Legal News

Ohio man bulldozes $350K home to avoid foreclosure

Washington Post - ‎Feb 23, 2010‎
AP MOSCOW, Ohio -- An Ohio man says he bulldozed his $350000 home to keep a bank from foreclosing on it. Terry Hoskins says he has struggled with the ...
Many borrowers in default stay put as lenders delay evictions
Los Angeles Times - Alana Semuels - ‎12 hours ago‎
Lenders say the trend reflects their efforts to work with borrowers to modify loans to avoid foreclosure. Bank of America "continues to exhaust every ...

Wayne Newton Turns Away Debt Collectors

Avvo - ‎2 hours ago‎
After persisting for 45 minutes, police and court officials are now preparing to take Newton back to a county district court, where on June 8, 2009, Judge ...
Mr. Las Vegas Wards Off Debt Collectors Wall Street Journal (blog)
DV Scuttles Pol's Career; Nebraska Tries Again
Women's eNews - ‎13 hours ago‎
For the first time in Saudi Arabia, the government is planning to draft a law that would permit women to try legal cases in court, reported the Associated ...
Revive 'privileges or immunities'
The National Law Journal - Timothy Sandefur - ‎20 hours ago‎
The beef industry was big business in New Orleans, and the new law put hundreds of butchers out of business overnight. The butchers sued, arguing that the ...

Spain throws out probe into Chinese abuse in Tibet

Washington Post - Ciaran Giles - ‎Feb 26, 2010‎
AP MADRID -- Spain's National Court has halted a probe into alleged Chinese abuses in Tibet, the first case to be ditched under a new law ...
Debate brewing over Supreme Court change to Miranda Rights
WSBT-TV - Troy Kehoe - ‎Feb 25, 2010‎
But, Trent says, while the new law does give police more leeway, it won't result in repeated badgering. "It certainly does give us a lot more access to a ...

California attorney general weighs in on early-release law

Los Angeles Times - Andrew Blankstein - ‎Feb 16, 2010‎
The OC union's decision to go to court comes a week after a Sacramento County judge ordered a temporary halt to that county's early releases, ...
Officials kept keen eyes on shooting case
phillyBurbs.com - Margaret Gibbons - ‎Feb 26, 2010‎
Hopefully, the new law will help brave officers like Officer Davis as they protect citizens from an increasingly violent element.
Legislature Passes Then Repeals Law Meant to Help but Harmful to Crowded Courts
KSPR - Joanna Small - ‎14 hours ago‎
When violators didn't come to court they simply got a new date, further crowding the docket. "After talking to some judges we felt it best to go back to the ...
Bolivian Congress Passes Law to Appoint Interim Justices
Andean Information Network - Erin Hatheway - ‎Feb 25, 2010‎
Agapito Alpire Pérez: Former municipal court judge in Concepción, Santa Cruz. 21 years of legal experience with a specialty in constitutional law.
High Court Considers Retroactive Effect of Sex Offender Law
Courthouse News Service - Nick Wilson - ‎Feb 24, 2010‎
But the bill left the Attorney General to decide whether the law should be applied retroactively, and he said it should apply to all sex offenders.