Recent Updates
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Toal seeking millions to safeguard SC court info
Headline News 03/14/2014The 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...
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French court blocks secret recordings of Sarkozy
Legal News Feed 03/14/2014A 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...
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Driver pleads guilty in deadly bus stop crash
Class Action News 03/10/2014A 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...
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Coast Guardsman guilty in sexual misconduct case
Court Alerts 03/10/2014Coast 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 ...
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Fla. high court: Immigrant can't get law license
Class Action News 03/07/2014The 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...
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Two men found guilty for selling U.S. company’s technology
Criminal Law 03/07/2014A 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...
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Court weighs securities fraud class-action cases
Labor & Employment 03/05/2014The 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...
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California court: Drivers can read cellphone maps
Legal News Center 03/05/2014Drivers 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...
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Supreme Court allows Stanford Ponzi scheme suits
Class Action News 02/28/2014The 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...
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CA man sentenced on drug charge in fed court in SD
Class Action News 02/28/2014The 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...
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Moscow court sends 7 to prison for protest rally
Class Action News 02/24/2014A 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...
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High court climate case looks at EPA's power
Court Alerts 02/24/2014Industry 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...