Recent Updates
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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...
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Bogus court filings spotlight little-known sect
Headline News 07/27/2011From New Jersey to California, police, courthouse officials and real estate agents are being confronted with a baffling new problem: bogus legal documents filed by people claiming to follow an obscure religion called Moorish Science. Their motives ra...
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Judge wants agency to investigate Meijer lawyer
Headline News 07/25/2011A judge believes a lawyer committed perjury when he denied knowing anything about the role of Meijer Inc. in a 2007 recall election of township officials in northern Michigan's Grand Traverse County. Judge Philip Rodgers said he has referred the matt...
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Sparks Justice Court to be open four days a week
Headline News 07/25/2011Sparks Justice Court is planning to go to four-day work weeks because of budget cuts. Justice of the Peace Kevin Higgins says court staff will work from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and take only a half-hour lunch. Public access will...
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John Edwards' former mistress seeks contempt order
Headline News 07/22/2011The former mistress of John Edwards wants a North Carolina judge to issue a contempt order against a one-time Edwards campaign aide in a case involving a purported sex tape.Lawyers for Rielle Hunter filed a motion Wednesday in Orange County Superior ...
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When is a Person an Employee of Another?
Headline News 07/20/2011On July 19, 2011, the Indiana Court of Appeals issued a decision which I found surprising in McCann v. City of Anderson, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App. 2011), Cause No. 48A02-1009-PL-1060. At issue was whether a trial court had properly granted summar...
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San Francisco to shutter courtrooms, lay off 200
Headline News 07/19/2011The San Francisco Superior Court announced Monday that it's laying off more than 40 percent of its staff and shuttering 25 courtrooms because of budget cuts.Presiding Judge Katherine Feinstein said the actions were necessary to close a $13.75 million...