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  • 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 ...

  • NY appeals court denies bail in cannibalism case

    NY appeals court denies bail in cannibalism case

    01/17/2013

    A federal appeals court has denied bail for a New York City police officer charged with conspiring to rape, kill and eat women. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied bail for Gilberto Valle (VAL'-ee) on Tuesday. Attorney Edward Zas argued for ...

  • NY appeals court denies bail in cannibalism case

    NY appeals court denies bail in cannibalism case

    01/17/2013

    A federal appeals court has denied bail for a New York City police officer charged with conspiring to rape, kill and eat women. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied bail for Gilberto Valle (VAL'-ee) on Tuesday. Attorney Edward Zas argued for ...

  • Court: Judges cannot indefinitely delay appeals

    Court: Judges cannot indefinitely delay appeals

    01/10/2013

    The Supreme Court says federal judges cannot indefinitely delay a death row inmate's federal appeals to see if the convict can become mentally competent enough to help his lawyer. The high court unanimously ruled Tuesday against Arizona death row inm...

  • 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...

  • Court date postponed in Hines Ward extortion case

    Court date postponed in Hines Ward extortion case

    Legal Review 10/25/2012

    A preliminary hearing for a man charged with trying to extort $15,000 from former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward was postponed Tuesday until Dec. 3 at the request of his attorney. Defense attorney David Shrager said he needed more time ...

  • Italian court convicts 7 for no quake warning

    Italian court convicts 7 for no quake warning

    10/25/2012

    Defying assertions that earthquakes cannot be predicted, an Italian court convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter Monday for failing to adequately warn residents before a temblor struck central Italy in 2009 and killed more than 300 pe...