The Austin City Council has scheduled an executive session discussion for today on legal issues related to the Southwest Austin site where Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to build a major office complex.
AMD's decision has been controversial because the land, in the Lantana development, is in an environmentally sensitive watershed area.
City officials say they are bound by a 2001...
A stay-at-home mom, a former teacher and a lab manager are among the candidates with no legal background challenging attorneys and incumbents for seven district judge seats in Allegheny County.
Each is vying for a six-year term and a $64,669 annual salary.
In addition to traffic cases, district judges hear preliminary criminal proceedings, minor non-traffic offenses and civil cases ...
Prosecutor in CIA leak investigation meets with judge, grand jury
WASHINGTON - The prosecutor in the CIA leak probe set the stage Wednesday for possible criminal charges, meeting with the grand jury that heard months of testimony and then consulting with the chief judge at the courthouse where the legal drama has unfolded.
The White House braced for at least one indictment by week...
An Ontario Court judge has banned lawyers from the Thunder Bay Crown attorney's office from arguing cases in his court, saying that a pending legal challenge puts him in a possible conflict of interest.
Justice Rod Clarke stunned a courtroom full of lawyers, police officers, accused and the public Wednesday morning by stating that he would not hear cases prosecuted by the Thunder Bay Cro...
A two-year-old child who spent the past week at the Penang Prison with her mother has now been “freed” and placed under her uncle's care.
The girl was brought to the magistrate's court yesterday with her mother, 44, who faces a drug trafficking charge.
Defence counsel K. Saravana Kumar told magistrate M. Rajalingam that the woman's younger brother would take care of the child.
WASHINGTON -- The prosecutor in the CIA leak probe set the stage Wednesday for possible criminal charges, meeting with the grand jury that heard months of testimony and then consulting with the chief judge at the courthouse where the legal drama has unfolded.
The White House braced for at least one indictment by week's end, possibly Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis ...
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Rove's legal team made contingency plans just in case, consulting with former Justice Department official Mark Corallo and GOP strategist Ed Gillespie to prep...
HOUSTON (AP) - A driver facing negligent homicide charges in a bus fire that killed 23 nursing home patients during the Hurricane Rita evacuation agreed Wednesday to help federal investigators.
Juan Robles Gutierrez, 37, a Mexican national, was detained in Houston as a material witness to the investigation, though neither his attorney nor prosecutors would give details about the probe.
Running are Republicans Marcia Karrow, a Hunterdon County freeholder, and Assemblyman Michael Doherty, R-Hunterdon. Also competing are Democrats Janice Kovach, a member of the Highlands Council and councilwoman in the Town of Clinton, and Washington Borough Councilman Scott McDonald.
Assemblywoman Connie Myers, R-Hunterdon, announced last December that she would not run again for re-elect...
FBI agents working for Fitzgerald checked facts this week that could be used in a case, including whether Rove made any comments to that former colleague about his contact with one of the reporters who disclosed that Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson's wife worked as an undercover CIA officer.
Though Fitzgerald met with Rove attorney Robert Luskin at a private law firm office Tues...