Recent Updates
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Wash. man pleads guilty to defrauding ID investors
08/16/2011A Washington man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Idaho to cheating investors out of more than $2 million and using the cash for his own benefit.Federal prosecutors say 59-year-old Dale Edward Lowell, of Colbert, Wash., pleaded guilty to one ...
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Appeals court strikes health insurance requirement
08/16/2011A federal appeals court panel on Friday struck down the requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul package that virtually all Americans must carry health insurance or face penalties.The divided three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit ...
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Ex-Harvard student due in court in 2009 shooting
08/16/2011A former Harvard student accused of hiding the gun used in a fatal shooting inside a university dormitory is due in court.Brittany Smith is one of four people who were charged in connection with the shooting of 21-year-old Justin Cosby of Cambridge.S...
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Ex-Delaware pediatrician guilty of child sex abuse
06/25/2011A former Delaware pediatrician who decorated his office with Disney characters and miniature amusement park rides was found guilty Thursday of sexually abusing scores of his young patients.Earl Bradley, 58, recorded homemade videos of the abuse, said...
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Toyota class action suit to start with Utah case
06/25/2011The first lawsuit to go to trial in a massive class action against Toyota Motor Corp. over acceleration problems that led the company to recall 14 million cars will involve a crash that killed two people in western Utah, a federal judge said Friday.U...
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Court says Microsoft must pay in patent case
Daily Legal News 06/11/2011The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Microsoft Corp. must pay a $290 million judgment awarded to a small Toronto software company for infringing on one of its patents inside its popular Microsoft Word program.The high court unanimously refused to th...
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More psych evaluation in castration killing case
05/02/2011A doctor will pay a second visit to a Portuguese model accused of castrating and killing a TV journalist in a Times Square hotel before his lawyer decides whether to pursue a psychiatric defense in the attack.A psychiatrist visited Renato Seabra this...
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Possible plea deal in Ohio abortion gunpoint case
05/02/2011A prosecutor says discussions about a possible plea bargain are under way in the case of an Ohio man accused of trying to force his pregnant girlfriend at gunpoint to get an abortion. Police say 28-year-old Dominic Holt-Reid pulled a gun Oct. 6 on hi...
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Corps halts levee break prep as states argue
Lawyer News 05/02/2011A federal judge hearing arguments over the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' plan to intentionally break a Mississippi River levee left the bench Thursday without making a ruling but indicated he was reluctant to get in the agency's way.U.S. District Jud...
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Supreme Court to hear another arbitration argument
Daily Legal News 05/02/2011The Supreme Court will consider a plea from companies that cater to people with bad credit to keep disputes with their customers out of court and in the more business-friendly forum of arbitration.Days after handing businesses a huge victory by limit...
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Firm hired by GOP ends work on gay marriage ban
Daily Legal News 05/02/2011A prominent law firm hired by Republican lawmakers to defend the federal ban on gay marriage said Monday it was withdrawing from the case amid criticism by advocacy groups, prompting the partner leading the work to quit.The move by Atlanta-based King...
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Bachmann uses Holocaust to illustrate tax point
Lawyer News 05/02/2011Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann on Saturday described the loss of "economic liberty" that young Americans face today as a "flash point of history" in which the younger generation will ask what their elders did to stop it.In a speech to New Hampshire ...