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Facebook claimant Paul Ceglia may lose another set of lawyers
Paul Ceglia, the New York state man behind a high-profile lawsuit against Facebook Inc., is on the verge of losing another set of lawyers. The law firm Milberg is asking the judge overseeing the case in Buffalo, N.Y., if it can withdraw less than three...
Tags: Judges, Justice System, Media Industry, Social Media, Mark Zuckerberg
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Firm that represented Frank McCourt in bankruptcy goes bankrupt
Irony is one of our most overused words, but come on … News has come from back east that the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf is filing for bankruptcy. Besides the little detail that this is the largest law firm to go under in U.S. history, there is...
Tags: Frank McCourt, Legal Service, Ted Lilly, Judges, Justice System
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor gets 50 years for war crimes
Former Liberian President Charles Taylorwill likely spend the rest of his life in jail after a U.N.-backed court sentenced him to 50 years in prison for aiding and abetting war crimes. Taylor , 64, is the first former head of state to be convicted by...
Tags: Crimes, Sierra Leone, International Law, Civil Rights, Charles Taylor
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Tapes could shed new light on Manson murders, LAPD says
Los Angeles police are hoping old recordings of conversations between Charles Manson's right-hand man, Charles “Tex” Watson, and Watson's former attorney could shed light on the infamous Manson family murders. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brenda T....
Tags: Charles Manson, Murder, Los Angeles Police Department, Punishment, Sharon Tate
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Unraveling the fabric of justice in the Brian Banks case
This is a corrected version of the original post; see the note below. Brian Banks spent more than five years in prison for a rape and kidnapping that, as the courts now find, he did not commit; the repercussions of how the case sorts itself out in the...
Tags: Criminals, Sex Crimes, Punishment, Judges, Justice System
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Cities to battle California in court for redevelopment money
The city of Adelanto had planned to spend $15 million on affordable housing. Artesia proposed to invest $2.3 million in downtown improvements. Atascadero budgeted $53 million for upgrades including a pedestrian bridge downtown and a better wall at the...
Tags: Laws, Politics, Justice System, Taxation, Public Officials
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Porn video shot on Coliseum grounds
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum field is the place where the USC Trojans play football, two Summer Olympics were staged, John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic presidential nomination and Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass. It was also a location for...
Tags: Corporate Crime, Los Angeles Police Department, Pornography, Justice System, Bankruptcy
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State Senate acts to restrict cash demands over disabled access
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Former O.C. executive pleads guilty to bribing foreign officials
L.A. NOWAnother former executive of an Orange County valve company pleaded guilty to a foreign bribery offense Tuesday, according to a statement from the U.S. Justice Department.... -
Julian Assange loses appeal against extradition
World NowJulian Assanges loses appeal against extradition as Britain's highest court ruled five to two saying "the Swedish public prosecutor was a judicial authority."... -
Ex-O.C. firm exec pleads guilty to bribing a Chinese official
A former executive at an Orange County valve company pleaded guilty to bribing a Chinese government official, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced Tuesday. Paul Cosgrove, former executive vice president of the Rancho Santa Margarita-based Control...Tags: Politics, Corporate Crime, Companies and Corporations, U.S. Department of Justice, Justice System
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No verdict in sight yet for John Edwards
GREENSBORO, N.C. — For weeks, the focus of the John Edwards campaign finance trial was the former senator's adulterous behavior and his convoluted attempts to cover it up. Now, after seven tedious days of jury deliberations and no verdict in sight,...
Tags: Political Candidates, Politics, Rielle Hunter, John Edwards, Justice System
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