Recent Updates
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Judge denies motions in WVU media rights laws
Headline News 08/27/2013A judge has denied several motions to dismiss West Virginia Radio Corp.'s lawsuit over how West Virginia University awarded a media rights contract for sporting events. Judge Thomas Evans on Monday rejected requests by WVU Board of Governors, the WVU...
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The Law Offices of David Stein - DC Assault Lawyer
Headline News 06/25/2013Assault in Washington, DC can be complicated and if you find yourself facing these charges you will need to contact a DC assault attorney. The threshold requirement for a simple Assault Charge in the District is very low. The statute criminalizes “wh...
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Court: Ex-Im Bank needs to explain Air India loan
Headline News 06/20/2013A federal bank that backed a huge airplane loan for Air India will have to explain that the loan didn't hurt U.S. airlines. A lawsuit by Delta Air Lines Inc. had accused the Export-Import Bank of failing to follow a requirement that it makes sure its...
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Court: $1M coverage for Conn. fire victim families
Headline News 06/14/2013Families suing the operator of a Hartford nursing home where 16 patients died in a 2003 fire suffered a setback Monday, when the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the home's insurance coverage was $1 million instead of the $10 million claimed by t...
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Court OKs Class-action Suit Over Apartment Leases
Headline News 06/10/2013An appeals court has certified a class-action lawsuit that seeks to invalidate provisions that are routinely included in apartment leases signed by University of Iowa students. The Iowa Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that tenants of landlord Tracy B...
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Appeals court allows capital retrial of Wolfe
Headline News 05/23/2013A federal appeals court will allow a capital murder case to proceed against an accused drug kingpin from northern Virginia. In a 2-1 ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond overturned a federal judge in Norfolk who had ordered a hal...
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Evidence challenged: Miss. court blocks execution
Headline News 05/09/2013The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday's scheduled execution of Willie Jerome Manning amid questions involving evidence in the case, intervening hours before he was set to die for the slayings of two college students. Manning,...
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Doctor to plead guilty in CA prescription case
Headline News 04/12/2013A Southern California doctor has agreed to plead guilty to charges of illegally prescribing drugs to his patients at nightly meetings in Starbucks stores. Court documents show 44-year-old Alvin Mingczech Yee entered into a plea agreement earlier this...
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Securities Arbitration & Litigation Attorneys - Conway & Conway
Headline News 04/02/2013With a respected name, the Securities Arbitration Attorneys at Conway & Conway are known within the legal community of New York for their unique and aggressive approach on how they resolve security disputes through arbitration, litigation, and me...
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Supreme Court: Ruling against gold miners stands
Headline News 03/25/2013The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a ruling that makes it tougher for small-time gold miners to work their claims on federal lands across the West. The high court on Monday denied without comment a petition to hear an appeal from The New 49'ers, a ...
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Arias seeks death penalty stay, court rejects
Headline News 03/04/2013Jodi Arias' effort to get the death penalty option in her murder case temporarily set aside was met Friday with a swift rejection from the Arizona Supreme Court in a one-sentence response denying the motion filed just hours earlier. Arias is charged ...
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Chris Brown returns to court for probation issues
Headline News 02/08/2013With the woman he assaulted throwing him a kiss, Chris Brown walked into court Wednesday to face allegations he failed to complete his community labor sentence for Rihanna's 2009 beating. A judge asked for more information and scheduled another heari...