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  • Talk About A Jury Of Peers ...

    Talk About A Jury Of Peers ...

    Recent Cases 05/09/2008

    A woman in the jury pool for a marijuana trial failed to return from a break because she was arrested for allegedly smoking a joint outside the courthouse, the judge told the Houston Chronicle. Criminal Court at Law Judge Sherman Ross told the newspa...

  • Taxpayers Challenge $7.4 Billion Prison Bond

    Taxpayers Challenge $7.4 Billion Prison Bond

    Recent Cases 05/07/2008

    The State of California illegally approved issuance of $7.4 billion in "lease-revenue bonds" to build facilities for 53,000 more state and county prisoners, Californians United for a Responsible Budget claims in Superior Court. Plaintiffs CURB and in...

  • Class Claims Wells Fargo Forecloses Illegally

    Class Claims Wells Fargo Forecloses Illegally

    Recent Cases 05/01/2008

    Wells Fargo Home Mortgage illegally forecloses on homes by falsely accusing homebuyers who have filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy of being delinquent on their mortgages, by falsely inflated amounts, by assessing "hundreds of millions of dollars" for il...

  • Court Revives Suit Over New Year's Party Arrests

    Court Revives Suit Over New Year's Party Arrests

    Recent Cases 04/30/2008

    The 11th Circuit reinstated their lawsuit over the events that led deputies to arrest and Taser the lead guitarist for the rock band Rush and his son during a 2003 New Year's Eve party at a Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Florida, after the father-son duo made...

  • Michael Douglas Owes Him $1M, Pal Says

    Michael Douglas Owes Him $1M, Pal Says

    Recent Cases 04/29/2008

    Actor-producer Howard Zuker says Michael Douglas forced him out of the company the two men co-founded, American Entertainment Holding Co., owing him a promised $1 million bonus. Zuker appeared under the name Zach Norman in "Romancing the Stone," "Nig...

  • Booksellers Challenge Oregon Censorship Law

    Booksellers Challenge Oregon Censorship Law

    Recent Cases 04/28/2008

    An Oregon law that prohibits distribution of sexually explicit material to minors interferes with the right to provide materials protected by the First Amendment, Powell's Books, other booksellers and Planned Parenthood claim in Federal Court. Oregon...

  • Anatomy of a Deal Gone South

    Anatomy of a Deal Gone South

    Recent Cases 04/25/2008

    When Peter Ehrenberg testified in a Georgetown, Del., courtroom in December, it marked a first in the Lowenstein Sandler M&A partner's 34-year career. Never before had he taken the witness stand to defend one of his contracts. Then again, nothing...

  • Film Editor Says He Was Cheated

    Film Editor Says He Was Cheated

    Recent Cases 04/24/2008

    Damien Leveck, a film editor, claims Paulist Productions and Forgiveness LLC defrauded him of wages and wrongfully fired him while he worked on a film called "Forgiveness." In his Superior Court claim, Leveck says he worked as a creative adviser for ...

  • Police Maliciously Set Him Up, Doctor Says

    Police Maliciously Set Him Up, Doctor Says

    Recent Cases 04/23/2008

    The Melbourne Police Department trained people to pose as patients seeking medical treatment for nonexistent illnesses, provided them with false medical records, trained them to give false medical histories, then sent them to walk-in clinics and arre...

  • Supreme Court To Hear Uranium Trade Case

    Supreme Court To Hear Uranium Trade Case

    Recent Cases 04/22/2008

    The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether uranium enriched in France and imported to the United States for use in nuclear power plants is subject to U.S. trade laws. Eurodif SA, a French uranium-enrichment company, and U.S. utility companies ...

  • Jurors' Complaints Bring Mistrial

    Jurors' Complaints Bring Mistrial

    Recent Cases 04/18/2008

    In an extraordinary case of a jury room dispute spilling into public view, a Suffolk Superior Court jury was dismissed yesterday after a male juror was accused of sexually harassing several women on the panel during lengthy deliberations in a 2004 mu...

  • Judge says Parmalat fraud suit can proceed

    Judge says Parmalat fraud suit can proceed

    Recent Cases 04/16/2008

    A New Jersey Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that a $7 billion lawsuit filed by Italian dairy giant Parmalat SpA against Citigroup could go forward on a claim that Citigroup aided and abetted former Parmalat executives in misappropriating company ...

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