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Calcutta high court rejects Gyaneshwari sabotage co-conspirator's bail plea
A division bench comprising Chief Justice JN Patel and Justice AK Roy rejected the petition of Mudi who has been in custody for over 200 days. Mudi was charged under sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 120B (conspiracy) by CBI whose
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:11P
Time to speak up and help MACC
The Bar Council which has a bone to pick with the chief justice's implementation of KPIs often says that justice hurried is justice buried. But in this case, it would be best to put to rest as soon as possible the issues that have dogged the Tourism
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:11P
Court of Appeal for This District Tosses Postjudgment Attorney Fee Award
Writing for the appellate court, Justice H. Walter Croskey noted the attorney fee clause in the employment agreement appeared in a paragraph expressly dealing exclusively with arbitration. “The paragraph begins by stating that any dispute must be
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:10P
Court Revives Suit Over Profits From Ving Rhames Movie
Justice Frances Rothschild's Feb. 23 opinion was certified Friday for publication. Animal Film, LLC was formed by action movie star Ving Rhames to produce “Animal,” a 2005 straight-to-video film about a gang member whose son grows up on the streets
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:10P
Supreme Court urges Pakistan to release jailed Indian
The Indian authorities have done all that they could in the matter," Justice Markandey Katju and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra said while disposing of the petition by Dass moved by his brother Anand. However, that does not "prevent us from making a request
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:10P
Rudin condo plan moves forward
The project had been stalled for some time due to St. Vincent's bankruptcy, but multi-million contributions from the Rudins and healthcare provider North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System put the medical center back in business.
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:10P
Twitter must turn over account info in WikiLeaks probe
The efforts by the Twitter users marked the first legal skirmish in the Justice Department's criminal investigation of the WikiLeaks disclosures, but is unlikely to be the last. The Twitter users' lawyers, including attorneys from the American Civil
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:09P
Morally Bankrupt
The EU's grave moral bankruptcy is something that will put its credibility on the line in the long-term for those people who are now standing up for freedom, democracy and self-determination. Especially as this moral bankruptcy persists to this day,
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:09P
Review: 2011 GMC Acadia Denali
That's a lot of room to haul your stuff, but what if towing is in order? The 288-horsepower 3.6-liter V6 affords you the ability to tow an impressive 5200 pounds when equipped with the towing package. That's more than enough grunt to pull jet skis,
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:08P
Brussels challenges Hungarian telecoms taxes
Budapest has two months to respond to the Commission's questions, which form the first step in a process of EU legal infringement proceedings and can result in a ruling in front of the European Court of Justice. The government said it regretted the
Updated: 03/14/2011 12:08P