Recent Updates
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Appeals court rules against Bagram detainees
Lawyer Blogs 05/21/2010A federal appeals court says the civilian courts do not have authority to hear the cases of three detainees imprisoned at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.The detainees had petitioned the courts seeking to be freed.The jurisdiction of the U.S. co...
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Fieger blasts Detroit police accounts of girl's death
Lawyer Blogs 05/18/2010Prominent Southfield attorney Geoffrey Fieger called "absurd" any suggestion the shot fired by police officer during a raid that killed a 7-year-old girl Sunday morning was the result of an altercation between the cop and the girl's grandmother. Fieg...
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High court rules out life sentences for juveniles
Lawyer Blogs 05/17/2010The Supreme Court has ruled that teenagers may not be locked up for life without chance of parole if they haven't killed anyone.By a 5-4 vote Monday, the court says the Constitution requires that young people serving life sentences must at least be c...
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Top Republican challenges Kagan's independence
Lawyer Blogs 05/14/2010The top Republican in the Senate demanded assurances on Wednesday that President Barack Obama's solicitor general and friend, Elena Kagan, would be free of White House influence if confirmed as a Supreme Court justice."Americans want to know that Ms....
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Blagojevich denied trial delay by appeals court
Lawyer Blogs 05/12/2010A federal appeals court has turned down former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's latest request to delay his corruption trial.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday it has no jurisdiction to delay the trial set to get under way June 3.Defen...
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ICC prosecutor visits violent Kenyan slum
Lawyer Blogs 05/11/2010The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court met Monday with members of a self-help group in a Nairobi slum that saw some of the most brutal acts committed during Kenya's 2007-2008 postelection violence.Luis Moreno Ocampo said he visited Kenya'...
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Food Safety Law Firm Investigates Outbreak of E. coli
Lawyer Blogs 05/10/2010Richard J. Arsenault of Neblett, Beard & Arsenault in Alexandria, Louisiana, says the latest cases of food poisoning undermine public confidence in our nation's food supply. Alexandria, La. (PRWEB) May 10, 2010 -- As another outbreak of E. coli s...
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PM deaths call man admits charges
Lawyer Blogs 05/10/2010A man who posed as the leader of a British offshoot of al Qaida and called for the deaths of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair has pleaded guilty to a string of terrorist offences.Ishaq Kanmi, 23, of Blackburn, posted a message on a Jihadi website which de...
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US women due in court in Philly in terrorism case
Lawyer Blogs 05/03/2010Two American women charged in a global terrorism plot allegedly aimed at killing a Swedish artist are due in court in Philadelphia.Court papers show the case is largely built on e-mails and online postings allegedly made by 46-year-old Colleen LaRose...
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25-year term sought in Iowa slaughterhouse case
Lawyer Blogs 04/30/2010Prosecutors asked a federal judge on Thursday to sentence a former kosher slaughterhouse executive to 25 years in prison, less than the life sentence they have said they were entitled to request.Former Agriprocessors Inc. manager Sholom Rubashkin, wh...
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Ex-Exec at Fla. Law Firm Charged in Ponzi Scheme
Lawyer Blogs 04/28/2010The former chief operating officer at the now-defunct law firm run by admitted Ponzi scheme operator Scott Rothstein was charged Tuesday with money laundering conspiracy for her alleged role in the $1.2 billion scam.Debra Villegas, 42, was accused of...
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Ex-broker's Enron-related case may be near end
Lawyer Blogs 04/28/2010A federal judge has ordered a one-month delay in the Enron-related May retrial of a former Merrill Lynch executive.U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. agreed to delay Robert S. Furst's retrial to June 1 to accommodate plea negotiations. Prosecutors...