Recent Updates
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2 plead not guilty to killing students near USC
Headline News 11/08/2013Two men have pleaded not guilty to killing two Chinese graduate students who were shot as they sat in a parked car near the University of Southern California last year. The Los Angeles Times says 20-year-old Javier Bolden and 21-year-old Bryan James ...
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Planned Parenthood Asks Supreme Court's Help In Texas
Headline News 11/04/2013Planned Parenthood is asking the Supreme Court to place Texas' new abortion restrictions on hold. The group says in a filing with the high court Monday that more than a third of the clinics in Texas have been forced to stop providing abortions since ...
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Supreme Court term begins amid government shutdown
Headline News 10/11/2013The Supreme Court began its new term Monday by turning away hundreds of appeals, including Virginia's bid to revive its anti-sodomy law. The justices took the bench just past 10 o'clock on the first Monday in October, even as much of the rest of the ...
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Judge denies motions in WVU media rights laws
Headline News 08/27/2013A judge has denied several motions to dismiss West Virginia Radio Corp.'s lawsuit over how West Virginia University awarded a media rights contract for sporting events. Judge Thomas Evans on Monday rejected requests by WVU Board of Governors, the WVU...
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The Law Offices of David Stein - DC Assault Lawyer
Headline News 06/25/2013Assault in Washington, DC can be complicated and if you find yourself facing these charges you will need to contact a DC assault attorney. The threshold requirement for a simple Assault Charge in the District is very low. The statute criminalizes “wh...
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Court: Ex-Im Bank needs to explain Air India loan
Headline News 06/20/2013A federal bank that backed a huge airplane loan for Air India will have to explain that the loan didn't hurt U.S. airlines. A lawsuit by Delta Air Lines Inc. had accused the Export-Import Bank of failing to follow a requirement that it makes sure its...
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Court: $1M coverage for Conn. fire victim families
Headline News 06/14/2013Families suing the operator of a Hartford nursing home where 16 patients died in a 2003 fire suffered a setback Monday, when the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the home's insurance coverage was $1 million instead of the $10 million claimed by t...
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Court OKs Class-action Suit Over Apartment Leases
Headline News 06/10/2013An appeals court has certified a class-action lawsuit that seeks to invalidate provisions that are routinely included in apartment leases signed by University of Iowa students. The Iowa Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that tenants of landlord Tracy B...
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Appeals court allows capital retrial of Wolfe
Headline News 05/23/2013A federal appeals court will allow a capital murder case to proceed against an accused drug kingpin from northern Virginia. In a 2-1 ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond overturned a federal judge in Norfolk who had ordered a hal...
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Evidence challenged: Miss. court blocks execution
Headline News 05/09/2013The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday's scheduled execution of Willie Jerome Manning amid questions involving evidence in the case, intervening hours before he was set to die for the slayings of two college students. Manning,...
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Doctor to plead guilty in CA prescription case
Headline News 04/12/2013A Southern California doctor has agreed to plead guilty to charges of illegally prescribing drugs to his patients at nightly meetings in Starbucks stores. Court documents show 44-year-old Alvin Mingczech Yee entered into a plea agreement earlier this...
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Securities Arbitration & Litigation Attorneys - Conway & Conway
Headline News 04/02/2013With a respected name, the Securities Arbitration Attorneys at Conway & Conway are known within the legal community of New York for their unique and aggressive approach on how they resolve security disputes through arbitration, litigation, and me...