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Nearly 60 percent of documents turned over to Allegheny County prosecutors in the criminal investigation of state Sen. Jane Orie were legislative in nature and constitutionally protected, attorneys for Senate Republicans said yesterday in court filings. The claims were part of more than 500 pages of documents filed yesterday in the case against Orie, R-McCandless. Her attorney claimed among other filings that the charges against her are vague and should be dismissed, and the district attorney is biased against her.
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The office has traditionally been the depository of all things paper - deeds, mortgage filings, court papers, plumbing and electrical licenses, passports. business certificates and on and on as the paper trail leads to a Mount Everest of paperwork.
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This comment argues that the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in imposing a bad faith requirement as a prerequisite for court-initiated post-trial Rule 11 sanctions in In re Pennie & Edmonds LLP. The paper submits that neither the express language, historical development, purpose of Rule 11, nor the policy considerations advanced by the court support the imposition of a separate mens rea element for any subset of Rule 11 sanctions. Application of two distinct standards for punishing the same behavior, depending on whether the sanctions proceedings are on-motion or sua sponte, will bring confusion to the operation of Rule 11, may encourage meritless filings, and may, in some situations, have an adverse effect on attorneys who act in subjective good faith. Furthermore,...
... itself in the submission of litigation papers that lack evidentiary or legal support.6 Filing su...
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The Maine ethics commission on Thursday slapped backers of a casino referendum in Scarborough with $12,250 in fines for filing late financial reports, and questioned the disclosure after the election that a local lawyer who publicly endorsed the proposal had been paid $30,000 for consulting services. The November referendum effort to allow slot machines at the Scarborough Downs race track failed by 240 votes.
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... Nothing in the Act compels counsel to file papers in contravention of this Court's Rules against friivolous filings. If necessary, the Circuits' Criminal Justice Plan...
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LOS ANGELES -- Justin Timberlake was granted a temporary restraining order Friday against a woman his attorney described as an obsessed stalker, court records show. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Cunningham III granted the "SexyBack" singer the protective order against Karen J. McNeil, 48. Timberlake's attorney, Evan Spiegel, described McNeil in court filings as a "mentally unstable celebrity stalker." The papers state McNeil was placed in protective psychiatric custody by police after she trespassed at the singer's home Thursday.
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Nearly 6,500 New Jersey school employees have filed for retirement so far this year -- almost double that of all last year. Most of the filings came in recent months, with 5,106 putting in their papers for retirement to take effect in July, a common time to retire.
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Investigators have seized a small fortune from a Mingo County doctor in a case that parallels last month's raid of a Williamson pain clinic, court filings show. The U.S. District Court papers disclose that prosecutors are negotiating a plea deal with the physician, Dr. Diane Shafer. They suspect her of the same improper pill prescriptions that led to the March 2 search of the Mountain Medical Care Center.
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The future of Barton-Cotton Inc., a Columbia-based direct marketer specializing in the nonprofit industry, remains uncertain after the 80-year-old firm filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Monday. Barton-Cotton did not provide a detailed breakout of the number of creditors or exact amounts owed in any of the filings. The company filed papers for four entities: Barton-Cotton Holding Corp.; Barton-Cotton Inc.; Barton-Cotton Real Estate Inc.; and Barton- Cotton Sales Corp.
