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Appeals court restricts challenges to asset freezes
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has sided with prosecutors on a key asset forfeiture issue that has divided courts across the country.In an April 26 ruling, the court said defendants can't point to weaknesses in the government's case as a means to fight prosecutors' attempt to freeze their assets after indictment but before trial.Across the nation, water wars deluge federal courts
Georgia is not the only state with lawyers fighting water wars. Dry weather and population booms are triggering a monsoon of litigation over water supplies across the country, with cities and states suing each other over the right to access water. In the West, Montana is suing Wyoming for allegedly withdrawing too much water from two area rivers, leaving Montana residents with insufficient water supplies during droughts.Alabama Legislature approves slavery apology
MONTGOMERY, Ala. AP - The Alabama Legislature passed a resolution Thursday expressing "profound regret" for the state's role in slavery and apologizing for slavery's wrongs and lingering effects on the United States.Alabama is the fourth Southern state to pass a slavery apology, following votes by the legislatures in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.Lawyers advise job-seekers to be flexible
In good times, lawyers can rely on legal recruiters or their law school's career services department to find a job-but for many that doesn't work in today's tough legal market. Several recent law school graduates and more senior lawyers shared other ways to find sustaining legal work in down times at a panel organized by the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia's Women in the Profession Committee on Thursday.Terror plot suspects have lengthy criminal records
NEWBURGH, N.Y. AP - The four men accused of plotting to bomb New York City synagogues and shoot down military airplanes with missiles are down-and-out ex-convicts living on the margins in a faded industrial city.One is a petty criminal who spent a day in 2002 snatching purses and shooting at people with a BB gun from an SUV.NY indictment filed in $6B money-laundering case
The founder of an online currency transfer business was indicted in the United States along with six other people in a $6 billion money-laundering scheme described as "staggering" in its scope, authorities said Tuesday.Fed, central bankers find high food prices hard to digest
RISING PRICES FOR FOOD, from yogurt in the U.S. to steak in South Africa, are causing heartburn at the world's most powerful central banks. The fastest increase in food-commodity prices in at least a decade has already led monetary authorities in England, Mexico, Chile and South Africa to lift borrowing costs. It is also sowing seeds of doubt about the U.Transcripts show Guantanamo panels struggle to determine who poses a threat
As time runs out, Delta, US Airways woo creditors
US AIRWAYS' contention that bigger airlines are better for the public got unexpected support yesterday from a senior official in the U.S. Department of Transportation testifying at a Senate hearing on airline mergers. Since Sept. 11, the declining health of network carriers has created a growing need to subsidize air service to smaller communities, Andrew B.Trending Stories
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