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Strauss-Kahn free after NY court ends sex case
Lawyer Blogs 08/24/2011Dominique Strauss-Kahn, his wife by his side, walked to a Manhattan courtroom through shouting protesters carrying signs that read: "Put the rapist on trial — not the victim."Just hours later, the French diplomat was a free man — his attempted rape c...
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Agreement reached in Mo. suit against LegalZoom
Lawyer Blogs 08/23/2011A proposed settlement has been reached in a federal class-action lawsuit against LegalZoom Inc., the online vendor of legal forms and documents. The lawsuit had been scheduled go to trial Monday in U.S. District Court in Jefferson City. But Californi...
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Government probe of Standard and Poor's
Lawyer Blogs 08/19/2011The Justice Department is investigating whether the Standard & Poor's credit ratings agency improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The investigation b...
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2 enter guilty pleas in GOP corruption case
Lawyer Blogs 08/17/2011Two people who worked for former House Speaker John Perzel have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a public corruption investigation of the House Republican Caucus. Samuel Stokes, a former House employee and brother-in-law to Perzel, pleaded gui...
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Serbia seeks to block execution of citizen in Nev.
Lawyer Blogs 08/15/2011The Serbian government is asking a Nevada court to block the execution of one of its citizens, saying its consulate was not informed of his 1994 arrest as required by international law. Serbia, in a friend-of-the-court brief filed last week in Washoe...
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Appeals court turns down Tymoshenko appeal
Lawyer Blogs 08/12/2011A court in Ukraine on Friday refused to consider an appeal to release former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from jail, where she has been kept for a week while her abuse-of-office trial proceeds. Tymoshenko was jailed on Aug. 5 for violating court p...
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Once-exonerated Conn. man ordered back to prison
Lawyer Blogs 08/09/2011A month after the Connecticut Supreme Court reinstated murder convictions against two men who had been exonerated, a judge on Monday ordered one of them back to prison but allowed the other to remain free while fighting cancer. George Gould was sent ...
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Conn. judge dispensing cash to Haiti abuse victims
Lawyer Blogs 08/08/2011Nearly $49,000 seized from a former Connecticut and Colorado resident is being sent to 16 young men he sexually abused at a school for street children he founded in Haiti. The Connecticut Post reports that U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in N...
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Lawyer pleads guilty to illegal Edwards donations
Lawyer Blogs 08/05/2011A prominent Los Angeles attorney could face six months in federal prison for making illegal contributions to the 2004 presidential campaign of former Sen. John Edwards. The U.S. attorney's office says Pierce O'Donnell pleaded guilty Thursday to two c...
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Lawyer fees case before Miss. Supreme Court
Lawyer Blogs 08/04/2011Republican state Auditor Stacy Pickering has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to declare funds the attorney general collects from lawsuits to be public money and to require the money to all be turned over the Legislature, including what private la...
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Ind. asks court to lift Planned Parenthood order
Lawyer Blogs 08/02/2011Indiana has asked a federal appeals court to lift a judge's order blocking parts of a new abortion law that cuts some public Planned Parenthood funding.In an appeal filed Monday, Indiana says the issue should be decided by Medicaid officials and not ...
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Oklahoma Supreme Court sets hearing in bribery case
Lawyer Blogs 08/01/2011The Oklahoma Supreme Court has agreed to hear a former state senator's request to dismiss a bribery charge against her and scheduled oral arguments for September. Former Sen. Debbe Leftwich, D-Oklahoma City, faces bribery charges along with Rep. Rand...