Recent Updates
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Goldman falls on news that CEO hired top lawyer
Headline News 08/23/2011Goldman Sachs shares fell sharply Monday following news that its CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, has hired a top Washington defense lawyer. Blankfein and other top executives at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are facing inquiries from the Justice Department and othe...
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NY governor signs government ethics law
Headline News 08/16/2011New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a new law Monday to strengthen ethics enforcement for state officials and workers.The measure, which the Democratic governor proposed and lawmakers approved, establishes a new 14-member Joint Commission on Public Eth...
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Nigerian who allegedly scammed 80 law firms, lawyers out of $31M extradited to US
Headline News 08/15/2011A Nigerian man who fled to his homeland after being accused of defrauding dozens of lawyers and law firms of more than $31 million dollars has been extradited to the U.S., Nigeria’s anti-graft agency said Friday. Emmanuel Ekhator was arrested in Nige...
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Appeals court strikes health insurance requirement
Headline News 08/13/2011A federal appeals court panel on Friday struck down the requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul package that virtually all Americans must carry health insurance or face penalties. The divided three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit...
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Lawyer: NJ student didn't mean to spy on roommate
Headline News 08/12/2011A lawyer for a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man says in newly filed legal papers that prosecutors got it all wrong and that the case should be dropped.Nineteen-ye...
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Bank of America starts overdraft rebate outreach
Headline News 08/09/2011If you had a Bank of America account with a debit card between January 2001 and May of this year, you may be due some cash. The nation's largest bank has started contacting customers who may be entitled to a refund. It recently reached a class-action...
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Nevada federal judge to hear Reno billboard law challenge
Headline News 08/08/2011A Nevada federal judge is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging the city of Reno's billboard law. The Reno Gazette Journal reports the lawsuit contends the ordinance is unconstitutional because it caps the number of billboards at about 275. ...
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Phone hack lawsuits loom, foam attack sentence cut
Headline News 08/05/2011Several alleged victims of tabloid phone hacking in Britain will soon file lawsuits against a second newspaper group, Piers Morgan's former employer Trinity Mirror PLC, their lawyer said Friday. Mark Lewis said the claims would be filed in "a few wee...
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Buffalo city lawmakers irked by law firm's TV ad
Headline News 08/03/2011Some city lawmakers in Buffalo want a local law firm to stop running a television commercial that was filmed inside the Common Council Chambers. The Buffalo News reports that the ads touting the Cellino and Barns law firm were filmed in the chambers ...
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Layoffs loom in Ala. court clerks' offices
Headline News 08/01/2011A month-long notice has begun for massive layoffs in state court clerks' offices. The Birmingham News reports that court officials say about one-third of the 750 employees in clerks' offices statewide will be laid off effective Aug. 31. The officials...
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Dismissal upheld in Ashland suit vs. Oppenheimer
Headline News 07/29/2011A Kentucky-based chemical company cannot prove that its investment broker knew in advance that a securities market would collapse in early 2008, leaving the company with $194 million in investments that couldn't easily be sold, a federal appeals cour...
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Man executed in Delaware for killing woman with ax
Headline News 07/29/2011Delaware carried out its first execution since 2005 early Friday, putting to death a man who was convicted of killing a woman with an ax during a burglary nearly two decades ago.Robert Jackson III was pronounced dead at 12:12 a.m. after being given a...