Recent Updates
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Michigan Law Firm Adds Top Rated Malpractice Attorney
Headline News 01/15/2012The Michigan personal injury law firm of Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C. is proud to announce the addition of medical malpractice attorney Randall M. Blau to our team of already award winning, experienced Michigan medical malpractice lawyers! Partner a...
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Ohio: Changes in execution process constitutional
Headline News 01/13/2012The deviations from official death penalty procedures made during an execution last year were minor changes that wouldn't cause pain to an inmate or violate his rights, the state said in a filing Friday seeking to overturn a judge's ruling that postp...
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Court rules against man convicted by eyewitness ID
Headline News 01/11/2012The Supreme Court declined Wednesday to extend constitutional safeguards against the use of some eyewitness testimony at criminal trials, despite concerns that eyewitness identification plays a key role in innocent people going to prison. In a case d...
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Supreme Court rules in favor of arbitration
Headline News 01/10/2012The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that disputes between consumers and companies that issue low-rate credit cards to people with bad credit ratings can be handled in business-friendly arbitration, rather than federal court. The justices voted 8-1 to rev...
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US judge tosses $322M asbestos lawsuit verdict
Headline News 01/03/2012A Mississippi judge has thrown out a $322 million lawsuit verdict that had been hailed as the largest asbestos award for a single plaintiff in U.S. history. The case began to unravel last year after defense lawyers asked the Mississippi Supreme Court...
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MT court restores corporate campaign spending ban
Headline News 01/01/2012The Montana Supreme Court restored the state's century-old ban on direct spending by corporations on political candidates or committees in a ruling Friday that interest groups say bucks a high profile U.S. Supreme Court decision granting political sp...
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Family plans lawsuit in Wash. state ice fatality
Headline News 12/29/2011A law firm has announced a lawsuit in the death of a Washington state girl killed by huge chunk of falling ice in July 2010 at the Big Four Ice Caves, a popular hiking destination in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The 11-year-old Marysvi...
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Suit in Mass. bullying case was settled for $225K
Headline News 12/28/2011A lawsuit brought by the parents of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant in Massachusetts who committed suicide after relentless bullying, was settled for $225,000, according to documents made public Tuesday.The settlement with the town of So...
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Disgraced ex-journalist fights for CA law license
Headline News 12/26/2011A former journalist who became the subject of a Hollywood movie after he was caught fabricating articles in the late 1990s is fighting to become a lawyer in California over the objections of a state bar committee. Stephen Glass, whose ethical misstep...
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Environmental groups sue US over flood management
Headline News 12/22/2011The National Wildlife Federation filed a motion in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, asking a judge to stop the U.S. government from issuing any more flood insurance policies for new development in flood-prone areas around the Puget Sound until it ch...
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Phil Spector to take appeal to US Supreme Court
Headline News 12/16/2011A lawyer for imprisoned music legend Phil Spector is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his murder conviction, arguing his constitutional rights were violated by the trial judge. Attorney Dennis Riordan contends that Superior Court Judge Larry P...
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Court: State prisoners count at home in redistricting
Headline News 12/05/2011A state court ruled Friday that prisoners must be counted among voters back in their home neighborhoods rather than in upstate prisons for the purpose of redrawing state legislative districts, a likely blow to the slim Republican majority in New York...