Recent Updates
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Justices criticize EPA's dealings with homeowners
Legal News Center 01/08/2012Several Supreme Court justices are criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency for heavy-handed enforcement of rules affecting homeowners. The justices were considering whether to let an Idaho couple challenge an EPA order identifying their land ...
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Federal court hears case on Arizona ski resort
Legal News Center 01/08/2012A federal appeals court is hearing arguments in a case that challenges the planned use of reclaimed water for snowmaking at an Arizona ski resort. The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear the case Monday morning in San Francisco. Th...
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Court to hear case of Franky the drug dog
Legal News Center 01/06/2012In a case closely watched by law enforcement nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether a Florida police dog's sniff outside the front door of a house with a marijuana growing operation is an illegal search. Florida Attorney G...
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US Supreme Court asked to ponder drug dog's sniff
Legal News Center 01/04/2012Franky the drug dog's supersensitive nose is at the heart of a question being put to the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a police dog's sniff outside a house give officers the right to get a search warrant for illegal drugs, or is the sniff an unconstitutio...
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Court delays border-crossing pollution rule
Legal News Center 01/01/2012A federal court Friday put on hold a controversial Obama administration regulation aimed at reducing power plant pollution in 27 states that contributes to unhealthy air downwind. More than a dozen electric power companies, municipal power plant oper...
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Federal judge blocks Calif. low-carbon fuels rule
Legal News Center 12/30/2011California officials say they will ask a federal judge to stay his ruling that blocks the state from enforcing the first-in-the-nation mandate for cleaner, low-carbon fuels. In a decision issued Thursday, Fresno-based U.S. District Court Judge Lawren...
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Request by WVU to dismiss Big East suit denied
Legal News Center 12/28/2011A Rhode Island judge on Tuesday denied a request by West Virginia University to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Big East Conference over the university's bid to make a quick exit for the Big 12. Providence County Superior Court Judge Michael Silverste...
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Appeals court says Anschutz owes $17.3M in taxes
Legal News Center 12/27/2011A federal appeals on Tuesday agreed with a tax court that determined Colorado billionaire Philip Anschutz owed at least $17.3 million in taxes. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver upheld the tax court's 2010 ruling. The court said the An...
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Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP Has Filed a Class Action
Legal News Center 12/24/2011Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of investors who purchased common stock of Keyuan Petrochemicals, Inc. betw...
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Mentally disabled detainees granted class status
Legal News Center 12/21/2011A federal judge has granted class-action status to a case brought on behalf of mentally disabled detainees who lack legal representation in immigration court. The order issued under seal in November by U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee was made pub...
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Calif. company due in court for Colo. fire deaths
Legal News Center 12/19/2011A California specialty painting company is expected to plead guilty in the 2007 deaths of five workers at a Colorado power plant, in the rare prosecution of a company. RPI Coatings Inc. of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., is expected to plead guilty Monday ...
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Next ICC prosecutor warns against sex crimes
Legal News Center 12/14/2011The next chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court pledged Tuesday to strengthen efforts to bring to justice the perpetrators of sexual and gender crimes. A day after her election by the 119 countries that support the tribunal, Gambian law...