Legal News and Crime Stories Archive
... immigrants and Native Americans that are in the Senate measure. Those exclusions prompted opposition from hundreds of civil rights, religious and law enforcement groups, including the National Organization for Women, the American Bar Association, ...more »
Attorney General Rob McKenna's office says the shoe company will allocate $40 million for refunds and pay $5 million to the 44 states that sued the shoemaker for false advertising. The attorneys general say the commercials for the Sketchers line of ...more »
The OFCCP fi led a complaint, and an Administrative Law Judge ruled in favor of Frito-Lay. The OFCCP appealed to the ARB, which ruled that federal contractors have an ongoing duty to comply with Executive Order 11246 and that the regulations authorize ...more »
The US Chamber of Commerce's latest onslaught of television ads continues to miseducate voters about the potential impact of the health care law. Ads attacking Sen. Bill Nelson and former Rep. Alan Grayson claim that the health care law "could" cause ...more »
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank's Clayton Hovivian, EVP of tenant advisory and law firm practice groups, along with Hank Elder, SVP, represented the law firm in its renewal. In recent years, Hovivian also has assisted the law firm with transactions in New ...more »
By: DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer | AP Emboldened by signals that the US Supreme Court may uphold parts of Arizona's immigration law, legislators and activists across the country say they are gearing up to push for similar get-tough measures in their ...more »
Dr. Wenhua Li has been named Vice President of Administration and will be responsible for Finance and Accounting, HR, Law, IT, General Office, Procurement and Library. Dr. Yulin Shi has been named President of the National Energy Research and ...more »
Last year Clydes attempted to have the action stamped out, telling the High Court that it should be stayed because the firm's partnership deed stipulated any dispute should be settled by alternative dispute resolution means. Mrs Justice Slade rejected ...more »
Health Net, Inc. and its representatives may from time to time make written and oral forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (“PSLRA”) of 1995, including statements in this and other press releases, ...more »
TORONTO - The fate of 16 genetically modified pigs remains undecided, but adopting them out to "loving homes" as requested by an animal-rights group is a non-starter, the University of Guelph said Tuesday. Prof. Rich Moccia, an associate vice-president ...more »
Licensing of Intellectual Property is the definitive treatise in the field. It provides in-depth coverage of not only standard contract provisions, but also the intellectual property, antitrust, misuse, and common-law and unauthorized copying issues ...more »
By RICH CALDER A reputed slumlord who is part of the development team getting slammed over conditions at the moldy, asbestos-laden Chelsea Hotel is taking over the former “Waldorf-Astoria of Brooklyn.” Developer David Bistricer confirmed he's bought ...more »
"An affirmative-action baby. Got the Nobel Prize without deserving it." "An affirmative-action baby" is not an inapt description of the president. A chance to elect the first black president was a major selling point for his campaign, not only among ...more »
AP CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Floyd County attorney says the fatal shooting of a Mason City teenager at a house near Rudd in north-central Iowa was an accident and no charges will be filed. Seventeen-year-old Hunter True was shot on April 22.more »
A better system of enforcement regarding tenancy laws needs to be introduced in the UK, according to one expert. Editor of Landlordzone.co.uk Tom Entwistle claimed that while regulations are sufficient, more needs to be done to ensure they are followed ...more »
There are no real garuntees in sports. He could get hurt on the first play and his career will be gone. irishmist23 • 21 minutes ago Sounds like the man has brains. And prefers to keep them. REUBEN 2 minutes 46 seconds ago Couldn't have said it any ...more »
By Cardinal Health DUBLIN, Ohio, May 15, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Cardinal Health today said it had agreed to a settlement with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) that allows the company to bring resolution to ongoing litigation.more »
Over-payment fraud, the victim receives an invalid monetary instrument with instructions to deposit it in a bank account and send excess funds or a percentage of the deposited money back to the sender. There was no shortage of schemes in the online ...more »
Some military justice insiders argue the way Miller's case was handled, which mirrors changes in civilian law for troubled veterans, should become more common as courts-martial deal with service members affected by battle-zone trauma.more »
The warning comes from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, or the IC3. But it lacks so many key details that security experts wonder if it's of any use. It doesn't say where these attacks have occurred, how prevalent they are, or how exactly ...more »
Scott Sciple, 38, agreed to plead guilty in Hillsborough County on charges of DUI manslaughter and DUI with personal injury. In 2010, Sciple plowed head-on into another car, killing the other driver, a 48-year-old father named Pedro Rivera.more »
They can question whether Enbridge has the right to exercise eminent domain at all.” People also can make a statement of position without becoming a party in the case, according to the notice. To do this, a person can send their comment in written form ...more »
Atchinson attributes the new industry stability to a variety of factors, including state efforts to rein in out-of-control settlements of medical malpractice claims; increased emphasis by physicians and hospitals on patient safety; ...more »
By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff US Representative Barney Frank said Friday that JPMorgan Chase's disclosure that it lost more than $2 billion from a flawed hedging strategy underscores the need for tighter federal regulation of trading by banks.more »
"The ones who do register those agreements are probably complying with all of the elements of the law that applies in the real estate industry. "But there are some suspicions that those who don't bother to register their employment agreements, ...more »
Tuesday night's vote came after another round of public comment, most of it against some aspect of the new law. The Sun Herald reports even the board was split on aspects of it and the vote was 5-2. But the city has been looking at a way to regulate ...more »
... from a law enforcement fund intended to fight drug dealing and substance abuse, to buy sports uniforms, spread sand and grass seed on area baseball diamonds, replace backstops, cut up downed trees around athletic fields and repave a basketball ...more »
GREENSBORO, NC — Attorneys for John Edwards on Tuesday indicated that their defense in his criminal trial for alleged campaign finance violations is winding down, but they did not say whether the former presidential candidate or his one-time mistress ...more »
The big question the IRS will have to address, therefore, is whether the ads that Crossroads GPS and similar groups call "issue advocacy" ads are, in fact, "on behalf or in opposition to any candidate for public office." That would include ads like one ...more »
The Supreme Court judges also gave a ruling in another age discrimination case, which had been heard alongside that of Mr Seldon's, involving a claim by Terence Homer, who joined the Police National Legal Database (PNLD) as a legal adviser in 1995 at ...more »
ResCap has long been a problem for its corporate overseers. Its mortgage woes helped push its former parent, General Motors, toward its own Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing two years ago. At Ally, the former in-house financing arm for General Motors, ...more »
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is poised to make the decision to grant the developer, Pattern Energy, a right of way on previously protected land. Bulldozers could begin rolling as early as this week. The federal renewable energy policy, ...more »
Pet Trusts and/or contracts are preferable to wills when stating your wishes for your pets. The risk with entrusting your directives in a will involves the time that can elapse before a will is probated. (The probate process can often take months or ...more »
Agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested Brutus on Monday, charging him with two counts of practicing law without a license, two counts of third degree grand theft and one count of organized fraud of $20000 or less.more »
Phil Bryant signed into law Monday a workers' comp reform measure that Republican lawmakers have been pushing for 20 years. They say it will "level the playing field" between employers and employees in a claim process now tilted in the workers' favor.more »
