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  • Innocence Project: Overhaul death penalty laws

    Innocence Project: Overhaul death penalty laws

    Legal News Center 11/12/2010

    Anti-death penalty lawyers say the execution of a Texas man whose plea for DNA testing was ignored shows procedures and laws covering capital punishment need to be changed.The Innocence Project, a New York legal center that uses DNA to exonerate inma...

  • High court tosses Ark ruling, says arrest improper

    High court tosses Ark ruling, says arrest improper

    Legal News Center 11/11/2010

    The Arkansas Supreme Court says Conway police didn't follow proper procedures to obtain a statement from a suspect and has overturned the man's conviction.Antwan Lavan Fowler entered a guilty plea on the condition he be allowed to appeal a circuit ju...

  • Kan. advocate's supporters: Grand jury retaliatory

    Kan. advocate's supporters: Grand jury retaliatory

    Legal News Center 11/10/2010

    Federal prosecutors in Kansas who couldn't obtain a gag order against a strident patient activist later launched a secret grand jury investigation and issued subpoenas against the woman and her advocacy group — moves some argue are nothing more than ...

  • Court Voices Doubts on Violent Videogame Law .

    Court Voices Doubts on Violent Videogame Law .

    Legal News Center 11/02/2010

    The Supreme Court expressed doubts Tuesday about the constitutionality of a California law that seeks to ban the sale of violent videogames to minors.During an hour-long oral argument, several justices suggested the law violated free-speech protectio...

  • Arizona executes man after Supreme Court green light

    Arizona executes man after Supreme Court green light

    Legal News Center 10/27/2010

    The southwestern US state of Arizona executed a prisoner for a 1989 murder late Tuesday, after the US Supreme Court ruled the state can use a non-approved drug for the lethal injection amid a US shortage.Jeffrey Landrigan was pronounced dead in the s...

  • Protection request against anti-gay lawyer dropped

    Protection request against anti-gay lawyer dropped

    Legal News Center 10/25/2010

    The University of Michigan's student government president has dropped a request for a personal protection order against a state lawyer who attacked him on an anti-gay blog. An official at the Washtenaw County Circuit Court in Ann Arbor says 21-year-o...

  • Attorney admits to stealing from Atlanta law firm

    Attorney admits to stealing from Atlanta law firm

    Legal News Center 10/21/2010

    An Atlanta attorney has admitted to stealing more than $500,000 from his law firm.Michael Shaw, 37, of Mableton, is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 5 by U.S. District Judge Willis B. Hunt. Shaw faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in federal prison fo...

  • Sale of DMV Records Class Action Settled

    Sale of DMV Records Class Action Settled

    Legal News Center 10/18/2010

    A class action that an attorney claimed might bankrupt Missouri has been settled for $90,000. U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey gave final approval last week to the settlement between Missouri drivers and The Source for Public Data and Shadowsoft....

  • Appeals court will decide sick leave lawsuit

    Appeals court will decide sick leave lawsuit

    Legal News Center 10/15/2010

    Both sides of Milwaukee's sick leave ordinance say they're confident they will prevail now that the lawsuit over the ordinance is heading to a state appeals court.The state Supreme Court deadlocked 3-3 today on whether to uphold a circuit court rulin...

  • Federal appeals court upholds Texas pledge wording

    Federal appeals court upholds Texas pledge wording

    Legal News Center 10/14/2010

    A federal appeals court has rejected a Dallas-area parent's bid to have "under God" removed from the Texas pledge of allegiance that is recited every day by public schoolchildren.Attorney General Greg Abbott says Wednesday's ruling is a victory for t...

  • SEC watchdog blunts accusations on Goldman timing

    SEC watchdog blunts accusations on Goldman timing

    Legal News Center 10/13/2010

    The watchdog of the Securities and Exchange Commission has found no hard evidence that the SEC timed the announcement of its fraud case against Goldman Sachs to eclipse negative news about a separate case.Inspector General David Kotz's report Wednesd...

  • Court won't stop hormone replacement lawsuits

    Court won't stop hormone replacement lawsuits

    Legal News Center 10/12/2010

    The Supreme Court won't reconsider a decision to reinstate more than 100 lawsuits filed by women who claimed that hormone replacement therapy caused breast cancer.The high court refused on Tuesday to hear an appeal from Wyeth LLC and other pharmaceut...

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