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Coming This Week: White Collared’s Supreme Court 2013 Preview

Posted On Monday, September 30, 2013

Ah, October. The leaves change color. The baseball postseason kicks into full gear (at least for those teams not stupid enough to give Delmon Young almost 300 plate...

BP Oil Spill Trial Resumes In New Orleans

Posted On Monday, September 30, 2013
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he trial regarding the April 20, 2010 blow-out of BP’s Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico resumed today in New Orleans before U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier, sitting without a jury. ...

ExxonMobil Pennsylvania Subsidiary Charged With Dumping Fracking Waste

Posted On Thursday, September 12, 2013
By: Christopher A. Iacono

XTO Energy Inc., a Pennsylvania-based subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corp., has been charged with illegally discharging more than 50,000 gallons of toxic wastewater from a Marcellus Shale gas well...

Third Circuit: Courts Can’t Grant Witnesses Immunity

Posted On Friday, September 6, 2013

Federal judges are out of the witness-immunity business. Tossing aside decades-old precedent that had been rejected by the other federal courts of appeals, the Third Circuit ruled recently...

Ex-Chicago White Sox Executive Gets 2 Years For Kickback Scheme

Posted On Friday, August 30, 2013
By: Christopher A. Iacono

A former Chicago White Sox scouting executive was sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a kickback scheme that resulted in more than $400,000 from inflated signing bonuses for Latin...

Third Circuit Draws The Line On 404(B)

Posted On Wednesday, August 14, 2013
By: Douglas K. Rosenblum

On August 9, 2013 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rendered a precedential opinion limiting the admissibility of prior criminal convictions under Federal Rule of Evidence...

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BP Oil Spill Trial Resumes In New Orleans

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Third Circuit Draws The Line On 404(B)

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