Day in Court

• Level of Violence in Roanoke Jail Gets Day in Court

Two federal lawsuits filed by former prisoners at the Roanoke City Jail offer a rare window into an often violent world, and the competing concerns that pull at guards and inmates. On Friday, a three-day trial in U.S. District Court in Roanoke ended with jurors throwing out ex-prisoner Thomas Scott Vandegrift's claims against three sheriff's deputies who he said beat him after he was brought in on a drunken driving charge.

• Roanoke Times & World News
• May 09, 2011

• Our Day in Court

The district court concluded the collection letter violated the FDCPA because the FDCPA does not require the consumer to dispute the debt in writing within the validation period in order to dispute the debt. The debt collector claimed it should not suffer liability for the violation because the error was unintentional and resulted from a bona fide error. The district court found in favor of the debt collector, concluding the bona fide error defense applies to mistakes of law and the debt collector met all three requirements to successfully avoid FDCPA liability. The FDCPA states a debt collector cannot be liable under the Act for any action performed in good faith in conformity with an advisory opinion of the FTC. The Sixth Circuit concluded that to require a debt collector to seek an a...

• Collector
• Vol. 75 Nbr. 8, March 2010

• Federal Court Tosses Automobile Dealer's Day In Court Act Claim

The United States District Court for the Central District of California recently granted summary judgment on the plaintiffs' Automobile Dealer's Day i...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• The 2nd Amendment has Day in Court

Heller says the D.C. law has it backward: "I can protect [federal workers], but, at the end of the day, they say, 'Turn in your gun-you can't protect your home.'" Heller maintains that disassembled rifles and shotguns are no substitute for handguns "any more than the government could prohibit books because it permits newspapers and considers them an 'adequate substitute.'" Last March, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed two to one that the district's prohibition was not only unreasonable but also clearly unconstitutional.

• Human Events
• August 24, 2009

• Complex money trail alleged; DiMasi, two others, get day in court.

Byline: John J. Monahan BOSTON - Federal prosecutors yesterday laid out a complicated kickback and extortion scheme they said funneled hundreds of t...

• Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• Bail System: Best State Can Afford or a Threat to Due Process?

Portland lawyer Jon Gale periodically serves as "lawyer of the day" in district court, representing defendants in arraignments. The defendants have already had their bail set by one of the state's bail commissioners, independent contractors whose position was created by the Legislature 128 years ago.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• April 14, 2011

• 2 Athletes Have Day in Court

Staff Writer A pair of former basketball stars at McCaskey High School appeared Tuesday in a different kind of court - this time in front of a judge to face criminal charges.

• Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era - Saturday Edition
• August 24, 2011

• Their Day in Court

BLOOMINGTON - Ridgeview High School Principal Jim Campbell and his wife, Kristy, a Hudson Elementary School teacher, took the day off work Friday to be in court with their daughter in Bloomington. It was a good thing.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• February 17, 2010

• Appliance Recycling Centers of America Disappointed by Ninth Circuit Decision Denying Arca Its Day in Court Against Jaco Environmental

MINNEAPOLIS, May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Appliance Recycling Centers of America, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARCI) today reported that ARCA was denied its day in court against JACO Environmental following a decision of a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Jack Cameron, CEO and founder of ARCA, expressed disappointment in the court's decision that ended ARCA's six-year battle to hold JACO accountable for its false statements claiming invention of an appliance recycling system that was designed and first used by ARCA. ARCA's original claims in the suit had included a request that the court declare invalid a patent obtained by JACO after one of the claimed inventors had studied ARCA's recycling process at the Company's facilities while he was a consultant for the Company. However, very ea...

• U.S. Newswire
• May 21, 2010

• A Day After Appearing in Court, Titans Wr Britt Arrested Again

NEWARK, N.J. | Tennessee Titans wide receiver Kenny Britt was arrested again in New Jersey, a day after appearing in court for a previous arrest on traffic charges. Police said the former Rutgers star was charged with resisting arrest after two plainclothes officers suspected he was carrying a marijuana cigar and attempted to handcuff him at a Hoboken car wash Wednesday evening.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• June 10, 2011