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1 hr ago | The Tampa Tribune

Feds seek rehearing of baseball drug list ruling

Solicitor General Elena Kagan asked for an unprecedented reconsideration of an appeals court ruling that government agents illegally seized drug-testing samples and records of baseball players who allegedly tested positive for steroids in 2003.

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Related Topix: Drug Testing, US News

10 hrs ago | Twincities.com

Feds seek rehearing of baseball drug list ruling

Federal officials are asking for a rehearing of an appeals court decision that said the government illegally seized drug-testing samples and records of baseball players who allegedly tested positive for steroids.

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Related Topix: Drug Testing, US News

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Fulldisclosure.net

Two US Judges Refuse to Recuse From Case Naming Them As Defendants:

Broadcasting of television, video and radio programs via a global computer network.

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Related Topix: Prison, Non-Profit, Los Angeles Metro, US News

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Sierra Sun

Jim Porter: Is leafletting of unoccupied cars legal?

Does it bother you when you return to your car, perhaps after shopping, and someone has placed a leaflet under your windshield wiper? Do you respond by saying to yourself, "How neat is that, someone left a political flier on my car.

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Related Topix: San Clemente, CA, Immigration Reform, US News, Opinion

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Kansas City Star

Former Ukraine leader's prison sentence reduced

A federal judge on Wednesday reduced the prison sentence for a former Ukrainian prime minister convicted in the United States of corruption in his homeland.U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer cut Pavlo Lazarenko's nine-year sentence by 11 months.

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Related Topix: Prison, US News

Fri Nov 20, 2009

KABC LA

Dismissed conviction in MySpace case stands

Federal prosecutors on Friday said they would not appeal a judge's dismissal of a Missouri mother's convictions for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Suicide, US News

Flathead Beacon

Yellowstone County Wins Legal Defense Case Against Bromgard

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Yellowstone County should not be held responsible for the legal defense provided to a former Billings man who spent 15 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

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Related Topix: Yellowstone County, MT, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Billings, MT, US News

Thu Nov 19, 2009

The Press-Enterprise

Judge to feds: She's our employee, stay out of it

For the second time in two days, a federal judge has ruled that the government can't refuse to authorize health coverage for the same-sex spouse of a court employee.

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Related Topix: Human Resources, US News, Gay/Lesbian

Wed Nov 18, 2009

News Chief

Judges: Seattle biotech can pursue $23M claim

Seattle biotechnology firm Cell Therapeutics Inc. can pursue claims for nearly $23 million against a former consultant, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Cell Therapeutics, Healthcare Industry, Healthcare Law, US News, Food and Drug Administration

Los Angeles Times

Judge orders compensation for gay couple denied benefits

A federal judge today ordered compensation for a Los Angeles couple denied spousal benefits by the federal government because they are gay men.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, US News

Legal Times

Supreme Court Honors Justice O'Connor's Late Husband

In other action, the Court reinstated the death penalty for Fernando Belmontes Jr., convicted in the '81 murder of a California woman The National Law Journal November 16, 2009 In brief comments at the opening of the Supreme Court's session Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.

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Related Topix: US News, Death Penalty

Tue Nov 17, 2009

The Seattle Times

Killer's death sentence restored

Posting loss : The Postal Service reported a net loss of $3.8 billion for the 2009 fiscal year, about $1 billion more than the previous year.

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Related Topix: The Postal Service, Indie, OSHA, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, California

Mon Nov 16, 2009

The Seattle Times

GOP hasn't paid legal fees for Top 2 case, state says

The state says Washington's Republican Party is deadbeat in repaying legal fees associated with a failed challenge to the Top 2 primary system.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

CW33 Dallas KDAF-TV

Supreme Court Restores a Death Sentence in California

The Supreme Court today for the third time reversed the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and restored a death sentence for a California murderer who bludgeoned and killed a young woman in 1981 to steal a stereo from her house.

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Related Topix: US News, Criminal Defense Law, Law, US Supreme Court, Death Penalty

San Diego News Network

Opening statements today in retrial for 1982 killing of Riverside police officer

After 25 years, Jackson Chambers Daniels is being retried for allegedly gunning down officers Dennis C. Doty and Philip N. Trust on May 13, 1982.

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Related Topix: Riverside, CA, Death Penalty, US News

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Starbucks Data Breach Plaintiffs Try Their Luck in the 9th Circuit -- Krottner v. Starbucks

The lawsuit received some coverage , but the trial court's dismissal of the lawsuit received almost no coverage.

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Related Topix: US News

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Rochester IMC

PFP Candidate Alexander Propose Releasing 50,000 California Inmates

Alexander says the most efficient means to deal with Californiaa TMs over crowded prisons would require state lawmakers abolishing the Three-Strikes Law and remanding more than 30,000 non-violent offenders to their original courts for re-sentencing; however, a oethat will not likely occur because a majority of the statea TMs lawmakers are more ...

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, US News, State Prisons, Prison

Fri Nov 13, 2009

KTVN Reno

Judge rebuked by appeals court over Marcos money

A federal judge has been rebuked for his lax oversight of more than $30 million tied to the late Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos.

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Related Topix: US News

AZCentral.com

No Ariz. justice in DC sniper's death sentence

John Allen Muhammad was sentenced to death, but the sniper mastermind will never be held legally accountable for a killing in Tucson that police believe was a precursor to the sniper spree that left 10 people dead in the Washington, D.C., area.

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Related Topix: Tucson, AZ, Tucson Metro, Pima County, AZ, Criminal Defense Law, Law, US News

Thu Nov 12, 2009

KOMO-TV Seattle

Few Wash. homicide cases result in death sentences

Since 1981, more than 7,000 homicide cases have been filed. Only 30 death sentences have been handed down.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Death Penalty, Washington, Prison, US News

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