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  • NY court rejects $18M class action writers deal

    NY court rejects $18M class action writers deal

    Headline Legal News 08/18/2011

    A federal appeals court in New York has rejected an $18 million class action settlement reached after freelance writers sued publishers. The writers had said their copyrights were infringed upon when their works were reprinted online without permissi...

  • Former CEO guilty in 'Ponzi' scheme

    Former CEO guilty in 'Ponzi' scheme

    Headline Legal News 08/18/2011

    The former CEO of an Austin-based investment firm was found guilty on Wednesday on federal charges that he schemed and defrauded investors out of millions of dollars. Triton Financial CEO Kurt Branham Barton was named in a 39-count indictment allegin...

  • Man found guilty in Atlanta of killing boxer

    Man found guilty in Atlanta of killing boxer

    Headline Legal News 08/18/2011

    A Fulton County jury has found DeMario Ware guilty of felony murder and other charges in the shooting of former world champion boxer Vernon Forrest. The jury acquitted Ware on a malice murder charge. The 22-year-old Ware did not fire the gun that kil...

  • 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...

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