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Cellphone suits target spammers
Cingular Wireless LLC has joined Verizon Wireless' court campaign against telemarketers and spammers who gobble cellphone subscribers' minutes with unwanted marketing calls and messages.Relationships Drive Midsized Firms' Banking Choices
When it comes to deciding which banks to do business with, midsized and small firms look for many of the same attributes clients look for in them, including accessibility, flexibility and trust. In other words, it's relationship-driven.Off-Duty Cop Was Not on Duty When Shot, Court Says
The Commonwealth Court has affirmed the denial of workers' compensation benefits for an off-duty Philadelphia Housing Authority police officer who claimed he was taking official police action when he was injured in a bar fight.The Death Squad: Who Decides Who Should Die?
Every week, a group of lawyers files into the Justice Department's headquarters in Washington to sift through the evidence of recently filed federal murder cases and decide whether the government should seek the death penalty for the defendants. The recommendations go to Janet Reno. Congress, in passing the 1994 Federal Death Penalty Act, said the AG must sign off on the decision before any of the local U.S. attorneys can go forward with a death penalty trial. It's a decision that Reno is facing more.Besieged Blagojevich's defense team still in flux
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's criminal defense team is still in flux even as a whopping 75-page federal indictment landed on him last week. The ex-governor hasn't been able to solidify his criminal defense team mainly because it has been unclear how he will pay his lawyers if the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago freezes his campaign funds, which otherwise could be used to pay his attorney fees.Cite as: United States of America v. Bonventre, S2 10 Cr. 228 (LTS), NYLJ 1202489344558, at *1 (SDNY, Decided April 5, 2011)District Judge Laura Taylor Swain/p
Tears and Applause as Judges Perform City's First Same-Sex Weddings
As last-minute accommodations were being made, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Sherry Klein Heitler told volunteering judges that she would try to rotate the judges among the clerk's three large chapels and smaller rooms, where judges would consider waiver applications and also conduct weddings. Though initial plans were to close the building by 4:30 p.m., she said hours could be extended to 6 p.m. if necessary. "We will get it done," she said, to the applause of the volunteers.State AI Legislation Is on the Move in 2024
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