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USDA issues largest beef recall in US history
Lawyer Blogs 02/18/2008An undercover video showed workers using forklifts to get sick cows to the slaughterhouse. It's that video that caused the largest beef recall in United States' history. The 143-million pounds of meat was mainly used in school cafeterias and fast foo...
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Supreme Court Weighs 5 Age Bias Cases
Lawyer Blogs 02/17/2008There is only one anti-bias law — the one against discrimination based on age — that would cover all nine Supreme Court justices, if such laws applied to them.The justices, ranging in age from 53 to 87, are the last people to worry about such things ...
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Refco Ex-CEO Pleads Guilty to 20 Counts
Lawyer Blogs 02/16/2008Refco's former chairman and chief executive, Phillip R. Bennett, pleaded guilty to fraud, conspiracy and money laundering, among other charges, in a scheme that cost investors at least $2.4 billion. Bennett's plea yesterday came a month before he was...
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US Judge Scalia on 'So-Called Torture'
Lawyer Blogs 02/13/2008[##_1L|1192765308.jpg|width="120" height="93" alt=""|_##]Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said on Tuesday some physical interrogation techniques can be used on a suspect in the event of an imminent threat, such as a hidden bomb ...
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Lerach Gets Two Years In Prison for Kickbacks
Lawyer Blogs 02/12/2008[##_1L|1333308749.jpg|width="110" height="122" alt=""|_##]The soaring and incendiary career of San Diego class-action lawyer Bill Lerach came to an ignominious end yesterday, as a judge sentenced the onetime “King of the Shareholder Suit” to two year...
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Supreme Court reinstates salmon label lawsuit
Lawyer Blogs 02/12/2008The California Supreme Court breathed new life Monday into a consumer campaign to get grocery stores to label farmed salmon that are artifically colored. The justices decided unanimously to overturn two lower court rulings tossing out the legal chall...
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U.S. to seek death penalty against 9/11 planner
Lawyer Blogs 02/11/2008The Pentagon is planning to charge six detainees at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 terror attacks on America and seek the death penalty. Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said an announcement of the charges could come Monday. U.S. military ...
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Some of Saudi prince's assets frozen in US
Lawyer Blogs 02/11/2008A federal judge this week ordered frozen some of the assets in the United States of Prince Bandar, former Saudi ambassador to Washington, who has been hit by a lawsuit by BAE Systems shareholders, a court source said Sunday.The British defense group ...
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Lawmakers urge high court to side with gun owners
Lawyer Blogs 02/09/2008Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who might start a run for Texas governor next year, has mustered support from a majority of Senate and House members to help persuade the Supreme Court to strike down the District of Columbia's gun laws. Hutchison said Thur...
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Emergency Request in Spears Court Case
Lawyer Blogs 02/08/2008The court commissioner who placed Britney Spears under conservatorship held a closed-door hearing after reviewing an unspecified emergency request in the case.It was not immediately known who brought Thursday's action, known as an ex-parte motion.Two...
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Lawyers Say McNamee Has Physical Evidence
Lawyer Blogs 02/07/2008[##_1L|1286936587.jpg|width="130" height="93" alt=""|_##]Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee brought their vastly different stories to Capitol Hill on Thursday, when the star pitcher met one-on-one with congressmen informally and his former personal trai...
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Prosecutor May Have Known of CIA Tapes
Lawyer Blogs 02/07/2008The lead prosecutor in the terror case against Zacarias Moussaoui may have known the CIA destroyed tapes of its interrogations of an al-Qaida suspect more than a year before the government acknowledged it to the court, newly unsealed documents indica...