Recent Updates
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Miami appraiser pleads guilty to fraud scheme
National News 03/11/2008A Miami real estate appraiser has pleaded guilty to wire fraud for her involvement in the Southwest Ranches-area fraud scheme in Broward County, the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida said. Martine Yanisse Castrillon is ...
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Judge delights Moraga Movers lunch event
National News 03/08/2008Moragan Judge John Minney educated and entertained a full house at the Moraga Movers lunch at St. Mary's College Soda Center. Born and raised in the East Bay, he went on from Castlewood High to Yale, then to Cal Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law. A...
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Akron attorney sanctioned again by Ohio Supreme Court
National News 03/06/2008Akron attorney Edward P. Markovich, who is already serving a suspension has been sanctioned again by the Ohio Supreme Court.The state Supreme Court today suspended Markovich, 53, from the practice of law for one-year, citing multiple violations of st...
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James E. Felman Speaks to Senate on Drugs
National News 02/27/2008The crack-powder disparity is simply wrong and the time to fix it is now," stated James E. Felman in his remarks on behalf of the American Bar Association before the Senate Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs Subcommittee, earlier today. The A...
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ABA House of Delegates Challenges Old Ways
National News 02/27/2008[##_1L|1317105578.jpg|width="175" height="80" alt=""|_##]In the midst of pitched primary battles and the looming 2008 election, the American Bar Association House of Delegates challenged the traditional way states handle congressional and legis...
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Warrant dropped for professor who spoke Hawaiian in court
National News 12/31/1969A judge dropped an arrest warrant Thursday for a University of Hawaii professor who refused to respond in court to English and spoke Hawaiian instead.Samuel Kaleikoa Kaeo was in court Wednesday facing a trial for charges connected to his participatio...