Recent Updates
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Jurors' doubts weigh heavily in Davis case
Headline News 08/06/2007Five days before Troy Anthony Davis' scheduled execution, Brenda Forrest got a call from her husband of eight years.He had just heard a report on a Chicago radio station about a convicted cop killer from their hometown of Savannah. The report said se...
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Attorneys challenging bankruptcy court
Headline News 08/03/2007[##_1L|1400497357.jpg|width="130" height="90" alt=""|_##]Anticipating that the bankruptcy court may soon send child sexual-abuse lawsuits to trial, lawyers for the San Diego diocese are seeking to have a different federal judge determine how much the...
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Ken Starr’s Law Firm Gives More to Hillary Clinton
Headline News 07/31/2007Attorneys at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis – home to Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr – have donated more money to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign than to all the top Republican candidates combined. Lawyers at Chicago-based Kirkland – ...
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Calif. Court Rules Against Car Seizures
Headline News 07/27/2007[##_1L|1232999694.jpg|width="130" height="90" alt=""|_##]A sharply divided state Supreme Court ruled that California cities can no longer seize vehicles whose drivers are arrested for allegedly buying drugs or soliciting prostitutes. The ruling Thurs...
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Law firm urges fire victims to sue agency
Headline News 07/26/2007[##_1L|1056840755.jpg|width="120" height="138" alt=""|_##]A California law firm is running television ads in the Reno-Lake Tahoe area seeking potential plaintiffs who want to file lawsuits over the loss of their homes in a big wildfire last month. Th...
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Law firm urges fire victims to sue agency
Headline News 07/25/2007[##_1L|1208043115.jpg|width="142" height="117" alt=""|_##]A California law firm is running television ads in the Reno-Lake Tahoe area seeking potential plaintiffs who want to file lawsuits over the loss of their homes in a big wildfire last month. Th...
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Bromwell pleads guilty in corruption case
Headline News 07/24/2007[##_1L|1121919364.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]Once one of the leading Democrats in the General Assembly, former state Sen. Thomas L. Bromwell Sr. pleaded guilty this morning to accepting bribes from a Baltimore construction company executi...
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Judge criticizes fees in Sears case
Headline News 07/23/2007[##_1L|1225811536.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]A North Carolina judge has harshly criticized the settlement of a class-action lawsuit in which a Wilmington lawyer and colleagues received $950,000 in fees while consumers who Sears overcharge...
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EMU's law firm bill to total almost $450,000
Headline News 07/21/2007The total bill for an independent investigation into a campus cover-up of a student's murder at Eastern Michigan University is nearly $450,000, the lead investigator confirmed Thursday. The financial fallout of the botched handling of information in ...
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Blagojevich campaign fund pays $1.1 million to law firm
Headline News 07/21/2007A Chicago law firm has received more than $1.1 million in legal fees from Governor Rod Blagojevich's (bluh-GOY'-uh-vitchz) campaign fund since 2006.So far this year, the governor's campaign has paid Winston and Strawn more than $163,000.The campaign ...
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Court demands care for Agent Orange victims
Headline News 07/20/2007[##_1L|1081260842.jpg|width="130" height="132" alt=""|_##]The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was wrong to deny retroactive benefits to certain Vietnam veterans suffering from Agent Orange-related leukemia, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals r...
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Tennessean Is Selected for No. 2 Job at Justice
Headline News 07/18/2007[##_1L|1261638389.jpg|width="150" height="128" alt=""|_##]The Bush administration has named a veteran federal prosecutor from Tennessee as the acting deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, an agency still reeling from the uproar over last...