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  • Toal seeking millions to safeguard SC court info

    Toal seeking millions to safeguard SC court info

    Headline News 03/14/2014

    The head of South Carolina's judicial system says she needs more money to safeguard digital information for courts around the state. Chief Justice Jean Toal told a Senate panel Wednesday that it would take about $5.5 million to set up a site at Clems...

  • French court blocks secret recordings of Sarkozy

    French court blocks secret recordings of Sarkozy

    Legal News Feed 03/14/2014

    A French court has ordered an ex-aide of Nicolas Sarkozy to pay 10,000 euros ($14,000) in damages and costs to the former French president over secret recordings that were published in an online journal, and instructed the publication to pull down th...

  • Driver pleads guilty in deadly bus stop crash

    Driver pleads guilty in deadly bus stop crash

    Class Action News 03/10/2014

    A driver who plowed into a Riverside bus stop, killing a woman and a 7-year-old girl, has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. The Press-Enterprise reports 46-year-old Joe Williams was ordered Thursday to serve six months in custody of the She...

  • Coast Guardsman guilty in sexual misconduct case

    Coast Guardsman guilty in sexual misconduct case

    Court Alerts 03/10/2014

    Coast Guard officials in New Orleans say a petty officer has been convicted and sentenced on charges involving sexual assault and possession of child pornography. Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher C. Bush's court martial was held in Norfolk, Va. A ...

  • Fla. high court: Immigrant can't get law license

    Fla. high court: Immigrant can't get law license

    Class Action News 03/07/2014

    The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that immigrants in the country illegally can't be given a license to practice law. The question was raised when a man who moved here from Mexico when he was 9 years old sought a license in Florida. The court said T...

  • Two men found guilty for selling U.S. company’s technology

    Two men found guilty for selling U.S. company’s technology

    Criminal Law 03/07/2014

    A federal jury found two men guilty Wednesday of economic espionage involving the theft and sale of a U.S. company’s technology to a competitor controlled by the Chinese government. The jury returned the verdicts against Robert Maegerle and Walter Li...

  • Court weighs securities fraud class-action cases

    Court weighs securities fraud class-action cases

    Labor & Employment 03/05/2014

    The Supreme Court is considering whether to abandon a quarter-century of precedent and make it tougher for investors to band together to sue corporations for securities fraud. The justices hear arguments Wednesday in an appeal by Halliburton Co. that...

  • California court: Drivers can read cellphone maps

    California court: Drivers can read cellphone maps

    Legal News Center 03/05/2014

    Drivers in California can legally read a map on their hand-held cellphones while behind the wheel, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. The 5th District Court of Appeal reversed the case of a Fresno man who was ticketed in January 2012 for looking a...

  • Supreme Court allows Stanford Ponzi scheme suits

    Supreme Court allows Stanford Ponzi scheme suits

    Class Action News 02/28/2014

    The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that victims of former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford's massive Ponzi scheme can go forward with class-action lawsuits against the law firms, accountants and investment companies that allegedly aided the $7.2 billion...

  • CA man sentenced on drug charge in fed court in SD

    CA man sentenced on drug charge in fed court in SD

    Class Action News 02/28/2014

    The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that victims of former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford's massive Ponzi scheme can go forward with class-action lawsuits against the law firms, accountants and investment companies that allegedly aided the $7.2 billion...

  • Moscow court sends 7 to prison for protest rally

    Moscow court sends 7 to prison for protest rally

    Class Action News 02/24/2014

    A Russian court handed down prison sentences Monday of up to four years for seven people who took part in a 2012 protest against Vladimir Putin. An eighth defendant received a suspended sentence. Hundreds of their supporters gathered outside the cour...

  • High court climate case looks at EPA's power

    High court climate case looks at EPA's power

    Court Alerts 02/24/2014

    Industry groups and Republican-led states are heading an attack at the Supreme Court against the Obama administration's sole means of trying to limit power-plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming. As President Barack Obama pled...

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