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| Jurors ‘Haunted’ By Time in Courtroom | North Carolina is considering allowing jurors access to counseling services to cope with post traumatic stress that can occur following exposure during trial to graphic images and disturbing testimony. In a report by WECT TV6 in Wilmington, one juror shares his experiences grappling with a capital case… |
| Family Seeks $207M in Death Suit, $1M Per Minute of Suffering | The family of an East Baltimore teen who died in 2007 at a school for juvenile offenders while counselors attempted to restrain him have filed a wrongful death suit seeking $207 million. The figure represents $1 million for every minute that Isaiah Simmons III, 17, allegedly suffered while counselors at… |
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| | Microsoft Lawyers Map Out the Bid for Yahoo | In the days after Microsoft's bid for Yahoo, the players in the merger drama had their legal teams beating the antitrust drums. Google, which hit the blogosphere to bash the deal as anti-competitive, has a team of antitrust veterans. Microsoft, too, has a connected advocate in Charles "Rick" Rule, who worked with Thomas Barnett, the head of Justice's Antitrust Division, while the two were at Covington & Burling. The antitrust lawyers may be key to hammering out a deal -- and their work is cut out for them. |
| $4.1 Million Fees Award Upheld in Kia Class Action | The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld $4.1 million in plaintiffs attorney fees awarded by a Philadelphia judge in a Kia Motors faulty-brake class action. The Superior Court panel found there was no palpable abuse of discretion by Common Pleas Judge Mark I. Bernstein, and echoed his reasoning that the plaintiffs attorneys' award was reasonable considering the rates the defense counsel charged, which topped out at $595 per hour for partners -- rates higher than those requested by plaintiffs' counsel. |
Jurist
| | UK ministers, MPs deadlock over proposed 42-day terror detention without charge | [JURIST] UK ministers and MPs deadlocked Wednesday over a controversial proposed anti-terror bill [BBC Q/A] that would allow British authorities to detain terror suspects up to 42 days without charge [JURIST news archive]. Prime Minister Gordon Brown [official website] has vowed to continue |
| Myanmar constitution approved with 93 percent 'yes' vote in referendum: junta | [JURIST] Myanmar's draft constitution [JURIST news archive] has been approved with over 90 percent of 22 million eligible voters voting yes in Saturday's nation-wide referendum [JURIST report], the country's military government said Thursday. The regime has faced sharp international criticism |
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| | John Phillip Law, 70, Film Actor, Is Dead - New York Times | |
| Republicans -- Republicans! -- expressing disgust over village law ... - Kansas City Star | |
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| | Francona out 2 games after mother-in-law's death (AP via Yahoo! News) | Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona left the team and will miss the first two games of his team's series at Baltimore following the death of his mother-in-law. |
| Many at MBTA retire before new law cuts benefits (Boston Globe) | The MBTA saw an unusual spike in retirements this month, weeks after Governor Deval Patrick signed a law that will reduce some benefits for workers who retire before they turn 65. |
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| | South Africa: Doctors' Body to Probe Legal Unit After Arrest - AllAfrica.com | |
| Alstom Joins Legal Proceedings In Global Bribery Investigation - Wall Street Journal | |
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| | Legal battle over job reference (BBC News) | A council faces a legal fight over a reference for a woman who became head of another local authority. |
| Cherie demeans the legal profession and must resign over her £1million memoirs, says disgusted judge (Evening Standard) | Cherie Blair should resign as a part-time judge over the "complete lack of decency" in her £1million memoirs, a top legal figure demanded yesterday. Former senior judge Gerald Butler QC accused Mrs Blair of demeaning the legal profession. |
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