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  • Ore. court rejects car salesman in ethics appeal

    Ore. court rejects car salesman in ethics appeal

    Lawyer Blogs 08/21/2009

    A manager at an Oregon car dealership said he was fired because he insisted on being an honest salesman. The state supreme court disagreed Thursday. Kevin Lamson argued he was wrongfully discharged from Crater Lake Motors in Medford after he told his...

  • NYC judge returns investor lawsuits to state court

    NYC judge returns investor lawsuits to state court

    Lawyer Blogs 08/21/2009

    A judge has rejected mortgage lender Countrywide Financial's effort to have some investor lawsuits heard in federal court. Judge Richard Holwell in Manhattan concluded in a decision released Tuesday that Congress did not intend for a federal court to...

  • Court tosses Calif. law on payments to Armenians

    Court tosses Calif. law on payments to Armenians

    Lawyer Blogs 08/21/2009

    A federal appeals court invalidated a California law Thursday that allowed heirs of Armenians killed in the Turkish Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago to seek payment on the life insurance policies of dead relatives. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...

  • Texas judge's death-row appeal testimony to resume

    Texas judge's death-row appeal testimony to resume

    Lawyer Blogs 08/19/2009

    A Texas judge criticized for closing her court with a condemned man's last appeal in the works is set to resume testifying at her ethics trial. Judge Sharon Keller is telling her side of the story for the first time nearly two years after Michael Way...

  • Supreme Court says Ga. man should get hearing

    Supreme Court says Ga. man should get hearing

    Lawyer Blogs 08/18/2009

    The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a new hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis, giving the condemned killer a chance to present evidence his lawyers say could clear him in the murder of an off-duty police officer almost 20 years ago. The court tol...

  • Supreme Court says Georgia man should get hearing

    Supreme Court says Georgia man should get hearing

    Lawyer Blogs 08/17/2009

    The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a new hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis, whose supporters say is innocent and should be spared from execution for killing a police officer 20 years ago. Davis has spent 18 years on death row for the 1989 slay...

  • Broncos' Marshall found not guilty in battery case

    Broncos' Marshall found not guilty in battery case

    Lawyer Blogs 08/16/2009

    A jury in Atlanta found Denver Broncos wide receiver Brandon Marshall not guilty of misdemeanor battery against his former girlfriend, announcing its verdict Friday after about an hour of deliberations. Marshall had faced two counts of simple battery...

  • Accused nude doorbell ringer pleads not guilty

    Accused nude doorbell ringer pleads not guilty

    Lawyer Blogs 08/15/2009

    A man suspected of appearing nude at homes and ringing doorbells is being held on $60,000 bail after pleading not guilty to a series of charges. Peter Allen Steele, who is 6 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 250 pounds, entered his not guilty pleas Tuesd...

  • Qualcomm: court grants motion to dismiss lawsuit

    Qualcomm: court grants motion to dismiss lawsuit

    Lawyer Blogs 08/11/2009

    Qualcomm Inc. said Tuesday that a California court has granted its motion to dismiss a consumer class-action lawsuit that accused the chip maker of antitrust violations and unfair competition. Judge William Q. Hayes of the U.S. District Court for the...

  • Animal groups in court over Helmsley fortune

    Animal groups in court over Helmsley fortune

    Lawyer Blogs 08/11/2009

    Leona Helmsley's dog, Trouble, may be living quietly enough in Florida, but there's a lot of barking about the way the late hotel queen's millions are being given away. Three of the country's largest animal welfare groups on Monday accused the truste...

  • Feds: Fmr. Mass. speaker's lawyer has conflict

    Feds: Fmr. Mass. speaker's lawyer has conflict

    Lawyer Blogs 08/10/2009

    Prosecutors have asked a judge to disqualify the lawyer representing former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi in his federal corruption case, because the lawyer also gave advice to a prosecution witness. Court documents unsealed this week ...

  • Reputed drug kingpin Montoya to plead guilty

    Reputed drug kingpin Montoya to plead guilty

    Lawyer Blogs 08/09/2009

    Prosecutors say one of Colombia's most notorious reputed cocaine kingpins is set to plead guilty next week to U.S. drug charges. A Miami federal judge on Friday set a change of plea hearing for Tuesday for "Don" Diego Montoya, the alleged chief of Co...

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