Cover via AmazonThe U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has upheld a trial court's dismissal of a defamation suit against best-selling legal thriller author John Grisham arising from his novel, The Innocent Man.In Peterson v. Grisham (Case No. 08-7100), the appellate court sided with ...

139 posts on the LexBlog Network today and some really great content in today's top ten. Richard Renner of the Whistleblower Protection Blog has a good post on Howard Zinn, founding Board member of the National Whistleblowers Center. Chuck Peterson has a post on an attorney who won a $31 million set ...

Georgia lawmakers could overhaul current Georgia gun laws and allow weapons just about anywhere -- even handguns on college campuses. The proposed broad legislation would lift a ban on firearms in most public buildings, churches and even the state Capitol. It would allow gun owners with permits to ...

Source: Google News Alert Service, February 3, 2010. NEWS: fairfieldweekly.com'It's Different When It's You'fairfieldweekly.comThose messages have triggered a criminal harassment investigation by the major crime squad of the Connecticut State Police, an internal probe by Holyo ...

Drew Peterson is about to stand trial for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. A hearing to determine whether hearsay evidence will be allowed at trial included testimony from a few associates of Drew Peterson’s fourth wife, Stacy. Drew Peterson is a suspect in Stacy Peterson’s disappeara ...

A Jefferson County jury has found Christus St. Mary Hospital negligent in its treatment of a 41-year-old woman who died of a heart attack within hours of an emergency room visit. In the verdict, filed Jan. 21, the jury found that the Port Arthur hospital along with Dr. Michael Peterson committed “w ...

Updating this ILB entry from Jan. 30, Ted Waggoner of Peterson & Waggoner, LLP, Rochester, IN, wrote early yesterday to...

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Maryland’s Board of Public Works has given the green light to a $1.5 million Baltimore County wrongful death settlement over the fatal train accident that killed two teenagers last year. Kyle Patrick Wankmiller and Jarrett Connor Peterson were walking along tracks that are usually used by trains he ...

the Root: Blacks and Roe v. Wade, by Latoya Peterson (Racialicious): African-American women get a disproportionate number of abortions. Yet when it comes to the debate on abortion rights, we keep our lips zipped. Here’s why, on the anniversary of...