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Appeals court rehears Md. pregnancy center cases
A federal appeals court struggled for nearly three hours Thursday with whether two Maryland localities violated the free-speech rights of anti-abortion pregnancy counseling centers by requiring them to post certain disclaimers.
Ex-DA's Ties Lead To High-Profile Cases
J. Tom Morgan, who opened his Decatur solo practice in 2007 after decades as a prosecutor and a brief stint in Big Law, is attached to some of metro Atlanta's highest profile cases.During buyout, GCs fight lawyer flight
When it became clear that Digital Impact Inc. was to be acquired, Kenneth Hirschman, the company's general counsel, got worried for himself and his staff. He wasn't upset that they all might be let go-after all, that's what often happens to an acquired company's legal department when the deal wraps up.Bush: Former Army cook's crimes warrant execution
WASHINGTON AP - President Bush could have commuted the death sentence of Ronald A. Gray, a former Army cook convicted of multiple rapes and murders.But Bush decided Monday that Gray's crimes were so repugnant that execution was the only just punishment.Bush's decision marked the first time in 51 years that a president has affirmed a death sentence for a member of the U.Former Blackwater guards plead not guilty
WASHINGTON AP - Five former Blackwater Worldwide security guards pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal manslaughter and gun charges resulting from a 2007 shooting in a crowded Baghdad square that killed 17 Iraqi civilians and injured dozens of others.The five - all decorated military veterans - stood silently in a line behind their lawyers as their not guilty plea on all charges was entered in front of U.How 'Winning' Cases Took a Wrong Turn at the High Court
Deposition: Paris Hilton is a promotion machine
MIAMI AP - Paris Hilton may seem like the ultimate party girl, but she and her handlers swear she's really a globe-trotting workaholic who relentlessly plugs her projects and products.Defending herself against a lawsuit claiming she didn't do enough to promote the 2006 bomb "Pledge This," Hilton insists in a deposition in Miami federal court that she went the extra mile for the movie.Justices to ponder imperiled species
THE PIMA PINEAPPLE cactus and the Huachuca water umbel, both endangered species, may capture neither the passion nor the attention of the nation and the U.S. Supreme Court in the way that global warming does. They will, however, anchor an extraordinary relay of environmental cases in the nation's high court this term as the justices wrap up their argument docket.Hogan Lovells Leads Way On Spate Of Office Openings
Nearly a year and a half after announcing its intentions to put down stakes in Brazil, Hogan Lovells has opened an office in Rio de Janeiro—the firm's 44th global location.Trending Stories
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