Congressional Democrats hope to undo several high-profile Roberts Court decisions.

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The debate over Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court took place against a backdrop of tension between the Democratic Congress and Sotomayor’s new colleagues. Since January, Democratic lawmakers have pushed legislation that would reverse the effects of several recent high-profile decisions, many of them driven by the Court’s five-member conservative majority. The Democrats […]

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Greenwich Woman Pleads Guilty in White Plains Federal Court to Conspiracy to Defraud Regenat Investors

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LawFuel.com – 08 August, 2009 – LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced that MILANA MURCIA of Greenwich, Connecticut, pleaded guilty today in White Plains

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Kilpatrick Stockton Earns Record-Breaking Recognition in Annual Best Lawyers in America 2010

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Firm Ranked Number One in the Nation for Intellectual Property ATLANTA (August 6) – A record-breaking ninety-three Kilpatrick Stockton attorneys have recently been honored by their peers in The Best Lawyers in America® 2010. The firm was ranked number one in the nation in Intellectual Property with more ranked attorneys than any other firm in

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The Senate votes 68 to 31 to confirm Sotomayor, who will be the first Latino and third woman ever on the nation’s highest court. Nine Republicans cross party line to support her confirmation.

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Reporting from Washington — Sonia Sotomayor completed an unlikely and historic journey today, one that began with her birth in a Bronx, New York, housing project 55 years ago and culminated in her confirmation as the Supreme Court’s 111th justice. When she is sworn into office, Sotomayor will take her place as the high court’s

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Armed Baker County Bank Robber Sentenced to More than 34 Years in Federal Prison

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LawFuel.com – 07 August, 2009 – Jacksonville, Florida – U.S. Attorney A. Brian Albritton announces that U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. today sentenced Jabari Markeith Hird (age 29, of Orlando) to 34 years and 2 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit armed bank robbery and for brandishing a firearm. The court

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Tax Preparer Swntenced to 30 Months in Federal Prison for Tax Fraud

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LawFuel.com – 07 August, 2009 – Orlando, Florida – U.S. Attorney A. Brian Albritton announces that U.S. District Chief Judge Anne C. Conway today sentenced Jean Marie Boursiquot (age 51, of Deltona, Florida) to two and a half years in federal prison for conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service out of tax revenue. The

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On a Monday morning in early March, two associates sat in an East Coast office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius discussing a firmwide e-mail from chairman Francis Milone. It warned that because of the recession, 55 lawyers and 161 staff members would be told that day that “their employment will end.” These two associates felt relatively confident that their jobs were safe. But as they chatted, the phone rang, and the number of the partner both of them worked for popped up in the caller ID box of one associate’s phone. They panicked.

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As one associate looked on, the other answered what turned out to be a routine work-related call. After a collective sigh, the associates discouraged the partner from calling anyone else until later that day, after a meeting that had been scheduled to discuss the layoffs — the unofficial all-clear for associates unaffected by the cuts.

On a Monday morning in early March, two associates sat in an East Coast office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius discussing a firmwide e-mail from chairman Francis Milone. It warned that because of the recession, 55 lawyers and 161 staff members would be told that day that “their employment will end.” These two associates felt relatively confident that their jobs were safe. But as they chatted, the phone rang, and the number of the partner both of them worked for popped up in the caller ID box of one associate’s phone. They panicked. Read More »

Former Computer CEO Pleads Guilty to Multimillion-Dollar Fraud in Middle of Trial

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LawFuel.com – 06 August, 2009 – LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for, the Southern District of New York announced that ERIC SKYS, the former Chairman, President, and CEO of Kaiser Himmel Corporation, based in Rockwood, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today after two days of a jury trial, to all five counts of an

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Accused Colombian Paramilitary Leader and Cocaine Trafficker Surrenders to United States

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LawFuel.com – 06 August, 2009 – LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOHN P. GILBRIDE, the Special Agent-In-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), RAYMOND W. KELLY, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD”), and PETER J.

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Lawyer Arrested for Accepting Cash in Exchange for Promise to Tamper with Grand Jury Witness Testimony

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LawFuel.com – August 06, 2009 – An attorney was arrested late Tuesday after accepting $53,500 in cash that he believed was half of a bribe being paid in exchange for him instructing his client to lie to a federal prosecutor and a federal grand jury investigating allegations of immigration fraud. Alfred Nash Villalobos, 44, a

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