Legal

CNN June 6, 2010 By the CNN Wire Staff New York (CNN) — Authorities have arrested two men at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport as part of an ongoing investigation, the FBI and New York police said early Sunday morning. Neither agency would disclose further details about the arrests. But they did...
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Natalee Holloway Disappearance Suspect Held in Peru Jail in Killing of Young Woman ABC-TV News June 5, 2010 By JOEL SIEGEL and JOHN QUINONES Joran van der Sloot, the lone suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba , faces an “extremely rude awakening” in Peru, where he has just been...
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Despite losing his medical license, Wakefield says he will continue research msnbc.com By Michael Inbar TODAYshow.com contributor updated 3:18 p.m. ET, Mon., May 24, 2010 The doctor who suggested a possible link between childhood vaccines and autism stands by his theory and said on Monday that he will continue his research despite having his...
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Police Closed the Case Without Charges: Brother Confessed to Accidental Killing ABC News Jan. 2, 2010 Martha Jean Lambert vanished near her St. Augustine home on Nov. 27, 1985. Her mother, Margaret Pichon, says she remains convinced that the 12-year-old girl was kidnapped. However, the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office said Friday that Pichon’s...
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USA Today December 30, 2009 COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska’s political deal from the federal health care overhaul bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday. “We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed,” South Carolina Attorney...
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The New York Times December 23, 2009 By GRETCHEN MORGENSON and LOUISE STORY In late October 2007, as the financial markets were starting to come unglued, a Goldman Sachs trader, Jonathan M. Egol, received very good news. At 37, he was named a managing director at the firm.Donnell/The New York Times One former Goldman...
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Pleads no contest to 2 charges; Wis. prosecutors dismiss other counts msnbc.com December 22, 2009 WAUKESHA, Wis. – A Wisconsin teenager who blackmailed dozens of fellow high school students into sex acts by using photos and videos obtained in a Facebook scam faces up to 50 years in prison after pleading no contest to...
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NPR December 15, 2009 by The Associated Press An 8-year-old Massachusetts boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing and sketched what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross, the child’s father said Tuesday. Chester Johnson...
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Case involves messages sent on a pager owned by an employer Washington Post December 15, 2009 By Robert Barnes The Supreme Court will decide whether employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy for the text messages they send on devices owned by their employers. The case the court accepted Monday involves public employees, but...
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Groups sued to press Bush administration on recordkeeping Washington Post December 15, 2009 By Dan Eggen The White House and two nonprofit groups announced a settlement Monday in a long-running lawsuit over more than 22 million e-mails that were missing during the Bush administration because of poor labeling and other technical problems. The National...
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