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  • California high court to decide defibrillator case

    California high court to decide defibrillator case

    Legal News 06/23/2014

    The California Supreme Court will decide whether large retailers in the state are required to have defibrillators on hand to help treat customers and workers who suffer sudden cardiac arrest.The high court said it will issue an opinion Monday morning...

  • California high court to decide defibrillator case

    California high court to decide defibrillator case

    Practice Legal News 06/23/2014

    The California Supreme Court will decide whether large retailers in the state are required to have defibrillators on hand to help treat customers and workers who suffer sudden cardiac arrest.The high court said it will issue an opinion Monday morning...

  • California high court to decide defibrillator case

    California high court to decide defibrillator case

    Political and Legal News 06/23/2014

    The California Supreme Court will decide whether large retailers in the state are required to have defibrillators on hand to help treat customers and workers who suffer sudden cardiac arrest.The high court said it will issue an opinion Monday morning...

  • Appeals court to review approval of BP settlement

    Appeals court to review approval of BP settlement

    Practice Legal News 11/03/2013

    A year ago, lawyers for BP and Gulf Coast residents and businesses took turns urging a federal judge to approve their settlement for compensating victims of the company's massive 2010 oil spill. On Monday, however, the one-time allies will be at odds...

  • German Court Begins Hearing Afghan Airstrike Case

    German Court Begins Hearing Afghan Airstrike Case

    Lawyer News 11/03/2013

    A court in Germany has begun hearing a civil case brought by relatives of some of the 91 Afghans killed in a NATO airstrike four years ago. Bonn regional court spokesman Philipp Prietze said Wednesday that the court reviewed video recorded by two U.S...

  • Lawyer says LA police shot women without warning

    Lawyer says LA police shot women without warning

    Daily Legal News 02/12/2013

    A lawyer says two women delivering newspapers had no warning before they were mistakenly shot by Los Angeles police officers searching for triple murder suspect Christopher Dorner. Investigators say 47-year-old Maggie Carranza and her 71-year-old mot...

  • Law firm: Phoenix lawyer dies from shooting wounds

    Law firm: Phoenix lawyer dies from shooting wounds

    Daily Legal News 02/01/2013

    A lawyer wounded by a gunman in a Phoenix office shooting this week has died, the second of three people hit by gunfire in the attack, the publicist for his law firm said Friday. Mark Hummels, 43, had been on life support at a Phoenix hospital after ...

  • Alabama terror suspects pleads not guilty

    Alabama terror suspects pleads not guilty

    Daily Legal News 12/27/2012

    A Mobile man pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of providing support to international terrorists. U.S. Magistrate Judge Katherine Nelson set a tentative trial date of March 3 for Randy Lamar Rasheed Wilson, 25. But everyone involved in the ca...

  • Mont. can pursue ex-billionaire bankruptcy

    Mont. can pursue ex-billionaire bankruptcy

    Daily Legal News 12/20/2012

    Montana's bid to force ultra-luxury resort founder Tim Blixseth into bankruptcy and make him come up with up $57 million in purported back taxes has been resurrected by an appeals court ruling in the case. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit ...

  • Campaigns lawyered up for election overtime chance

    Campaigns lawyered up for election overtime chance

    Politics 11/06/2012

    Legions of lawyers are ready to enter the fray in case Election Day turns on a legal challenge. One nightmare scenario would be for the results in a battleground state like Florida or Ohio to be too close to call, with thousands of absentee or provis...

  • Campaigns lawyered up for election overtime chance

    Campaigns lawyered up for election overtime chance

    Legal Review 11/06/2012

    Legions of lawyers are ready to enter the fray in case Election Day turns on a legal challenge. One nightmare scenario would be for the results in a battleground state like Florida or Ohio to be too close to call, with thousands of absentee or provis...

  • NY court: Lap dances are not art and are taxable

    NY court: Lap dances are not art and are taxable

    Daily Legal News 10/25/2012

    Lap dances are taxable because they don't promote culture in a community the way ballet or other artistic endeavors do, New York's highest court concluded Tuesday in a sharply divided ruling. The court split 4-3, with the dissenting judges saying the...