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  • EPA settles with owners of Mass. chemical plant

    EPA settles with owners of Mass. chemical plant

    Headline Legal News 08/17/2011

    The owners of a suburban Massachusetts chemical plant that exploded in 2006, destroying dozens of homes, have agreed to pay the federal government an estimated $1.3 million to help cover the cost of cleaning up the hazardous waste that was left behin...

  • 2 enter guilty pleas in GOP corruption case

    2 enter guilty pleas in GOP corruption case

    Headline Legal News 08/16/2011

    Two people who worked for former House Speaker John Perzel have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a public corruption investigation of the House Republican Caucus. Samuel Stokes, a former House employee and brother-in-law to Perzel, pleaded gui...

  • Lawyer: 'Jeopardy!' burglary suspect a prostitute

    Lawyer: 'Jeopardy!' burglary suspect a prostitute

    Headline Legal News 08/12/2011

    The lawyer for a San Francisco woman charged with breaking into the hotel room of "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek says his client is a prostitute, not a thief. The San Francisco Examiner reports that attorney Mark Jacobs says his client, 56-year-old Luc...

  • Miss. judge suspended for misconduct

    Miss. judge suspended for misconduct

    Headline Legal News 08/12/2011

    The Mississippi Supreme Court has suspended Alcorn County Justice Court Judge Jimmy McGee for misconduct. The Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance had accused McGee of interfering with a criminal case and making "statements in open court en...

  • Ariz. governor on deadline for immigration appeal

    Ariz. governor on deadline for immigration appeal

    Headline Legal News 08/10/2011

    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer faces a Wednesday deadline for asking the U.S. Supreme Court to accept her appeal of a ruling that put on hold key parts of the state's immigration enforcement law. The Republican governor lost her first attempt to throw out a...

  • Pozen says Texas court upholds Treximet patents

    Pozen says Texas court upholds Treximet patents

    Headline Legal News 08/09/2011

    Drug developer Pozen Inc. said Monday that a Texas court upheld three patents supporting its migraine drug Treximet. Pozen said the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that the patents were valid. The court also found that gen...

  • Lawyer pleads guilty to $47 million Ponzi scheme

    Lawyer pleads guilty to $47 million Ponzi scheme

    Headline Legal News 08/05/2011

    An Arkansas lawyer and businessman admitted today to staging a Ponzi scheme that netted more than $47 million, a scam that a prosecutor called the largest case of fraud in state history. Kevin Lewis, 43, pleaded guilty today to one count of bank frau...

  • Kansas workers seek to bar immigration questions

    Kansas workers seek to bar immigration questions

    Headline Legal News 08/03/2011

    Workers who filed a class-action lawsuit against a Kansas slaughterhouse for unpaid wages and overtime have asked a federal judge to bar Creekstone Farms Premium Beef from discovering their immigration status during the litigation. The employees have...

  • DeMocker defense says former lawyer will keep mum

    DeMocker defense says former lawyer will keep mum

    Headline Legal News 08/01/2011

    Lawyers for a Prescott stockbroker facing a murder retrial say they won't allow his former defense attorney to give a deposition in the case. John Sears is one of two attorneys who quit Steven DeMocker's case in October, citing a conflict of interest...

  • Court reverses conviction on online Obama threat

    Court reverses conviction on online Obama threat

    Headline Legal News 07/20/2011

    A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a man who posted Internet messages threatening Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Walter ...

  • Fresno DA charges woman after deadly bus crash

    Fresno DA charges woman after deadly bus crash

    Headline Legal News 07/20/2011

    A woman accused of providing alcohol to a teenage driver who caused a deadly Greyhound bus crash has been charged with a misdemeanor, officials said Tuesday. Michelle Kay Cole, 22, was charged with purchasing an alcoholic beverage for a person under ...

  • Challenge to visa lottery dismissed by judge

    Challenge to visa lottery dismissed by judge

    Headline Legal News 07/15/2011

    In a blow to thousands of hopeful would-be immigrants who had been told they'd won a chance to apply for a green card, a federal judge ruled that the State Department can toss out the results of its May visa lottery, which were deemed invalid because...

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