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Main Justice Botched Stevens Case Costs Taxpayers $1.8 Million in Legal FeesMain JusticeIt is also costing the taxpayers, to the tune of some $1.8 million in legal fees so far to defend prosecutors from allegations of wrongdoing. The DOJ has paid about $1.6 million since 2009 to private lawyers representing six prosecutors accused of …and [...]

"Equal Justice Under Law" Should Be More Than Just WordsHuffington PostTammy Sutherland believed that a state law that declared 911 calls confidential if they didn't result in criminal charges meant what it said. So she believed the law would prevent a recorded call from years earlier about her husband shooting a family …State Supreme Court [...]

Sydney Morning Herald Legal rows and cash crises stall justice in CambodiaSydney Morning HeraldA survivor lies below a photo of Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea at Tuol Slen jail, now a museum. Photo: AFP As one notorious Khmer Rouge killer learns his fate, the future of further genocide trials is in doubt. ONE of the [...]

New York Times Justice Department Official to Join Davis Polk Law FirmNew York TimesBy PETER LATTMAN Greg D. Andres, a senior Justice Department official, is leaving the government to join the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, according to two people with direct knowledge of his move. Mr. Andres was deputy assistant attorney general for [...]

Legal changes 'deny justice access'The Press AssociationChanges to "no win, no fee" legal arrangements would mean that only the wealthy will have access to justice, the Law Society has said. Peers in the House of Lords will discuss altering the legislation in a bid to eradicate "compensation culture" but … View full post on legal [...]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – A Canadian Supreme Court justice on Jan. 24 sentenced a contractor to be incarcerated for 60 days after he failed to comply with a court injunction ordering him to cease unlicensed asbestos abatement and testing (British Columbia [Workers' Compensation Board] v. Moore, No. 2012 BCSC 109, B.C. Sup.). View full post [...]

The financial fraud group that is investigating the market for residential mortgage-backed securities has already issued civil subpoenas to 11 financial institutions, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said today in formally announcing the team of lawyers and federal agents. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

LONDON – An English justice on Jan. 24 dismissed an energy company’s claim for indemnity asserted against an insurer in relation to a settlement the company paid to a former employee who developed mesothelioma after asbestos exposure at work, finding that the insurer was not liable to cover the employer for the entire period of [...]

Boston.com Iraq will take legal action to ensure justice for civilians killed in US raid …Washington PostBAGHDAD — Iraq will take legal action to ensure justice for the families of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians killed in a US raid in Haditha seven years ago, a government spokesman said Thursday, after the lone US Marine convicted [...]

NEW YORK – Requests for prices of a company’s pumps and evidence that asbestos insulation was used to insulate such products do not overcome a man’s failure to identify a pump manufacturer’s product as the source of his exposure to asbestos, a New York justice held in an opinion posted Jan. 23 (Anna Palaio v. [...]