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Gov't steps up scrutiny of Madoff's assets, bail
NEW YORK AP - Prosecutors stepped up their scrutiny of Bernard Madoff's family and assets Tuesday, telling a judge they want to seize jewelry, business interests and more than $30 million that the disgraced money man and his wife lent to their two sons.The move was one of two motions prosecutors filed Tuesday, four days after Madoff pleaded guilty to what could be the largest fraud in history.Class Action Suit Over Blood Warning Stumbles
A Chicago minister has hit a roadblock in his attempt to make the nation's hospitals and blood banks legally responsible for notifying blood transfusion patients they might be infected with hepatitis C. A judge in Cook County, Ill., dismissed the Rev. John David Sturman's class action, ruling that his claim that hospitals and blood banks have a duty to notify patients of a potential infection is "legally insufficient."Boutrous, Olson mount their next crusade against teacher tenure
Two of the attorneys who convinced a federal judge to strike down California's gay marriage ban as unconstitutional two years ago are setting their sights on another social issue: State laws governing how schools evaluate teachers.View more book results for the query "*"
Exxon Mobil Suit Yields $2 Mil. in Fees
A federal judge has awarded $2 million in fees to lawyers who won $6 million for 52 former employees of Mobil Corp. who said they were cheated out of severance pay when they were not hired by the newly formed Exxon Mobil Corp. after a 1999 merger.'Herculean' Discovery Ordered in $11 Bil. Qui Tam Suit
Discovery in two separate, but related, qui tam cases filed against a Pittsburgh-based for-profit education company should be coordinated, a federal judge said as he upheld a special master's decisions on contentious discovery issues in a suit where plaintiffs are aiming to prove a "multibillion-dollar" fraud.Suing more than 400 companies for patent infringement poses logistical difficulties, so GeoTag tried to go easy on specifics. That approach didn't sit well with GeoTag's targets, but it's won the blessing of two different judges in the Eastern District of Texas.
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