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Penn State figures accused of lying head to court
Lawyer Blogs 12/14/2011Jerry Sandusky's decision Tuesday to waive his preliminary hearing shifts the focus in the child sex-abuse scandal to two Penn State administrators accused of failing to properly report suspected abuse and lying to the grand jury investigating Sandus...
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NY federal court showdown set over pregnancy pill
Lawyer Blogs 12/13/2011A federal judge in Brooklyn is poised to hear arguments Tuesday over whether the federal government is acting constitutionally in its decisions over the access teenage girls are given to morning-after contraceptive pills. The arguments come just a we...
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Appeals court affirms Petters conviction, sentence
Lawyer Blogs 12/09/2011A federal appeals court Friday upheld the 2009 conviction and 50-year prison sentence of Minnesota businessman Tom Petters, who was found guilty of orchestrating a $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme. The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Petters...
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NYC lawyer: Boy a menace before shopping cart case
Lawyer Blogs 12/07/2011Officials say a 13-year-old had a history of troubling behavior before he helped push a shopping cart that fell on a woman from a fourth-floor walkway at a New York City mall. A city lawyer told a judge Tuesday the boy tried to run schoolmates over o...
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High court to hear suit over Cheney event arrest
Lawyer Blogs 12/05/2011The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear an appeal from Secret Service agents who say they should be shielded from a lawsuit over their arrest of a Colorado man who confronted Vice President Dick Cheney. The justices will review a federal appeals c...
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Ala court voids $8.4M verdict against GE Capital
Lawyer Blogs 12/02/2011The Alabama Supreme Court has reversed an $8.6 million verdict against GE Capital Aviation Services in a lawsuit filed by Pemco World Air Services Inc. The justices ruled Friday that a lower court was wrong when it refused to overturn a verdict retur...
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Court to look at overtime pay for drug sales reps
Lawyer Blogs 11/28/2011The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether pharmaceutical sales representatives can bill their employers for overtime, a case that could affect the pay of tens of thousands of people. The court said Monday that it will review a federal appeals ...
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NY top court clears probe of inflated appraisals
Lawyer Blogs 11/22/2011New York's top court has cleared the state attorney general to pursue allegations that First American Corp. and subsidiary eAppraiseIT inflated property appraisals under pressure from client Washington Mutual. The Court of Appeals says federal regula...
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Pivotal CA gay marriage ban decision due Thursday
Lawyer Blogs 11/17/2011The California Supreme Court is poised to release a decision that could prove pivotal to the future of the state's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. The court says it will file a written opinion Thursday morning clarifying whether the sponsors...
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Missouri Supreme Court upholds strip club restrictions
Lawyer Blogs 11/16/2011The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld a 2010 state law imposing restrictions on strip clubs and other sexually oriented businesses. In a unanimous decision Tuesday, the court rejected claims from the adult entertainment industry that the law infringe...
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Supreme Court refuses to hear Brooks appeal
Lawyer Blogs 11/15/2011The Supreme Court has denied a last minute appeal from an Ohio man scheduled to be executed Tuesday morning. The court on Tuesday denied appeals from Reginald Brooks, who is scheduled to be executed for fatally shooting his three sons while they slep...
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Fifth guilty plea entered in Philly abortion case
Lawyer Blogs 11/13/2011A woman initially hired to clean instruments at a Philadelphia abortion clinic has pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree murder in the deaths of a newborn baby and a woman who died after an anesthesia overdose. As part of her plea agreement wi...