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Court denies Burris request to stop election
Politics 11/02/2010The Supreme Court says it won't stop a special election for President Barack Obama's old Senate seat that leaves out current Illinois Sen. Roland Burris. Burris earlier this month asked the high court to block plans for a special Senate election that...
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Court asked to keep stem cell money flowing
Politics 11/02/2010The Obama administration is asking a federal appeals court to lift an order blocking federal funding for some stem cell research, a day after being turned down by the judge who issued the order. The administration told a federal appeals court in Wash...
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Court denies Burris request to stop election
Politics 11/02/2010The Supreme Court says it won't stop a special election for President Barack Obama's old Senate seat that leaves out current Illinois Sen. Roland Burris. Burris earlier this month asked the high court to block plans for a special Senate election that...
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Lawyer in Whitman flap mum on details, party ties
Politics 11/02/2010Republican Meg Whitman's former maid said Tuesday she's not a Democratic pawn in California's race for governor, but her attorney refused again to provide key details about her claims that Whitman employed her for nearly a decade despite knowing she ...
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Obama and Democrats count on Senate wins out West
Politics 11/02/2010President Barack Obama heads to California and Washington state this week to drum up support for endangered incumbents Barbara Boxer and Patty Murray in the last days of a campaign that finds his Democrats playing defense around the country. Wins in ...
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Court sends back Buddhist temple killing case
11/02/2010A man accused of killing nine people at a Buddhist temple near Phoenix as a juvenile will have the federal courts reconsider his overturned conviction. The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the lower courts to re-examine the thrown-out murder convicti...
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Lawsuit filed in Utah tour bus crash
11/02/2010The driver of a van and a tour operator have been sued over a crash in Utah that killed three Japanese tourists and injured 11 others. The Salt Lake Tribune says the lawsuit filed Friday in federal court claims passenger Kei Maeda has suffered incomp...
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Man guilty of stealing $340K in copper
11/02/2010An Annapolis man admitted yesterday that he stole more than $340,000 of copper cable intended for use in the construction of unmanned drones destined for U.S. foreign military operations - possibly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Levon Smith, 54, faces up t...
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3 plead not guilty to Calif. can recycling fraud
11/02/2010Three people charged with bilking the state's recycling program out of $7 million by importing cans from Arizona pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Howard Leveson, 68, the owner of Perris Valley Recycling, and two of his employees entered their pleas to a...
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Supreme Court strikes down NO cameras
11/02/2010The Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld a judge's order invalidating traffic tickets issued through New Orleans' red-light and speed-enforcement camera system The court's 6-0 vote on Wednesday could create a budget problem for the city, which collecte...
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Law firm drops Adorno's name after suspension .
Lawyer News 11/02/2010Hank Adorno's law firm has dropped his name from the letterhead. Adorno & Yoss, which Adorno founded in 1986 with two other lawyers, announced Monday it was officially changing its name to Yoss LLP following Adorno's suspension by the Florida Sup...
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Law Firms Orrick and Akin Gump End Merger Talks
Lawyer News 11/02/2010The big law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has seen its share of merger discussions fizzle out in recent years. Add its talks with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to the list. Less than a week after confirming that they were in preliminar...