Recent Updates
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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 ...
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Court sides with Wyoming in dispute with Montana
05/02/2011The Supreme Court says Wyoming is not taking too much water from a river system it shares with Montana.The high court on Monday turned away Montana's complaint that Wyoming is taking too much water from the Tongue and Powder rivers in violation of a ...
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Wis. judge to look at how union law was passed
04/01/2011Having declared that Wisconsin's divisive union law isn't really a law yet, a judge was set to return to one of the underlying questions dogging the measure — whether Republicans violated the state's open meetings law during the frenzied run-up to pa...
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Liberals Press Obama to Dump GE CEO From Economic Panel
Daily Legal News 04/01/2011Jeffrey Immelt, the head of GE, is facing backlash from left-leaning groups who say that he shouldn’t be on the White House Jobs Council or any other panel in light of reports that the company last year made $14.2 billion in profit, paid zero in corp...
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Tenn. court orders military veteran reinstated to police force
02/07/2011A Tennessee court has ordered an Iraq war veteran reinstated to a police force, two years after he was dismissed for having post-traumatic stress disorder. The Hamilton County Chancery Court ordered Chattanooga to give Mickel Hoback his job back with...