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Oral Argument Still Mystifies U.S. High Court Advocates
Tony [email protected] long ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg described the first oral argument she made to the Supreme Court, when she worked as an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer in the early 1970s. She recounted the anxiety, the butterflies and then the "feeling of extraordinary power" as she addressed her captive audience of the "nine top judges in the land.Smith Helms Splits at Fork in Practice
Julia D. [email protected] increasingly divergent practice areas, North Carolina's Smith Helms Mulliss Moore has split. The reorganization took effect on Friday and the nine-lawyer Atlanta segment is now part of Greensboro, N.C.-based Smith Moore. The firm split directly along the lines on which it was created in 1986 when Charlotte, N.Assisted suicide case revives right-to-die debate
ATLANTA AP - The case against an alleged assisted suicide ring known as the Final Exit Network has revived a long-simmering debate over the right to die.The network's president, its medical director and two other members are due in court Friday on charges they aided the suicide of a 58-year-old Georgia man who suffered for years from cancer of the throat and mouth.DA MoneyCauses anUnlikelyBudget Jam
Greg [email protected] Senate and House appear stymied over the proposed $17.4 billion budget, and one key difference lies in funding for the judicial budget.The conflict, however, does not involve the Public Defender Standards Council, despite the group's fears that it wouldn't get full funding. Rather, it's the district attorneys' budget that, at least initially, seems to be getting short shrift.Defense says politics at play in immigration case
A suburban Atlanta prosecutor has asked a judge to dismiss a case against an illegal immigrant whose arrest for a traffic offense nearly led to her deportation and sparked a wider debate about immigration.U.S. automakers target Japanese stronghold on mid-sized cars
JUST A FEW MILES from Toyota's U.S. sales and marketing headquarters, George Tasker hasn't had much luck selling mid-sized Chevrolets against Toyota's Camry, the most popular car in America.But Tasker, the top salesman at Martin Chevrolet in Torrance, Calif., is looking forward to November when the new Malibu arrives in his showroom.Katrina ruling could bring new deluge of lawsuits
NEW ORLEANS AP - A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' "monumental negligence" for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims.The federal judge's harshly worded decision also served as vindication for residents of St.Lawsuit documentary begets new case
Dole Food Co. has filed a defamation suit in Los Angeles against two Swedish filmmakers whose recently screened documentary chronicles a lawsuit alleging that workers in Nicaragua were rendered sterile after being exposed to the pesticide DBCP on Dole's banana farms. The documentary-called "Bananas"-tells the tale of the first U.Trending Stories
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