Latest Law News
Immigration bills poised for Ariz. Senate action
The bills' many provisions including placing new reporting requirements on hospitals and K-12 schools, making it a crime for illegal immigrants to drive in Arizona and trying to secure a US Supreme Court ruling on citizenship for children of illegal
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:44P
Miami Beach voters find precinct closed on day of recall election
Braman and Miami Voice led successful petition drives to oust the two county politicians after Alvarez engineered a 2011 budget that increased property taxes and gave county employees raises. Seijas voted for the budget. Both Alvarez and Seijas tried
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:43P
Waterford man found not guilty of raping ex-girlfriend
The jury of five women and seven men took 90 minutes to return their unanimous verdict on day four of the trial. Mr Justice Barry White thanked the members of the jury for their service, and discharged the accused from the indictment, saying he was
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:43P
KOLD.comCourt: Jailers erred in removal of Muslim's scarf
AP National/International News AP Entertainment News Video AP National Video More>> SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court says Southern California jailers violated the religious freedom of a Muslim woman who was ordered to take off her headscarf
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:42P
We will end the libel farce
So is it any surprise that the threat of bankruptcy has such a chilling effect? Our changes to libel proceedings will massively reduce the time they take, and so the costs they incur, too. They will do much to mitigate what is so often an inequality of
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:41P
Fatal Chinatown Bus Crashes Raise Passengers' Safety Concerns
"It's scary when you hear about a crash," she said, adding that there were few feasible alternatives considering the high price of trains. "I just go and put everything in the hands of God," said one passenger from Yonkers on her way to Washington,
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:41P
Is State Bankruptcy a Viable Option?
Among the few concrete, plausible suggestions is a bankruptcy option for states, analogous to the process that Chapter 9 of the federal Bankruptcy Code has long provided for municipalities. While bankruptcy cannot be a cure-all for the states' ailments
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:41P
2 killed, 4 injured in Punjab road accident
Two people were killed and four others injured in a road accident near Mandiali village on the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur road, police said here today. According to the police, the accident occurred when a speeding car rammed into another one which stopped
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:40P
Last Defendant in Troubled Alaska Corruption Case Pleads Guilty
And last week, an appeals court overturned the conviction of Victor Kohring, a Republican who served in the Alaska House, again saying the prosecution withheld evidence. The court said the trial judge in the Kohring case, John Sedwick of the District
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:40P
School bus wreck sends 29 kids to hospital
The accident happened around 6:45 am All of the students, along with the 50-year-old bus driver and the pickup driver, were taken to Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. A spokeswoman says the students had no injuries or minor injuries.
Updated: 03/15/2011 02:40P
Primary Categories