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- Legal Opinions - Maryland Court of Special Appeals: October 20, 2008
- MARYLAND COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS Administrative Dismissal of administrative appeal BOTTOM LINE: Office of Administrative Hearings erred in dismissing appeal under FL [section]5-706.1b(3) based on appellant's criminal convictions where the criminal charges did not arise out of the alleged abuse or neglect. ...
- Research articles 2008-10-20
- Libel lawsuit against John Grisham headed to 10th U.S. Circuit Court
- An Oklahoma federal judge's dismissal of a libel lawsuit against best-selling author John Grisham and other writers is on its way to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Grisham's The Innocent Man deals with the 1982 murder of Debra Sue Carter and the convictions and subsequent DNA...
- Research articles 2008-10-17
- Legal Opinions - U.S. District Court, Maryland: October 14, 2008
- Administrative Law Disqualification from participation in health care programs BOTTOM LINE: Department of Health and Human Services properly disqualified doctor from participation in federal heath care programs for five years based on his guilty plea relating to the abuse of patients in connection with the delivery...
- Research articles 2008-10-14
- Bank of China welcomes convictions in huge embezzlement case
- BEIJING AFP — The Bank of China, one of the nation's top lenders, Tuesday welcomed the conviction in the United States of two former managers for record-setting fraud estimated at nearly half a billion dollars. The two, Xu Chaofan and Xu Guojun, were convicted by a federal jury in...
- Research articles 2008-09-02
- Six dead in Washington state shooting rampage: reports
- WASHINGTON, AFP — A shooting spree in Washington state left six dead and two wounded, with the suspected gunman described as mentally disturbed with numerous convictions, local media reported Wednesday. The victims included a sheriff's deputy, Anne Jackson, 40, in the killings that took place Tuesday in Skagit County...
- Research articles 2008-09-02
- Baltimore County Circuit Court judge lets convict take polygraph
- The truth will not set Trent Lee Banks free, but it could shave a few years off his 45-year sentence. Banks, 29, was granted permission Tuesday to take a polygraph test in an effort to reduce the five-year sentence for violating probation he received after being convicted...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- Inmate free after 20 years on death row, thanks to DNA test
- WASHINGTON AFP — A 46-year old inmate who languished on death row for more than 20 years was freed Wednesday after DNA tests called into question his murder conviction. Paul Gregory House was sentenced to death in 1986 for the rape and murder of Carolyne Muncey, a housewife and...
- Research articles 2008-07-02
- Legal Opinions - U.S. District Court, Maryland: June 23, 2008
- Securities Collateral estoppel BOTTOM LINE: Defendant could be collaterally estopped from relitigating issues resolved in a criminal case provided the five- part test set forth in Sedlack v. Braswell Servs. Group, 134 F.3d 219 (4th Cir. 1998) was met. CASE: S.E.C. v. Resnick, et...
- Research articles 2008-06-23
- Lockerbie judges mull fate of secret document
- LONDON AFP — Legal discussions about a potentially crucial top secret document that could help clear the Lockerbie bomber should be heard in private, the appeal court in Edinburgh was told Tuesday. Britain's top legal officer in Scotland, Advocate General Neil Davidson, told three judges in the case that...
- Research articles 2008-05-27
- Sniper asks prosecutors to have appeals halted
- McLEAN, Va. AP -- Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad is asking prosecutors in a letter to help him end legal appeals of his conviction and death sentence "so that you can murder this innocent black man." In a two-page letter obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday, Muhammad...
- Research articles 2008-05-07
- Bollywood bad boy Dutt to play French 'Bikini Killer'
- MUMBAI AFP — Bollywood bad boy Sanjay Dutt, out of jail on bail for a weapons conviction, is set to play convicted French killer Charles Sobhraj who is prison in Nepal for the murder of an American woman in the 1970s. French national Sobhraj, who is half-Vietnamese, half-Indian, has...
- Research articles 2008-05-06
- The Untouchables and the law.
- Byline: Jamie Curle In assembling its arsenal to fight financial crime, the FSA's enforcement division hopes to emulate its US counterpart, the Securities and Exchange Commission, by using plea bargaining to crack criminal gangs guilty of systemic market abuse. The FSA...
- Research articles 2008-04-24
- News Summary - 4/22
- ActiPatch gets Medicaid OK BioElectronics Corp., of Frederick, manufacturer of the ActiPatch, a portable, disposable electromedical device designed to use the body's own bioelectrical energy to accelerate healing, said it received approval for reimbursement from the Maryland Medicaid program for the use of the ActiPatch for kidney disease...
- Research articles 2008-04-22
- 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals modifies Nichols' '90-day' rule
- The Missouri Court of Appeals is not a court of last resort, a federal appeals court said. In so doing, the court overturned a nine-year-old precedent that temporarily tolled the statute of limitations for federal habeas review even when defendants didn't appeal their convictions to the state Supreme...
- Research articles 2008-04-14
- Enough to make you swear
- ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU SWEAR: California State University at East Bay fired Marianne Kearney-Brown, a Quaker mathematics instructor, because she refused to sign an unaltered state loyalty oath. In previous teaching positions she would sign the oath, but add her own modifiers so as to align it with her pacifist...
- Research articles 2008-04-08
- Cinnaminson man among those pardoned by Bush
- More than 30 years after mailing himself heroin from a military post office in Thailand, Robert Milroy has had the slate wiped clean. Milroy, a Cinnaminson resident, was one of 15 people who received a pardon from President Bush on Monday. "It is part of my distant past, but does...
- Research articles 2008-03-27
- 'Scooter' Libby stripped of his D.C. law license
- WASHINGTON AP -- Former top White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was banned Thursday from practicing law in the nation's capital following his perjury conviction in the case of a CIA operative's leaked identity. The disbarment order of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals had been...
- Research articles 2008-03-21
- Court overturns conviction of ex-Qwest chief
- DENVER, Colorado AFP — A US appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction of the former chief of imploded telecoms giant Qwest Joseph Nacchio and sent the case back to court. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled that the exclusion of key testimony from an expert...
- Research articles 2008-03-17
- U.S. Labor Department Enforcement Agency Announces Eight Criminal Convictions for February
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Loren Smith or Richard Manning of the U.S. Department of Labor, +1-202-693-4676 Convictions up 20 percent, indictments 39 percent over fiscal year 2007 WASHINGTON, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Labors Office of Labor-Management Standards OLMS today announced its criminal enforcement data for...
- Research articles 2008-03-14
- Conrad Black starts jail term for fraud
- WASHINGTON AFP — Disgraced media baron Conrad Black, who once counted politicians and popstars among his entourage, on Monday began a six-and-a-half year jail term imposed for multi-million dollar fraud, officials said. "He reported today to a low security prison in Coleman, Florida," said Mike Truman, spokeman for the...
- Research articles 2008-03-03
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