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  • Mo. man pleads guilty in 10-fatality Okla. wreck

    Mo. man pleads guilty in 10-fatality Okla. wreck

    Headline Legal News 08/03/2010

    A former Missouri truck driver charged in the deaths of 10 people in a northeast Oklahoma traffic collision has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and 10 years probation.Ottawa County District Attorney Eddie Wyant said in a statement that 77-year-old ...

  • Murder conviction of mom reversed in California

    Murder conviction of mom reversed in California

    Headline Legal News 08/03/2010

    An appeals court panel has reversed the murder conviction of a mother accused of driving her teenage son and his friends to a Southern California park where a 13-year-old rival gang member was stabbed to death.The 2nd District Court of Appeal panel r...

  • Judge delays injunction in Neb. immigration suits

    Judge delays injunction in Neb. immigration suits

    Headline Legal News 07/29/2010

    A judge says she's not sure whether lawsuits filed to block a Nebraska city's ban on hiring and renting to illegal immigrants should be heard in federal or state court.U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp on Wednesday gave attorneys for the American...

  • Goldman Allowed to Keep Issuing Securities

    Goldman Allowed to Keep Issuing Securities

    Headline Legal News 07/27/2010

    Goldman Sachs will remain qualified as an issuer of securities after settling civil fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission this month, the agency ruled.In a letter to Goldman’s legal counsel at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell,...

  • Court grants bail to jailed ex-media mogul Black

    Court grants bail to jailed ex-media mogul Black

    Headline Legal News 07/20/2010

    Conrad Black, the brash former newspaper magnate who lived extravagantly before his 2007 federal conviction for defrauding shareholders, may soon be released from a Florida prison after a federal appeals court granted him bail Monday.The ruling from ...

  • Self Representation Hurting Individual Cases, Courts, Say Judges

    Self Representation Hurting Individual Cases, Courts, Say Judges

    Headline Legal News 07/12/2010

    In a survey released today by the American Bar Association, judges indicated that a lack of representation in civil matters is hurting those individuals’ cases, and is negatively impacting courtrooms. Approximately 1,000 state trial judges responded ...

  • Ore. trial court to reconsider $100M tobacco case

    Ore. trial court to reconsider $100M tobacco case

    Headline Legal News 06/28/2010

    The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that Philip Morris does not have to pay $100 million in punitive damages to the family of a smoker who sued the tobacco giant over its low-tar cigarettes.The case, however, is going to another jury to decide just ho...

  • Major Class Action Settlement Hung Up Over Legal Fees

    Major Class Action Settlement Hung Up Over Legal Fees

    Headline Legal News 06/21/2010

    Congressional approval of one of the largest class action settlements in U.S. history is getting hung up on the issue of legal fees for plaintiffs lawyers. The $3.4 billion Indian trusts settlement agreed to in December could be scuttled if Congress ...

  • US court tosses protester's arrest at Liberty Bell

    US court tosses protester's arrest at Liberty Bell

    Headline Legal News 06/21/2010

    An anti-abortion protester arrested in 2007 had a First Amendment right to demonstrate on a sidewalk near the entrance the building that houses the Liberty Bell, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.The decision overturns lower-court rulings that ...

  • Calif. high court to hear church's property appeal

    Calif. high court to hear church's property appeal

    Headline Legal News 06/14/2010

    The California Supreme Court has decided to hear an Orange County church's appeal to keep its beachfront church property, despite breaking away from the main Episcopal Church. St. James Anglican Church, a theologically conservative breakaway church, ...

  • Ex-lawyer faces sentencing for Ponzi scheme

    Ex-lawyer faces sentencing for Ponzi scheme

    Headline Legal News 06/09/2010

    The sentence was more than the 40 years federal prosecutors had recommended for Rothstein, a disbarred lawyer who pleaded guilty to racketeering and fraud conspiracy charges in January.He had faced up to 100 years in prison but his lawyer had asked U...

  • US defends attending Sudan leader's inauguration

    US defends attending Sudan leader's inauguration

    Headline Legal News 05/28/2010

    The Obama administration is defending its decision to send a representative to the inauguration of Sudan's president, who won re-election despite facing an international arrest warrant for war crimes.Omar al-Bashir was sworn in Thursday to another fi...

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