Recent Updates
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State, IRS form alliance on insurance taxes
Legal News Center 10/23/2007Rhode Island plans to use information from the Internal Revenue Service to track down employers who are failing to properly pay state unemployment insurance taxes.The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training has signed an agreement with the IRS ...
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Court interpreters return to work - without pay raises
Legal News Center 10/18/2007Los Angeles County court interpreters returned to work Wednesday after a six-week strike that failed to yield a desired pay increase. More than 300 interpreters took part in the job action, union officials said. Members of the largely Latino, middle-...
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Law for domestic partners stands in Oregon
Legal News Center 10/10/2007[##_1L|1198658431.jpg|width="120" height="91" alt=""|_##]State election officials say opponents failed to turn in enough signatures to block Oregon's domestic-partnership law for same-sex couples. State elections officials reported Monday that the ef...
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Maine, N.H., Vermont applaud clean air settlement
Legal News Center 10/09/2007[##_1L|1186347418.jpg|width="101" height="102" alt=""|_##]Officials and environmentalists in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are applauding a landmark settlement that will dramatically reduce the pollution that causes acid rain and fouls the air ove...
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Woman Told to Ditch Bra to Enter Court
Legal News Center 10/05/2007[##_1L|1199293171.jpg|width="180" height="128" alt=""|_##]Security guards refused to allow a woman into a federal courthouse until she removed a bra that triggered a metal detector. Lori Plato said she and her husband, Owen Plato, were stunned when U...
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Pastor Pleads Guilty In Sex Case
Legal News Center 10/04/2007[##_1L|1060866311.jpg|width="130" height="94" alt=""|_##]After months of denial, even in the face of two incriminating DNA tests, a storefront pastor entered a guilty plea Wednesday to charges he sexually assaulted an 11-year-old member of his congre...
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Crack Sentence Gets High Court Review
Legal News Center 10/02/2007[##_1L|1173260812.jpg|width="180" height="128" alt=""|_##]A federal judge's decision to slice a few years off a lengthy prison term has brought to the Supreme Court the racially tinged issue of harsh sentences for dealing crack cocaine. Derrick Kimbr...
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Tobacco industry appeal rejected in Florida case
Legal News Center 10/01/2007[##_1L|1225891609.jpg|width="104" height="138" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a tobacco industry appeal on two issues in a Florida class-action case that has already resulted in a $145 billion punitive award against the cigarette mak...
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Justices to consider voter identification
Legal News Center 09/28/2007[##_1L|1115733648.jpg|width="180" height="135" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will consider whether state laws requiring voters to present photo identification at polling places unfairly discriminate against the poor and minorities...
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Judge: No Breath Tests for Pedestrians
Legal News Center 09/27/2007[##_1L|1022404394.jpg|width="127" height="85" alt=""|_##]A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a Michigan law that requires pedestrians under 21 to submit to a breath test without a search warrant. The American Civil Liberties Union, which had sued on...
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High court to review lethal injection
Legal News Center 09/26/2007[##_1L|1000547554.jpg|width="180" height="135" alt=""|_##]Facing near legal chaos in states that use the death penalty, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to review a Kentucky lethal injection case signals the justices are prepared to try to s...
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Supreme Court to rule on lethal injection executions
Legal News Center 09/25/2007[##_1L|1374613952.jpg|width="104" height="138" alt=""|_##]The U.S. Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide whether the commonly used lethal injection method of execution violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The natio...