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Alabama chief justice warns of hundreds of layoffs in court system in 2012
MONTGOMERY -- Alabama Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb today warned there will be as many as 500 layoffs in the state court system starting Oct. 1 under Gov. Robert Bentley's proposed budget. But the chief justice told a
Updated: 03/08/2011 09:09P
Trial ordered in Highland flooding claims
INDIANAPOLIS | The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a class-action lawsuit alleging the town of Highland was responsible for flooding that damaged more than 1000 homes in 2006 should go to trial. On Sept. 12-13, 2006, Highland received
Updated: 03/08/2011 09:09P
Log from deadly pipeline blast show worker concern
Minutes before eight people died in a fiery pipeline explosion, California utility crews raced to stop gas pressure surges they feared would cause a "major, major problem," call logs released by the federal government show.
Updated: 03/08/2011 09:09P
Nigerian chaplains' chief urges radical prison reform
"It's important that people understand that folks in our prisons are for the most part ordinary people who come from disadvantaged sectors of society and have no access to the justice system. Our prisons are not set up to rehabilitate them," she told
Updated: 03/08/2011 09:08P
Dresdner bankers set for bonus case
COMMERZBANK faces a high-profile lawsuit from 104 of its investment bankers over a bonus dispute, after the Court of Appeal yesterday rejected the bank's request to dismiss the case. Current and former bankers, who worked for Dresdner Kleinwort before
Updated: 03/08/2011 09:08P
NJ Law Department pulls in $196M, but opens fewer cases
The Division of Criminal Justice pursued 27 percent fewer cases last year, but the overall number of defendants remained roughly steady. In 2010, 1015 defendants were charged in 675 cases, down from 1181 defendants in 929 cases in 2009.
Updated: 03/08/2011 09:08P
Refugee board member chastised by court as “unreasonable”
Repeated requests for comment on the issue by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney have been unsuccessful. As for Xu, whose family is still recovering from the trauma, his lawyer Blanchay said the case has been returned to a new IRB hearing by a different
Updated: 03/08/2011 09:07P
City officials reach $400000 settlement with Danbury 11 day laborers
Mayor Mark Boughton said Tuesday the city's insurance carrier recommended the settlement, given the potential cost of taking the case to trial. "Would I have liked to go to trial and have a judge rule in our favor? Of course, but I feel this is a good
Updated: 03/08/2011 09:06P
City officials reach $400000 settlement with Danbury 11 day laborers
Mayor Mark Boughton said Tuesday the city's insurance carrier recommended the settlement, given the potential cost of taking the case to trial. "Would I have liked to go to trial and have a judge rule in our favor? Of course, but I feel this is a good
Updated: 03/08/2011 09:06P
Kagan, Sotomayor apparently in on Obama conference even though he gave them jobs
An attorney who has been working with a case challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be president says it is appalling the Supreme Court justices are allowing the constitutional rule of law to be destabilized by their "avoidance behavior
Updated: 03/08/2011 09:06P
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