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Court says gunmaker can't be sued over LA rampage
Lawyer Blogs 05/12/2009An appeals court has rejected a lawsuit against a gunmaker over a 1999 shooting rampage at a San Fernando Valley Jewish center. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles ruled Monday that a federal law shielding gunmakers from suits over c...
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Demjanjuk offers no clues to possible surrender
Lawyer Blogs 05/10/2009Possibly days away from his deportation to Germany, suspected Nazi guard John Demjanjuk and his family are offering no clues about the 89-year-old's response to a government notice asking that he surrender to U.S. immigration authorities. All appeare...
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Ex-Top Democratic Donor Pleads Guilty To Fraud
Lawyer Blogs 05/09/2009Norman Hsu, a former top fund-raiser for the Democratic Party, pleaded guilty Thursday to running a fraudulent investment scheme but he continues to fight charges of making fraudulent political contributions. Hsu, 58 years old, pleaded guilty to five...
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Ex-Top Democratic Donor Pleads Guilty To Fraud
Lawyer Blogs 05/08/2009Norman Hsu, a former top fund-raiser for the Democratic Party, pleaded guilty Thursday to running a fraudulent investment scheme but he continues to fight charges of making fraudulent political contributions. Hsu, 58 years old, pleaded guilty to five...
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Appeals court says raid on Muslims' Va. home OK
Lawyer Blogs 05/07/2009Government agents searching for evidence of terrorist funding acted reasonably when they broke down a Muslim family's front door, entered with guns drawn and handcuffed a frantic woman and her teenage daughter, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday...
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Stocks could pose conflicts for court prospects
Lawyer Blogs 05/06/2009Some Supreme Court prospects have extensive corporate holdings, including shares in Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric and Microsoft and stock in a manufacturer that recalled lead-paint-coated "Flush & Sounds Potty" toilet seats. Sinc...
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Iowa plant ex-worker wants ID theft plea withdrawn
Lawyer Blogs 05/06/2009A former human resources employee at an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse where hundreds of illegal immigrants were caught in a raid last year has withdrawn her guilty plea to identity theft. Laura Althouse's attorney filed a motion Monday to withdraw the p...
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Supreme Court conservatives criticize voting rights law
Lawyer Blogs 05/01/2009U.S. Supreme Court conservatives on Wednesday sharply criticized a central part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that is aimed at more than a dozen states with a history of racial discrimination. It is the second major race case heard by the justices af...
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Appeals court nominee faces tough questioning
Lawyer Blogs 04/30/2009President Barack Obama's choice for a federal appeals court judge came in for rough questioning Wednesday by a Democratic senator over the judge's former affiliation with an advocacy group. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of...
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America's Cup fight heading back to court
Lawyer Blogs 04/29/2009America's Cup champion Alinghi of Switzerland is being ordered to tell a New York court why it should not be held in contempt for refusing to comply with an order that its one-on-one showdown against American crew BMW Oracle Racing be held in Februar...
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Supreme Court OKs regulation of language on TV
Lawyer Blogs 04/28/2009The Supreme Court is giving tentative approval to government regulation of the use of even a single curse word on live television. But the court, in a 5-4 decision Tuesday, is refusing to pass judgment on whether the Federal Communications Commission...
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Texas case before high court to test voting rights
Lawyer Blogs 04/27/2009The community of Canyon Creek was ranchland rich with limestone and cedar trees when Jim Crow held sway in the South. The first house wasn't built until the late 1980s and not even a hint of discrimination attaches to this little slice in suburbia. P...