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Judge axes federal suit over lake
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Los Angeles against air quality regulators who are requiring the city to do more to control dust on a lake that was siphoned dry a century ago to provide water for the booming metropolis.California's biggest law firms receive poor marks when it comes to hiring minorities
The grades are in on workforce diversity, and if this were school, California's largest law firms would barely be passing. Berkeley's Greenlining Institute released a report card Thursday summarizing how the legal profession has fared in hiring and promoting attorneys of various ethnic backgrounds. And the numbers are not encouraging.Senate Ratifies Cybercrime Treaty
The Senate has ratified a treaty under which the United States will join more than 40 other countries, mainly from Europe, in fighting crimes committed via the Internet. The Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime, ratified August 3, is the first international treaty seeking to address Internet crimes by harmonizing national laws, improving investigative techniques and increasing cooperation among nations. Its targets include hackers, pedophiles and terrorists.Atlanta Firms Raising Cash for Tsunami Relief
John SutterSpecial to the Daily ReportSome of Atlanta's major law firms have hosted auctions, matched donations and even put their day-care centers to work to benefit victims of December's South Asia tsunami. Children in the day-care center of Alston Bird used their time one day last week to paint pictures, string beads into bracelets and bake cookies and cakes to sell for donations.View more book results for the query "*"
Sentencing Speeches Upheld by Circuit
Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski says a 2004 law guarantees crime victims the right to speak at sentencing hearings � even if they just got to speak at another hearing a few months earlier.Law May Not Keep Lawyers at Bay
Despite a 1996 federal law prohibiting lawyers from contacting relatives within 30 days of a plane crash, it may be that families of the EgyptAir crash victims are not as well protected from unethical lawyers as they could be. It's unclear whether the law applies to the crash, which occurred outside the territorial waters of the U.S. And keeping an eye out for overreaching lawyers does not appear to be a high priority for the agencies charged with looking after the families in the wake of the tragedy.Court orders new look at Pa. city immigration regs
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has ordered a federal appeals court to take a new look at a Pennsylvania city's crackdown on employment and housing for illegal immigrants following the high court's recent decision upholding an Arizona employer sanctions law.Confidence rises as consumers see brighter future
Confidence among U.S. consumers improved in December for a second month as Americans grew less concerned about the immediate future, pointing to an economy that will keep expanding into 2010. The Conference Board's sentiment index increased to 52.9 in December, in line with the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, according to figures from the New York-based research group Tuesday.Trending Stories
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