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05 Oct

Prop 1 Wording May Open Legal Loopholes

Part one of Proposal 1 states that Michigan citizens will acknowledge marijuana as a prescription drug. Although not every voter agrees that marijuana can be used as an effective medicine, a majority of us do according to recent polls taken by the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press. Both polls showed over 60 percent [...]

29 Sep

ABC Learning Fends Off Legal Stoush

Documents filed in the Federal Court in Victoria show childcare giant ABC is defending claims it broke an undertaking to off-load childcare centres in Western Australia.
The undertaking was made with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which took legal action in June this year. The dispute involved two WA centres that remained unsold following the [...]

28 Sep

Journalists score anew in legal battle vs Mike Arroyo

The Court of Appeals has denied for lack of merit the petition of First Gentleman Mike Arroyo seeking to stop the Makati regional trial court from admitting the amended complaint filed by a group of journalists.
Mister Arroyo’s petition had cited, among others, the complainants’ failure to pay the correct docket fees as reason for his [...]

17 Sep

Metrolink Spokeswoman “Quits” For Telling the Truth about California Train Crash in Chatsworth

BREAKING NEWS:
Denise Tyrell, a Metorlink spokes person woman, who almost immediately announced that a . The National Safety Transportation Board announced on Sunday that it was indeed an engineer’s mistake which lead to the deadly train crash just north of Los Angeles.
Federal and state investigators are now investigating whether or not the train engineer was [...]

10 Sep

Legal Fees Set in Enron Case

The fees, awarded to Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, were reasonable and “earned by an extraordinary group of attorneys who achieved the largest settlement fund ever despite the great odds against them,” Judge Harmon wrote in her decision.
Judge Harmon said the lawyers’ rate, 9.5 percent, was substantially lower than in comparable class actions. She [...]

31 Aug

A green turn by Legal Services

The Karnataka Legal Services Cell on Sunday planted one lakh saplings all over the state with Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan leading the path in Kannamangala, near Bengaluru International Airport.
The programme was organized across Karnataka’s 154 taluk centres. The CJI lauded the legal cell’s green movement and said the Supreme Court has been [...]

29 Aug

Turkish Royal Carribbean Employee Arrested For Rape

Crew Member Arrested For Sexual Assault
August 26, 2008 (by Otto Smyth)
According to reports by , a crew member aboard a cruise ship has been arrested near Juneau Alaska after allegedly sexually assaulting another crew member.
The crew member who was assaulted reported the .
The Lemon Creek Correctional Center is located in Juneau and is a multi [...]

19 Aug

Parkman out of Kilpatrick’s legal team

Folksy Alabama attorney Jim Parkman, known for his dynamic sound bites since he came to Detroit, is no longer with Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s legal team, a spokesman said Monday.
“The mayor has put together a legal team of various backgrounds and experience designed to play different roles during different stages. We are now moving into another [...]

14 Aug

Date Rape Drug Used In Cruise Ship Rapes?

According to a report released by the U.S. State Department, each year nearly 50,000 victims fall prey to a drug commonly known as the Date Rape Drug. The proper name for this drug is Scopolamine. Many suspect this date rape drug is commonly used in cruise ship rapes.
The Date Rape Drug that [...]

14 Aug

Cruise Ship Rape Is a Very Real Danger

Sexual assaults and rape can be a worry for many young women and especially for the parents of young girls wanting to go on an exciting cruise ship vacation alone. Every year hundreds of such young girls and young women will embark on a much awaited vacation [...]


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