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April 06, 2010 |

Supreme Court prospects are Kagan, Wood, Garland

WASHINGTON AP - Two experienced federal judges and the Obama administration's top Supreme Court lawyer are widely considered the leading candidates for the next high court opening if Justice John Paul Stevens retires this year.Stevens, 89, is expected to decide soon whether to step down after more than 34 years on the court.
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December 06, 2004 |

Defense Attorneys: Shut Off the Leaks in Probes

Leaks -- confidential information passed to journalists by anonymous sources -- have for decades gone hand in hand with government investigations. Lately they've become a royal pain for defense attorneys. Lawyers blame federal prosecutors and agents for tipping journalists about grand jury proceedings and say a recent trend of supposedly secret testimony appearing in news stories hurts their clients. And the government, they say, hasn't done enough to turn off the faucet.
6 minute read
September 29, 2008 |

Supreme Court Stays Above Economic Fray — For Now

As the nation's stunning financial crisis competed with a riveting presidential election campaign for D.C.'s attention last week, the other branch of government — the Supreme Court — remained blithely uninvolved. But history, both long ago and recent, teaches that the Supreme Court rarely stays completely out of intense national debates.
5 minute read
August 12, 2005 |

Roberts Advocated Noncommittal Stance on Specific Cases in Advising O'Connor

Supreme Court nominee John Roberts advised then-high court nominee Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981 to stand firm in her insistence not to talk about specific cases like Roe v. Wade, saying it could bring up impropriety and possibly disqualification issues. Documents released Thursday revealed that Roberts -- then special assistant to the AG -- wrote O'Connor to rebut a professor's memo arguing that senators can only determine a nominee's views by asking specific questions about specific cases.
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February 05, 2008 |

Day Laborers

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August 31, 2007 |

Who's Behind the Camera?

No longer is video surveillance just an experiment: Law enforcement wants to install it everywhere. Might some laws be a good idea?
6 minute read
May 26, 2011 |

Weak US economic data pushes stocks lower

Weak U.S. economic data weighed on stocks Thursday, though worries over Greece's debt crisis eased somewhat following indications that the country may get more help.
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August 11, 2008 |

Supreme Court Extends Criminal Jury Notetaking

The state Supreme Court has suspended the sunset provision contained in a rule that sanctioned juror note-taking in certain criminal trials, effectively extending a period for evaluation of the practice.
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February 08, 2012 |

Prudential Entity Ruled Entitled to Damages Over Retirement Plan Losses

Given the amount of commercial litigation stemming from the subprime meltdown, surprisingly few cases have actually gone to trial. But in one of the rare exceptions, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Feb. 3 that a Prudential Financial subsidiary was entitled to nearly $77 million in damages from State Street Corporation.
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