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Patrick to nominate justice to Mass. high court
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2011/04/06 08:51
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div class=entrydiv class=articlepGov. Deval Patrick is set to make his latest pick to the state’s highest court./ppThe governor has scheduled a Monday afternoon news conference at the Statehouse to nominate an associate justice to the Supreme Judicial Court. If confirmed, the person chosen would succeed Judith Cowin, who in January announced plans to retire after 11 years on the high court./ppThis will be the fourth associate justice that Patrick has selected to the SJC, meaning that he will now have personally selected a majority of the justices on the seven-member court, the oldest continuously serving court in the Western Hemisphere./ppPatrick also elevated Roderick Ireland to chief justice of the SJC following the retirement last year of Margaret Marshall.
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Obama re-election launches with email, website
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2011/04/05 08:51
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div id=bg_contentdiv class=padding10div class=entrydiv class=articlePresident Barack Obama formally launched his re-election campaign Monday, urging grass-roots supporters central to his first White House run to mobilize again to protect the change he's brought over the past two years.pThe official start of his second White House bid, in the midst of three wars, a budget fight with Congress, and sluggish economic recovery, comes 20 months before the November 2012 election./ppWe've always known that lasting change wouldn't come quickly or easily. It never does, the Democrat said in an e-mail announcing his candidacy to more than 13 million supporters. But as my administration and folks across the country fight to protect the progress we've made — and make more — we also need to begin mobilizing for 2012, long before the time comes for me to begin campaigning in earnest./ppHe told them he was filing the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission, and directed them to his new campaign website where a launch video featured clips from supporters talking about their continued backing of the Democrat./ppI don't agree with Obama on everything but I respect him and I trust him, Ed from North Carolina says, delivering what's certain to become a key part of the president's pitch as he tries to re-energize liberal backers who have criticized some of his policies and independent voters who have fled from him in his first term./p/div
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Abuse cases against Santa Rosa diocese withdrawn
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2011/03/31 08:52
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div class=entrydiv class=articlepA lawyer for four men who claim they were molested by a priest at their Northern California parish says he has temporarily withdrawn his clients' lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa. /pp
Attorney Joseph George said Wednesday that he is working with a Minnesota lawyer with an international clergy abuse practice to expand the scope of the suits involving former priest Patrick Joseph McCabe. /ppMcCabe is awaiting extradition to his native Ireland to face charges that he sexually abused young boys there in the 1970s and early '80s. /ppGeorge says the Minnesota lawyer, Jeff Anderson, is traveling to Ireland this weekend to try to gather information showing that church officials in Dublin knew McCabe was a pedophile when they allowed him to transfer to St. Bernard's Parish in Eureka. /ppMcCabe served in the parish from 1983 to 1985. He has denied abusing any children.
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W.Va. woman admits stealing from law firm
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2011/03/30 08:52
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div class=entrydiv class=articlepA Morgantown woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $140,000 from the law firm where she worked./ppForty-year-old Lisa Buttermore pleaded to three counts Wednesday in Monongalia County Circuit Court./ppEach embezzlement charge carries a possible sentence of one to 10 years./ppAssistant Prosecutor Stephen Fitz says he'll recommend five years of probation instead./ppThe Dominion Post reports that Buttermore also must make monthly restitution payments and forfeit money in her retirement account./ppButtermore didn't tell the court why she stole the money from Gianola, Barnum, Wigal amp; London between 2008 and 2010. She declined comment after the proceeding./p/div
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Court hears argument in Wal-Mart sex bias claim
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2011/03/29 08:53
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div class=entrydiv class=articlepThe Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned a massive sex discrimination lawsuit on behalf of at least 500,000 women claiming that Wal-Mart favors men over women in pay and promotions./ppThe justices suggested that they are troubled by lower court decisions allowing the class-action lawsuit to proceed against the world's largest retailer./ppJustice Anthony Kennedy, often a key vote on the high court, said he is unsure what the unlawful policy is that Wal-Mart engaged in to deprive women of pay increases and promotions comparable to men./ppBillions of dollars are at stake in the case. Class actions create pressure on businesses to settle claims and create the potential for large judgments./ppWal-Mart denies it discriminates against its female employees./ppBut Joseph Sellers, the lawyer for the women, said that lower courts were persuaded by statistical and other evidence put forth so far in the 10-year-old lawsuit./ppSellers said a strong corporate culture at Wal-Mart's Bentonville, Ark., headquarters that stereotyped women as less aggressive than men translated into individual pay and promotions decisions at the more than 3,400 Wal-Mart and Sam's Clubs stores across the country.
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