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The Defense Research Institute is among the groups that have bankrolled trips for the acting chief of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and her predecessor.
The lawyer members of the…
Nov 2, 2007 6:56 PM CDT
An effort to enact a new execution protocol in California that would put an end to a death penalty moratorium declared last year by a federal judge has suffered a…
Nov 2, 2007 12:39 AM CDT
Nov 1, 2007 7:56 PM CDT
The company whose security guards have been accused of killing 17 unarmed Iraqis has hired some big-name legal talent.
The move by Blackwater…
Nov 1, 2007 10:45 AM CDT
Even before his nomination as the country’s next attorney general is confirmed, Michael Mukasey may already be protecting the Bush administration, some legal experts say.
By refusing the demands of…
Nov 1, 2007 1:15 AM CDT
In a suggestion that should send a shiver down the spines of Web-based companies throughout the world, some are asking the Federal Trade Commission to develop an Internet version of…
Oct 31, 2007 11:27 PM CDT
The former chief of staff to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has landed in the private sector.
D. Kyle Sampson, a Utah native who resigned amid growing controversy over the…
Oct 31, 2007 6:45 PM CDT
As residents throughout many areas of Southern California worry about potential damage from the wildfires that have been burning for the past week, illegal immigrants have had a particular cause…
Oct 29, 2007 3:50 PM CDT
Victims injured by a Minneapolis bridge collapse earlier this year are asking the government to establish a 9/11-style compensation fund to cover their medical expenses and pay a currently unspecified…
Oct 26, 2007 10:18 PM CDT
A legal bill of nearly $680,000 allegedly owed by Nassau County in New York to a Washington, D.C., law firm for work performed in 2002 doesn’t have to be paid,…
Oct 26, 2007 12:30 AM CDT
Cell Therapeutics has agreed to settle a whistle-blower suit that contended the company marketed a cancer drug for unapproved uses, costing Medicare millions of dollars. But the whistle-blower could get…
Oct 25, 2007 6:15 PM CDT
In a case that was widely viewed as a test of Bush administration anti-terrorism policy, a federal judge in Dallas declared a mistrial today on numerous charges against five individuals.…
Oct 22, 2007 11:50 PM CDT
A special project of the Florida attorney general has grown into a 35-office effort to protect the state’s senior citizens from large injustices and small that don’t constitute crimes.
So-called…
Oct 22, 2007 7:06 PM CDT
Health-care fraud reportedly may rival drug-dealing as Florida’s biggest illegal industry, and prosecutors are starting to take notice.
Last year, for instance, 80 percent of the medicine billed to Medicare…
Oct 22, 2007 4:11 PM CDT
Three suspended professors at Ave Maria School of Law have filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against the Catholic institution, its president and dean, and the chairman of its board of governors,…
Oct 19, 2007 3:35 AM CDT
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