Ex-smoker's lawyers to discuss $300M Fla. verdict

Categories: Business, Top Stories| Nov 20, 2009

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A former smoker who just won a $300 million verdict in Florida against Philip Morris USA has pulled out of a news conference about the case. Lawyers for 61-year-old Cindy Naugle will talk at the Friday news ...Read More

Lawyers for former smoker to discuss $300 million verdict against Philip Morris

Categories: Business, Top Stories| Nov 20, 2009

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A former smoker who just won a $300 million verdict in Florida against Philip Morris USA has pulled out of a news conference about the case. Lawyers for 61-year-old Cindy Naugle will talk at the Friday ...Read More

IAAF agrees to Semenya keeping world title

Categories: Sports| Nov 19, 2009

IAAF agrees to Semenya keeping world title JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has agreed that South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800 meters world title, the country's sports ministry said Thursday. The 18-year-old Semenya, who stormed to victory in August's world ...Read More

Suicide bomber kills 16 in Peshawar

Categories: Top Stories, World| Nov 19, 2009

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suicide bomber self-detonated Thursday morning outside the gates of a court compound in the heavily guarded administrative heart of the Pakistani city of Peshawar, the seventh deadly explosion there in less than two weeks. At least ...Read More

Judge allows secret services to hide evidence in civil lawsuits

Categories: U.K.| Nov 18, 2009

Judge allows secret services to hide evidence in civil lawsuits MI5, MI6 and the police will be able to withhold evidence from defendants and their lawyers in civil cases for the first time, the high court ruled today. In a move that has widespread implications for open justice, Mr Justice Silber ...Read More

2 of 7 counts dismissed in Baltimore mayor's theft trial; judge denies argument for mistrial

Categories: U.S.| Nov 17, 2009

2 of 7 counts dismissed in Baltimore mayor's theft trial; judge denies argument for mistrial BALTIMORE — Two of the seven charges against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon are being dropped. A judge dismissed the charges Tuesday during the mayor's theft trial. Prosecutors claim Dixon used gift cards intended for the needy for personal shopping sprees. The judge ...Read More

Verizon responds to AT&T's Map For That lawsuit: 'the truth hurts'

Categories: SciTech| Nov 17, 2009

Verizon responds to AT&T's Map For That lawsuit: 'the truth hurts' Sure, Verizon's doubled down on the 3G map ads in response to AT&T's false advertising lawsuit, but eventually the company's lawyers had to file a response and, well, ain't nobody backing down in this one. Here's the freaking introduction:AT&T ...Read More

Calif. lawyers reap financial benefits from voting rights law they wrote

Categories: Politics, Top Stories| Nov 15, 2009

LOS ANGELES — Every lawsuit filed or even threatened under a California law aimed at electing more minorities to local offices — and all of the roughly $4.3 million from settlements so far — can be traced to just two ...Read More

Parents in 'balloon boy' case expected to plead guilty

Categories: Entertainment| Nov 13, 2009

Parents in 'balloon boy' case expected to plead guilty (CNN) -- Parents in last month's notorious "balloon boy" case are expected to plead guilty on Friday, the pair's lawyers said. The Larimer County district attorney's office Thursday said Richard Heene has been charged with one count of attempting to influence ...Read More

Lawyers: Colorado parents reach plea deals in balloon boy saga, some jail time possible

Categories: U.S.| Nov 13, 2009

Lawyers: Colorado parents reach plea deals in balloon boy saga, some jail time possible FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The Colorado couple accused of pulling a spectacular hoax by reporting their son was aboard a runaway balloon is set to avoid more spectacle — and a trial — by entering pleas to charges that could ...Read More