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Ex-Va attorney convicted in law firm embezzlement
Legal News Center 09/06/2011A former attorney has been convicted of embezzling at least $450,000 from the law firm where she worked. Henrico County Circuit Judge L.A. Harris Jr. on Friday found Kyle C. Leftwich guilty of eight counts of embezzlement in a scheme to divert funds ...
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Firm gets Iowa sports rights to 2026
Legal News Center 09/02/2011The University of Iowa athletics department has quietly given the company managing its sports marketing efforts a contract extension through 2026 and the right to sell the name of its basketball court in exchange for guaranteed payments totaling $114...
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SD Supreme Court upholds school funding system
Legal News Center 09/01/2011The South Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of the state's system for funding school districts, rejecting the schools' arguments that the current arrangement does not provide enough money to assure students of an adequate ...
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Wyoming Supreme Court rules for bar owners
Legal News Center 08/30/2011The Wyoming Supreme Court has ruled that state law protects bar owners from lawsuits arising from the actions of their intoxicated patrons. In a split decision Friday, the court upheld a lower court ruling against relatives of a Ten Sleep couple who ...
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Court: No 1st Amendment right to stream live games
Legal News Center 08/25/2011The association that oversees Wisconsin high school sports can limit who streams its games live on the Internet even though most of its member schools are funded by taxpayers, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The decision could have First Ame...
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Prosecutors: Blagojevich convictions should stand
Legal News Center 08/23/2011Rod Blagojevich received a fair retrial and his convictions for corruption including trying to sell President Barack Obama's Senate seat should stand, prosecutors said Tuesday in their retort to the ousted Illinois governor's request for another new ...
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Drug company lawyer taped trying to foil lawsuit
Legal News Center 08/19/2011International business can be an ethical jungle, but it's rare to get details of bare-knuckle tactics on tape. A lawyer in Mexico for a leading U.S. drug manufacturer offered to pay an opposing expert in a lawsuit if he would leave the country on a k...
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NY man suing Facebook must explain missing items
Legal News Center 08/18/2011A judge gave Facebook access to the personal email accounts of a man suing for half ownership of the social networking website and ordered him to explain why he can't produce documents its lawyers believe are evidence. Proof that Paul Ceglia's case i...
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EPA settles with owners of Mass. chemical plant
Legal News Center 08/17/2011The owners of a suburban Massachusetts chemical plant that exploded in 2006, destroying dozens of homes, have agreed to pay the federal government an estimated $1.3 million to help cover the cost of cleaning up the hazardous waste that was left behin...
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NYC court upholds trustee's calculation of losses
Legal News Center 08/16/2011A federal appeals court agrees with the method a trustee used to calculate how much each investor lost in the multibillion-dollar fraud carried out by Bernard Madoff.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a written decision Tuesday that invest...
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Tech blogger won't be charged in Apple iPhone case
Legal News Center 08/15/2011Prosecutors said Wednesday that they will not bring charges against a tech blogger who bought an Apple iPhone prototype after it was found at a bar in March 2010 in a case that ignited an unusual First Amendment debate. San Mateo County Assistant Dis...
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Lawyer: 'Jeopardy!' burglary suspect a prostitute
Legal News Center 08/12/2011The lawyer for a San Francisco woman charged with breaking into the hotel room of "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek says his client is a prostitute, not a thief. The San Francisco Examiner reports that attorney Mark Jacobs says his client, 56-year-old Luc...