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Ex-cop: Police were warned of husband's killing
CHARLOTTE, N.C. AP - A man walked into the Stanly County sheriff's office with a wild tale: A woman had just offered him money to kill her husband. The officer on duty took down the information and passed it on to his superiors."They never did anything with it," that officer, Donnie Mullis, told The Associated Press on Friday.Foisting immigration enforcement on local police won't work
Justice Scalia Is Everywhere -Even as a Bobblehead Doll
Tony [email protected]. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is everywhere these days-speaking on C-SPAN, flying off to conferences and, coming soon, appearing as his very own bobblehead doll. The Scalia doll is the latest in a series of highly prized, limited-edition dolls created by Green Bag, the irreverent law review published at George Mason University School of Law.Tech workers, employers still seek immigration reform
The placards made clear this was not your typical immigrant rights march: "We played by the rules, now it's your turn," read one. "Legal immigrants keep America competitive," read another.High-tech workers in San Jose, Calif., on federal permits are speaking out-many for the first time-over rules that leave them in personal and professional limbo.Suit centers on pricing of companies
Lawyers for the private equity industry are watching a consolidated antitrust class action alleging that 17 private equity companies and investment banks conspired to keep the price of target companies artificially low during a five-year period.The case, which consolidates two separate lawsuits, recently survived a motion to dismiss in the District of Massachusetts, exposing to trial companies such as investment banks JPMorgan Chase Co.Mo. cops hunt for child abuse clues hidden in jars
LEXINGTON, Mo. AP - An excavation was scheduled to resume Thursday at a rural western Missouri property where authorities believe they may find bodies and buried glass jars with notes written by children who may have documented sexual abuse.The property, about 30 miles east of Kansas City, was once owned by two of five family members arrested Tuesday.Balancing prosecution chances vs. public testimony poses risk when lawmakers grant immunity
In second trial, accused murderer is acquitted
Dionte Maxwell, whose 2004 murder conviction was overturned by the Georgia Supreme Court earlier this year, has been cleared of all charges by a Fulton County jury. The prosecutor in the first trial, now in private civil practice, said she was "stunned" by the acquittal, which the defense attorney attributed to jurors' uncertainty that Maxwell was the man driving a car that hit Atlanta restaurateur Mark Lupton-Smith on May 31, 2002.Despite Outcry, Stand-Ground Law Repeals Unlikely
Despite an outcry from civil rights groups, a call for close examination by President Barack Obama and even a 1960s-style sit-in at the Florida governor's office, the jury's verdict that George Zimmerman was justified in shooting unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin is unlikely to spur change to any of the nation's stand-your-ground self-defense laws.'Flippant' emails won't affect client/firm relationships, in-house lawyers say
The disclosure of internal DLA Piper emails that referred to churning a client's bill drew the attention of the legal world last week, but several in-house counsel said that while the emails were disturbing, their release would not likely affect client/firm relationships or the billing review process because clients are already demanding more transparency from firms.Trending Stories
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