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Court Rules Inmates Can't Sue for Property Loss
Lawyer Blogs 01/23/2008Abdus-Shahid M.S. Ali's lawsuit against prison guards was based on allegations of harassment and mistreatment. But the Supreme Court's decision yesterday that he is barred from suing rests on an ambiguous federal statute that has confounded the court...
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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Enron Case
Lawyer Blogs 01/22/2008[##_1L|1253433034.jpg|width="104" height="138" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court dealt a blow Tuesday to Enron investors who sued major investment banks to recover money lost when the Texas energy giant collapsed amid a massive accounting fraud. By refusi...
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Supreme Court will hear employee harassment case
Lawyer Blogs 01/20/2008A longtime local government worker is fired after she cooperates with an investigation of sexual harassment allegations against a high-ranking official. The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether federal civil rights law protects employees ...
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US Court To Hear Review Of “Light” Cigarettes
Lawyer Blogs 01/20/2008The Supreme Court agreed Friday to a cigarette maker's request to decide whether tobacco companies can be sued under state law for allegedly deceptive advertising of "light" cigarettes.The tobacco industry is trying to head off a wave of state-based ...
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Chief Justice Recuses Himself from Massey Case
Lawyer Blogs 01/18/2008[##_1L|1084929984.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]The chief justice of the state Supreme Court agreed Friday to remove himself from a pending case involving Massey Energy Co., days after vacation photos surfaced showing him in Monaco with the ...
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Attorneys Press High Court To Hear Enron Investor Suit
Lawyer Blogs 01/18/2008A $40 billion lawsuit by Enron investors against several banks for orchestrating financing deals for the now-defunct energy trader is not dead, despite a recent Supreme Court decision that helps protect such third parties.In fact, some lawyers who re...
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Court Upholds NY Judicial Nominee System
Lawyer Blogs 01/17/2008[##_1L|1122958543.jpg|width="120" height="93" alt=""|_##]A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upholds New York's system of choosing trial judges is likely to renew calls for legislative reform, but even some proponents of change say their chances of succ...
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Court limits investor suits against 3rd parties
Lawyer Blogs 01/16/2008In a case born of the accounting scandals that rocked the nation in the first half of the decade the Supreme Court Tuesday limited the ability of defrauded investors to sue accountants, bankers and lawyers who may have helped a company commit the fra...
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MySpace agrees to social-networking safety plan
Lawyer Blogs 01/15/2008MySpace, the country’s largest social-networking Web site, has agreed with attorneys general of 49 states to take new steps to protect children from sexual predators on its site. It also agreed to lead a nationwide effort to develop technology to ver...
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High Court Declines Experimental Drugs Case
Lawyer Blogs 01/14/2008[##_1L|1093514793.jpg|width="104" height="138" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court refused Monday to review a ruling that terminally ill patients have no constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs — even if that means the patient will likely...
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US Lawmakers Request Probe into Wealth Funds
Lawyer Blogs 01/11/2008U.S. Senate lawmakers have ordered federal investigators to examine foreign state-run investment funds and whether the much-needed capital infusions being provided to major U.S. banks raises any economic or security concerns. The Government Accountab...
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Supreme Court to hear Indiana voter ID law
Lawyer Blogs 01/09/2008[##_1L|1360226867.jpg|width="131" height="91" alt=""|_##]Democrats and Republicans square off before the Supreme Court Wednesday over a law that requires voters to produce photo identification before they can cast a ballot. The strictest voter ID law...