WASHINGTON (AP) -- Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A new Ohio State University custodial employee who received a bad job evaluation shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself, officials said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House's No. 2 Democrat is dismissing as "absurd" former Rep. Eric Massa's claims that he was forced out by party leaders because of his opposition to health care legislation....
The Justice Department is requiring the nation's largest voting machine company to sell off assets it acquired when it purchased its main competitor. The federal government and nine state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit saying the combination last September of Election Systems &Software and its biggest competitor harms competition.
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether the message of anti-gay protesters who show up at military funerals with inflammatory slogans such as "Thank God for dead soldiers" is protected by the First Amendment.
Randy Johnston discusses the State Bar Professional Ethics Committee's recent approval of a fee arrangement that would require a client to pay the client's lawyer's attorneys fees if the plaintiff who originally sued the client later joins the defense lawyer in the same suit.
Texas Lawyer senior reporter John Council and Randy Johnston discuss: Andrews Kurth's relationship with the Howard Hughes estate, and how some lawyers learned about success by working in fast-food places.
Senior reporter John Council talks with criminal defense lawyer Gary Udashen about: a battle over exhibits in the Holy Land Foundation trial, when double jeopardy attaches in a prosecution, Darlie Routier's DNA test, and a proposal to limit attorney-client privilege in some cases.
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