Recent Updates
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High Court to decide police car search case
Legal News Center 02/26/2008The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether police officers can search a vehicle without a warrant once the suspect has been arrested and the scene secured.The justices agreed to hear an appeal by Arizona officials of a ruling declaring ...
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High Court Shields Medical-Device Makers
Legal News Center 02/21/2008The Supreme Court yesterday protected the makers of medical devices that have passed the most rigorous federal review standards from lawsuits by consumers who allege that the devices caused them harm. The court ruled 8 to 1 against the estate of a Ne...
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Court Allows Montana Suit Vs. Wyoming
Legal News Center 02/19/2008The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Montana to file a lawsuit against Wyoming over water rights in two rivers that flow through both states.Montana wants the court to rule that Wyoming is using too much water from the Tongue and Powder Rivers, while...
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Employer retaliation cases reach U.S. Supreme Court
Legal News Center 02/18/2008Employers, managers, and supervisors wield enormous power in the workplace over the lives and wellbeing of their employees. Congress has recognized that sometimes this power can be abused by managers who retaliate if they don't like something that em...
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Judge convicts ex-student in school plot
Legal News Center 02/15/2008[##_1L|1396302555.jpg|width="180" height="122" alt=""|_##]A Plymouth Superior Court judge wasted no time rendering a decision yesterday morning against Joseph Nee, a former Marshfield High student accused of plotting a Columbine-style ambush on the s...
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Medicaid suit gains status as a class action
Legal News Center 02/14/2008[##_1L|1284988064.jpg|width="90" height="119" alt=""|_##]Thousands of Northeast Florida residents just became plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit they know nothing about. The lawsuit, filed last month in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, is alleging...
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Class actions feel effects of Milberg case
Legal News Center 02/11/2008As famed class-action lawyer William S. Lerach steps before a federal judge in Los Angeles today to learn his sentence in a wide-ranging fraud and conspiracy probe, his misdeeds and those of former colleagues may be helping to alter the way securitie...
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Kan. Court Blocks Abortion Grand Jury
Legal News Center 02/05/2008The Kansas Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked a grand jury from obtaining patient records from a physician who is one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers.The grand jury is investigating whether Dr. George Tiller has broken Kans...
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11th Circuit lifts stay of execution for Alabama inmate
Legal News Center 01/31/2008federal appeals court has lifted a stay of execution for James Harvey Callahan, who is scheduled to be executed Thursday, but it could be delayed again by the U.S. Supreme Court.Callahan asked the Supreme Court Wednesday afternooon to stop the ...
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Breyer Keeps Up Bush Speech Attendance
Legal News Center 01/29/2008Four Supreme Court justices donned their robes to attend this year's State of the Union, but only one among them could boast a perfect attendance record during the Bush presidency.Justice Stephen Breyer, appointed by President Clinton and a one-time ...
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Kentucky Elk Importation Law Challenged
Legal News Center 01/22/2008A Tennessee elk and bison ranch and a national deer farmers' group are challenging Kentucky's law banning deer or elk from being transported into the state.Two Feathers Elk and Bison Ranch in McMinville, Tenn., and the North American Deer Farmers Ass...
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Court: Judge's Fantasy Tape Isn't Public
Legal News Center 01/18/2008A court has ruled that a judge's audiotape of personal "graphic fantasies" — a recording that shocked investigators — is his private property and should not be made public.Circuit Judge John B. Hagler of Cleveland, Tenn., resigned last month after th...