MOSCOW – A jailed lawyer for the embattled Yukos oil company has come off a hunger strike after suffering health problems, her lawyer said Tuesday. Svetlana Bakhmina, who is charged in connection with a 6-year-old case involving alleged asset-stripping at a Yukos subsidiary, began a hunger strike March 3 to protest after investigators refused to […]
Losing still more legal appeals, Terri Schiavo’s father warned Friday that his severely brain-damaged daughter was “down to her last hours” as she entered her second week without the feeding tube that had sustained her life for 15 years. Doctors have said she would probably die within a week or two of the feeding tube
Assets held in individual retirement accounts are not savings that can be seized by creditors in bankruptcy proceedings, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court said Monday. The IRAs belonging to Richard and Betty Jo Rousey are akin to deferred wages that were intended to be used for retirement and qualify as a shielded asset from Chapter
State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has received thousands of dollars in campaign donations from lawyers at a prominent Manhattan law firm hired by AIG — even as the insurance giant is under investigation by Spitzer’s office. Between late November and mid-January, Spitzer received $18,500 from 16 different attorneys from the law firm of Paul, Weiss,
Michael Jackson’s legal team is undergoing a shakeup just days before the defense is expected to start presenting its case to jurors in the pop star’s trial on child molestation charges. Brian Oxman is no longer representing Jackson, according to a notice filed Monday in Santa Barbara County Superior Court. The document did not give
A secretary has won a nine-year legal battle against the Government in a case that will have far-reaching consequences for thousands of women. Michelle Alabaster began legal proceedings after claiming that her former employer broke European sex discrimination law by underpaying her during maternity leave. Spanning nearly a decade, the case passed from an employment
Michael Jackson’s former attorney said Friday that, long before a family had accused the star of child molestation and false imprisonment, he viewed their relationship with Jackson as a “pending disaster” and suspected they were after his client’s money. “I thought they were going to shake him down,” attorney Mark Geragos testified as Jackson’s defense
Fourteen Republican and Democratic senators announced this evening they had reached a compromise designed to prevent a showdown over President Bush’s judicial nominations. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), speaking for the group of seven Republicans and seven Democrats, announced the agreement at a news conference at 7:40 p.m. Under the deal, the Democrats agreed to accept
In 1970, when I was serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and assigned to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, the chief of naval operations, I sometimes acted as a courier, taking documents to the White House. One evening I was dispatched with a package to the lower level of the West Wing of the
Bernard J. Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom, pleaded for leniency yesterday from the judge who will sentence him for his conviction on charges of orchestrating the largest securities fraud in the nation’s history. Lawyers for Mr. Ebbers, who will be sentenced on July 13, asked the court to depart from federal guidelines when
