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  • Gay couples wed in Utah after judge overturns ban

    Gay couples wed in Utah after judge overturns ban

    Legal Events 12/23/2013

    Elisa Noel rushed to the county clerk's office with her partner immediately after learning that a federal judge overturned Utah's ban on gay marriage. They waited in line for a wedding license and were married in an impromptu ceremony punctuated with...

  • Court: Exec guilty over faulty French implants

    Court: Exec guilty over faulty French implants

    Legal Events 12/12/2013

    A disgraced French businessman was convicted of fraud and sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday for filling tens of thousands of breast implants with industrial grade silicone. But he left the courthouse freely after lodging an appeal, and tho...

  • Seattle lawyer left $188 million charitable trust

    Seattle lawyer left $188 million charitable trust

    Legal Events 12/02/2013

    A Seattle lawyer who quietly amassed a fortune by investing his inherited family wealth has left a bequest of nearly $188 million to benefit Seattle Children's Hospital, the University of Washington School of Law and the Salvation Army. Hospital offi...

  • Spain court rejects handing pedophile to Morocco

    Spain court rejects handing pedophile to Morocco

    Legal Events 11/18/2013

    Spain's National Court has ruled against extraditing back to Morocco a convicted Spanish pedophile whose release triggered protests in the North African country. A court statement Monday said Daniel Galvan Vina would not be handed back because under ...

  • High court wrestles with prayer in government

    High court wrestles with prayer in government

    Legal Events 11/08/2013

    The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with the appropriate role for religion in government in a case involving mainly Christian prayers at the start of a New York town's council meetings. The justices began their day with the marshal's customary plea ...

  • The Mavroudis & Guarino Litigation Group

    The Mavroudis & Guarino Litigation Group

    Legal Events 11/02/2013

    Manhattan Beach Employment Lawyer, Craig Hubble, is the aggressive representation you need and is someone who will devote their time and highest level of service to his clients in business entities including but not limited to commercial and civil li...

  • SC trial lawyer Ron Motley dies at age 68

    SC trial lawyer Ron Motley dies at age 68

    Legal Events 08/26/2013

    Celebrated South Carolina lawyer Ron Motley has died at the age of 68, law partner Joe Rice confirmed Thursday. No cause of death was given for the trial lawyer, and funeral arrangements have not been announced. Motley served as lead counsel in lawsu...

  • Federal court officials fear budget cuts

    Federal court officials fear budget cuts

    Legal Events 08/06/2013

    Federal courts officials in Minnesota say they're worried automatic spending cuts will jeopardize the justice system's smooth operation, with layoffs likely in both the U.S. attorney and public defender's offices. The cuts are part of what's known as...

  • Iowa top court: Firing of attractive aide is legal

    Iowa top court: Firing of attractive aide is legal

    Legal Events 07/13/2013

    The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday stood by its ruling that a dentist acted legally when he fired an assistant because he found her too attractive and worried he would try to start an affair. Coming to the same conclusion as it did in December, the all...

  • US Supreme Court orders 6 death row cases reviewed

    US Supreme Court orders 6 death row cases reviewed

    Legal Events 06/04/2013

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sent the cases of six Texas death row inmates, including one of the infamous "Texas 7" gang of escapees, back to a lower court for reviews of whether attorneys in earlier stages of appeals let the men down. The decisi...

  • Court dismisses lawsuits in power plant deaths

    Court dismisses lawsuits in power plant deaths

    Legal Events 05/14/2013

    The Colorado Court of Appeals has dismissed lawsuits against three companies in the deaths of five workers at a power plant in 2007. The appeals court agreed Thursday with a judge that there was no evidence that the companies violated duties or faile...

  • Lawyer questions memory of Philadelphia accuser

    Lawyer questions memory of Philadelphia accuser

    Legal Events 01/18/2013

    A longtime heroin addict whose complaint helped imprison a Philadelphia archdiocese official came under attack Wednesday, as jurors in a priest-abuse trial learned that he had given three different locations for one alleged rape.Defense lawyers quest...