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Train crash may be linked to text message
Lawyer Blogs 10/06/2008Top officials with the firm that contracts to run Metrolink trains made their first public comments Sunday night about last month's deadly head-on collision of a passenger train with a Union Pacific freight train in Chatsworth."Words cannot express h...
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Top court stays out of DVR patent fight
Lawyer Blogs 10/06/2008The Supreme Court refused Monday to disturb a $74 million judgment against Dish Network Corp. for violating a patent held by TiVo Inc. involving digital video recorders.Without comment, the justices declined to consider Englewood, Colo.-based Dish's ...
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Supreme Court rejects jury Bible case
Lawyer Blogs 10/06/2008The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a murder case in which a jury foreman read passages of the Bible to hold-out jurors who subsequently voted to impose the death penalty.Without comment, the justices declined to consider whether the jury...
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Railroad regulators issue emergency cell phone ban
Lawyer Blogs 10/04/2008Federal regulators issued an emergency order Thursday banning use of cell phones and other electronic devices by rail workers, a day after investigators said a commuter-train engineer was text messaging moments before a deadly crash last month.Violat...
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NY appeals court overturns terrorism verdicts
Lawyer Blogs 10/03/2008A federal appeals court Thursday overturned the convictions of a Yemeni cleric and his deputy, finding they were prejudiced by inflammatory testimony about unrelated terrorism links in a case the United States once touted as a victory in its war agai...
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Court denies GOP appeal on Ohio early voting
Lawyer Blogs 10/01/2008The Ohio GOP suffered another legal defeat Tuesday, as a federal appeals court ruled against the party's appeal involving a disputed early voting window that allows Ohio voters to register and cast a ballot on the same day.A three-judge panel of the ...
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Top court will review who pays for Superfund site
Lawyer Blogs 10/01/2008The Supreme Court has agreed to decide what share railroads and an oil company should bear of the cleanup of a contaminated industrial site in Arvin, Calif., near Bakersfield, that threatened drinking water supplies.Shell Oil Co. and the railroads — ...
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Conservative judges fault Scalia opinion on guns
Lawyer Blogs 09/29/2008Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is no stranger to criticism. He gives as good as he gets.But two recent critiques of his opinion in the landmark decision guaranteeing people the right keep guns at home for self-defense are notable because they c...
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Pa. high court says newspaper can protect source
Lawyer Blogs 09/26/2008The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a newspaper reporter does not need to reveal the identity of a confidential source used in a story about a grand jury investigation into alleged prison brutality.The 4-1 decision dated Wednesday and released ...
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Court mulls if Jefferson indictment is tainted
Lawyer Blogs 09/25/2008A Louisiana congressman accused of taking bribes challenged his indictment before a federal appeals court Wednesday, claiming grand jury testimony infringed on his constitutionally protected activities.Democratic U.S. Rep. William Jefferson's attorne...
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Amid financial crisis, Stevens asks to skip trial
Lawyer Blogs 09/24/2008As Congress rushed to stop a meltdown in the U.S. financial market, the Senate's senior Republican told a federal judge Tuesday that he might need to skip out of his corruption trial from time to time this week.Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens said he underst...
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Illinois' top court denies appeal in Sprint case
Lawyer Blogs 09/24/2008The Illinois Supreme Court has dealt Sprint Nextel Corp. another setback in its fight with affiliate iPCS Inc. over the Nextel network.The court on Wednesday refused to hear Sprint's appeal of a March ruling by the Appellate Court of Illinois that wo...