Recent Updates
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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...
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Rezko lawyer says jail 'degrading,' pleads for release
Lawyer Blogs 02/22/2008Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko's lawyer made an emotional plea for his release from a federal lockup Wednesday, saying he is being held in "degrading" conditions where inmates must share underwear."It's disgusting, judge," chief defe...
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Medical Device Ruling Redraws Lines on Lawsuits
Lawyer Blogs 02/22/2008The Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday protecting many types of medical device makers from personal injury lawsuits began rippling through the courts and law offices almost immediately.Hours after the decision in the case, Riegel v. Medtronic, was an...
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Supreme Court rules workers can sue over 401(k) losses
Lawyer Blogs 02/21/2008[##_1L|1228361719.jpg|width="180" height="122" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that individual participants in the most common type of retirement plan can sue under a pension protection law to recover their losses. The unanimous decision...
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Court Rejects Maine Restrictions On Tobacco Shipping
Lawyer Blogs 02/20/2008The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday unanimously rejected provisions of a Maine law that restricts the shipment of tobacco products in the state."Despite the importance of the public health objective, we cannot agree with Maine that the federal law creat...
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High Court to Consider Suppression Case
Lawyer Blogs 02/19/2008[##_1L|1287118670.jpg|width="131" height="91" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider whether evidence must be suppressed when authorities base an arrest on incorrect information from police files. The Coffee County, Ala., sheriff's d...