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  • Ginsburg: OK to look to foreign law for good ideas

    Ginsburg: OK to look to foreign law for good ideas

    Legal News Center 08/02/2010

    Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says judges can look to foreign law for good ideas without diminishing their ability to apply U.S. law faithfully.Ginsburg told a meeting of international lawyers Friday that American judges can learn from th...

  • NY suit seeks $30 million in Madoff family money

    NY suit seeks $30 million in Madoff family money

    Legal News Center 07/30/2010

    The court-appointed trustee seeking to recover billions of dollars lost by jailed financier Bernard Madoff sued three entities Thursday to get back more than $30 million that he said the Madoff family had invested, mostly in oil and gas properties an...

  • Texas, feds wait turns in polygamist leader cases

    Texas, feds wait turns in polygamist leader cases

    Legal News Center 07/29/2010

    A Utah Supreme Court decision that overturns polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs' 2007 criminal conviction won't automatically make him a free man. Even if Utah doesn't retry him, Texas and federal prosecutors are waiting to move forward with their...

  • Federal court reverses TVA emissions ruling

    Federal court reverses TVA emissions ruling

    Legal News Center 07/27/2010

    A federal appeals court in Virginia has reversed a judge's ruling requiring the nation's largest public utility to promptly install upgraded emission controls at four coal-fired power plants.Three of the Tennessee Valley Authority plants are in Tenne...

  • Alaska pair pleads guilty to lying about hit list

    Alaska pair pleads guilty to lying about hit list

    Legal News Center 07/23/2010

    A National Weather Service employee and his British-born wife pleaded guilty Wednesday to domestic terrorism charges of lying to the FBI about a hit list of possible targets who the couple suspected were enemies of Islam.Paul Rockwood Jr. and his wif...

  • Madoff trustee seeks $3.6 billion from funds

    Madoff trustee seeks $3.6 billion from funds

    Legal News Center 07/22/2010

    The court-appointed trustee hunting for money to pay investors who lost billions of dollars in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme has sued more than two dozen entities related to a New York-based hedge fund.Trustee Irving Picard filed papers in U.S. Bankr...

  • Guilty plea in Arizona photo radar shooting case

    Guilty plea in Arizona photo radar shooting case

    Legal News Center 07/21/2010

    A Phoenix man accused of fatally shooting the operator of a photo speed-enforcement van has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.Maricopa County Superior Court spokeswoman Karen Arra says 69-year-old Thomas Patrick Destories entered the plea Tuesda...

  • Wis. justices uphold ex-Jesuit priest's conviction

    Wis. justices uphold ex-Jesuit priest's conviction

    Legal News Center 07/20/2010

    The Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld a sexual abuse conviction of a former Jesuit priest who claimed he was falsely accused.In a 7-0 ruling on Tuesday, justices ruled that Donald McGuire's prosecution 36 years after he allegedly abused two teenage ...

  • Law firm sued over local construction defect case

    Law firm sued over local construction defect case

    Legal News Center 07/09/2010

    A Southern California law firm that has won more than $17 million from construction defect court settlements in the Sacramento area is being sued by former clients for legal malpractice.Eleven local parties allege Lee Jackson, a partner in the Santa ...

  • Kagan deserves confirmation to the Supreme Court

    Kagan deserves confirmation to the Supreme Court

    Legal News Center 07/09/2010

    American Bar Association witnesses will be lead-off witnesses today as the Senate Judiciary Committee resumes its confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.   Kim Askew, chair of the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judicia...

  • ACLU issues travel warnings to Arizona

    ACLU issues travel warnings to Arizona

    Legal News Center 07/02/2010

    The nation's top civil liberties group on Wednesday issued travel alerts for Arizona, saying the state's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants could lead to racial profiling and warrantless arrests.American Civil Liberties Union affiliates in A...

  • Gun rights, campaign spending top high court term

    Gun rights, campaign spending top high court term

    Legal News Center 07/01/2010

    Two conservative-driven decisions with potentially broad consequences will likely define the just-completed Supreme Court term: freeing corporations and unions to spend as much as they like in campaigns for Congress and president, and ruling that Ame...

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