Recent Updates
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Gay marriage momentum stalls in liberal NY, NJ
Lawyer Blogs 11/25/2009The state-to-state march to legalize gay marriage across the left-leaning Northeast has lost more momentum since a major setback three weeks ago at the ballot box in Maine.Since then, legislatures in New York and New Jersey have failed to schedule lo...
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Court: NY can seize property for new NJ Nets arena
Lawyer Blogs 11/24/2009New York's top court ruled Tuesday that the state can use eminent domain to force homeowners and businesses to sell their properties for a massive development in Brooklyn that includes a new arena for the New Jersey Nets.In a 6-1 ruling Tuesday, the ...
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Ky. court upholds $6M verdict in strip search case
Lawyer Blogs 11/23/2009A Kentucky appeals court upheld a $6.1 million award to a former fast food worker who was forced to strip in a McDonald's restaurant office after someone called posing as a police officer.The appellate court on Friday ruled that Illinois-based McDona...
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Lethal injection creator fine with 1 drug in Ohio
Lawyer Blogs 11/23/2009The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one — as his home state of Ohio has proposed — as long as the drug works efficiently.Dr. Jay Chapman, who developed th...
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Senate girds for historic debate on health bill
Lawyer Blogs 11/19/2009Congressional budget crunchers Thursday said the Democrats' latest health care plan would hold down federal red ink for at least a 20-year stretch, an assessment that boosted the bill's advocates as the Senate moved gingerly toward a historic debate....
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Man on jet diverted to Boston denies being unruly
Lawyer Blogs 11/18/2009A Scottish man who was branded unruly and disruptive by the flight crew on a Philadelphia-to-London jet that was diverted to Boston has been ordered held on $300 bail.Prosecutors say Glasgow resident John Alexander Murray's arm was in a splint and he...
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Court to consider Mich. affirmative action ban
Lawyer Blogs 11/17/2009A federal appeals court is about to consider a lawsuit challenging Michigan's ban against racial preferences in public university admissions and government hiring.Civil rights groups and University of Michigan students, faculty and applicants say the...
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NY ex-lawyer in terror case ordered to prison
Lawyer Blogs 11/17/2009A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a disbarred civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case to go to prison and said a judge must consider whether her sentence of a little more than two years behind bars was too lenient.Lynne Stewart, 70...
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Prominent state challenges to lethal injection
Lawyer Blogs 11/16/2009Here are some states where there have been recent high-profile challenges to the lethal-injection death penalty method:California: A federal judge has suspended executions until prison officials fix the deficiencies he identified in the lethal-inject...
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Dozens of Gitmo detainees finally get day in court
Lawyer Blogs 11/16/2009In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.Complying with a Supreme Court ruling...
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Lawyer: FBI asked terror suspect to be informant
Lawyer Blogs 11/13/2009A Massachusetts man accused of plotting to kill Americans was portrayed by federal prosecutors Thursday as a jihadist who is too dangerous to be released on bail, but the man's lawyer said he was charged only after he refused to become an FBI informa...
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W.Va. Supreme Court opts for e-mail privacy
Lawyer Blogs 11/13/2009The state Supreme Court has ruled that public officials and public employees can keep their personal e-mails private.The court ruled 4-1 Thursday that none of the 13 e-mails between former Supreme Court Chief Justice Elliott "Spike" Maynard and Masse...