9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Michael Daly Hawkins Hears Barry Bonds Case
Michael Daly Hawkins was born in Winslow, Arizona on February 1945. He graduated with a B.A. from Arizona...
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Florida Lawyer Caught After 26 Years on the Run
Disbarred Florida lawyer Manuel Lopez-Castro, who went on the run to avoid prison term for drug money...
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Legal Rights to Health Care
One of the most basic of human rights is the right to good health care. In recent years we have come to...
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Prosecution Caught Fudging Billing Records to Indict Dentist – Dentist Awarded $7.7 Million
On Tuesday, a Brooklyn jury refused to buy the arguments presented by lawyers from the attorney general’s...
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Paulette Brown Headed to Be ABA’s First Afro-American Woman President
Prominent New Jersey lawyer of Afro-American descent, Paulette Brown, seems headed to become ABA’s first...
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U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster Sentences Amish Beard Cutters
Dan A. Polster was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1951. He graduated with an A.B. from Harvard College in 1972 and...
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NY Chief Judge Calls for Bail Reform
On Tuesday, New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman called for bail reform in New York and allowing judges to...
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The Case of Boy Hit by Golf Ball
Here is the case (Lyshak v. City of Detroit--351 Mich. 230, 88 N.W.(2d) 596) of a seven-year-old boy whose eye...
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Willie Gary Ordered to Pay $3.7 Million for Loan Default on His Wings of Justice III
On Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Dolinger added to the burdens on Willie Gary, the flamboyant...
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President Barack Obama has Nominated Iowa Federal Public Defender Jane Kelly to the United States 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
Jane Kelly was born and raised in Greencastle, Indiana. In 1987, she graduated summa cum laude from Duke...
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NY City Bar Assn. Clarifies Attorney Duties to Prospective Clients
In its first formal ethics opinion of the year, the New York City Bar Association considered some hypothetical...
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Son of Lawyer Charged with Representing Himself as One
On Tuesday, the son of a reputed Albany Attorney was charged with practicing law without a license. According...
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U.S. District Judge Harry Daniel Leinenweber Sentences David Coleman Headley to Thirty-Five Years in Prison
Harry Daniel Leinenweber was born in 1937 in Joliet, Illinois. In 1959, Leinenweber graduated from the...
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Reed Smith Can Sue Other Law Firms for Contributory Negligence in Malpractice
On last Thursday, the Appellate Division, First Department, gave a ruling where a law firm, accused of...
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Lawyer Can’t Appeal if Deadline Missed due to Failure in Updating E-mail Address
This is a first for an appeals court finding an abuse of discretion in the granting of a 4(a) (6) motion on...
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Hapless Reasons for Joining Law
3) You are afraid to enter the workforce. Get a grip. Starting a first job is not nearly as difficult as...
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New York’s ‘Stop and Frisk’ Regimen Back on its Track for Now
After ordering the NYPD to immediately stop conducting its ‘stop and frisk’ program outside certain...
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U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. Postpones Former BP Engineer’s Trial
Stanwood Richardson Duval, Jr. was born in New Orleans on February 8, 1942. He was raised in Houma, Louisiana,...
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Court Orders Release of Man Jailed for 23 Years
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis ordered that a man, William Lopez, who has been jailed for...
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Utah Attorney General Calls for Fed Probe into Allegations of Bribery Pointed at Him
On Monday, John Swallow, the Utah Attorney General, sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney for Utah, David Barlow,...
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Lawyer’s Contingency Fee Denied by Appeals Court on $1 Million Settlement
The circumstances of the case Gyabaah v. Rivlab Transportation Corp, Appellate Division, First Department, No....
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NY District Attorneys Send Letter to Cuomo for Stricter Gun Laws
On Tuesday, the District Attorney’s Association of the State of New York (DAASNY) sent a letter to Governor...
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Nassau County Police Tripping Up Over Pay Discrimination Cases
First, it was the turn of female police dispatchers in Nassau County to allege pay discrimination. In 2011,...
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U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon Said U.S. Can Keep Secrets On Killings of Terrorists Overseas
Colleen McMahon was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1951. In 1973, McMahon graduated with a B.A. from Ohio State...
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Lawyer Not Expressing Suspicion about a Juror Doesn’t Constitute Ineffective Counsel
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge William Pauley denied the motion for a new trial by convicted Deutsche Bank...
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Famous, but Disbarred Lawyer Denied Admittance to Bar in Maine
On Monday, the Sun Journal reported that F. Lee Bailey, a famous lawyer known for high-profile clients like...
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Disbarred Lawyer Charged with Attempts to Sell Guns Stolen from Saddam Hussein’s Family
A former Miami lawyer, disbarred in 2010, has been charged by federal prosecutors in New Jersey for attempting...
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Divided 7th Circuit Rules for Temporary Ban against Contraceptive Mandate
On Friday, a divided federal appeals court passed a temporary injunction barring the US government from...
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Justice Sotomayor Refuses Hobby Lobby’s Request for Injunction against the Contraceptive Mandate
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who also hears emergency appeals from the 10th Circuit, refused on...
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Court Rejects Planned Parenthood’s Bid to Continue State Contract in Oklahoma
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot of the Western District of Oklahoma rejected Planned...
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