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GOP Sen. Sessions to oppose Sotomayor
Lawyer Blogs 07/27/2009The senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he'll vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions says he doesn't think Sotomayor has the convictions to resist the pull of judicial activism once she bec...
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Calif. teen faces trial in gay classmate's killing
Lawyer Blogs 07/23/2009A Southern California junior high school student has been ordered to stand trial in the fatal shooting of a gay classmate. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Ken Riley said Wednesday that there was enough evidence to try 15-year-old Brandon McInerne...
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Court orders Oracle, Alinghi to return to mediation
Lawyer Blogs 07/22/2009A New York judge on Tuesday ordered Swizerland's Alinghi and Oracle of the United States to resume their mediation in their dispute over the rules over the America's Cup, the two teams said.Both sides agreed to head back to the bargaining table to pr...
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Boston trolley driver pleads not guilty in crash
Lawyer Blogs 07/20/2009The former Boston subway operator who authorities say was texting during a crash that injured more than 60 people has pleaded not guilty in the case. Aiden Quinn was arraigned Monday in Suffolk Superior Court on charges of gross negligence by a perso...
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Ruling: Court failed its duty to Muslim scholar
Lawyer Blogs 07/20/2009U.S. officials should have given a Muslim scholar a chance to show he was no supporter of terrorism before barring him from the country, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Tariq Ramadan, a professor sympathetic to Palestinian resistance to Israel,...
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Washington court reverses ban on homeless camp
Lawyer Blogs 07/17/2009A Seattle suburb violated the state's constitution by using a temporary ban on development to block a church's effort to set up a tent city for the homeless, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The high court's unanimous decision reversed lower c...
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Mich. minister wins appeal on free-speech grounds
Lawyer Blogs 07/16/2009A Michigan appeals court overturned a ruling on Wednesday that had sent a minister to prison for six months after warning a judge that he could be tortured by God. The Rev. Edward Pinkney was convicted in 2007 of paying people $5 to vote in a recall ...
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Sotomayor says Obama didn't ask about abortion
Lawyer Blogs 07/15/2009Judge Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday neither President Barack Obama nor anyone else in the administration asked her views on abortion rights before she was nominated for the Supreme Court. "I was asked no question by anyone including the president ab...
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Ohio executes trucker who went on killing spree
Lawyer Blogs 07/15/2009A former truck driver who went on a multistate killing spree has been executed in Ohio for the murder of a Cincinnati-area man who gave him a ride in 1991. Forty-five-year-old John Fautenberry of Oregon was pronounced dead at 10:37 a.m. Tuesday at th...
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U.S. officials moving Madoff to federal prison
Lawyer Blogs 07/14/2009Swindler Bernard Madoff was temporarily moved to a prison in Atlanta from New York and was in transit to yet another facility on Tuesday, a U.S. official said. A spokeswoman at the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Madoff "had left Atlanta and was in tr...
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Lawyer: Obama artist makes plea deal in Mass. case
Lawyer Blogs 07/10/2009A lawyer says the artist who created the "Hope" poster of President Barack Obama will plead guilty to some of the vandalism charges he faces in Boston, while other charges will be dropped.Shepard Fairey was in Boston Municipal Court on Friday. His at...
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Mock exercises prepare Sotomayor for hearings
Lawyer Blogs 07/10/2009Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has endured weeks of insults, obnoxious questions and unwelcome drilling into her work as a judge and a lawyer — and it was all on purpose, essentially a dress rehearsal for her confirmation hearings.In a series ...