Recent Updates
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Supreme Court to hear capital, labor cases
Legal News Center 01/06/2007[##_1L|1098792153.jpg|width="104" height="138" alt=""|_##]The US Supreme Court Friday granted certiorari in seven cases, including a capital case, an endangered species case, and two labor-related cases among others. In the Texas death row case Panet...
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Death sentences at lowest level in 30 years
Legal News Center 01/05/2007[##_1L|1233846936.jpg|width="180" height="135" alt=""|_##]The number of death sentences issued in 2006 reached the lowest level in 30 years, according to a 2006 year-end report issued by the Death Penalty Information Center. The DPIC reported that th...
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IRS Warns of Scams and Fraud in 2007
Legal News Center 01/03/2007The dawning of a new year for many is an opportunity to wipe the slate clean and resolve to do more in the months ahead—lose more weight, be more generous, and, of course, make more money. Unfortunately scammers of all stripes will be seeking their...
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New U.N. secretary-general in early flap
Legal News Center 01/02/2007[##_1L|1173457143.jpg|width="107" height="107" alt=""|_##]New UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that resolving the crisis in Darfur was "very high" on his agenda and would be one of his top priorities. Ban, whose tenure as secretary-gener...
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Race riot put down at California state prison
Legal News Center 01/02/2007The California state correctional facility in Chino was under lockdown Sunday after prison authorities put down a major race riot that broke out Saturday morning reportedly setting blacks and Hispanic inmates against each other in one of the worst in...
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Apple chief could still face SEC investigation
Legal News Center 12/30/2006[##_1L|1359776716.jpg|width="160" height="121" alt=""|_##]Steve Jobs, the chairman of Apple Computer, still faces the prospect of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice, The Times has learnt, even tho...
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DOJ Sues Fraudulent Tax Preparation Firms
Legal News Center 12/29/2006The Justice Department has brought suit in U.S. District Court in Chicago against a Seneca, Ill., couple, Royanne and Neal Reddy, and their businesses, Royanne’s Tax Services and Royanne & Company, seeking to bar them permanently from preparing...
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California restores prisoner voting rights
Legal News Center 12/29/2006The State of California has decided not to appeal a December 21st decision of the California 1st District Court of Appeal restoring voting rights to approximately 100,000 inmates serving a year or less for felony convictions in local jails. The case,...
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DOJ Asks Federal Court to Bar Tax Preparer
Legal News Center 12/28/2006WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that it has sued a federal income tax preparer in U.S. District Court in Miami seeking to bar her from preparing tax returns for others. According to the government’s civil injunction complaint, T...
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US soldier who disputed Iraq war legality released
Legal News Center 12/24/2006Former US Army Sergeant Ricky Clousing, a paratrooper and interpreter who disputed the legality of the war in Iraq, was released Saturday from a military prison where he was serving a three-month sentence after pleading guilty to going absent without...
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SEC settles with former Tyco exec, charges 2 others
Legal News Center 12/22/2006Former Tyco executive Richard "Skip" Heger reached a $450,000 settlement on financial reporting and record-keeping charges, the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday. The charges are connected to a fraud case in which Tyco ag...
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State to pay legal fees in video-game lawsuit
Legal News Center 12/19/2006Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration told a federal judge Monday night that it will pay legal fees in a lost lawsuit over video-game restrictions by late January.Lawyers for Blagojevich and Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan said they had decided to pay the $5...