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Store bookkeeper pleads not guilty
Lawyer Blogs 10/22/2007[##_1L|1040827343.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]Rebecca McGilp, the Yarmouth bookkeeper accused of embezzling more than $300,000 from a health food store, pleaded not guilty this morning at Cumberland County Superior Court. At the arraignmen...
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McDonald faces court on trespassing charge
Lawyer Blogs 10/20/2007A senior official from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union has appeared in the Perth Magistrates court to face a charge of trespass.It is alleged the assistant secretary of the union, Joe McDonald, entered the Lakeside Shopping Centre...
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'Lingerer' Asks NYC Court to Drop Case
Lawyer Blogs 10/19/2007[##_1L|1007959721.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]Standing around to chat on a busy Manhattan street can certainly create an inconvenience for other pedestrians. But is it illegal? A man arrested after a confab with friends in Times Square ha...
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Court Review Slows Number of Executions
Lawyer Blogs 10/18/2007[##_1L|1213042615.jpg|width="131" height="91" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court's decision to review the constitutionality of lethal injection procedures has slowed the annual number of executions to the lowest level in a decade amid renewed concerns abou...
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Supreme Court Pursues Microsoft, Best Buy Case
Lawyer Blogs 10/17/2007[##_1L|1382086187.jpg|width="131" height="91" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court Monday rejected an appeal in the racketeering case against Microsoft and Best Buy that alleges consumers had MSN accounts activated and were charged for them without their kno...
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House Democrats split on Armenian 'genocide' bill
Lawyer Blogs 10/17/2007[##_1L|1367073907.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]A House vote on whether to label as genocide the killings of 1.5 million Armenians by what is now Turkey -- a resolution that deeply offended that key U.S. ally -- could be delayed as Democrat...
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Supreme Court dumps Microsoft, Best Buy appeal
Lawyer Blogs 10/16/2007[##_1L|1192285868.jpg|width="131" height="91" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court Monday rejected an appeal by Microsoft Corp. and a unit of Best Buy Co. Inc. to dismiss a lawsuit alleging violation of racketeering laws through fraudulently signing up custo...
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Medtronic Faces Suit Over Cardiac Leads
Lawyer Blogs 10/16/2007A pair of former users of Sprint Fidelis cardiac leads made by Medtronic Inc. (MDT) said Tuesday they are suing the medical device firm over injuries they claim to have sustained from the product.The two are suing both for their own damages and as me...
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Attorney general pick has had terrorism cases
Lawyer Blogs 10/15/2007[##_1L|1324294369.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]Early in the Bush administration, Michael Mukasey's position at the intersection of terrorism and the justice system may have cost him a promotion. Mukasey, then chief judge of the federal cou...
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Law firm scolds school for trying to stop religious rap
Lawyer Blogs 10/15/2007[##_1L|1280098849.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]A religious civil liberties law firm is touting its intervention in a case that allowed a Monroe High School sophomore to perform a Christian rap song at a school talent show this week. A scho...
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WCI facing federal class action lawsuit
Lawyer Blogs 10/15/2007[##_1L|1035504425.jpg|width="130" height="132" alt=""|_##]WCI Communities Inc. is the latest developer to be targeted by homebuyers trying to get out of deals now that prices have fallen drastically. A federal class action lawsuit filed recently clai...
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US Supreme Court refuses to hear rendition case
Lawyer Blogs 10/12/2007[##_1L|1168729971.jpg|width="104" height="138" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear an appeal filed on behalf of a German citizen of Lebanese descent who claims he was abducted by United States agents and then tortured by them whil...