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Tenn. Lawmaker Pleads Guilty to Bribery
Legal News Center 07/13/2007[##_1L|1155232362.jpg|width="90" height="119" alt=""|_##]A veteran state senator pleaded guilty to bribery Thursday, admitting he took $3,000 in FBI money during a statewide corruption investigation. Sen. Ward Crutchfield, 78, was one of five current...
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Wis. Court Won't Reopen Harley Lawsuit
Legal News Center 07/12/2007[##_1L|1062991478.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]The Wisconsin Supreme Court refused on Thursday to reopen a class-action lawsuit that accuses Harley-Davidson Inc. of failing to disclose a defect in two engine types sold in 1999 and 2000. In...
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Pace of US class-action filings well below average
Legal News Center 07/10/2007[##_1L|1205799986.jpg|width="120" height="93" alt=""|_##]The number of new U.S. securities class-action filings remains well below average, as stock prices rise and the government takes a harder line on corporate wrongdoing, a study released on Tuesd...
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Lawsuit challenges green card delay
Legal News Center 07/07/2007[##_1L|1311190803.jpg|width="120" height="138" alt=""|_##]A woman is seeking class-action status for a lawsuit that claims the federal government violated her constitutional rights when it announced that no new employer-sponsored green card applicati...
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The 2008 Election and the Supreme Court
Legal News Center 07/04/2007[##_1L|1026096275.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]President Bush's promise to change the makeup of the Supreme Court was one of his most reliable applause lines, as candidate and as president. It energized conservative activists like few othe...
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New US state laws take effect with fiscal year
Legal News Center 07/02/2007[##_1L|1319095273.jpg|width="130" height="132" alt=""|_##]As a tornado bore down on southwestern Indiana in 2005, the National Weather Service issued a radio warning urging people in its path to seek shelter. But many residents did not hear the alert...
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Supreme Court Limits Schools on Race
Legal News Center 07/01/2007[##_1L|1304487309.jpg|width="131" height="91" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected school assignment plans that take account of students' race in two major public school districts. The decisions could imperil similar plans nationwide. Th...
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High court allows price-fixing by manufacturers
Legal News Center 06/29/2007[##_1L|1117795531.jpg|width="180" height="122" alt=""|_##]Manufacturers may set a fixed price for their products and forbid retailers from offering discounts, the Supreme Court said yesterday, overturning a nearly century-old rule of antitrust law th...
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Supreme Court blocks Texas man's execution
Legal News Center 06/28/2007[##_1L|1258421544.jpg|width="120" height="101" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court blocked the execution Thursday of a mentally ill Texas man whose lawyers say he is too delusional to understand the legal process. Scott Panetti, a paranoid schizophrenic, sh...
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Lawyer sues for defamation in corruption case
Legal News Center 06/27/2007[##_1L|1101031443.jpg|width="120" height="138" alt=""|_##]An El Paso lawyer has filed a defamation suit against a former county employee who has pleaded guilty in an ongoing federal corruption scandal. Martie Jobe claims in a suit filed Monday that s...
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Court bars suit on faith-based plan
Legal News Center 06/26/2007A divided Supreme Court yesterday stopped an atheist group's lawsuit against President Bush's faith-based initiative, ruling that the plaintiffs do not have standing in the case and thus enabling Bush to continue a program he created by executive ord...
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Supreme Court Upholds High School Recruiting Limits
Legal News Center 06/21/2007[##_1L|1012041590.jpg|width="131" height="91" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court said Thursday that athletic associations can enforce limits on recruiting high school athletes without violating coaches' free speech rights. The high court ruled in a longsta...