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  • BP expected to pay Florida $20M for seafood inspections

    BP expected to pay Florida $20M for seafood inspections

    Headline Legal News 10/25/2010

    Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson says BP will pay his department $10 million to strengthen its inspection operations to ensure that seafood taken from Gulf of Mexico waters is safe to eat.Bronson said Monday another $10 million from B...

  • Court won't speed challenge to MN disclosure law

    Court won't speed challenge to MN disclosure law

    Headline Legal News 10/04/2010

    A federal appeals court has declined to fast-track a challenge against a Minnesota law requiring disclosure of corporate political spending.In an order Monday, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals denied a motion to expedite the case, and it scheduled or...

  • Court affirms overturning Fla. gay adoption ban

    Court affirms overturning Fla. gay adoption ban

    Headline Legal News 09/22/2010

    Florida's strict ban on adoption by gay people is unconstitutional because no other group, even people with criminal backgrounds, are singled out for a flat prohibition by state law, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.The ruling by the 3rd District Cou...

  • American Bar Association Honors Philadelphia Firms

    American Bar Association Honors Philadelphia Firms

    Headline Legal News 09/22/2010

    The American Bar Association’s Death Penalty Representation Project will acknowledge Philadelphia law firms Reed Smith LLP and Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP’s role in ground-breaking, pro bono litigation of capital punishment appeals with an Excepti...

  • Man who tried to fake death pleads guilty to fraud

    Man who tried to fake death pleads guilty to fraud

    Headline Legal News 09/16/2010

    An Indiana money manager who once led a high-flying lifestyle pleaded guilty to five securities fraud counts on Wednesday, nearly two years after he tried to fake his death in a Florida plane crash to escape the crush of financial and personal proble...

  • Court lets part of organic-milk case proceed

    Court lets part of organic-milk case proceed

    Headline Legal News 09/16/2010

    A federal appeals court says a group of dairy consumers can proceed with parts of a lawsuit alleging that several national retailers and an organic dairy company falsely labeled the dairy's milk.Aurora Organic Dairy, based in Boulder, Colo., is the n...

  • Menzer & Hill, P.A. Announces Investigation

    Menzer & Hill, P.A. Announces Investigation

    Headline Legal News 09/09/2010

    e Securities Arbitration Firm of Menzer & Hill, P.A. Announces Investigation Into The Sales Practices Of Broker-Dealers That Solicited Purchases of Inverse and Leveraged Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) The Securities Arbitration Firm of Menzer &...

  • Doctor charged in Jackson's death due in court

    Doctor charged in Jackson's death due in court

    Headline Legal News 08/23/2010

    The doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death is due back in court for a scheduling hearing that will determine when prosecutors will publicly present some of their evidence.Dr. Conrad Murray is required to attend Monday's hearing, during which a Los...

  • Paralegal, husband indicted in $1 million law-firm embezzlement

    Paralegal, husband indicted in $1 million law-firm embezzlement

    Headline Legal News 08/17/2010

    A paralegal and her husband have been indicted on suspicion of embezzling more than $1 million from the law firm where she worked.The suspects are Rosanne and Michael Stogner. A grand jury indicted them this month in a series of thefts from Oaxaca, B...

  • BP Deposits $3 Billion in Spill Fund

    BP Deposits $3 Billion in Spill Fund

    Headline Legal News 08/09/2010

    BP PLC said Monday that it has made an initial deposit of $3 billion into a $20 billion spill-recovery fund. BP said it was making the deposit earlier than the originally scheduled Sept. 30 deadline to show its commitment to restoring the livelihoods...

  • Mo. man pleads guilty in 10-fatality Okla. wreck

    Mo. man pleads guilty in 10-fatality Okla. wreck

    Headline Legal News 08/03/2010

    A former Missouri truck driver charged in the deaths of 10 people in a northeast Oklahoma traffic collision has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and 10 years probation.Ottawa County District Attorney Eddie Wyant said in a statement that 77-year-old ...

  • Murder conviction of mom reversed in California

    Murder conviction of mom reversed in California

    Headline Legal News 08/03/2010

    An appeals court panel has reversed the murder conviction of a mother accused of driving her teenage son and his friends to a Southern California park where a 13-year-old rival gang member was stabbed to death.The 2nd District Court of Appeal panel r...

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