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  • Driver pleads guilty in deadly bus stop crash

    Driver pleads guilty in deadly bus stop crash

    Headline Legal News 03/10/2014

    A driver who plowed into a Riverside bus stop, killing a woman and a 7-year-old girl, has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. The Press-Enterprise reports 46-year-old Joe Williams was ordered Thursday to serve six months in custody of the She...

  • Two men found guilty for selling U.S. company’s technology

    Two men found guilty for selling U.S. company’s technology

    Recent Cases 03/07/2014

    A federal jury found two men guilty Wednesday of economic espionage involving the theft and sale of a U.S. company’s technology to a competitor controlled by the Chinese government. The jury returned the verdicts against Robert Maegerle and Walter Li...

  • Fla. high court: Immigrant can't get law license

    Fla. high court: Immigrant can't get law license

    National News 03/07/2014

    The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that immigrants in the country illegally can't be given a license to practice law. The question was raised when a man who moved here from Mexico when he was 9 years old sought a license in Florida. The court said T...

  • Court: Broad protection for whistleblowers

    Court: Broad protection for whistleblowers

    Legal Events 03/05/2014

    The Supreme Court says whistleblower protections in a federal law passed in response to the Enron financial scandal apply broadly to employees of publicly traded companies and contractors hired by the companies. The justices ruled 6-3 Tuesday in favo...

  • Court weighs securities fraud class-action cases

    Court weighs securities fraud class-action cases

    National News 03/05/2014

    The Supreme Court is considering whether to abandon a quarter-century of precedent and make it tougher for investors to band together to sue corporations for securities fraud. The justices hear arguments Wednesday in an appeal by Halliburton Co. that...

  • Court: School ban of US flag shirts allowed

    Court: School ban of US flag shirts allowed

    National News 02/28/2014

    A Northern California high school's decision to order students wearing American flag T-shirts to turn the garments inside out during a celebration of the holiday Cinco de Mayo was appropriate, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 9th U.S. Circ...

  • Supreme Court allows Stanford Ponzi scheme suits

    Supreme Court allows Stanford Ponzi scheme suits

    Recent Cases 02/28/2014

    The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that victims of former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford's massive Ponzi scheme can go forward with class-action lawsuits against the law firms, accountants and investment companies that allegedly aided the $7.2 billion...

  • Arizona high court bars cuts to public pensions

    Arizona high court bars cuts to public pensions

    Headline Legal News 02/24/2014

    The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Legislature can't cut cost-of-living increases promised to judges and state elected officials. The court unanimously upheld a Superior Court judge's ruling in favor of retired judges who challenged th...

  • Court: Spain can extradite Liberty Reserve founder

    Court: Spain can extradite Liberty Reserve founder

    National News 02/24/2014

    A Spanish court has ruled that a man accused of being behind one of the world’s biggest money laundering businesses can be extradited to the U.S. to face charges there. Arthur Budovsky, who founded currency transfer and payment processing company Lib...

  • Fight over gay marriage moving to federal courts

    Fight over gay marriage moving to federal courts

    Headline Legal News 02/20/2014

    The overturning of Virginia’s gay marriage ban places the legal fight over same-sex unions increasingly in the hands of federal appeals courts shaped by President Barack Obama’s two election victories. It’s no accident that Virginia has become a key ...

  • Supreme Court affirms pipeline value decision

    Supreme Court affirms pipeline value decision

    Headline Legal News 02/20/2014

    The Alaska Supreme Court on Wednesday handed Alaska municipalities a victory in a dispute over the value of the trans-Alaska pipeline, affirming that the structure for 2006 should have been valued at nearly $10 billion, not the $850 million claimed b...

  • Appeals court reinstates BP shareholders' lawsuit

    Appeals court reinstates BP shareholders' lawsuit

    National News 02/18/2014

    A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated a shareholders lawsuit filed against BP Alaska in the wake of two oil spills in 2006 on the North Slope that exposed problems with the company's pipeline maintenance program. A three-judge panel of the 9...

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