Recent Updates
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Stocks could pose conflicts for court prospects
Lawyer Blogs 05/06/2009Some Supreme Court prospects have extensive corporate holdings, including shares in Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric and Microsoft and stock in a manufacturer that recalled lead-paint-coated "Flush & Sounds Potty" toilet seats. Sinc...
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Iowa plant ex-worker wants ID theft plea withdrawn
Lawyer Blogs 05/06/2009A former human resources employee at an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse where hundreds of illegal immigrants were caught in a raid last year has withdrawn her guilty plea to identity theft. Laura Althouse's attorney filed a motion Monday to withdraw the p...
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Supreme Court conservatives criticize voting rights law
Lawyer Blogs 05/01/2009U.S. Supreme Court conservatives on Wednesday sharply criticized a central part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that is aimed at more than a dozen states with a history of racial discrimination. It is the second major race case heard by the justices af...
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Appeals court nominee faces tough questioning
Lawyer Blogs 04/30/2009President Barack Obama's choice for a federal appeals court judge came in for rough questioning Wednesday by a Democratic senator over the judge's former affiliation with an advocacy group. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of...
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America's Cup fight heading back to court
Lawyer Blogs 04/29/2009America's Cup champion Alinghi of Switzerland is being ordered to tell a New York court why it should not be held in contempt for refusing to comply with an order that its one-on-one showdown against American crew BMW Oracle Racing be held in Februar...
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Supreme Court OKs regulation of language on TV
Lawyer Blogs 04/28/2009The Supreme Court is giving tentative approval to government regulation of the use of even a single curse word on live television. But the court, in a 5-4 decision Tuesday, is refusing to pass judgment on whether the Federal Communications Commission...
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Texas case before high court to test voting rights
Lawyer Blogs 04/27/2009The community of Canyon Creek was ranchland rich with limestone and cedar trees when Jim Crow held sway in the South. The first house wasn't built until the late 1980s and not even a hint of discrimination attaches to this little slice in suburbia. P...
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Judge waives waiting period for gay Iowa couple
Lawyer Blogs 04/27/2009A same-sex Iowa couple will be allowed to wed as soon as Monday after a judge allowed them to bypass the state's three-day waiting period. Melisa Keeton and Shelley Wolfe of Des Moines received their waiver by 9 a.m.Same-sex couples in Iowa began app...
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Discrimination claim appears to divide high court
Lawyer Blogs 04/24/2009A divided Supreme Court took up its first examination of race in the Obama era Wednesday, wrestling with claims of job discrimination by white firefighters in a case that could force changes in employment practices nationwide. The case from New Haven...
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Discrimination claim appears to divide high court
Lawyer Blogs 04/23/2009A divided Supreme Court took up its first examination of race in the Obama era Wednesday, wrestling with claims of job discrimination by white firefighters in a case that could force changes in employment practices nationwide. The case from New Haven...
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Ex-manager at NJ company sentenced to nearly 6 yrs
Lawyer Blogs 04/22/2009A former plant manager at a New Jersey pipe plant was sentenced Monday to nearly six years in prison in a federal investigation into worker safety violations and pollution of the Delaware River. John Prisque of Bethlehem, Pa., was sentenced to a 70-m...
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Supreme Court limits warrantless vehicle searches
Lawyer Blogs 04/21/2009The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police need a warrant to search the vehicle of someone they have arrested if the person is locked up in a patrol cruiser and poses no safety threat to officers. The court's 5-4 decision puts new limits on the abil...