Experts say the filing could backfire by giving Nafissatou Diallo's lawyers the freedom to present evidence of Strauss-Kahn's "prior bad acts."
Reed Brodsky is one of the key prosecutors leading an insider-trading investigation that has lasted more than four years. Will this be his last case for the government?
The D.C. Circuit said Congress did not exceed its power by renewing a requirement that governments with a history of racial discrimination get federal permission to change their election procedures.
FATHERS' RIGHTS - In re Adoption of Tobias D.
OPINION - Man identified by mother as father of two-year-old child belatedly learned of existence of child; after lower court granted guardians’ petition to terminate his parental rights, appeals court vacated decision pending DNA test of man and determination of parental rights. (Me.)
EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION - Palin v. Palin
OPINION - Wife signed student loans, during marriage, for children’s college education without knowledge of husband; court found debt was not marital debt. (R.I.)
REAL ESTATE – Virgilio v. Ryland Group Inc.
OPINION – The class of plaintiffs purchased homes in a development adjacent to a World War II bombing range that is full of bombs, unexploded ordnance and chemicals. When the public became aware of the bombing range, the plaintiffs’ home values decreased markedly. However, the developers did not have a duty to disclose what they knew about the nearby land. (11th Cir.)
CRIMINAL LAW – State v. Ates
OPINION – A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that the state’s wiretap law is not unconstitutional even though it allows police to intercept phone calls between individuals located in other states without a suspect obtaining warrants from judges of those states. (N.J. Super. Ct., App. Div.)
TELECOMMUNICATIONS – Nelson v. Time Warner Cable Inc.
BRIEF – Time Warner’s brief to the U.S. Supreme Court opposes the Texas Public Utilities Commission’s writ of certiorari. Time Warner successfully opposed a Texas law that allowed phone companies to gain cable TV franchises at the state level, but did not allow incumbent cable companies like Time Warner the same opportunity until municipal leases expired. (U.S.)
Joan Orie Melvin was suspended from the bench a day after nine criminal counts were recommended by a Pittsburgh grand jury.
The bank, under scrutiny for its ties to the collapsed commodities firm, will return "excess collateral" that it was holding when the brokerage's bankruptcy began.
The smart money says the former Goldman Sachs director won't take the stand at his insider trading trial. But the prosecution's case is largely circumstantial, leaving him plenty of room to explain.
The Chicago-based federal appeals court failed to agree on the circumstances under which a person can sue the government for individual mistreatment.
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The state Supreme Court rejected a motion to reconsider its approval of 10 pardons issued in January by then Governor Haley Barbour.
The constriction materials company hopes to overturn a decision that barred both a tender offer and a proxy contest for Vulcan's board as punishment for violating a confidentiality agreement.
The jury must decide if Edwards orchestrated a cover-up to keep voters from learning of his pregnant mistress during his 2008 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The wrongful death lawsuit claims the school misrepresented an off-campus area as safe and failed to provide security patrols.
The suit accuses the NFL Commissioner of making public statements about Vilma's part in the team's bounty scandal "which were false, defamatory and injurious."
Paul Theiss, a former co-leader of the firm's corporate and securities practice, will succeed Herbert Krueger, who was himself elected chairman just three years ago.
Gustin Reichbach has become an unlikely voice in support of legalizing the use of medical marijuana with the admission that he smokes pot to ease the side-effects of his treatments.
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