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Appeals Court Weighs Teen's Web Speech
Lawyer Blogs 03/05/2008A teen who used vulgar slang in an Internet blog to complain about school administrators shouldn't have been punished by the school, her lawyer told a federal appeals court. But a lawyer for the Burlington, Conn., school told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Cou...
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Pfizer Rezulin Case to Proceed; U.S. Court Deadlocks
Lawyer Blogs 03/04/2008A deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision against Pfizer Inc's Warner-Lambert unit over withdrawn diabetes drug Rezulin in a ruling announced on Monday, allowing the case to go forward.By a 4-to-4 vote, the court affirmed a federa...
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Gay Marriage Returns to Calif. Court
Lawyer Blogs 03/04/2008The national gay marriage debate shifted to California on Tuesday, as the state's highest court was hearing arguments on the constitutionality of a voter-approved law banning same-sex marriage.Gay rights advocates sued to overturn the ban four years ...
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Suspect in Ivy League ID Theft in Court
Lawyer Blogs 03/04/2008A woman accused of using a missing person's identity to get into an Ivy League school made her first court appearance Monday, and the victim's relatives said they just want the theft suspect punished.When Esther Elizabeth Reed was indicted last year,...
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Rigas appeal denied by Supreme Court
Lawyer Blogs 03/03/2008[##_1L|1308208291.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas and his son, Timothy, lost their final appeal Monday of their convictions for fraud that led to the collapse of the nation's fifth-largest cable telev...
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Justices Let Age Bias Lawsuit Move Ahead
Lawyer Blogs 02/28/2008The Supreme Court yesterday gave the benefit of the doubt to a FedEx worker who claimed age discrimination, and said her case should not be thrown out because of mistakes made by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.The court ruled 7 to 2 that...
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Exxon Valdez runs aground at Supreme Court
Lawyer Blogs 02/27/2008The Supreme Court is considering whether to prevent victims of the Exxon Valdez disaster from collecting a $2.5 billion judgment, nearly 19 years after the tanker dumped 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska waters.In the case being argued Wednesday,...
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Court Decision Could Affect Wis. Appeal
Lawyer Blogs 02/27/2008An accusatory letter penned by a woman who turned up dead ultimately helped a jury convict her husband. But it also could be what gets him a new trial in the nearly 10-year-old case.A jury convicted Mark Jensen last week of killing Julie Jensen on De...
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Supreme Court rules in age discrimination case
Lawyer Blogs 02/26/2008[##_1L|1195644005.jpg|width="120" height="118" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court has left the door open for workers in age discrimination cases to present supporting evidence from other employees at a company. In a unanimous decision Tuesday, the justices...
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Supreme Court Takes Indian Land Case
Lawyer Blogs 02/25/2008[##_1L|1232233377.jpg|width="180" height="122" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court agreed Monday to resolve a dispute over the federal government's ability to take land into trust for American Indian tribes. Indian rights groups fear that the case involving...
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NYPD Trio Set for Trial in Groom's Death
Lawyer Blogs 02/25/2008On the morning of her wedding day, Nicole Paultre Bell learned her groom-to-be was dead.Sean Bell, who had been spending his last night as a single man partying, was killed in a barrage of 50 police bullets outside a strip club.The three police offic...
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NYC Court Rejects Agent Orange Claims
Lawyer Blogs 02/24/2008[##_1L|1078779507.jpg|width="127" height="85" alt=""|_##]A federal appeals court on Friday rejected an effort by Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange to reinstate claims that U.S. companies committed war crimes by making the toxic chemical defoliant us...