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  RIVERSIDE, California – A former Guatemalan Special Forces officer was sentenced today to serve 10 years in federal prison for covering up his involvement in the 1982 massacre of nearly everyone in the village of Dos Erres, Guatemala. Jorge Sosa, 55, of Moreno Valley, received the statutory maximum sentence of 120 months in prison […]

New York police unions are going to court to decide whether changeds to the stop-and-frisk program are properly made, having filed papers in the Federal Appeals court. The unions claim the judge who ruled the stop-and-frisk practise was discriminatory insulted officers and they want the courts to examine the issue. New York City judge Shira

    LOS ANGELES – A former teacher at Arrowview Middle School in San Bernardino was sentenced this morning to 120 months in federal prison for attempting to entice a 13-year old girl in New Jersey to engage in sexual activity.  Eugene Ballantyne, 30, of Running Springs, California, pleaded guilty in July 2012 to one

      TORONTO (February 10, 2014) – Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), one of Canada’s leading business law firms, was honoured with four awards at the second annual nationwide Benchmark Canada Awards ceremony held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto late last week. Blakes won Securities Litigation Firm of the Year, Insolvency Firm

    LOS ANGELES – A Thousand Oaks man was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison for his participation in an investment scheme that collected, in total, over $14 million from dozens of investors around the country and caused over $10 million in losses for those investors. Nicholaus Skultety, 30, who was the

INDIANAPOLIS — A professor who teaches in the schools of law and medicine at Case Western Reserve University is the recipient of this year’s McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Award. The award and its concurrent lectureship honor individuals who have demonstrated excellence in fields of common interest to the legal and medical professions. It is sponsored by the William