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  • Court blocks EPA plan to take over permits

    Court blocks EPA plan to take over permits

    US Legal News 01/05/2011

    A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from taking over greenhouse gas permits in Texas.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued the stay Thursday, pending further action by the court....

  • Federal court denies stay for Texas in EPA case

    Federal court denies stay for Texas in EPA case

    US Legal News 01/03/2011

    A federal appeals court has blocked Texas' effort to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from forcing states to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday declined to issue a s...

  • Neb. high court reinstates suit against attorney

    Neb. high court reinstates suit against attorney

    US Legal News 01/01/2011

    The Nebraska Supreme Court has reinstated a lawsuit against an attorney that was filed by a former client convicted of securities fraud.Bryan Behrens had sought to sue Christian Blunk for more than $8 million due to Behrens client-investors. In court...

  • What will the big new tax law mean for you?

    What will the big new tax law mean for you?

    US Legal News 12/19/2010

    It's the most significant new tax law in a decade, but what does it mean for you? Big savings for millions of taxpayers, more if you have young children or attend college, a lot more if you're wealthy.The package, being signed Friday by President Bar...

  • Lawyer: Emanuel broke Chicago mayor residency rule

    Lawyer: Emanuel broke Chicago mayor residency rule

    US Legal News 11/28/2010

    As he travels about the city, assuring Chicagoans that he is one of them, Rahm Emanuel must be asking himself why he just didn't leave his house vacant when he went off to work in the White House. Or rent it to a buddy or a relative.That's because a ...

  • Police: Pa. couple hid 5 children from society

    Police: Pa. couple hid 5 children from society

    US Legal News 11/28/2010

    They lived outside society, hidden from the world in a squalid row house with no heat, electricity or running water. They had no birth certificates, no schooling, no immunizations or evidence of medical care — nothing whatsoever to prove their existe...

  • WA voters say no to state income tax Initiative 1098

    WA voters say no to state income tax Initiative 1098

    US Legal News 11/03/2010

    Early returns show voters rejected Initiative 1098 being rejected with about 65 percent of the vote to 35 percent in unofficial returns.Initiative 1098 would institute a new state tax on the top 1 percent of incomes to pay for education and health pr...

  • Calif. voters give Brown a return trip as governor

    Calif. voters give Brown a return trip as governor

    US Legal News 11/03/2010

    Democrat Jerry Brown was elected California governor on Tuesday in an extraordinary political encore, defeating billionaire Republican Meg Whitman and the $142 million she spent of her own fortune as he reclaimed the office he held a generation ago.T...

  • Iowans vote to oust all three Supreme Court justices

    Iowans vote to oust all three Supreme Court justices

    US Legal News 11/03/2010

    All three Iowa Supreme Court justices up for retention election have been ousted from the bench.Around 54 percent of Iowans voted not to retain each of the three judges: Supreme Court Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and associate justices Michael J. Stre...

  • MPs ordered back to work by Iraq's Supreme Court

    MPs ordered back to work by Iraq's Supreme Court

    US Legal News 10/25/2010

    Iraq's highest court has ordered the country's parliament back to work, in a ruling that could help break a seven-month deadlock in negotiations to form a new government.The chief judge of the Federal Supreme Court, Midhat Mahmoud, said the court had...

  • Court won't get into battle between 2 USCs

    Court won't get into battle between 2 USCs

    US Legal News 10/04/2010

    The Supreme Court won't decide who really owns the initials "SC" when it comes to college sports: the University of Southern California or the University of South Carolina.The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from South Carolina, which ...

  • SEC Has Toughened Enforcement Efforts, Agency Says

    SEC Has Toughened Enforcement Efforts, Agency Says

    US Legal News 09/22/2010

    The Securities and Exchange Commission's chief enforcement official says the agency has toughened its efforts to shut down financial misconduct after failing to act quickly in the cases of R. Allen Stanford and Bernard Madoff.SEC Enforcement Director...

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