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  • Court weighs warrantless blood tests in DUI cases

    Court weighs warrantless blood tests in DUI cases

    Legal Events 01/09/2013

    The Supreme Court is considering whether police must get a warrant before ordering a blood test on an unwilling drunken-driving suspect. The justices heard arguments Wednesday in a case involving a disputed blood test from Missouri. Police stopped a ...

  • RI court to hear arguments in pension case

    RI court to hear arguments in pension case

    Trial Coverage 12/10/2012

    Attorneys for the state of Rhode Island will ask a judge to dismiss a legal challenge to the state's landmark pension overhaul filed by public-sector unions. The hearing in Judge Sarah Taft-Carter's Providence courtroom on Friday is the highest profi...

  • Fla. to execute mass killer after court lifts stay

    Fla. to execute mass killer after court lifts stay

    Legal Events 10/27/2012

    A convicted mass killer from the 1970s is again scheduled for execution Tuesday after an appeals court lifted a last-minute stay that was based on his mental illness. His attorneys sought a last-minute reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court. The execut...

  • Retail group against revised card settlement

    Retail group against revised card settlement

    Legal Marketing 10/25/2012

    A proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by retailers and trade groups against Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. fails to protect merchants from abuse by credit card companies, a national retail group says. The lawsuit, which dates to 2005...

  • Lawyer: Bahrain court postpones activist's appeal

    Lawyer: Bahrain court postpones activist's appeal

    Notable Attorneys 10/22/2012

    A defense lawyer in Bahrain says a court has prolonged the appeal of an imprisoned human rights activist by ordering another hearing next month. Nabeel Rajab is challenging his three-year prison sentence for allegedly encouraging illegal protests and...

  • Supreme Court views not 'liberal or conservative'

    Supreme Court views not 'liberal or conservative'

    Legal Events 10/19/2012

    U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that people shouldn't think the high court's justices make decisions in terms of a liberal or conservative agenda. Roberts told a crowd of nearly 4,800 people at Rice University in Houston ...

  • The Rosen Law Firm Announces Securities Class Action

    The Rosen Law Firm Announces Securities Class Action

    U.S. Court News 10/13/2012

    The Rosen Law Firm, P.A. today announced that a class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased OCZ (OCZ) common stock or call options, or sold OCZ put options, between July 10, 2012 and October 10, 2012, inclus...

  • 2 King Co. candidates vying for Attorney General

    2 King Co. candidates vying for Attorney General

    Notable Attorneys 10/10/2012

    The two men competing to be Washington's next attorney general are co-workers, but that's about as much similarity King County Councilmen Reagan Dunn and Bob Ferguson will admit to. Dunn, a Republican, and the Democrat Ferguson have been trying to dr...

  • Ex-NFL WR Hurd pleads not guilty to new charges

    Ex-NFL WR Hurd pleads not guilty to new charges

    Legal Events 10/08/2012

    Former NFL receiver Sam Hurd pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new indictment accusing him of trying to obtain cocaine and marijuana while he was out on bond awaiting trial on charges of trying to start a drug ring in the Chicago area. The indictment...

  • Illegal immigrant in Fla. fights for law license

    Illegal immigrant in Fla. fights for law license

    Bar Associations 10/05/2012

    A Florida man's bid to become the first illegal immigrant to obtain a law license in the United States met skepticism Tuesday from most of the state's Supreme Court justices. Jose Godinez-Samperio came to the U.S. with his parents on visitors' visas ...

  • Federal court upholds Texas open meetings law

    Federal court upholds Texas open meetings law

    Legal Events 09/29/2012

    A federal appeals court has upheld Texas' open meetings law as constitutional, rejecting a lawsuit that argued it stifled free speech for government officials. The 1967 Texas Open Meetings Act prohibits a quorum of members of a governmental body from...

  • Mo. high court hears arguments on incentive fund

    Mo. high court hears arguments on incentive fund

    Recent Cases 09/22/2012

    Missouri Supreme Court judges are weighing two potentially contradictory sections of legislation while deciding whether a new law creating an incentive fund for high-tech businesses can take effect. Arguments Wednesday before the high court focused o...

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