Recent Updates
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Top court will review who pays for Superfund site
Lawyer Blogs 10/01/2008The Supreme Court has agreed to decide what share railroads and an oil company should bear of the cleanup of a contaminated industrial site in Arvin, Calif., near Bakersfield, that threatened drinking water supplies.Shell Oil Co. and the railroads — ...
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Conservative judges fault Scalia opinion on guns
Lawyer Blogs 09/29/2008Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is no stranger to criticism. He gives as good as he gets.But two recent critiques of his opinion in the landmark decision guaranteeing people the right keep guns at home for self-defense are notable because they c...
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Pa. high court says newspaper can protect source
Lawyer Blogs 09/26/2008The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a newspaper reporter does not need to reveal the identity of a confidential source used in a story about a grand jury investigation into alleged prison brutality.The 4-1 decision dated Wednesday and released ...
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Court mulls if Jefferson indictment is tainted
Lawyer Blogs 09/25/2008A Louisiana congressman accused of taking bribes challenged his indictment before a federal appeals court Wednesday, claiming grand jury testimony infringed on his constitutionally protected activities.Democratic U.S. Rep. William Jefferson's attorne...
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Amid financial crisis, Stevens asks to skip trial
Lawyer Blogs 09/24/2008As Congress rushed to stop a meltdown in the U.S. financial market, the Senate's senior Republican told a federal judge Tuesday that he might need to skip out of his corruption trial from time to time this week.Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens said he underst...
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Illinois' top court denies appeal in Sprint case
Lawyer Blogs 09/24/2008The Illinois Supreme Court has dealt Sprint Nextel Corp. another setback in its fight with affiliate iPCS Inc. over the Nextel network.The court on Wednesday refused to hear Sprint's appeal of a March ruling by the Appellate Court of Illinois that wo...
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Stevens asks to skip court during financial mess
Lawyer Blogs 09/23/2008With Congress rushing to stop a meltdown in the U.S. financial market, Sen. Ted Stevens asked a federal judge Tuesday to let him skip out of his corruption trial from time to time.The Senate's longest-serving Republican, Stevens is fighting charges t...
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2 rare capital trials conducted in New Hampshire
Lawyer Blogs 09/22/2008One capital murder trial is under way and another is about to start in New Hampshire, a state that last executed someone in 1939, has no one on death row and has no death chamber.The first trial began Sept. 8 and involves John "Jay" Brooks, a million...
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Ga. court uphelds conviction in socialite slaying
Lawyer Blogs 09/22/2008Georgia's top court Monday upheld the murder conviction of a millionaire for hiring an assassin posing as a flower delivery man to kill his 35-year-old socialite wife.The Georgia Supreme Court's unanimous ruling rejected arguments for a new trial fro...
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Jerome L. Ringler - Chatsworth Metrolink Disaster Attorney
Lawyer Blogs 09/19/2008Metrolink worker sued Burlington Northern Santa Fe, saying his alcoholism returned after the fatal 2002 Placentia collision.A metrolink conductor who said his drinking problems resumed after the Placentia train crash in 2002 will receive $8.5 million...
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SEC's Cox Catches Blame for Financial Crisis
Lawyer Blogs 09/19/2008Criticism of the Securities & Exchange Commission and its chairman, Christopher Cox, rose sharply on Sept. 18 as Republican Presidential candidate John McCain suggested he should be fired. "Mismanagement and greed became the operating standard wh...
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Congress passes expansion of disability law
Lawyer Blogs 09/18/2008Someone who takes medication to control epilepsy or diabetes could end up in a situation where he or she is no longer eligible for protection under the Americans With Disabilities Act.It's a "terrible Catch-22," House Education and Labor Committee Ch...