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  • Arpaio to testify about failed investigations

    Arpaio to testify about failed investigations

    Headline Legal News 10/18/2011

    The self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America will appear in court Tuesday to testify about his failed corruption investigations against three public officials who claim the cases were trumped up. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will testify at ...

  • High court appears to favor Ala. death row inmate

    High court appears to favor Ala. death row inmate

    Headline Legal News 10/06/2011

    The tale of returned mail and a missed deadline might seem comical, if it did not involve a man trying to stave off execution. Supreme Court justices had harsh words Tuesday for lawyers who abandon their clients and a state legal system that does not...

  • Court turns away appeal over commandments display

    Court turns away appeal over commandments display

    Headline Legal News 10/04/2011

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of an Ohio judge wanting to display a poster of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom. The display has been covered with a drape since a federal judge ordered Richland County Common Pleas Ju...

  • High court to decide lawyer immunity question

    High court to decide lawyer immunity question

    Headline Legal News 09/27/2011

    The Supreme Court will decide whether private lawyers hired as outside counsels for governments can be sued. The high court on Tuesday agreed to hear lawyer Steve Filarsky's appeal. He was hired by the city of Rialto, Calif., to investigate the possi...

  • Samsung seeks iPhone, iPad sale ban in Dutch court

    Samsung seeks iPhone, iPad sale ban in Dutch court

    Headline Legal News 09/24/2011

    Samsung asked a Dutch court Monday to slap an injunction on Apple Inc. to prevent it from selling iPhones and iPad tablets in the Netherlands, saying Apple does not have licenses to use 3G mobile technology in the devices. The legal battle is the lat...

  • Court rules that UBS trader should stay in custody

    Court rules that UBS trader should stay in custody

    Headline Legal News 09/22/2011

    An alleged rogue trader accused of losing Swiss banking giant UBS about $2.3 billion is "sorry beyond words," his lawyer said Thursday, as a judge ordered him to be held in jail until a hearing next month. Kweku Adoboli, 31, is charged with four offe...

  • Guilty plea for Va. man in $318K Social Security fraud

    Guilty plea for Va. man in $318K Social Security fraud

    Headline Legal News 09/09/2011

    A Bristol man has pleaded guilty to stealing Social Security benefits and making false statements in an attempt to hide the thefts. Seventy-one-year-old David Ross entered the plea Thursday in federal court in Abingdon. Ross faces a sentence of up to...

  • Group seeks appellate action on gays in military

    Group seeks appellate action on gays in military

    Headline Legal News 09/01/2011

    The military's ban on openly gay troops will be lifted within weeks, but the policy can still be re-enacted in the future. That's why a Republican gay rights organization that sued the Obama administration to stop enforcement of the policy says it wi...

  • No choking charges for Wis. Supreme Court justice

    No choking charges for Wis. Supreme Court justice

    Headline Legal News 08/26/2011

    A conservative Wisconsin state Supreme Court justice who staved off an unusually intense campaign to replace him this summer will not face criminal charges over allegations that he tried to choke a liberal colleague, a prosecutor said Thursday. Sauk ...

  • NY court rejects $18M class action writers deal

    NY court rejects $18M class action writers deal

    Headline Legal News 08/18/2011

    A federal appeals court in New York has rejected an $18 million class action settlement reached after freelance writers sued publishers. The writers had said their copyrights were infringed upon when their works were reprinted online without permissi...

  • Former CEO guilty in 'Ponzi' scheme

    Former CEO guilty in 'Ponzi' scheme

    Headline Legal News 08/18/2011

    The former CEO of an Austin-based investment firm was found guilty on Wednesday on federal charges that he schemed and defrauded investors out of millions of dollars. Triton Financial CEO Kurt Branham Barton was named in a 39-count indictment allegin...

  • Man found guilty in Atlanta of killing boxer

    Man found guilty in Atlanta of killing boxer

    Headline Legal News 08/18/2011

    A Fulton County jury has found DeMario Ware guilty of felony murder and other charges in the shooting of former world champion boxer Vernon Forrest. The jury acquitted Ware on a malice murder charge. The 22-year-old Ware did not fire the gun that kil...

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