Recent Updates
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Court sends back Buddhist temple killing case
11/02/2010A man accused of killing nine people at a Buddhist temple near Phoenix as a juvenile will have the federal courts reconsider his overturned conviction. The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the lower courts to re-examine the thrown-out murder convicti...
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Lawsuit filed in Utah tour bus crash
11/02/2010The driver of a van and a tour operator have been sued over a crash in Utah that killed three Japanese tourists and injured 11 others. The Salt Lake Tribune says the lawsuit filed Friday in federal court claims passenger Kei Maeda has suffered incomp...
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Man guilty of stealing $340K in copper
11/02/2010An Annapolis man admitted yesterday that he stole more than $340,000 of copper cable intended for use in the construction of unmanned drones destined for U.S. foreign military operations - possibly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Levon Smith, 54, faces up t...
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3 plead not guilty to Calif. can recycling fraud
11/02/2010Three people charged with bilking the state's recycling program out of $7 million by importing cans from Arizona pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Howard Leveson, 68, the owner of Perris Valley Recycling, and two of his employees entered their pleas to a...
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Supreme Court strikes down NO cameras
11/02/2010The Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld a judge's order invalidating traffic tickets issued through New Orleans' red-light and speed-enforcement camera system The court's 6-0 vote on Wednesday could create a budget problem for the city, which collecte...
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Law firm drops Adorno's name after suspension .
Lawyer News 11/02/2010Hank Adorno's law firm has dropped his name from the letterhead. Adorno & Yoss, which Adorno founded in 1986 with two other lawyers, announced Monday it was officially changing its name to Yoss LLP following Adorno's suspension by the Florida Sup...
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Law Firms Orrick and Akin Gump End Merger Talks
Lawyer News 11/02/2010The big law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has seen its share of merger discussions fizzle out in recent years. Add its talks with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to the list. Less than a week after confirming that they were in preliminar...
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Jones Day law firm expanding into Brazil
Lawyer News 11/02/2010The Jones Day law firm said today it will open an office in Brazil, one of the world's fastest-growing economies. The office will be Jones Day's 33rd and its second in Latin America after Mexico City. The Sao Paulo office will support global clients ...
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Richard B. Thomas Promoted to Associate
Lawyer News 11/02/2010Richard B. Thomas, a long-time patent engineer with Armstrong Teasdale LLP, has become an associate in the law firm’s Intellectual Property practice group. With Thomas’ promotion, the firm expands its Intellectual Property group to 70 people. Much of...
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Marc D. Goldstein Joins Law Firm of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman
Lawyer News 11/02/2010Marc D. Goldstein has joined the law firm of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C., as an associate focusing his legal practice in the areas of Labor and Employment Law, and Government Relations. Mr. Goldstein earned a J.D. degree from Washington Univer...
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Rambus says FTC has dropped antitrust claims
Daily Legal News 11/02/2010Rambus Inc. said Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission has dropped its claim that the memory chip company violated antitrust laws in patenting technologies that were eventually incorporated into industry standards. The company's shares jumped 14...
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Court dismisses credit-reporting antitrust claims
Daily Legal News 11/02/2010Two of the three U.S. credit- reporting companies, TransUnion LLC and Experian PLC, won a court bid to dismiss antitrust claims filed by credit-score provider Fair Isaac Corp. U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery in Minneapolis granted a motion July 24...