday denied without comment a petition to hear an appeal from The New 49'ers, a ...
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Man pleads not guilty in Oakland bank bomb case
Law Firm News 03/12/2013A 28-year-old former Marine has pleaded not guilty to charges that he tried to blow up an Oakland bank with a car bomb. The Oakland Tribune reports Matthew Aaron Llaneza of San Jose entered the plea Friday in federal court. If convicted, he could fac...
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Arias seeks death penalty stay, court rejects
Headline News 03/04/2013Jodi Arias' effort to get the death penalty option in her murder case temporarily set aside was met Friday with a swift rejection from the Arizona Supreme Court in a one-sentence response denying the motion filed just hours earlier. Arias is charged ...
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SC court nixes James Brown estate settlement
Legal News Feed 03/04/2013The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a settlement divvying up the multi-million dollar estate of James Brown, saying a former attorney general didn't follow the late soul singer's wishes in putting together the deal. Attorney Gene...
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Court won't allow challenge to surveillance law
Law Firm News 02/27/2013A sharply-divided Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out an attempt by U.S. citizens to challenge the expansion of a surveillance law used to monitor conversations of foreign spies and terrorist suspects. With a 5-4 vote, the high court ruled that a grou...
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Former Fla. GOP chief pleads guilty before trial
Law & Politics 02/15/2013Former Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer pleaded guilty to theft and money laundering charges Monday just before jury selection in his criminal trial was to begin. Greer pleaded guilty to four counts of theft and a single count of money ...
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SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Sitting out the speech
Court Alerts 02/15/2013While his colleagues got ready to go to the Capitol, Justice Antonin Scalia sat on a stage across town and held forth about why, for the 16th consecutive year, he would not be joining them for the State of the Union. He doesn't go when a Democrat is ...
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Parties in Va. Tech suit seek high court hearing
Court Alerts 02/15/2013Attorneys for the parents of two students who were killed in the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre want a state Supreme Court hearing on their request to put Tech's president on trial for negligence. Meanwhile, the state wants to reverse a jury's conclusio...