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Wineries Fight State Shipping Laws
Lawyer Blogs 12/10/2007Unionville Vineyards plans to expand by planting more pinot noir and adding Rhone varietals next year, but winemaker Cameron Stark knows he's fighting an uphill battle. He recognizes New Jersey's reputation as a wine producer isn't exactly that of Ca...
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Court Battle Looms over Nina Wang's Estate
Lawyer Blogs 12/10/2007A High Court judge in Hong Kong Monday appointed an administrator to oversee the estate of Asia's richest woman, the late Nina Wang, ahead of an anticipated court battle over her fortune estimated to be at least 4.2 billion dollars. Wang, 69, the for...
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Federal Court Hears Pledge, Motto Cases
Lawyer Blogs 12/05/2007An atheist pleaded with a federal appeals court to remove the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" from U.S. currency, saying the references disrespect his religious beliefs."I want to be treated equally," said Michae...
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High court mulls racial bias in juror selection
Lawyer Blogs 12/05/2007A deeply torn Supreme Court on Tuesday probed the actions of a Louisiana prosecutor who eliminated all blacks from a jury pool, then invoked the O.J. Simpson case in urging the all-white jury to sentence a black man to death.Prosecutor James Williams...
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Teen Pleads Guilty to Highway Shootings
Lawyer Blogs 12/05/2007A teenager pleaded guilty to reduced charges Monday in a series of Indiana highway sniper shootings that left one man dead and another wounded.Zachariah Blanton, 18, of Gaston, had been scheduled to stand trial next week on charges of murder, attempt...
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NJ top court upholds killer's death sentence
Lawyer Blogs 12/04/2007[##_1L|1316004220.jpg|width="140" height="105" alt=""|_##]A unanimous state Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence for Ambrose Harris, ruling that the special circumstances that removed another killer from death row did not apply to Harri...
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Pledge, Motto Cases to Be Heard by Court
Lawyer Blogs 12/04/2007An atheist seeking to remove the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance and U.S. currency is taking his arguments back to a federal appeals court.Michael Newdow, a Sacramento doctor and lawyer, sued the Elk Grove Unified School District in 2...
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Court Rejects Mental Health Case
Lawyer Blogs 12/03/2007[##_1L|1399685188.jpg|width="140" height="105" alt=""|_##]A Mississippi death row inmate whose lawyer had never tried a case and suffered from mental illness failed Monday to persuade the Supreme Court to take his case. The court did not comment in d...
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U.S. rights stance faces big test in Guantanamo case
Lawyer Blogs 12/03/2007The tarnished U.S. human rights image faces a major test this week as the Supreme Court considers whether terrorism suspects held for years without charges at Guantanamo Bay are wrongly detained.The court's nine justices on Wednesday are to hear the ...
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Guilty Plea in Navy Bid Rigging Case
Lawyer Blogs 12/01/2007A metal sling manufacturing company has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rig bids on U.S. Navy contracts, the federal officials said.Authorities said Certified Slings Inc. rigged bids for manufacturing metal sling hoist assemblies, which are used to t...
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Archdiocese in Boston Finds New Representation
Lawyer Blogs 11/30/2007Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, in a step long sought by critics of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, said yesterday that he is hiring a new general counsel who will largely replace the controversial law firm that for years defended the archdioces...
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Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben Push On in Bridge Case
Lawyer Blogs 11/30/2007An attempt by lawyers for victims of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse to pull back the blanket of secrecy over the investigation into its cause was blocked Thursday by federal law and a Hennepin County judge. The law firm Schwebel, Goetz & Sieb...