Recent Updates
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Associates promoted to partners at law firm
Lawyer Blogs 02/16/2010Commercial law firm Carson McDowell has promoted four associates to partners of the firm, reflecting the growth of the business. The firm, which has over 100 people working in its Belfast office, made Emma Cooper a partner in its property practice, S...
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Law firm employee indicted in embezzling
Lawyer Blogs 02/12/2010A grand jury has indicted a Salisbury woman for embezzling more than $140,000 from a local attorney.The Rowan County grand jury meeting Monday indicted Kimberly "Kim" Osborne on the charge of felony embezzlement.The indictment charges that she took $...
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Ex-Ill. gov. to answer revised corruption charges
Lawyer Blogs 02/10/2010Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is heading to court to answer revised charges that he schemed to sell or trade President Barack Obama's old Senate seat and swap official favors for campaign money.Marshals have warned they will not tolerate the k...
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Campaign case may have set course for Supreme Court
Lawyer Blogs 02/08/2010As the Supreme Court nears the midpoint of its annual term and prepares to hear several momentous cases, one question looms: Will the justices' split decision reversing past rulings and allowing new corporate spending in political races set the tone ...
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Prop 8 Attorneys Already Looking To Supreme Court
Lawyer Blogs 02/07/2010Lawyers in the Proposition 8 trial are keeping an eye on Washington as they draft papers for the federal judge in San Francisco. The two sides in the legal battle over California's ban on same sex marriage have two more weeks to tell Judge Vaughn Wal...
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Illinois Court Overturns Malpractice Statute
Lawyer Blogs 02/05/2010In a case that could resonate in Washington, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the state’s five-year-old medical malpractice law because it limited compensation to injured patients for pain, suffering and other non-economic harms.The ...
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Wis. court tosses conviction in sex meeting case
Lawyer Blogs 02/04/2010A Wisconsin appeals court has overturned the conviction of a man who was accused of trying to meet an underage girl to have sex. The District 2 Court of Appeals says the prosecutor knew the woman that Clifford Bvocik wanted to meet was actually 28, b...
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Appeals Court: New York City Can Limit Billboards
Lawyer Blogs 02/03/2010A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the city did not violate the First Amendment by limiting the number of billboards along its roadways and parks.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the city's goals of reducing visual cl...
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Jamar Houser: A Profile of St. Dom's Murder Suspect
Lawyer Blogs 02/02/2010As Al Milano watched in court, prosecutors laid out a sampling of Jamar Houser's previous run-ins with the law even before the 18-year-old was accused of killing 80-year-old Angeline Fimognari last month. Houser, who was arrested Friday, was arraigne...
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Calif. Court Nixes $21M Claim Against Travel Sites
Lawyer Blogs 02/02/2010A judge ruled Monday that online travel sites such as Expedia do not owe the city of Anaheim $21 million in hotel taxes for rooms booked over the Internet, the first ruling of its kind in California on an issue that has bubbled up in cities across th...
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High court's ruling is a blow to campaign finance reform
Lawyer Blogs 01/28/2010A conservative legal foundation on Wednesday asked federal regulators to give a green light to corporations and unions to begin spending their treasuries to influence this year's congressional elections. The James Madison Center for Free Speech asked...
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Oklahoma high court allows some use of line-item veto
Lawyer Blogs 01/27/2010The state Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 vote Tuesday that the governor has line-item veto power on sections of legislation that place "conditions or restrictions on previously appropriated funds.” The decision handed down Tuesday ends a legal challeng...