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  1. Lawyer Alleges Bias In Case of Child Porn

    8 hours ago

    The attorney for a Loudoun County school official charged with possession of child pornography has filed a motion to remove the Loudoun commonwealth's attorney from the case, saying that the county's chief prosecutor

    Tagged: child, of, in, case, porn, bias, lawyer, freedom high school, loudoun county, kraig troxell, supreme court of virginia, james plowman, alleges, loudoun county public schools, thomas d horne, wayde byard, nicole wittmann, ting yi oei, steven d stone, james j faughnan, loudoun commonwealth

  2. Court considers case on judicial ethics

    Oct 10, 2008

    WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices regularly confront cases involving companies they own shares in or that employ a family member. The decision is easy _ the justices have a conflict of interest that forces them to

    Tagged: case, on, ethics, court, judicial, considers

  3. NOAA, Court Focus On Marine Mammals

    Oct 10, 2008

    The government yesterday issued a long-delayed regulation imposing speed limits on East Coast ship traffic that threatens the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, while barely a mile away the Supreme Court

    Tagged: north korea, china, focus, california, united states, dick cheney, marine, on, mammals, court, noaa, samuel alito, stephen breyer, the white house, natural resources defense council, john roberts chief justice, u s national oceanic and atmospheric administration, conrad lautenbacher, keith hennessey, international union for conservation of nature, randall reeves

  4. TiVo gets $104.6 million in damages from EchoStar

    Oct 9, 2008

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - TiVo Inc said on Thursday it has received the $104.6 million in damages from EchoStar Corp that it won this week when the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal of a patent infringement case.

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  5. Esquire backs Obama in its first endorsement

    Oct 8, 2008

    WASHINGTON -- Esquire is backing Democrat Barack Obama for president _ its first endorsement in the magazine's 75-year history.

    Tagged: first, in, esquire, its, obama, endorsement, backs

  6. Court wrestles with case on Navy sonar, whales

    Oct 8, 2008

    WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday over how to resolve a long-running dispute over whether environmental laws may be used to limit the Navy's use of sonar to protect whales.

    Tagged: case, whales, on, navy, court, sonar, with, wrestles

  7. Court sympathetic to worker's retaliation claims

    Oct 8, 2008

    WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they would side with a longtime government worker who claims she was fired in retaliation after she cooperated with a sexual harassment investigation.

    Tagged: court, to, claims, retaliation, worker s, sympathetic

  8. Poorer D.C. Residents Lacking Legal Services

    Oct 7, 2008

    Low-income D.C. residents are not getting enough assistance in pursuing landlord-tenant cases, custody disputes, small-claims matters and other civil litigation, according to a report issued yesterday by a

    Tagged: legal, services, washington dc, residents, adrian fenty, poorer, lacking, d c, district of columbia court system, dla piper group, lee f satterfield, eric t washington, peter b edelman, justice commission

  9. Judge orders Chinese Muslims at Guantanamo freed

    Oct 7, 2008

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday, in a rebuke to the Bush administration, ordered the prompt release in the United States of 17 Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

    Tagged: orders, chinese, guantanamo, judge, at, muslims, freed

  10. High court dispute over who gets retirement money

    Oct 7, 2008

    WASHINGTON -- If William Kennedy had updated all his financial paperwork in accordance with his divorce decree, chances are his daughter would not have been at the Supreme Court on Tuesday fighting for the $402,000 she

    Tagged: money, retirement, high, court, who, dispute, over, gets

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