... ; third, a series of sworn statements by Pentagon and intelligence officials on the risks to national security; and, fourth, a sworn statement on national security risks by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller. Also filed, but not made public, ... , it requested that the judge reconsider requirements to share classified information or an "adequate substitute" with detainees and their lawyers, limiting those obligations significantly. And, fourth, it asked the judge to modify the merits hearings, to give a ...
November 19, 2008 04:07 am
... License Board, and City Counsel into delaying legislation on behalf of a local nightclub and allegedly taking bribes in exchange for helping the nightclub secure a liquor license. The Roxbury Democrat has denied all wrongdoing and has refused to resign even though she was formally rebuked by ... Wilkerson Arrested By FBI, WBZ.com, October 28, 2008 Related Web Resources: Read the Criminal Complaint (PDF) Dianne Wilkerson Contact our Boston criminal defense lawyers at Altman & Altman LLP today.
November 19, 2008 01:40 am

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 11/18/08

(Real Lawyers :: Have Blogs)
... Free Choice Act Tops List of Anticipated L&E Legislation - Portland lawyer Dennis Westlind of Stoel Rives in the firm's World of Work Blog How Do You ... Reyes Blog Dallas Mavericks Owner in Hot Seat Over Insider Trading - Georgia lawyer Anthony Lake of Gillen, Withers & Lake in the firm's Federal Criminal Defense ... Disease Proof St. Paul Prostitution Bust Part of Larger Craigslist Crackdown - Minneapolis lawyer Jason Brown of the Brown Law Offices in the firm's Minnesota Criminal Defense Blog ...
November 19, 2008 01:33 am
... model simply cannot continue in business. Unfortunately, many corporations that have filed for bankruptcy recently could not secure adequate debtor-in-possession financing or cannot generate sufficient revenues to sustain their business models. Both problems ... over their non-debtor, leveraged competitors. Finally, more corporate bankruptcies mean more work for bankruptcy lawyers, financial advisers, investment bankers and other professionals that work in the bankruptcy field. For an extensive and ...
November 19, 2008 12:53 am
... was not able to do anything until we announce the [offering])…." Cuban's lawyers say he made no such promise, and today the Maverick posted what appears to be supporting evidence on his blog. It's a transcript of an interview one of his lawyers, Chris Clark of Dewey & LeBoeuf, did with Mr. Faure, in connection with the case: ... did the SEC end their multi-year investigation of Mamma.com Inc. for alleged securities laws violations days before interviewing present and former Mamma.com Inc. ...
November 18, 2008 06:43 pm

Bankruptcy During Divorce

(San Francisco Family Law Blog)
... contact our sister-firm the Law Offices of M. Tilden Moschetti or visit its blog. ---------- Bankruptcy During Divorce by Sherrie Bennett (from lawyers.com) If you think you're headed for divorce and have a lot of debt between the two of you, ... to protect yourself in a divorce negotiation if you think your spouse may be contemplating bankruptcy in the future is to take a security lien as a backup to debts your spouse is to pay you after the divorce. The lien should be on property your spouse is ...
November 18, 2008 06:06 pm
... of a key provision of the Sabanes-Oxley Act, passed in the wake of the Enron and Worldcom accounting scandals. Lawyers for those seeking en banc review had said earlier that, if that move failed, they would then appeal to the ... government power; its members are not appointed by the President, and cannot be removed by presidential action. The board members are appointed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has limited removal power. The Circuit panel that decided the case in August ...
November 18, 2008 04:22 pm
... the cases have been on hold during that time. In the filing in Ameziane, the Justice Department's part of the report said that its lawyers will file on Tuesday a plea for Judge Hogan to relax some parts of his order, or, if he does not ... the order, it added, "place tremendous and improper burdens on the government related both to resources and national security interests. In addition, the filing said that Hogan had created a procedural regime that gives detainees more safeguards than the Supreme ...
November 18, 2008 03:29 pm
... (PLAC), a legal advocacy group for product manufacturers.7 Consumer advocates, including plaintiff lawyers, were largely missing in the debate, whether because of ignorance of the issues or an assumption that strict liability was so ... or hearing warnings-likewise makes it seem that products are safe for almost unlimited uses. Moreover, plaintiff lawyers need to recognize that much of the opposition to the consumer-expectation test stems from the notion that the evaluation of product design or ...
November 18, 2008 03:01 pm
... report today in a story that begins: Just weeks before leaving office, the Interior Department's top lawyer has shifted half a dozen key deputies -- including two former political appointees who have been involved in ... posts. The transfer of political appointees into permanent federal positions, called "burrowing" by career officials, creates security for those employees, and at least initially will deprive the incoming Obama administration of the chance to install its preferred appointees in ...
November 18, 2008 02:15 pm
... the weekend the Houston Chron reported that, nearly seven years after Enron shareholders watched their investments go poof, lawyers at plaintiffs firm Coughlin Stoia are scrambling to begin distributing a $7.2 billion civil settlement before year's end. " ... $168.50 per share. The $7.2 billion settlement is the largest ever amassed in U.S. securities litigation, according to the Securities Class Action Clearinghouse at Stanford University. The second-largest was $6.1 billion in WorldCom litigation.
November 18, 2008 09:51 am
... activities that appear to be war crimes, describing this as being somehow hostile to the troops and therefore threatening national security. The fear is that excessive prosecution will hinder the troops' ability to do their jobs effectively and well, because the actions ... base and off mission in Iraq of all places, but still, it is quite unusual for the US to concede this. As an international lawyer who finds value in so many legal systems around the world, I find much to praise in offering such ...
November 18, 2008 09:49 am

Outside Counsel Blog Post

(Outside Counsel)
John Edwards is not useless, and I believe he is well-intentioned. He's not helping, though, and someone should tell him that. When Edwards was a trial lawyer he worked to secure justice for people who had been injured through the carelessness of others. You can believe what you like about our tort system, but it is the only mechanism we have in the US for taking care of that sort of thing, and until we develop an neo- ...
November 18, 2008 08:00 am
Daily news and blawg watch up on Insitelaw: Two tribes go to War?Click here for Insitelaw They are both distinguished lawyers. They both hail from the same part of the profession… but they are now taking diametrically opposing views on the legality of the Iraq ... world… I do not accept Lord Bingham's conclusions, which do not, I am afraid, take proper account of the text of Security Council Resolution 1441 nor its negotiating history," Mr Straw said. The Guardian: Top judge: US and UK acted as ' ...
November 18, 2008 06:12 am

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 11/17/08

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... , Inc. in his Retirement Plan Blog Greening the Detroit Bailout - Washington, DC lawyer Peter Gray of McKenna Long & Aldridge on the firm's Climate Change Insights ... , Pension Risk Matters Confusion Arises Over Who Owns the Mortgage - Business litigation lawyer Angelo Tartaro on Rogers & Tartaro's Business Litigation Blog Buying a ... Family Law Blog Credential Inflation: Portrayals, Proceedings and Prose - Ohio lawyer Kevin LaCroix of OakBridge Insurance Services in his blog, The D & O ...
November 17, 2008 09:37 pm
... . says it is fining Citigroup Global Markets Inc. $300,000 for its failure to reasonably supervise the commissions that clients were charged for stock and options trades. Citigroup Global Markets is Citigroup Inc's brokerage and securities arm. FINRA says that between April 2002 and January 2006, then-Citigroup representative Juan Carlos Hernandez charged 27 clients unreasonable commissions that substantially exceeded the firm's calculated rate for appropriate charges. One client was reportedly ...
November 17, 2008 09:31 pm
... s Petition here) The defendant was involved in the Enron mess. He was charged with conspiracy, mail and wire fraud, securities violations, insider trading and for laundering the money related to the insider trading. The jury found him not guilty of ... estoppel, when a first jury necessarily decides a certain fact against a party, that same party is prevented (or what as we lawyers say, is "estopped") from again trying to litigate that same fact at a later trial. However, what happens when a first ...
November 17, 2008 08:49 pm
... food during the day while they're in court. The decision came after defence lawyers argued their clients have a hard time staying alert during proceedings because ... a provincial jail and have their cases tried in provincial court but security is handled by Durham police. Durham police are expected to feed the inmates but recently, ... food but you can halt the proceedings until food is provided," said defence lawyer Daniel Brown. Durham police officials say the prisoners' budget was cutting into their ...
November 17, 2008 07:25 pm
... guy Mark Cuban got slapped by government regulators for insider trading today. Here's why the Securities and Exchange Commission says Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks and made a fortune selling ... like he's fighting charges, we've got a call in to find out which lawyer he'll be using. (He's keeping uncharacteristically mum on his blog, which makes us think he's actually listening to whichever lawyer he hired.) Question for readers: It takes some chutzpa for the SEC to go after a big name like ...
November 17, 2008 06:38 pm

Finding People and Public Records

(CM Law Library Blog)
... materials I prepared for two recent presentations. The National Business Institute presentations concentrate on free Internet resources. Among other topics, the materials cover finding neighbors and relatives; social security numbers; locating assets; criminal records, information on lawyers, judges & expert witnesses and jury verdict research. These resources will be incorporated into research guides on ...
November 17, 2008 05:25 pm
 
 

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