Recent Updates
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Court to hear Arizona immigration law challenge
U.S. Court News 06/28/2010The nation's highest court agreed to decide whether the 2007 state law infringed on federal immigration powers and should be struck down.The law at issue in the case is different from the strict new Arizona immigration law passed earlier this year an...
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Fla. homeowners lose beach dispute at high court
U.S. Court News 06/21/2010The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Florida can undertake beach-widening projects without paying beachfront property owners who lose exclusive access to the water.The court, by an 8-0 vote, rejected a challenge by six homeowners in Florida's Pan...
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Jackson doctor fighting to keep medical license
U.S. Court News 06/14/2010Nearly a year after he went from anonymity to notoriety, Michael Jackson's doctor returns to court for a pretrial hearing that will determine when he goes to trial and what he will be able to do in the meantime.Dr. Conrad Murray is likely to face the...
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Former Twin Cities lawyer pleads guilty of cheating firm
U.S. Court News 06/09/2010Former Twin Cities attorney Michael S. Margulies pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to wire fraud, admitting that he embezzled $2 million from his former law firm and its clients. The plea was the result of a deal Margulies, 56, struck with fede...
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Weinberg Law Firm - Dallas Employment Law
U.S. Court News 05/29/2010Overtime claims and compliance Wage and hour matters usually manifest when disgruntled employees feel they have not been compensated properly for their work. Often, wage and hour matters are brought forth by employees who have been terminated, ...
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Stevens denies Blagojevich request for delay
U.S. Court News 05/29/2010The Supreme Court on Friday refused to delay ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's trial on corruption charges, set to begin next week.Justice John Paul Stevens rejected Blagojevich's request without comment. His decision came shortly after the Obam...
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As immigration fades, Emanuel role under scrutiny
U.S. Court News 05/24/2010Prospects for an immigration overhaul are fizzling this year and some Democratic lawmakers are focusing blame on the pugnacious Democratic operative who works just down the hall from President Obama.Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff and longti...
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Starbucks Sued over "Unreasonably" Hot Tea
U.S. Court News 05/17/2010Starbucks Corp has been sued by a customer who allegedly suffered second-degree burns after being served tea that was too hot.According to the complaint, the plaintiff Zeynep Inanli was served tea that was "unreasonably hot, in containers which were ...
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WilmerHale moving support staff to Ohio
U.S. Court News 05/03/2010WilmerHale announced last week it was relocating its administrative support base to a new campus in Dayton, Ohio, as it seeks to streamline internal business operations across its many offices. When the business services center opens in September, it...
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Court won't hear appeal on Boy Scouts land rental
U.S. Court News 05/03/2010The Supreme Court will let stand a ruling saying the Boy Scouts cannot lease city-owned parkland in San Diego.The court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from San Diego-area Boy Scouts who have traditionally leased Balboa Park camp space.Federal ju...
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Howrey law firm shifts pay, development of entry-level attorneys
U.S. Court News 04/28/2010When the Howrey law firm called its incoming associates into a conference room last June to announce it was breaking from industry custom and changing the role of its entry-level attorneys, there was a fair amount of apprehension. After all, the news...
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Poll: 4 out of 5 Americans don't trust Washington
U.S. Court News 04/19/2010America's "Great Compromiser" Henry Clay called government "the great trust," but most Americans today have little faith in Washington's ability to deal with the nation's problems.Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a ha...