http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/shyster/ en-us Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:59:41 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061980/posts A Kentucky college student has hired a lawyer after she was escorted out of a mall by security on Sunday because her dress was deemed too short, MyFOXBoston reports. Kymberly Clem, a 20-year-old student at Eastern Kentucky University, wore the dress Sunday after purchasing it from the mall in Richmond the previous day, the Richmond Register reported Tuesday. After just a few minutes inside of the mall, a security guard approached her and expressed concerns over the length of the garment. According to MyFOXBoston, the guard informed her that several female patrons had complained that she was disrupting their shopping... FOX News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061980/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:59:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061436/posts A carved post and a boulder mark the place where Eddie Mies gunned down his dad last year on the family's rustic homestead in Shingle Springs. Up the hill a little farther, among the dusty pines and chaparral, stands another wooden post and a cairn of smaller rocks. This is where Mies, who was 34, died of bullet wounds from the ensuing gun battle with El Dorado County deputies. Three deputies and a police dog also were hit in the firefight that morning; all survived. The bloody date was June 5, 2007. Karen Mies, staggering under the news that her... Placerville info http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061436/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:36:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020944/posts Rev. Rod Parsley withdraws McCain endorsement Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:08 PM THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH After saying Friday that he would not withdraw his endorsement of Sen. John McCain, pastor Rod Parsley has changed his mind. The pastor of World Harvest Church, in the Canal Winchester area, issued a statement almost identical to one he had sent late Friday night, but with one key change: the addition of the sentence “Therefore I withdraw my endorsement.” Spokesman Gene Pierce wouldn’t shed light on Parsley’s decision, saying only “this statement is a clarification on (Friday’s) statement.” McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for... The Columbus Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020944/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 04:56:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988731/posts The disgraced law firm of Milberg Weiss faces federal indictments for kickbacks and corruption in pursuing class-action lawsuits, along with its founder, and three of its senior partners have already pled guilty. One might think that politicians associated with the firm and the indicted partners would cut all ties and dump their contributions. However, neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama have done so despite the investigation being public since 2002: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has received more campaign money from disgraced lawyers at the controversial Milberg Weiss law firm than any other member of Congress, but she won’t say... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988731/posts#comment Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:02:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947844/posts TAMPA, Fla. -- Florida's citrus growers are reporting only minor damage as the state thaws out from an overnight cold snap, even as snow flurries fall in parts of the Sunshine State. The National Weather Service says temperatures dropped into the 20s across north Florida, including parts of the Panhandle. The lowest temperature recorded was 20 degrees in Cross City, about 90 miles southeast of Tallahassee. A serious freeze would have been devastating to the state's citrus industry, already struggling from years of diseases and hurricanes. But most citrus growers are based in central and South Florida, where temperatures hovered... Fox35 News Lake Mary, fL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947844/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:16:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883620/posts Embarrassed presidential hopeful John Edwards promised yesterday to take millions of dollars of his own fortune out of a hedge fund tied to subprime lenders who foreclosed on victims of Hurricane Katrina. The populist candidate - who has denounced such lenders - invested $16 million of his $30 million in assets in Fortress Investment Group. The Wall Street Journal reported that 34 New Orleans homeowners struggling to overcome Katrina's aftermath faced foreclosure suits from subprime-lending units of Fortress. Yesterday, the red-faced Democratic candidate vowed to remove from his portfolio any Fortress funds that have a stake in those lender units.... The New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883620/posts#comment Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:11:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836620/posts Let us say right up front that it's terrific that John Edwards lives in a country where he can lose an election and still land a $480,000 part-time job as a consultant to an investment firm that keeps its hedge funds in the Cayman Islands as a tax shelter for its clients. This truly is the land of opportunity. We're also encouraged to hear that, according to the former Senator's spokesman, "John Edwards is running for President to give every American the opportunities that he's had." While there may not be enough half-a-million-dollar-a-year part-time consulting gigs to go around just... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836620/posts#comment Sun, 20 May 2007 07:40:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830452/posts Democrat John Edwards said Tuesday that he worked for a hedge fund between presidential campaigns to learn about financial markets and their relationship to poverty—and to make money too. In an interview with The Associated Press, the former North Carolina senator said his yearlong, part-time position with Fortress Investment Group helped his understanding of the connection but he has more to learn. Edwards has made eradicating poverty a focus of his second White House bid. Edwards, a multimillionaire after years as a trial lawyer, would not disclose how much he got paid for a year of consulting beginning in October... Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830452/posts#comment Wed, 9 May 2007 00:39:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661624/posts A Northeast Portland man is suing basketball superstar Michael Jordan and Nike founder Phil Knight for a combined $832 million. Allen Heckard filed the suit himself, June 29th in Washington County Court. Heckard says he’s been mistaken as Michael Jordan nearly every day over the past 15 years and he’s tired of it. “I'm constantly being accused of looking like Michael and it makes it very uncomfortable for me,” said Heckard. Heckard is suing Jordan for defamation and permanent injury and emotional pain and suffering. He’s suing Knight for defamation and permanent injury for promoting Jordan and making him one... KGW-TV, Portland http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661624/posts#comment Fri, 7 Jul 2006 02:32:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588935/posts Former President Bill Clinton has accepted at least $1.6 million from the United Arab Emirates, including $300,000 from a Dubai sheik who adamantly backs the country's controversial boycott of Israel. On Jan. 17, 2002, Mr. Clinton was paid $300,000 to address the Science, Technology and Arts Royal Summit in Dubai at the invitation of Crown Prince and UAE Defense Minister Sheik Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Less than three months later, Sheik Mohammad urged the United Nations to approve the use of force against Israel's to halt what he called the Jewish state's "butchery" of Palestinians, according to London's Financial... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588935/posts#comment Fri, 3 Mar 2006 01:46:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559424/posts January 17, 2006 Edition > Section: National > Printer-Friendly VersionClinton Eligible, Once Again, To Practice Law BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the SunJanuary 17, 2006URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/25965After five years of banishment from the legal profession, President Clinton will be eligible this week to reclaim the law license he gave up as a consequence of the inaccurate responses he gave under oath to questions about his relationship with a White House intern.Mr. Clinton's suspension from the Arkansas bar, which he formally agreed to a day before leaving office in 2001, expires on Thursday. It is unclear whether the former... New York Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559424/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:49:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1554143/posts    Lowering The Bar January 5, 2006 Clifton Eames has been reading too much of René Descartes.  When Eames flunked the Texas bar exam four times in a row, he reacted although, “...there is a deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me....”  Perhaps he is just a bit too obsessed by his belief in “Cogito ergo sum”. The State Bar of Texas has a rule which limits the number of times an individual can take the bar exam to five.  If you flunk all five times, that is the end of any ambitions to practice... dansargis.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1554143/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:35:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550200/posts An aspiring attorney who has failed the licensure test four times challenges the state's limit, which gives him just one more try to pass CLIFTON Eames moved to Houston with big plans. Having just finished law school in Washington, D.C., in 2002, he hoped to open a small practice here, specializing in civil rights and discrimination cases. His dream of helping others right legal wrongs hit a snag, however, when he got the results from his Texas bar exam. Eames failed the test. Three subsequent attempts also have ended in failure, leaving him with a law school degree but no... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550200/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:23:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444960/posts FORMER US president Bill Clinton arrived in Mozambique early today on the first leg of a six-nation Africa tour aimed at boosting his foundation's work in the fight against AIDS on the continent, a spokesman said. Clinton Foundation spokesman Joachim Salvador told AFP the former president had arrived, and an earlier press release said he would visit the pediatric section of Maputo Central Hospital later today. Some 300 children with HIV and AIDS are being treated with anti-retroviral drugs at the hospital, which is a beneficiary of Clinton Foundation funds. Ira Magaziner, who heads the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, said... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444960/posts#comment Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:36:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1436520/posts In a harshly worded opinion, New York's Court of Appeals Wednesday ended Brooklyn Surrogate Michael H. Feinberg's judicial career. It held that his awarding of millions of dollars in attorney fees to a friend without demanding the affidavits required by law constituted removable misconduct. The court said in a unanimous per curiam opinion that in rubber-stamping, with no oversight, some $8.5 million in estate commissions to attorney Louis R. Rosenthal, Feinberg "demonstrate[d] a shocking disregard for the very law that imbued him with judicial authority." It rejected with apparent disdain Feinberg's defense that he had neglected to read the Surrogate's... New York Law Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1436520/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jul 2005 00:20:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417814/posts Mark Geragos does his first LIVE interview since the Scott Peterson trial and his testimony in the Michael Jackson case!!! CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417814/posts#comment Tue, 7 Jun 2005 00:53:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1373211/posts Posted: March 29, 2005 11:44 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The Florida state constitution declares unequivocally that in the state of Florida "the supreme executive power shall be vested in a governor … ." The word supreme means highest in authority. There can be no executive authority in the state of Florida higher than the governor. No state law can create an executive authority higher than highest in the Florida constitution. Therefore no court order based upon such a law can constitutionally create such an authority. If the governor tells the local police in Pinellas County to step aside, they... Worldnetdaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1373211/posts#comment Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:00:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358990/posts US political activist Jesse Jackson is to help motivate Britain's ethnic minority voters at a rally in London. Ethnic minority MPs and representatives from community groups will also speak at the event organised by campaign group Operation Black Vote (OBV). BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358990/posts#comment Wed, 9 Mar 2005 06:33:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1323416/posts When it opened two months ago, Bill Clinton's presidential library was supposed to draw so many visitors that the city of Little Rock would become a tourist mecca. However, early reports claiming that over 100,000 had visited in just the first six weeks have turned out to be bogus. The National Archives and Records Administration, which operates the facility, tells U.S. News & World Report that only 42,054 paid to enter. The rest were guests of the former president and freebies to VIPs. Despite wall-to-wall television coverage of its opening, and a deluge of favorable press, attendance figures for the... NewsMax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1323416/posts#comment Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:05:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1295678/posts A few days ago, my colleagues and I were noting the absence of any whistleblower in the fraud allegations swirling over the election... and I mentioned that I considered this to be another problem for those making the accusations. Surely, if the election had been hacked, there would be somebody who might brag about it to a talkative friend, or somebody who might know something and would be willing to contact a reporter or stand up for the principle of free and fair elections. MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1295678/posts#comment Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:42:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201691/posts Sen. John Edwards - and his largely loyalist audience in St. Charles - displayed an edgier side Friday as each shared mutual concerns about the direction of the nation and the Democratic presidential campaign. Edwards, the Democratic nominee for vice president, started things off when he launched into a self-described imitation of President George W. Bush's reaction to new census figures this week showing more Americans in poverty and without health insurance. Maintaining his ever-present smile, Edwards stood stone-still in silence. St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201691/posts#comment Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:31:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1180544/posts California Edwards Clone Shyster Lawyer Scum Blackmail PayPal for $3.3 MILLION!!! If you suffered a loss, you get $50 - and they wonder why lawyers are considered the lowest form of scum? IF YOU OPENED A PAYPAL ACCOUNT BETWEEN OCTOBER 1999 AND JANUARY 2004, YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO A PAYMENT FROM A CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT. PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION In re PayPal litigation Case No. CV-02-01227-JF (PVT) NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF CLASS ACTION AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT 1. WHY DID I GET THIS NOTICE? You have been sent... PayPal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1180544/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:18:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1177552/posts RegisteredMedia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1177552/posts#comment Sat, 24 Jul 2004 05:33:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1116312/posts Southfield, MI (LifeNews.com) -- In an interview with LifeNews.com, Geoffrey Fieger, said that he is filing the sole wrongful death suit for the family of Tamiia Russell, the 15-year-old Detroit girl who died following an abortion at the WomanCare of Southfield abortion facility. "I am the attorney in the case," Fieger told LifeNews.com. "There can only be one wrongful death suit per case in Michigan, and I am representing the family" Fieger, the attorney who represented assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, added that Russell's mother and grandmother had retained him as their representative. There has been some dispute as to... LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1116312/posts#comment Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:05:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1056495/posts Elecia Battle spent a week under the unflinching glare of public scrutiny, indignantly laying claim to a $162 million lottery jackpot one day, tearfully apologizing for misleading the world the next. Next to her under the klieg lights stood Sheldon Starke, the once-obscure lawyer who quickly became something of a media impresario. But the glare has been no more kind to him. A Cuyahoga County judge has threatened to find Starke in contempt of court after seeing Starke's animated defense of Battle this week on television - after Starke had said he couldn't come to court because of an injured... Plain Dealer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1056495/posts#comment Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:59:14 GMT