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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 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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

   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...

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...

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...

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...

Mark Geragos does his first LIVE interview since the Scott Peterson trial and his testimony in the Michael Jackson case!!!

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...

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).

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...

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.

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.

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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...

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...

To his malpractice insurance carrier, Dr. Bruce Morgenstern posed an unacceptable risk. The neurologist who practiced in the eastern suburbs has been sued six times. His coverage was canceled, effective Dec. 21. Morgenstern quit his group practice, resigned his staff positions at Hillcrest, Euclid and LakeWest hospitals, and on New Year's Day, he packed his car and headed to Colorado. He had viewed an American Medical Association map designating states experiencing a malpractice insurance crisis. Ohio was red - a crisis state. Colorado was stable. Morgen- stern took a job at a community hospital outside Denver. "I've been named six...

Dear Friend of Life, I pray that you will read the enclosed letter with a grateful, generous and charitable heart. My friend, Randall Terry, has just fought an extraordinary battle against the killing spirit of our times - and by God's grace, emerged victorious! Let me tell you what happened behind the scenes. While I was in Israel, a federal court decreed that Terri would die. My chief of staff, Mary Parker Lewis, contacted Randall Terry (Founder of Operation Rescue) and asked him to give his full attention and efforts to saving Terri's life. After he spoke with Terri's family,...

<p>Question: How many lawyers does a slow economy produce? Answer: More.</p> <p>The number of lawyers in the United States exceeded 1 million for the first time in 2003. And the number of people taking the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) in 2003 is near the record 152,242 set during the last recession, in 1991. The two-year record of 300,020 of 1990-91 stands an equally good chance of falling in 2002-03.</p>

This story is going to get a lot bigger. It's an FBI probe into whether major Los Angeles and Hollywood law firms knew a private investigator whose services they were using was obtaining information for them through illegal wiretaps. Anthony Pellicano, the high-profile private investigator to the stars and their lawyers, was arrested last year and charged with possessing explosives. He pleaded guilty (no plea deal) and begins a prison term next week. He has asked to start serving the sentence now even though he isn't scheduled to be sentenced until January. He is expected to be sentenced to between...

I asked a patient who came for an office visit today why she was suing me. Mrs. X assured me she was not. I showed her the complaint. "Oh, that," she said. "A lady called and asked if I wanted to join the class-action suit about Rezulin. I told her Okay, but not to drag you into it, because you're my doctor, and I know you were just trying to help me." "But you weren't harmed by the drug," I said. "Why are you suing?" The patient said she didn't know, except that "the lady said I'd make money when...

MIAMI (AP) - An immigration lawyer was sentenced to more than eight years in prison Thursday as part of a massive visa fraud investigation involving people cleared to enter the country as religious ministers or multinational executives. Javier Lopera was convicted in May of fraud and conspiracy. A Bolivian national and Brazilian citizen, he faces deportation when released from prison. The case began as an investigation into 100 suspicious visa applications and expanded to as many as 7,000 applications involving Lopera. Lopera, 36, charged clients $4,000 to $5,000 each, but investigator Ronnie Thomas said the scams weren't all about money....

(CNSNews.com) - The lawyer who represented Al Gore in the hotly contested Florida post-election recount in 2000 is now facing ethics charges in what one local newspaper described as a "bizarre" case. The Florida Bar's grievance committee found probable cause to charge David Boies with three counts of ethics violations. The ruling on July 10 accused Boies of misconduct, giving financial assistance to a client and improperly supervising other lawyers. The bar's finding is comparable to an indictment, and a judge appointed by the Florida Supreme Court will hear the case. No timeline for resolving the matter has been set....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) on Monday set aside a record $290 million punitive damages award against Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F - news) over a deadly 1993 California rollover accident with a Ford Bronco. Ford had called this the largest personal injury award that had been affirmed on appeal in U.S. history. The justices sent the case back to a California court for further consideration in view of their ruling last month in a different case that punitive damages must be reasonable and proportionate to the harm suffered. The Ford case involved the crash...

A Jefferson County resident has charged in a lawsuit filed in her home county that Jackson trial lawyer Richard Schwartz made false claims against a prescription drug company and knowingly demanded payments from the company for clients who did not actually take the medication for which money damages were sought. Schwartz, the complaint contends, “failed to even test or screen” for the drug many of his clients for whom he sought payment for injuries. And, says the complaint, many of the 1,600 claimants against the company who received money payments were “fake clients” of Schwartz.

<p>Judical Watch reported today that a federal judge ordered Friday that Clinton White House Email be searched related to the FBI Files Scandal.</p> <p>Judge Lamberth ruled that the e-mail accounts of Ex-President William Jefferson Clinton and Former First Lady/Current U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and many other Clinton Gore officials be searched.</p>