Law Advice » Justice http://www.lawadvice.ws Lawful Advice for Legal Situations and Litigious Problems Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:41:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Botched Stevens Case Costs Taxpayers $1.8 Million in Legal Fees – Main Justice http://www.lawadvice.ws/botched-stevens-case-costs-taxpayers-1-8-million-in-legal-fees-main-justice/ http://www.lawadvice.ws/botched-stevens-case-costs-taxpayers-1-8-million-in-legal-fees-main-justice/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:36:04 +0000 admin http://www.lawadvice.ws/botched-stevens-case-costs-taxpayers-1-8-million-in-legal-fees-main-justice/
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Botched Stevens Case Costs Taxpayers $1.8 Million in Legal Fees
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It 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 …

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"Equal Justice Under Law" Should Be More Than Just Words
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Tammy 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 justice teaches kids about lawMiamiHerald.com

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Legal rows and cash crises stall justice in Cambodia
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A 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 worst mass murderers of the …
ANALYSIS: Khmer Rouge Tribunal in crisisMonsters and Critics.com

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Justice Department Official to Join Davis Polk Law Firm
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By 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 …

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Legal changes 'deny justice access'
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Changes 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 …

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Iraq will take legal action to ensure justice for civilians killed in US raid …
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BAGHDAD — 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 in the killings reached a …
Official: Iraq will take legal action over US raidBoston.com

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]]> http://www.lawadvice.ws/iraq-will-take-legal-action-to-ensure-justice-for-civilians-killed-in-us-raid-washington-post/feed/ 0 New York Justice: Other Evidence Doesn’t Overcome Failure To Name Defendant http://www.lawadvice.ws/new-york-justice-other-evidence-doesnt-overcome-failure-to-name-defendant/ http://www.lawadvice.ws/new-york-justice-other-evidence-doesnt-overcome-failure-to-name-defendant/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:00:31 +0000 admin http://www.lawadvice.ws/new-york-justice-other-evidence-doesnt-overcome-failure-to-name-defendant/ 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. A.O. Smith Water Products, et al., No 190068/10, N.Y. Sup., New York Co.).

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