Latest Trial Court News
Retirement shouldn't stop trial
It seems to me if the court system is to regain integrity, it should pursue the possibility of wrongdoing whether a judge is seated or not. Second, taxpayers should be enraged that a system would allow a judge to retire and collect a handsome
Updated: 11/19/2011 12:02A
Court rejects appeal of cop shooter
At the highly publicized trial, defense attorney Robert Shaw argued that Berry was not guilty because of mental illness. In the appeal, Berry claimed Shaw was ineffective and there was an improper cross-examination. The appeals court rejected all of
Updated: 11/19/2011 12:01A
Double-dipping allegation triggers Columbia police lawsuit
According to a complaint filed in US District Court by Williams, Scott called him into his office last March and accused the officer of “double-dipping” by doing extra duty assignments for private businesses – who paid him – while he was actually on
Updated: 11/19/2011 12:01A
Georgetown Socialite Viola Drath Killed by Assassin, Husband Claims
Albrecht Muth, the self-styled brigadier general of the Iraqi army who is accused of strangling and bludgeoning to death his 91-year-old wife, Viola Drath, in their Georgetown home last August, stood ramrod straight before the judge in a status hearing
Updated: 11/19/2011 12:00A
Gloria allies question Comelec's intensions
Meanwhile, former First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo said the issuance of an arrest warrant against his wife and the charges of poll fraud filed before the Pasay regional trial court made Friday a sad day for due process.
Updated: 11/18/2011 11:45P
Supreme Court insists court order still stands
THE temporary restraining order issued by the Supreme Court on the travel ban on former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo stands, but she still cannot leave the country because of the warrant of arrest issued against her by the Pasay
Updated: 11/18/2011 11:45P
High blood pressure, depression ail Arroyo
THE continued “persecution” and news of an arrest warrant issued against her has weakened ailing former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, made her depressed, and caused her blood pressure to shoot up, prompting her doctors to
Updated: 11/18/2011 11:45P
Greenberg Traurig, LLP | U.S. Supreme Court: Bayh-Dole Act Does Not Supersede
Education of Employee-Inventors. Employee-inventors must be made aware that they should not sign any third party agreements without first clearing those agreements with the institution's general counsel or outside attorneys. In Roche, Holodniy signed
Updated: 11/18/2011 11:43P
Foster to appear in court on Tuesday
He was planning a lavish party this weekend to celebrate his mother's 80th birthday, but instead the Gold Coast's most notorious conman will spend the next four days in a bleak prison cell. Peter Foster was arrested on Friday at his mother's bedside in
Updated: 11/18/2011 11:43P
Jones Day | Yamaha obtains reversal of jury verdict involving the Rhino in
On November 15, 2011, the Georgia Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a jury verdict against Yamaha Motor Co. in a products liability suit involving the Rhino, an off road vehicle, and directed the trial court to enter judgment in Yamaha's favor.
Updated: 11/18/2011 11:43P