Latest Law News
Chalkboard: WEA Trust threatens lawsuit over "racketeering" comments by radio
The Wisconsin-based insurance company that provides coverage for teachers across the state is threatening a lawsuit if powerful Milwaukee talk radio host Mark Belling doesn't quit with the "racketeering" comments about WEA Trust's business.
Updated: 09/20/2011 11:00A
Must terminated employees mitigate losses despite lack of express mitigation
In the recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice case of Bowes v. Goss Power Products Ltd., the Court found that an employee was responsible to mitigate his loss of employment, notwithstanding the fact that his employment contract was silent as to any
Updated: 09/20/2011 11:00A
Clackamas County Roundup: Faith-healers manslaughter trial continues; drivers
Oregon City: The manslaughter trial for faith-healer parents Dale and Shannon Hickman continues today in Clackamas County Circuit Court. The Hickmans, members of the Oregon City-based Followers of Christ Church, are charged with allowing their infant
Updated: 09/20/2011 11:00A
Troy Davis denied clemency
Today we have confirmed that the administration of law in Georgia is more important than the search for justice, that the letter of the legal codes holds more power than the insistence of the truth, and that the outstretched hands of mercy,
Updated: 09/20/2011 10:59A
These terrorists wanted to kill us but a court has decided they can't be
But Victorian Supreme Court judge Terry Forrest recently granted a defence application to permanently stay the conspiracy case against Benbrika, Joud, Sayadi and Raad, saying it would be "oppressive" to subject them to a second trial.
Updated: 09/20/2011 10:59A
These terrorists wanted to kill us but a court has decided they can't be
But Victorian Supreme Court judge Terry Forrest recently granted a defence application to permanently stay the conspiracy case against Benbrika, Joud, Sayadi and Raad, saying it would be "oppressive" to subject them to a second trial.
Updated: 09/20/2011 10:59A
Kremlin - Russia-South Ossetia agreement on customs cooperation has been
The Agreement is aimed at strengthening customs cooperation and joint efforts against customs violations, as well as facilitating passenger and cargo traffic between Russia and the Republic of South Ossetia. The Agreement provides for the establishment
Updated: 09/20/2011 10:59A
Belgium and the USA sign an Agreement to Prevent and Combat Serious Crime
At the proposal of Minister for Foreign Affairs Steven Vanackere, who is currently in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, Minister of Justice Stefaan De Clerck and Minister of the Interior Annemie Turtelboom today signed, at the Egmont
Updated: 09/20/2011 10:59A
Spain - President of the Government insists that recognition of Manuel Azaa
The President of the Government, Jos Luis Rodrguez Zapatero, said that the ceremony held on Tuesday in the Lower House of Parliament "not only honours two former Presidents of Government but does justice to our own past, our democratic past".
Updated: 09/20/2011 10:59A
Transplant lawsuit filed in W. Pa. against UPMC over diseased kidney | The
AP PITTSBURGH — A western Pennsylvania couple filed negligence lawsuits Tuesday against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian Hospital and University of Pittsburgh Physicians. The lawsuits allege that UPMC allowed an April 2011
Updated: 09/20/2011 10:58A