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US court tosses protester's arrest at Liberty Bell
Lawyer Blogs 06/17/2010An anti-abortion protester arrested in 2007 had a First Amendment right to demonstrate on a sidewalk near the entrance the building that houses the Liberty Bell, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.The decision overturns lower-court rulings that ...
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BP agrees to $20B fund for spill victims
Lawyer Blogs 06/16/2010President Barack Obama met on his own turf with top BP officials on Wednesday to press his demands that the London-based oil giant pay into a claims fund for victims of the worst oil spill in the nation's history.BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, CEO...
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Utah man facing firing squad seeks federal stay
Lawyer Blogs 06/15/2010A death row inmate set to be executed by firing squad Friday is scrambling to block his execution after losing an appeal at the Utah Supreme Court and failing to persuade the state parole board to grant him clemency.Ronnie Lee Gardner's attorneys are...
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High court rejects appeal in rendition case
Lawyer Blogs 06/14/2010The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Canadian engineer who was caught up in the U.S. government's secret transfer of terror suspects to other countries.The court did not comment Monday in ending Syrian-born Maher Arar's quest to sue top U....
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Lawsuit alleges Palace ex-staffers took secrets
Lawyer Blogs 06/11/2010The company that owns the Detroit Pistons is alleging that former employees stole trade secrets when they quit to join a former executive at a sports-and-entertainment rival. The Detroit News says Thursday that a lawsuit filed by Palace Sports & ...
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Rwandan judge says no bail for US lawyer
Lawyer Blogs 06/10/2010A Rwandan judge Monday turned down a bail application by an American lawyer charged with denying Rwanda's 1994 genocide and publishing articles that threaten the country's security. Peter Erlinder pleaded not guilty to the charges in court last Frida...
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Court sides with paper mill in Fox River cleanup
Lawyer Blogs 06/09/2010A lawyer for Appleton Papers, Inc. says a court has ruled that two insurance companies will have to contribute $10 million toward the cleanup of the Fox River. Madison attorney Ron Ragatz says Tuesday's ruling by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals means ...
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400 Marijuana Dispensaries To Close In Los Angeles
Lawyer Blogs 06/07/2010Los Angeles is home to hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries, but concern over their proliferation has provoked a backlash. Police are cracking down on most of them starting Monday. A new city ordinance limits the number and locations of medical...
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Lesbian couple weds in Portugal's 1st gay marriage
Lawyer Blogs 06/07/2010A lesbian couple wed Monday in Portugal's first same-sex ceremony since the predominantly Catholic country introduced a law allowing gay marriage last month.Teresa Pires and Helena Paixao, divorced Portuguese mothers in their 30s who have been togeth...
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Final NY hate crime suspect pleads guilty
Lawyer Blogs 06/04/2010The last of seven New York teenagers implicated in the hate crime killing of an Ecuadorean immigrant pleaded guilty on Wednesday.Anthony Hartford's plea to gang assault and other charges closes the prosecution phase of a case that attracted internati...
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NY school sued after teen suspended over rosary
Lawyer Blogs 06/03/2010A federal judge says a New York school must reinstate a 13-year-old boy who was suspended for wearing rosary beads.Judge Lawrence Kahn ordered the Schenectady (skeh-NEHK'-ta-dee) seventh-grader reinstated pending a June 11 hearing into whether the su...
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48 states: Funeral protests shouldn't be protected
Lawyer Blogs 06/02/2010Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have submitted a brief to the Supreme Court in support of a father who sued anti-gay protesters over their demonstration at the 2006 funeral of his son, a Marine killed in Iraq.Only Virginia and Maine d...