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Friday | Easton Express-Times

Easton exploring options to pay $5 million Sollman case settlement

While attorneys have yet to release details about the city's $5 million settlement agreement with widow Carin Sollman, it appears Easton has few options in raising the money to pay the bill.

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Related Topix: Easton, PA, Bethlehem, PA, US News

Wed Nov 11, 2009

FindLaw

A First Amendment Challenge to Animal Activists' Convictions: How Far Can Protesters Go? Part One

On October 14, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a split decision in a criminal case that is likely to prove significant both for legal doctrine relating to the advocacy of illegal activity, and for the future of animal rights activism.

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Related Topix: Activism, US News, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Animal Rights

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Easton Express-Times

Easton City Council unanimously approves $5 million Sollman settlement

Easton City Council has unanimously approved a $5 million settlement with Carin Sollman, the widow of slain police officer Jesse Sollman who was accidentally shot and killed by a fellow police officer in March 2005 inside police headquarters.

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Related Topix: Easton, PA, US News

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Ms. Magazine

PA Court Rejects Combination of Buffer and Bubble Zones

A federal appeals court struck down a 2005 Pittsburgh ordinance that created two types of zones intended to prevent protestors from harassing patients at area abortion clinics Friday.

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Related Topix: US News

Sat Nov 07, 2009

American Lawyer

Philadelphia to Pay $5.9 Million to Settle Strip-Search Claims

A federal judge has approved a $5.9 million settlement in the civil rights suit challenging Philadelphia's blanket policy of strip-searching every person admitted into the city's prison system.

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Related Topix: US Supreme Court

Fri Nov 06, 2009

The Herald

Convicted chiropractor loses appeal

A federal appeals court said Thursday that a judge did not violate a former Hermitage chiropractor's rights during his fraud trial, and also backed the judge on Brent J. Detelich's other appeal issues.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US News, Pittsburgh Metro

Wed Nov 04, 2009

PittsburghLIVE.com

Former Bettis lab employee wants to know why United States revoked status

The government shouldn't be able to revoke a scientist's security clearance without explaining its action, a lawyer for a nuclear physicist said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Department of Energy, US News, US Military, US Navy

Mon Nov 02, 2009

WRAL.com - AP National News

Court rejects Pa. buffer law on abortion clinics

A federal appeals court has struck down an ordinance that created two types of buffer zones around medical facilities after a Christian legal group challenged the law on behalf of a nurse who protests abortions.

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Related Topix: Abortion, US News, Pittsburgh Metro, US Supreme Court

Evening Sun

3rd Circuit OKs Erie crack dealer's life sentence

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the life sentence for a man convicted of flooding Erie's streets with more than 450 pounds of crack cocaine in the mid-1990s. Thirty-eight-year-old Carl Knight appealed his life sentence saying changes to federal sentencing guidelines warrant a lesser sentence.

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Related Topix: Drugs, US News

Easton Express-Times

Easton mayor to recommend appeal of latest ruling in Sollman case

The city will consider an appeal of a federal judge's latest refusal to dismiss Carin Sollman's $20 million lawsuit in her husband's accidental shooting death.

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Related Topix: Easton, PA, US News

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Legal Times

3rd Circuit Revives Class Action Against Countrywide Over Alleged Kickback Scheme

In a huge setback for Countrywide Financial Corp., a federal appeals court has revived a national class action brought by homebuyers who accused the lender of concocting a kickback scheme in which buyers were required to purchase mortgage insurance from one of a handful of companies that in turn took out reinsurance policies from one of ...

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Related Topix: US News, Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Pan-African News Wire

November 12 Protest to Save the Life of Mumia Abu-Jamal

ALL OUT NOV. 12 IN D.C. Protest to save Mumia's life Civil rights investigation demanded By Dolores Cox Philadelphia Published Oct 28, 2009 4:49 PM The International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal coalition convened an urgent meeting here on Oct.

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Related Topix: Philadelphia, NY, Prison, US Supreme Court, US News, Death Penalty

Thu Oct 29, 2009

FOX News

Pa. Egyptian Scientist Appeals Security Revocation

An attorney for a western Pennsylvania Egyptian scientist whose top security clearance was revoked by the Department of Energy says he deserves to know why.

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Related Topix: Department of Energy, US News

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Court asked to allow lawsuit by girl held captive

A federal appeals court must decide whether the case of a 14-year-old girl who was forced to live with a 37-year-old school security guard for 10 years should move forward.

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Related Topix: US News

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Free Republic

Attorney Apuzzo appeals Obama citizenship case to Federal 3rd Circuit

Attorney Mario Apuzzo of Jamesburg, NJ, today filed an appeal with the Federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, PA, on behalf of plaintiffs Charles F. Kerchner, Jr., Lehigh County, PA; Lowell T. Patterson, Burlington County, NJ; Darrell J. LeNormand, Middlesex County, NJ; and Donald H. Nelsen, Jr., Middlesex County, NJ; challenging ...

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Related Topix: US News

Mon Oct 26, 2009

North Jersey Media Group

Newstracker: Coniglio Ordered to Report to Prison on Nov. 9

Update: Former state Sen. Joseph Coniglio, a Paramus Democrat convicted on federal corruption charges in connection with his role as a consultant to Hackensack University Medical Center, has been directed to report to the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., on Nov.

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Related Topix: Prison, 9, Medicine, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Lewisburg, PA, US News

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Examiner.com

Union Political News Report - Monday, October 26 2009

California's Constitutional Officers filed opening briefs with the 3rd District Court of Appeals for Case # 060694 on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: US News, Alameda County, CA

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Wilmington News Journal

Homicide victim not long out of prison

A 31-year-old man found fatally shot Wednesday south of Wilmington had been released last month from federal custody, according to court records.

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Related Topix: Wilmington, DE, Drugs, Federal Prisons, Prison, US News

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Myrtle Beach Online

LA private eye pleads no contest in threat case

Former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano and another man have pleaded no contest in Los Angeles to threatening a newspaper reporter.

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Related Topix: US News, Pennsylvania, Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Federal Prisons, Prison

Thu Oct 22, 2009

The Tribune-Democrat

D.A. to seek death penalty in new Simmons trial

Closing the door to plea negotiations, District Attorney Patrick Kiniry said Wednesday that prosecutors will seek a death sentence again against a Johnstown man who likely will be retried on first-degree murder charges in the slaying of an 80-year-old city woman 17 years ago.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty, Johnstown, PA, US Supreme Court, US News

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