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Indiana tea party takes aim at Lugar's Senate seat
He is perhaps best known nationally for mounting a legal challenge to the Obama administrations Chrysler bankruptcy plan. Mr. Mourdock has been endorsed by GOP presidential contender Herman Cain as well as Steve Forbes, radio pundit Mark Levin and
Updated: 09/21/2011 03:59P
Ocampo says he will review Kisumu case
Ocampo appealed against the decision but Pre-Trial Chamber II ruling was upheld by the appellate judges. In July, the court allowed Ocampo to edit information touching on the two areas, arguing they were part of on-going investigations.
Updated: 09/21/2011 03:58P
McPherson is named to trail court bench
Through her involvement with the state bar association, she has been part of its mock trial and moot court programs as a judge, “getting her feet wet,” McPherson said. Besides her mediation work, McPherson's community activities include being involved
Updated: 09/21/2011 03:58P
Ocampo sticks to State House link
While claiming the second batch of three suspects in the courtroom he wants committed to full trial struck on behalf of President Kibaki's Party of National Unity (PNU), Ocampo recounted accounts of his witnesses reporting of two meetings,
Updated: 09/21/2011 03:58P
Odyssey to Request En Banc Hearing in "Black Swan" Case to Address
The appellate court also affirmed the trial court's order which directed Odyssey to return the property to Spain, but according to the district court's ruling, this order is stayed until the appeals process is complete. "We are certainly disappointed
Updated: 09/21/2011 03:57P
Who Reps 2011: Kraft Foods Inc.
When the patents on Kraft's Country Time Lemonade and Kool Aid brand drink mixes were targeted in a lawsuit in June 2010, Foley & Lardner's Jeanne Gills saw the case as an opportunity to get a foot in the door. The firm had already been handling labor
Updated: 09/21/2011 03:57P
Chamber Files Suit Over New Labor Posters
The lawsuit is the latest example of the business-backed organization turning to the courts to try to turn back what the Chamber's president, Thomas Donohue, has called a "tsunami" of regulation from the Obama administration. The lawsuit says the labor
Updated: 09/21/2011 03:57P
Commentary: Plans for Magarity site threaten the community
We would bear the daily brunt of the noise, smells, and increased traffic. But since we've been following the process carefully, think of us as canaries in the coalmine, bringing news as to what this project will mean for the wider community.
Updated: 09/21/2011 03:57P
Man on trial for 100-year-old's death gets seasoned lawyer
During a court trial in April, Judge Jonathan Conklin found Castro guilty of first-degree murder, forcible sodomy on a child and a forcible lewd act on a child. But O'Neill convinced the judge to find her client not guilty of kidnapping a minor and
Updated: 09/21/2011 03:56P
NAACP: Discrimination Complaint Filed by L.M. Cop Against Township
Pennsylvania NAACP President J. Whyatt Mondesire said officer Kerry Godbold is moving toward a lawsuit against the township. By Tom Sunnergren Mondesire, with Robinson on his left, accounces the formal complaint. Lower Merion Township police officer
Updated: 09/21/2011 03:55P