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  • Ohio court investigating lawyer who tipped Tressel

    Ohio court investigating lawyer who tipped Tressel

    Legal News Center 06/13/2011

    The Ohio Supreme Court is investigating possible misconduct by the attorney who first tipped Ohio State's football coach to NCAA violations by his players.Coach Jim Tressel's decision not to alert university officials to the tip from lawyer Christoph...

  • US appeals court overturns release of detainee

    US appeals court overturns release of detainee

    Legal News Center 06/10/2011

    A Yemeni detainee ordered to be freed from Guantanamo Bay has to stay now that a U.S. appeals court has overturned his release. The U.S Court of Appeals in Washington says circumstantial evidence of terrorist ties can be enough to keep a prisoner lik...

  • Ohioan is among 1st jurors at old, new courthouses

    Ohioan is among 1st jurors at old, new courthouses

    Legal News Center 06/09/2011

    An Ohio woman called to jury duty on the first day at a new county courthouse this week also was on the first jury at the old court building when it opened in 1973.Jury commissioner Gretchen Roberts in Columbus says 64-year-old Mary Evans beat odds t...

  • Court: Career criminal won't get less prison time

    Court: Career criminal won't get less prison time

    Legal News Center 06/06/2011

    The Supreme Court says a career criminal cannot get his sentence reduced because of a change in drug-crime penalties in North Carolina. The high court on Monday turned away an appeal by Clifton McNeill, who pleaded guilty to gun and drug possession i...

  • NY court weighs immunity claim in '93 WTC bombing

    NY court weighs immunity claim in '93 WTC bombing

    Legal News Center 06/02/2011

    The agency that owned and operated the World Trade Center urged the state's top court Wednesday to reject remaining negligence claims for the 1993 bombing by terrorists who detonated a van of explosives in the public garage beneath its twin towers, k...

  • Court to clarify witness identification rules

    Court to clarify witness identification rules

    Legal News Center 05/31/2011

    The Supreme Court will decide whether a witness identification of a man suspected in a break-in of a car should be thrown out. The high court on Tuesday agreed to hear an appeal from Barion Perry, who is in prison for breaking into a car in 2008. A w...

  • Gov. Rick Perry signs tort reform bill into law

    Gov. Rick Perry signs tort reform bill into law

    Legal News Center 05/30/2011

    Gov. Rick Perry signed into law Monday a measure that will limit frivolous lawsuits by levying some fees on plaintiffs and allowing meritless suits to be dismissed early in the process. Perry designated the "loser pays" bill a top priority of the leg...

  • Fugitive Russian lawmaker living in Beverly Hills

    Fugitive Russian lawmaker living in Beverly Hills

    Legal News Center 05/29/2011

    A sensational dispute between Moscow billionaires with a storyline that rivals Hollywood has spilled across international borders: Surveillance photographs showed a fugitive Russian lawmaker living in Beverly Hills, California. Someone tried to hack ...

  • Goodwin Liu withdraws judicial nomination

    Goodwin Liu withdraws judicial nomination

    Legal News Center 05/26/2011

    Appeals court judicial nominee Goodwin Liu says that although several Western states have a "desperate need for judges," he's dropping the fight. Liu tells President Barack Obama he is withdrawing his nomination after Senate Republicans blocked a vot...

  • Blagojevich attorneys to mount first defense

    Blagojevich attorneys to mount first defense

    Legal News Center 05/25/2011

    Prosecutors in the corruption retrial of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich are questioning the value of the two witnesses the defense wants to call, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and US. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Prosecutor Reid Schar says neither could...

  • Attorneys to give openings in Mumbai terror case

    Attorneys to give openings in Mumbai terror case

    Legal News Center 05/23/2011

    The trial of a Chicago businessman accused of helping plan deadly attacks in Mumbai in 2008 is being closely watched worldwide for what testimony might reveal about the global fight against terrorism. Defense attorneys, though, say their case is abou...

  • Head of Delaware Business Court Joining Law Firm

    Head of Delaware Business Court Joining Law Firm

    Legal News Center 05/21/2011

    The head of Delaware's Court of Chancery, a key venue for matters of corporate law, is taking a job with a California-based law firm. Chancellor William Chandler III will join Palo Alto-based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on June 18. He had an...

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