Recent Updates
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Court: Career criminal won't get less prison time
Legal News Center 06/06/2011The Supreme Court says a career criminal cannot get his sentence reduced because of a change in drug-crime penalties in North Carolina. The high court on Monday turned away an appeal by Clifton McNeill, who pleaded guilty to gun and drug possession i...
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NY court weighs immunity claim in '93 WTC bombing
Legal News Center 06/02/2011The agency that owned and operated the World Trade Center urged the state's top court Wednesday to reject remaining negligence claims for the 1993 bombing by terrorists who detonated a van of explosives in the public garage beneath its twin towers, k...
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Court to clarify witness identification rules
Legal News Center 05/31/2011The Supreme Court will decide whether a witness identification of a man suspected in a break-in of a car should be thrown out. The high court on Tuesday agreed to hear an appeal from Barion Perry, who is in prison for breaking into a car in 2008. A w...
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Gov. Rick Perry signs tort reform bill into law
Legal News Center 05/30/2011Gov. Rick Perry signed into law Monday a measure that will limit frivolous lawsuits by levying some fees on plaintiffs and allowing meritless suits to be dismissed early in the process. Perry designated the "loser pays" bill a top priority of the leg...
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Fugitive Russian lawmaker living in Beverly Hills
Legal News Center 05/29/2011A sensational dispute between Moscow billionaires with a storyline that rivals Hollywood has spilled across international borders: Surveillance photographs showed a fugitive Russian lawmaker living in Beverly Hills, California. Someone tried to hack ...
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Goodwin Liu withdraws judicial nomination
Legal News Center 05/26/2011Appeals court judicial nominee Goodwin Liu says that although several Western states have a "desperate need for judges," he's dropping the fight. Liu tells President Barack Obama he is withdrawing his nomination after Senate Republicans blocked a vot...
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Blagojevich attorneys to mount first defense
Legal News Center 05/25/2011Prosecutors in the corruption retrial of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich are questioning the value of the two witnesses the defense wants to call, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and US. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Prosecutor Reid Schar says neither could...
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Attorneys to give openings in Mumbai terror case
Legal News Center 05/23/2011The trial of a Chicago businessman accused of helping plan deadly attacks in Mumbai in 2008 is being closely watched worldwide for what testimony might reveal about the global fight against terrorism. Defense attorneys, though, say their case is abou...
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Head of Delaware Business Court Joining Law Firm
Legal News Center 05/21/2011The head of Delaware's Court of Chancery, a key venue for matters of corporate law, is taking a job with a California-based law firm. Chancellor William Chandler III will join Palo Alto-based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on June 18. He had an...
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Ore. court rules medical pot users can have guns
Legal News Center 05/20/2011The Oregon Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that a retired school bus driver can have her medical marijuana and a concealed handgun, too.The ruling upheld previous decisions by the Oregon Court of Appeals and circuit court that determined a f...
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SD Supreme Court disciplines circuit judge
Legal News Center 05/19/2011The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that Circuit Judge A.P. "Pete" Fuller of Rapid City must retire or undergo a six-month suspension followed by strict probation for misconduct that involved mistreating lawyers, court personnel and others. The ...
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Court won't hear challenge to 'So help me God'
Legal News Center 05/16/2011The Supreme Court is brushing aside an atheist's challenge to religion in government, refusing to hear a complaint about President Barack Obama adding "so help me God" to his inaugural oath of office.The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal...