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| Ousted BigLaw Partner Gets 5 Years for Helping Client Trick Swiss Bank Into Making $28M Loan | A British lawyer ousted in 2008 from his equity partnership at Mishcon de Reya was sentenced today to 5½ years in prison for helping a client trick a private Swiss bank into making a loan of some $28 million. Solicitor Kevin Steele, 51, helped his client, Michael Shephard, present fake documents to persuade EFG Private Bank that Shephard had access to offshore assets of at least quadruple the amount of the loan, the Guardian reports. The Southwark Crown Court was told half the loan money went to fund a resort hotel development in Turkey and the rest went into Shephard's… |
| Student Faces Backlash After Winning Legal Battle Over Prayer Hanging on School Wall | A Rhode Island girl who successfully waged a legal battle to get a prayer removed from the wall of her high school auditorium is now suffering the wrath of her deeply religious neighbors. Jessica Ahlquist, 16, has gotten online threats, and police have escorted her at school. A state lawmaker called her "an evil little thing" on a talk radio program. And three local florists have refused to deliver flowers that a national atheist group tried to send to her. All because Ahlquist, an avowed atheist, won a federal lawsuit last month over an eight-foot paper prayer that has hung… |
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| | Paterno's death complicates legal case - Pittsburgh Post Gazette | |
Paterno's death complicates legal casePittsburgh Post GazetteBy Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The prosecution of at least two of the defendants in the Penn State University scandal becomes significantly more difficult with Joe Paterno's death, legal experts agree. Although the state attorney general's ...and more » |
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| Obama Administration And Banks Near Deal On Mortgage Fraud Legal Liability - Huffington Post | |
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| | Guatemala court orders ex-dictator to stand trial | [JURIST] Guatemalan Judge Carol Flores ruled Thursday that ex-dictator Rios Montt must stand trial for charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. The judge heard the prosecutor's initial statements Wednesday and decided Thursday that the evidence was sufficient to go to trial. Montt is being charged for crimes committed throughout the country's 36-year civil war [BBC timeline], which officially ended in 1996. Montt was a general in the military who became dictator after a coup in 1982 but lost power... |
| US lawmakers request information on new Google privacy policy | [JURIST] US Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) [official website; press release] and seven other lawmakers Thursday sent a letter [text, PDF] to Google CEO Larry Page [NYT backgrounder] containing 11 questions regarding consumer privacy rights as affected by Google's new privacy policies [corporate website]. The letter states that the privacy policy and Google's consolidated data sharing system raise questions about whether consumers can opt out of the new system, either globally or on a product-by-product basis. As Co-Chairman of the Congressional... |
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| | Why New Photo ID Laws Mean Some Won't Vote - NPR | |
Why New Photo ID Laws Mean Some Won't VoteNPRI just got my driver's license renewed, it took like five seconds,'" says Larry Norden, acting director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, which opposes these laws. "Frankly, that's why these laws have ...and more » |
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| Florida's election law draws scrutiny - MiamiHerald.com | |
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