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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...
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Court: Mom Can't Sue Over Circumcision
Lawyer Blogs 02/07/2008The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a mother who didn't like the way her baby's circumcision looked cannot sue a Fridley hospital for medical malpractice.Dawn Nelson sued Unity Hospital and Dr. Steven Berestka, claiming the doctor removed "...
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Detroit told to disclose mayor's secret deals
Lawyer Blogs 02/06/2008[##_1L|1329279100.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]A judge ordered the release of secret agreements Tuesday revealing that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick settled a police whistle-blower lawsuit for $8.4 million in October in a failed bid to co...
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Court Won't Reconsider Guantanamo Ruling
Lawyer Blogs 02/02/2008A federal appeals court refused Friday to reconsider a ruling broadening its own authority to scrutinize evidence against detainees at Guantanamo Bay.The decision is a setback for the Bush administration, which was displeased by the court's three-jud...
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US Supreme Court stays Alabama execution
Lawyer Blogs 02/01/2008[##_1L|1081018752.jpg|width="157" height="111" alt=""|_##]The US Supreme Court on Thursday issued an order staying the execution of a convicted rapist and murderer, as part of its decision to review the legality of lethal injections nationwide. The r...