Recent Updates
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Court: Judges Need All Detainee Evidence
Legal News Center 07/20/2007[##_1L|1254227088.jpg|width="120" height="84" alt=""|_##]When Guantanamo Bay detainees challenge their status as "enemy combatants," judges must review all the evidence, not just what the military chooses, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The U....
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SEC tackles muni bond regulation
Legal News Center 07/19/2007[##_1L|1023466887.jpg|width="130" height="128" alt=""|_##]Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, on Wednesday addressed a yawning gap in regulation of the $2,400bn US municipal bond market by calling for laws to broaden ...
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Court Sends Vioxx Suits Back to Judge
Legal News Center 07/19/2007[##_1L|1237072732.jpg|width="140" height="103" alt=""|_##]A federal appeals court revived a group of shareholder lawsuits that accused Merck & Co. officers and directors of violating their duties by concealing the health risks of the company's Vi...
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Tenn. Lawmaker Pleads Guilty to Bribery
Legal News Center 07/13/2007[##_1L|1155232362.jpg|width="90" height="119" alt=""|_##]A veteran state senator pleaded guilty to bribery Thursday, admitting he took $3,000 in FBI money during a statewide corruption investigation. Sen. Ward Crutchfield, 78, was one of five current...
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Wis. Court Won't Reopen Harley Lawsuit
Legal News Center 07/12/2007[##_1L|1062991478.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]The Wisconsin Supreme Court refused on Thursday to reopen a class-action lawsuit that accuses Harley-Davidson Inc. of failing to disclose a defect in two engine types sold in 1999 and 2000. In...
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Pace of US class-action filings well below average
Legal News Center 07/10/2007[##_1L|1205799986.jpg|width="120" height="93" alt=""|_##]The number of new U.S. securities class-action filings remains well below average, as stock prices rise and the government takes a harder line on corporate wrongdoing, a study released on Tuesd...
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Lawsuit challenges green card delay
Legal News Center 07/07/2007[##_1L|1311190803.jpg|width="120" height="138" alt=""|_##]A woman is seeking class-action status for a lawsuit that claims the federal government violated her constitutional rights when it announced that no new employer-sponsored green card applicati...
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The 2008 Election and the Supreme Court
Legal News Center 07/04/2007[##_1L|1026096275.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]President Bush's promise to change the makeup of the Supreme Court was one of his most reliable applause lines, as candidate and as president. It energized conservative activists like few othe...
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New US state laws take effect with fiscal year
Legal News Center 07/02/2007[##_1L|1319095273.jpg|width="130" height="132" alt=""|_##]As a tornado bore down on southwestern Indiana in 2005, the National Weather Service issued a radio warning urging people in its path to seek shelter. But many residents did not hear the alert...
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Supreme Court Limits Schools on Race
Legal News Center 07/01/2007[##_1L|1304487309.jpg|width="131" height="91" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected school assignment plans that take account of students' race in two major public school districts. The decisions could imperil similar plans nationwide. Th...
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High court allows price-fixing by manufacturers
Legal News Center 06/29/2007[##_1L|1117795531.jpg|width="180" height="122" alt=""|_##]Manufacturers may set a fixed price for their products and forbid retailers from offering discounts, the Supreme Court said yesterday, overturning a nearly century-old rule of antitrust law th...
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Supreme Court blocks Texas man's execution
Legal News Center 06/28/2007[##_1L|1258421544.jpg|width="120" height="101" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court blocked the execution Thursday of a mentally ill Texas man whose lawyers say he is too delusional to understand the legal process. Scott Panetti, a paranoid schizophrenic, sh...