In January 2007, the world stood up and took notice when U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett gunned down an illegal immigrant without provocation. Still…as it’s been for the past eight years, people chose sides on this one. Siding with the immigrant was Mexican President Felipe Calderon, encouraging a complete investigation.
Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera, 22, [...]

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Change is in the air at Harvard Law School. Following in Yale Law School’s footsteps, the top school is converting the longtime grading system from A,B,C,D and F to honors, pass, low pass, and fail.
According to officials at Harvard, the changes are intended to discourage students from focusing so much on specific grades, and pay [...]

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Downsides always have bright sides and smaller law firms will vouch for that. With big firms usually attracting clients willing to pay even bigger bucks for their services, the economy’s shaky downfall has caused everyone to make financial adjustments. Therefore, those big firms are being traded in for smaller ones due to their much more [...]

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We don’t have to tell you about the stock market plunge. It’s all over the news with photos of brokers holding their heads in despair. What more is there to say? When it rains, it pours. Calling this Friday afternoon “Black Friday,” especially on Wall Street, relief isn’t yet in sight but it will come…It [...]

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Once upon a time…an education guaranteed stability. College was for those high-achieving folks who would later go on to get paid decent to high salaries, own a home, live comfortably. So much for once upon a time. Today, college grads are waiters/waitresses and doctors are puppets to the greedy insurance companies.
Lawyers are taking on employment, like [...]

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The hot topic in politics today is photographer Jill Greenberg’s “misrepresentation” of her hired run-in with John McCain. Set to shoot McCain for the cover of The Atlantic, Greenberg later admits that she deliberately tried to manipulate the photos to show the Arizona Senator and Republican in a bad light. Being a self-admitted die-hard Democrat, [...]

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Famous best-selling author John Grisham had a face-off in the courtroom and won. A federal judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against him and two other writers over books they wrote about the wrongful conviction of two men in a 1982 murder. Filed last year by former Ontotoc County District Attorney Bill Peterson, former [...]

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What was once on top of the Wall Street foodchain is slipping into the dark abyss. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 15. The filing, which lists assets of $639 billion and $613 billion in debt (ouch), names Harvey R. Miller and Shai Waisman of New York’s Weil, Gotshal & [...]

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As more details roll in regarding the fatal train wreck in Chatsworth on Friday, so does the death count. Killing 25 people, Friday night’s collision was the “deadliest in 15 years.” Chatting with a teen just moments before the crash was the engineer of the Metrolink train.Speaking up about the incident, the teen, Nick Williams, [...]

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Tragedy struck in Los Angeles on Friday when a Metrolink commuter train and a freight train collided. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa initially said that at least 10 people had been confirmed dead, however, on Saturday, the number has reached 17 fatalities, 135 injured.
The freight train and the Metrolink commuter train thought to be carrying as many [...]

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