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  • Gingrich assails judges as he courts conservatives

    Gingrich assails judges as he courts conservatives

    Headline Legal News 12/20/2011

    As he works to rev up his conservative base in Iowa with just two weeks to go until the state's caucuses, Newt Gingrich is launching a full-throated assault on a reliable GOP target: judges. There is little love for the judicial branch among the Repu...

  • Operative gets prison for bilking NYC mayor

    Operative gets prison for bilking NYC mayor

    Headline Legal News 12/19/2011

    A political operative convicted of bamboozling Mayor Michael Bloomberg out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced to prison Monday un a case that brought the billionaire politician to the witness stand and gave the public a behind-the-scen...

  • Court hearing set in White House shooting case

    Court hearing set in White House shooting case

    Headline Legal News 12/16/2011

    A man accused of firing shots at the White House in an alleged assassination attempt of President Barack Obama is due in court. A hearing in federal court in Washington on Friday will focus on the mental health of Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, who's...

  • Next ICC prosecutor warns against sex crimes

    Next ICC prosecutor warns against sex crimes

    Headline Legal News 12/14/2011

    The next chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court pledged Tuesday to strengthen efforts to bring to justice the perpetrators of sexual and gender crimes. A day after her election by the 119 countries that support the tribunal, Gambian law...

  • High court to review tough Arizona immigration law

    High court to review tough Arizona immigration law

    Headline Legal News 12/13/2011

    The Supreme Court stepped into the fight Monday over a tough Arizona law that requires local police to help enforce federal immigration laws — pushing the court deeper into hot, partisan issues of the 2012 election campaign. The court's election-year...

  • CA same-sex marriage ban gets another day in court

    CA same-sex marriage ban gets another day in court

    Headline Legal News 12/09/2011

    The sponsors of California's gay marriage ban renewed their effort Thursday to disqualify a federal judge because of his same-sex relationship, but they met a skeptical audience in an appeals court panel. It's the first time an American jurist's sexu...

  • Appeals court blocks cement plant pollution rule

    Appeals court blocks cement plant pollution rule

    Headline Legal News 12/09/2011

    A federal appeals court is blocking an Environmental Protection Agency rule designed to reduce pollution at cement plants. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington agreed with cement makers that the EPA did not properly draft th...

  • Political aide to former Md. governor found guilty

    Political aide to former Md. governor found guilty

    Headline Legal News 12/07/2011

    A political aide to former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to use election-day robocalls in an effort to suppress black voter turnout during the 2010 gubernatorial election. Paul Schurick was found guilty of all four ...

  • CARRIER iQ, Inc. Sued in Class Action

    CARRIER iQ, Inc. Sued in Class Action

    Headline Legal News 12/05/2011

    New York City based Horwitz, Horwitz & Paradis, Attorneys at Law and Los Angeles based Kiesel Boucher & Larson LLP announced this morning that they have filed a nationwide class action lawsuit against Mountain View, California based CARRIER i...

  • Court reviews Ga. firing of transgender woman

    Court reviews Ga. firing of transgender woman

    Headline Legal News 12/01/2011

    A federal appeals court is considering whether a former Georgia state legislative aide who was fired amid her sex change was the target of sexual discrimination. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday heard the case of Vandy Beth Glenn, w...

  • Court to look at overtime pay for drug sales reps

    Court to look at overtime pay for drug sales reps

    Headline Legal News 11/28/2011

    The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether pharmaceutical sales representatives can bill their employers for overtime, a case that could affect the pay of tens of thousands of people. The court said Monday that it will review a federal appeals ...

  • Defendant in $670M scam enters guilty plea in Va.

    Defendant in $670M scam enters guilty plea in Va.

    Headline Legal News 11/22/2011

    A man who cooked the books for a $670 million insurance industry scam pleaded guilty Monday to charges he helped mislead thousands of investors worldwide. Jorge Luis Castillo, 56, Hackettstown, N.J., entered pleas in U.S. District Court to conspiring...

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