Tighter ‘3-strikes’ law benefits bank robber
Philadelphia Inquirer - NEWARK, N.J. - New Jersey’s Supreme Court yesterday scrapped a life term given to a repeat offender under the state’s “three strikes” law. The court said Howard Parks had not committed two offenses - or strikes - before he committed the crime that

Federal court: LNG appeal premature
Boston Globe - Basically, the court has found there’s a significant likelihood the project will die of its own weight, so it makes no sense for the court to intervene,” said Sue Reid, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, one of the plaintiffs

The future of legal services — a live debate with the Times Law
Times Online - Will technology make the role of junior lawyers obsolete? Will the leading firms court outside investors? Will the partnership model survive? On November 21, BPP will be hosting a live debate featuring five members of the Times Law Panel on the

Contra backer takes up cause for illegal immigrants’ kids
USA Today - Then Sandigo helped bring a class-action lawsuit for them, prompting Congress to pass a law protecting them in 1997. Experts said the same thing before she helped thousands more Central Americans win temporary protection after natural disasters

Atlanta lawyer sentenced to more than 8 years in prison for fraud
Newsday - Ware, finding he had duped investors in 2001 and 2002 by sending phony press releases over the Internet that drove up the value of companies which had offered Ware stock as compensation for consulting and financial advice he offered through his law