Recent Updates
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Fallen money-market fund makes $1B distribution
Legal News Center 09/24/2009A money-market mutual fund that held more than $60 billion before it notoriously "broke the buck" a year ago said Wednesday it will hand out $1 billion in a fifth distribution to investors from the fund's remaining assets.The $1 billion distribution,...
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Calif. courts shuttered Wednesday to save money
Legal News Center 09/17/2009The doors are closed at the California Supreme Court, the tiny courthouse in Alpine County and every state courthouse in between in an unprecedented attempt to close a historic budget deficit.The Judicial Council, which oversees California's courts, ...
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Supreme Court could loosen cap on corporate political spending
Legal News Center 09/14/2009The Supreme Court's conservative bloc sounded poised Wednesday to strike down on free-speech grounds a 102-year-old ban against corporations spending large amounts of money to elect or defeat congressional and presidential candidates. If the justices...
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Appeals court upholds Kan. pharmacist's conviction
Legal News Center 09/10/2009An appeals court panel upheld on Wednesday the conviction of a pharmacist for conspiracy to unlawfully distribute prescription drugs through a Wichita-based Internet pharmacy.But the panel from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver also th...
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Feds ask appeals court to stay drug decision
Legal News Center 09/02/2009Federal prosecutors have asked an appeals court to stay its decision that government agents illegally seized the drug testing records and samples of more than 100 baseball players.The move could keep baseball's infamous drug list from being destroyed...
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Ruling favors Latino voters in Texas Democrat suit
Legal News Center 08/26/2009Latino voters celebrated a federal court ruling Tuesday that came down against the Texas Democratic Party and could put the complicated "Texas Two-step" presidential delegate system in jeopardy. The ruling by a three-judge panel will allow the lawsui...
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Appeals court takes up NFL suspensions case
Legal News Center 08/18/2009The NFL will ask a federal appeals court Tuesday to uphold the suspensions of Minnesota Vikings defensive linemen Kevin Williams and Pat Williams for violating the league's anti-doping policy. Oral arguments will be made in St. Paul before a three-ju...
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Texas judge ended day as death row appeal waited
Legal News Center 08/17/2009As lawyers frantically tried to file the last-minute appeal that could have halted the execution of a death row inmate, the Texas judge who oversaw the only court who could hear it was preparing to shut the doors for the day. "We close at 5," Judge S...
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Obama, Sotomayor note her ascendancy to high court
Legal News Center 08/12/2009President Barack Obama rejoiced Wednesday in the ascendancy of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, saying her achievement will be an inspiration for generations. "When Justice Sotomayor put her hand on that Bible and took that oath ... we came yet ...
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Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Begin
Legal News Center 07/13/2009The Senate Judiciary Committee opened the historic confirmation hearing for Sonia Sotomayor, the first nominee to the Supreme Court by a Democratic president in 15 years, at 9:58 a.m. today with Democratic and Republican senators beginning to frame t...
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Calif. high court: Breath test accuracy can vary
Legal News Center 07/10/2009The California Supreme Court has joined a handful of other courts in the country that have said Breathalyzer results mean different things for different people and ruled that suspected drunken drivers can attack the test results in court.Defense atto...
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It's not slang! Nev. court permits 'HOE' license
Legal News Center 07/09/2009A Las Vegas man won a courtroom battle Wednesday with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his "HOE" license plate, which the agency tried to cancel on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.The high court said the DMV bas...