Recent Updates
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Intn'l court reports Sudan to UN Security Council
Lawyer Blogs 05/26/2010The International Criminal Court said Wednesday it has reported Sudan to the U.N. Security Council for refusing to arrest a government minister and a militia leader suspected of war crimes in Darfur.Judges at the court said in a report that Sudan has...
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Feds ask Va. health reform lawsuit be dismissed
Lawyer Blogs 05/25/2010The Obama administration is asking a federal judge in Virginia to dismiss the state's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health reform law.In a motion filed hours before the court deadline on Monday, Health and Human Services Secret...
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Supreme Court to review Texan's death row case
Lawyer Blogs 05/24/2010The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a Texas death row inmate should have access to evidence for DNA testing that he says could clear him of three murders.The justices said Monday they will use the case of Hank Skinner to decide whether pri...
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Elena Kagan's writings suggest judge's proper role
Lawyer Blogs 05/22/2010Elena Kagan, a Supreme Court nominee without judicial experience, has suggested in writings and speeches over a quarter-century that when judges make decisions, they must take account of their values and experience and consider politics and policy, r...
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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...