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Vt. judge denies bid to keep nuke plant open
Lawyer Blogs 07/19/2011A federal judge said Monday he would not order that Vermont's only nuclear plant be allowed to remain open while a lawsuit to determine its long-term future plays out.The state is moving to close the Vermont Yankee plant, with both the governor and t...
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Ex-teacher files insanity plea in Ohio sex case
Lawyer Blogs 07/14/2011A former high school teacher charged with 16 counts of sexual battery involving male students in southwest Ohio was taken advantage of by the teens because of an impairment that made her unable to protect herself, her defense team said Wednesday. Att...
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Biesecker named to NC investigations, court beats
Lawyer Blogs 07/12/2011Michael Biesecker, an award-winning reporter and investigative journalist for The News & Observer of Raleigh, has been hired by The Associated Press to cover federal courts, investigations and politics in North Carolina. Biesecker is a North Caro...
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Illinois Supreme Court upholds public works plan
Lawyer Blogs 07/12/2011The Illinois Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a law that created a $31 billion statewide construction program, averting a threat to the thousands of jobs the projects created. The decision also removes a roadblock to allowing video gambling at ba...
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Arizona court vacates $75 million cash-only bond
Lawyer Blogs 07/10/2011An Arizona appeals court has vacated what was perhaps one of the highest bail amounts on record in U.S. history that had been set for a father accused of sexually abusing his children. The brief order issued last week sends the case back to Yavapai C...
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Media cross-ownership ban restored
Lawyer Blogs 07/08/2011A federal Appeals Court has restored a long-standing ban that prevents media companies from owning both a newspaper and a television station in the same market. The 3d US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said yesterday that the Federal Commun...
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US court denies cash for suspected Somali pirate
Lawyer Blogs 07/07/2011A federal judge has denied a request from a Somali man accused of piracy to have $1,600 in cash returned to him for humanitarian needs, saying he failed to prove he was lawfully in possession of the money. Mohammad Saaili Shibin is accused of acting ...
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No manslaughter convictions in ground zero fire
Lawyer Blogs 07/06/2011A toxin-cleanup director and a company were acquitted Wednesday of manslaughter in an August 2007 blaze that killed two firefighters at a condemned tower at ground zero, although the firm was convicted of a misdemeanor. The John Galt Corp. was found ...
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Borrowers sue over apparent loan mod mishaps
Lawyer Blogs 07/05/2011It seemed Maria Campusano's financial problems were behind her when the mortgage on her Victorian home in a Massachusetts mill town was chopped by hundreds of dollars a month. She soon learned that her troubles had just begun. Weeks after making her ...
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Justice Ginsburg's future plans closely watched
Lawyer Blogs 07/05/2011Democrats and liberals have a nightmare vision of the Supreme Court's future: President Barack Obama is defeated for re-election next year and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at 78 the oldest justice, soon finds her health will not allow her to continue...
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In Strauss-Kahn case, DA weighs limited options
Lawyer Blogs 07/04/2011At first, prosecutors said their sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn was growing more formidable by the day. Six weeks later, they said his accuser's history of lying raised major red flags, but they weren't dropping the case, at least...
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Lawyer: Mladic to boycott court appearance
Lawyer Blogs 07/03/2011Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic plans to boycott Monday's hearing at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, where he is scheduled to enter pleas to charges including genocide, his Serbian lawyer said. Mladic is boycotting to demand the pow...