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  • US court rejects SEC rule on board nominees

    US court rejects SEC rule on board nominees

    Legal News Center 07/22/2011

    A federal appeals court has struck down a rule adopted last year by the Securities and Exchange Commission that gave shareholders more power to nominate board directors.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the SEC was "...

  • Mayor of NM town pleads guilty to gun smuggling

    Mayor of NM town pleads guilty to gun smuggling

    Legal News Center 07/14/2011

    The former mayor of a small New Mexico border town has pleaded guilty to charges he participated in a gun smuggling ring that federal prosecutors said sent hundreds of guns into Mexico, authorities said Wednesday. Eddie Espinoza faces 65 years in pri...

  • Montana Supreme Court hires new administrator

    Montana Supreme Court hires new administrator

    Legal News Center 07/13/2011

    The Montana Supreme Court has a hired a new court administrator for the state's judicial branch. The court named Beth McLaughlin, who had been the director of court services, as the replacement for Lois Menzies, who retired last month. In her new pos...

  • Feds eye CIA officer in prisoner death

    Feds eye CIA officer in prisoner death

    Legal News Center 07/13/2011

    A CIA officer who oversaw the agency's interrogation program at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and pushed for approval to use increasingly harsh tactics has come under scrutiny in a federal war crimes investigation involving the death of a prisoner, w...

  • Law Firm To Collect $35M In Forfeited Bonds

    Law Firm To Collect $35M In Forfeited Bonds

    Legal News Center 07/11/2011

    A law firm will be appointed to collect about $35 million in forfeited bonds owed to Dallas County. District Attorney Craig Watkins said Wednesday that a law firm, to be selected later, will get to keep 25 percent of the amount collected. A recent lo...

  • Pa. family's fight for rare coins reaches court

    Pa. family's fight for rare coins reaches court

    Legal News Center 07/08/2011

    A federal jury in Pennsylvania began hearing a tale Thursday that has long fascinated coin collectors: how a Philadelphia family ended up with a stash of exquisitely rare $20 gold coins from 1933 that the U.S. Mint never circulated.The 10 coins could...

  • Feds urge court to let prison medicate Loughner

    Feds urge court to let prison medicate Loughner

    Legal News Center 07/07/2011

    Federal prosecutors say an appeals court should let prison officials forcibly give anti-psychotic medication to the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage. The prosecutors say in court documents filed late Tuesday that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...

  • Ga. court says store can be liable for beer sale

    Ga. court says store can be liable for beer sale

    Legal News Center 07/05/2011

    The Georgia Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling and found a convenience store can be held liable for a fatal highway accident that took place after a driver purchased a 12-pack of beer. The court ruled 6-1 Tuesday that Exprezit! Stores 98-G...

  • High court to rule on FCC indecency policy

    High court to rule on FCC indecency policy

    Legal News Center 06/27/2011

    The Supreme Court will take up the First Amendment fight over what broadcasters can put on the airwaves when young children may be watching television. The justices said Monday they will review appeals court rulings that threw out the Federal Communi...

  • Conservatives limit consumer, rights lawsuits

    Conservatives limit consumer, rights lawsuits

    Legal News Center 06/26/2011

    The Supreme Court's conservative majority made it harder for people to band together to sue the nation's largest businesses in the two most far-reaching rulings of the term the justices are wrapping up on Monday.The two cases putting new limits on cl...

  • Mont. Supreme Court rules against Paws Up

    Mont. Supreme Court rules against Paws Up

    Legal News Center 06/19/2011

    The Montana Supreme Court has reversed a lower court and ruled that a Montana construction company can either collect a debt or foreclose on a high-end guest ranch involved in a decade-long financial fight.The Independent Record reports that the high...

  • Court says judges can't give extra time for rehab

    Court says judges can't give extra time for rehab

    Legal News Center 06/16/2011

    The Supreme Court says judges cannot give convicts extra time in prison in hope it will be used to get them into rehabilitation services.The high court on Thursday unanimously ruled in favor of Alejandra Tapia, who was trying to reduce her 51 month s...

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