Plea Agreements

Seven years after the biggest drug safety scandal since thalidomide was found to cause birth defects, Merck and the Justice Department announced a nearly $1 billion settlement of litigation over Vioxx, the Cox-2...

The terms of a drug defendant's plea deal prevented the reduction of his sentence under a retroactive application of amended guidelines for crack cocaine offenses, the 1st Circuit has ruled in affirming judgment....

Law & Order "Dream Team" of Characters Ready to Investigate and Prosecute in Universal App for iPad, iPhone()& iPod touch SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- Telltale Games, the leading independent publisher and developer of...

Byline: Geoff Grammer The New Mexico attorney general says Jerome Block Jr. has run out of chances. One day after former Public Regulation Commissioner Block, 34, was jailed for a third time and...

MADISONVILLE, Ky.-Trover Health System has entered into exclusive negotiations to join five-hospital Baptist Healthcare System. Trover includes 197-bed Regional Medical Center, Madisonville, as well as a number of clinics in the western part...

Settlements Covered by Previously Announced Third-Quarter 2010 Charge WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. -- Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced it has reached a resolution with federal and...

Federal law providing compensation for the victims of human trafficking authorizes the recovery of punitive damages by a woman who alleged that she was the victim of a sex-for-drugs conspiracy, the 9th Circuit...

During oral arguments yesterday in a case raising the issue of whether filing a false tax return can lead to deportation, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tried to piece together what...

Teetering on the brink of closure, Peninsula Hospital Center won a reprieve in September when companies controlled by Faye Zakheim, owner of a for-profit agency called Revival Home Health Care, pledged $27 million...

IsraelNationalNews.com Neo-Nazi gang leader Dimitri Bogotich was sentenced to a 69 month prison sentence for attacks in Israel between 2005-2007. Bogotich, whose Patrol 36 gang operated in Petach Tikva and Tel Aviv, was...

FOUR DAYS INSIDE GUANTANAMO DETAILS TBC/100 mins./October 7 DIRECTORS Luc Cète & Patricio Henriquez CAST Omar Khadr, Moazzam Begg IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 DRAWING ON SEVEN HOURS OF surveillance footage, this disturbing exposé shows...

In the second half of a U.S. Supreme Court ineffective assistance double-header, the justices considered whether a lawyer's failure to inform his client of a plea deal gives the defendant a constitutional remedy...

Sometimes criminal defense attorneys mess up. But just what, if any, constitutional remedy is available to defendants when their attorneys are ineffective at the plea bargaining stage? During oral arguments in the case...

HEADNOTE OC Insider Hoag Memorial CEO Richard Afable and UCI Merage School Biz Dean Andy Policano were polite but emphatic: Last year's historic reform bill is not the prescription for improving healthcare. "It...

SEATTLE -- Yesterday Hagens Berman filed a class action lawsuit on behalfofa group of Honda (NYSE: HMC) and Toyota (NYSE: TM) automobile owners against eight auto-part suppliers after the federal government released information...

HEADNOTE In a criminal justice system where guilty pleas are the norm and trials the rare exception, the issue of how much discovery a defendant is entitled to before allocution has immense significance....

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A former nondestructive testing inspector for Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Newport News, (now owned by Huntington lngalls Industries) was sentenced in August to 37 months in prison for falsely certifying he had inspected the...

As MANY OF THE TRADITIONALLY unionized sectors of the economy experience crisis, unions are turning to social unionist strategies of coalition-building and community mobilization as a means of defending jobs through external solidarity....