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June 21, 2002 |

Lawyer Sanctioned for Behavior, Failure to Control Client

In a blistering opinion, a federal judge has ordered sanctions against a lawyer at the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia after finding that she acted unprofessionally and failed to control a client who was abusive and belligerent. Senior U.S. District Judge Charles R. Weiner found that PILCOP attorney Barbara Ransom "acted vexatiously and unreasonably simply by filing this suit in the first place" since it could have been settled without ever going to court.
5 minute read
May 13, 2013 |

Ex-Dictator Convicted of Genocide in Guatemala

A Guatemalan court has convicted former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, sentencing him to 80 years in prison, the first such sentence ever handed down against a former Latin American leader.
5 minute read
August 08, 2005 |

Pitting Parents Against Third Parties

The role of third parties in custody disputes came before the Superior Court earlier this summer in a case that pitted a paternal grandmother and step-grandfather against a boy's natural mother after his father died.
8 minute read
July 01, 2002 |

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McFalls Can Continue to Collect SalaryPittsburgh - An Allegheny County judge accused of being drunk on the bench will remain suspended, but can collect his $119,000 salary as he awaits trial on ethical misconduct charges, the state Court of ...
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January 16, 2006 |

Senators Shove Alito From the Limelight

In competing for air time with 18 senators on the Judiciary Committee, why did it seem like Samuel Alito (right) did the least talking of anyone?
8 minute read
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April 01, 2002 |

Pulled Apart

The Supreme Court`s attempts to alleviate our religious and racial tensions might be pulling us apart.
7 minute read
July 28, 2005 |

Property Purchase a Puzzle of Agreements

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary negotiated a delicate dance of 19 separate purchasing agreements to secure more holdings for the country's largest office building owner. Walnut Co-op Gets IPO UpgradeFenwick & West lends a hand to a group of walnut farmers and does for them what it did for Apple Computer.
4 minute read
May 27, 2005 |

Victims In Beating Case Awarded Ceremonial Costs

Restitution took on a new meaning Thursday when a state appeal court ordered a man who beat up three Hmong men to repay them for the costs of sacrificial cows, pigs and chickens.
2 minute read
August 27, 2008 |

Beijing Games are fiscal triumph, moral failure

We got our full measure of Olympic moments in the just-completed Beijing Games, topped by Michael Phelps's eight gold medals and Usain Bolt's lightning sprints. Nonetheless, some of the greatest feats took place in corporate suites, where the Olympics' global sponsors calculated huge returns on their investments.
5 minute read
February 18, 2003 |

DOJ Seeks Death for 1986 Terror Killings

The Justice Department wants to seek the death penalty against a man accused of murdering 22 people, including two Americans, during a botched hijacking in Pakistan in 1986. It won't be easy.
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