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Aggressive Securities Arbitration Services
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2014/10/22 22:09
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Conway & Conway law firm, located in New York, are impassioned about
representing public customers and industry professionals all over the
world with a team of devoted futures, securities, and commodities
arbitration attorneys. Constantly keeping abreast of developing and
current regulatory reforms, U.S. securities laws, and other topics of
interest to professionals and investors, our firm is responsive and
agile. We are large enough to handle many cases and simultaneously
provide personalized service to each client for their futures,
securities, or commodities case.
Founded in 1988, Conway & Conway has been a successful New York City
securities arbitration law firm, yielding fantastic results in
securities arbitration cases from their 565 Fifth Avenue headquarters.
At Conway & Conway, the firm's attorneys have the know-how to deal
with litigation and business counseling. At all points of negotiation
and acquisition, along with wrongful termination and other corporate
matters, we have advocated on behalf of our corporate clients. In
addition to corporate clients, the firm works with commercial clients
in all types of commercial and business litigation as well.
In the financial services industry, Conway & Conway gives exceptional
legal counsel to the public. Whether its investors in dispute or
issues with registered representatives and other associates, they have
the high-caliber legal counsel to help. Fraud lawyers at the firm are
well-versed in all things concerning the laws that apply to the
securities and futures industries.
The commodity merchant attorneys at Conway & Conway provide litigation
and arbitration services for international commodity merchants related
to trade disputes. Their extensive trial experience, combined with a
unique familiarity with the commodities industry foreign exchange and
futures markets, enables Conway & Conway dedicated commodity
arbitration attorneys to resolve serious commodity trade disputes in a
timely and cost-effective manner.
For international commodity merchants, the commodity merchant attorneys at Conway & Conway administer arbitration and litigation
services pertinent to trade disputes.
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Website asks high court to throw out lawsuit
Court Feed News |
2014/10/22 22:09
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A lawyer told the Washington Supreme Court on Tuesday that a lawsuit filed by three young girls who were sold as prostitutes on a website should be thrown out because the website didn't write the ads, so it's not liable.
But the victims' lawyer said the website, Backpage, doesn't have immunity under the federal Communications Decency Act because the website markets itself as a place to sell "escort services" and provides pimps with instructions on how to write an ad that works, making them a participant in the largest human-trafficking website in the U.S.
The justices plan to rule on the case at a later date.
Before the hearing several dozen people stood in the rain on the court steps with signs that read: "People's bodies are not commodities," ''End Child Slavery" and "Stop Buying Our Girls."
"No one has the right to sell a kid for sex," said Jo Lembo, with Shared Hope International. "That's why we're here. Someone has to speak up for them. They're kids."
A similar case was filed last week in federal court in Boston, but a previous case in Missouri was dismissed, said Yiota Souras, a lawyer with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. "The Washington state case has gone further than any previous case," she said. |
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Writers object after UK court bans abuse memoir
Legal Career News |
2014/10/20 20:03
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Prominent writers say free speech is under threat after a British court halted publication of a celebrity's memoir of child abuse because his ex-wife argued that it would harm their son.
Three appeals court judges last week temporarily stopped publication of the book, which has already been printed and was due to be published this fall.
They described the author as a "talented young performing artist" whose ex-wife lives abroad with their son.
She argued the book would cause "psychological harm" to the boy, who has Asperger's syndrome and other disabilities.
The judges granted an injunction stopping publication of key sections of the book pending a full trial.
On Friday writers including Tom Stoppard, David Hare and Stephen Fry called the ruling "a significant threat to freedom of expression." |
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Texas abortion clinics reopen after court reprieve
Court Feed News |
2014/10/20 20:03
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Texas abortion clinics that closed under tough new restrictions began reopening Wednesday after winning a reprieve at the U.S. Supreme Court, but the facilities were scheduling women with uncertainty and skeleton staffs.
A five-sentence ruling late Tuesday blocked parts of a sweeping Texas abortion law that required clinics to meet hospital-level operating standards starting Oct. 3. That had left only eight abortion facilities in the nation's second-most populous state.
Celebration among some abortion providers, however, was muted by logistics and fears that the victory is only temporary. Women seeking abortions kept phone lines busy at the Routh Street Women's Clinic in Dallas, where a former staff of 17 people is down to to single digits after the procedure was halted by the law earlier this month.
The high court only suspended the restrictions for now pending appeals, and offered no explanation for the decision.
"Some of them will come back, and some of them probably aren't," said Ginny Braun, the Dallas clinic director, about former employees that took other jobs in the past two weeks. "As one person eloquently put it this morning, whiplash is no longer a sustainable life choice for her."
Along the Texas-Mexico border, the only abortion clinic in 300 miles will resume abortion services in McAllen starting Friday, said Amy Hagstrom Miller, founder of Whole Woman's Health. But staffing and financial difficulties prevent any immediate reopening of clinics in Austin and Fort Worth, and the prospects of reopening another in Beaumont are even dimmer, she said.
Hagstrom Miller said she has laid off more than 50 employees since last year, and that the on-again, off-again status of her clinics have led to taking on $500,000 in debt over the last six months. |
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San Jose Family Law Lawyer
Law Firm Press |
2014/10/03 16:44
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Divorce is stressful and the Onu Law Firm strives to take care of families going through the divorce process in the least stressful and most economical way possible.
Children come first and the Onu Law Firm’s first goal is to insure your children’s welfare. Our Family law attorneys will insure that the interests of your children are protected in an effort to insure that your children’s lives will not be disrupted.
The Firm’s second objective is to insure clients receive the best possible outcome in the division of Marital Estate. We make use of accountants and other professionals to value every possible asset in order to maximize our client’s portion of divided assets under California Law.
If you are in need of a San Francisco family law practitioner, we encourage you to contact the Onu Law Firm.
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Colorado high court considers pot firing case
Court Feed News |
2014/10/03 16:41
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Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it.
Brandon Coats, a quadriplegic medical marijuana patient who was fired by the Dish Network after failing a drug test more than four years ago, says he still can't find steady work because employers are wary of his off-duty smoking.
In a case being closely watched around the country, Colorado's Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in Coats' case, which could have big implications for pot smokers in the first state to legalize recreational sales of the drug. The case highlights the clash between state laws that are increasingly accepting of marijuana use and employers' drug-free policies that won't tolerate it.
"Attitudes are changing toward marijuana. Laws are going to have to change, too," Coats told The Associated Press. "I'd like for this to enable people like me to find employment without being looked down upon."
Coats, 35, was paralyzed in a car crash as a teenager and has been a medical marijuana patient since 2009, when, after a doctor's urging, he discovered that pot helped calm violent muscle spasms that were making it difficult to work.
Coats, who worked for three years as a telephone operator with Dish, was fired in 2010 for failing a random company drug test. He said he told his supervisors in advance that he probably would fail the test.
He said he was never high at work, and Dish did not allege he was ever impaired on the job. But pot's intoxicating chemical, THC, can stay in the system for weeks.
Coats is making his argument under a state law intended to protect cigarette smokers from being fired for legal behavior off the clock.
But the company argues that because pot remains illegal at the federal level, medical marijuana isn't covered by the state law. A trial court judge and Colorado's appeals court agreed.
A patchwork of laws across the country and the conflict between state and federal laws has left the issue unclear. Twenty-three states and Washington, D.C., allow medical marijuana, but courts have ruled against employees who say their pot use is protected. Colorado and Washington state also now allow recreational sales, though court cases so far have involved medical patients.
Colorado's constitution specifically says that employers don't have to amend their policies to accommodate employees' marijuana use. But Arizona law, for example, says workers can't be punished for lawfully using medical marijuana unless it would jeopardize an employer's federal contract. |
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