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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...
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Health care lawsuit reaches Supreme Court
Lawyer Blogs 07/29/2011A conservative law firm asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to strike down the health care overhaul, challenging the first federal appeals court ruling that upheld President Barack Obama's signature domestic initiative.The appeal filed by the Thomas Mo...
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Jeffco Commission chooses to hire California law firm
Lawyer Blogs 07/27/2011There are 48 hours until the Jefferson County Commission's big decision on whether to file bankruptcy, settle, or wait some more. But the county is already spending money to prepare for what would be the biggest Chapter 9 bankruptcy ever. Tuesday the...
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Conn. court: church can't be sued by ex-principal
Lawyer Blogs 07/26/2011The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Monday that a former Catholic school principal cannot sue the Archdiocese of Hartford on claims she was wrongly fired for not retaliating against a student, who complained about sexual remarks allegedly made by a p...
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Court allows taping of US execution, denies stay
Lawyer Blogs 07/21/2011Georgia's top court is allowing the videotaping of a death row inmate's execution in what would likely be the United States' first video-recorded execution in almost two decades.The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Fulton County judge's or...
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Lawmaker pleads not guilty to Conn. drug charge
Lawyer Blogs 07/21/2011A Rhode Island state lawmaker has pleaded not guilty to drug possession and driving under the influence in Connecticut. Rep. Robert Watson, a Republican from East Greenwich, entered his pleas Thursday in New Haven Superior Court. Watson lost his job ...