Message-ID: <20429537.1075858596267.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 21:20:12 -0700 (PDT) From: lists@corp.law.com To: newswire-html@majordomo.law.com Subject: Today's Legal News, October 24, 2001 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: "law.com" X-To: newswire-html@majordomo.law.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \MTAYLO1 (Non-Privileged)\Taylor, Mark E (Legal)\Deleted Items X-Origin: Taylor-M X-FileName: MTAYLO1 (Non-Privileged).pst A D V E R T I S E M E N T [IMAGE] =09 =09[IMAGE] =09 =09career center seminars legal newswire customer service = free email =09 October 24, 2001 =09 =09 [IMAGE] House Prepares to Move Anti-Terrorism Compromise The Associated = Press Police would be able to secretly search the homes of suspects, tap th= eir phones and track their Internet use under anti-terrorism legislation mo= ving toward final approval in the U.S. House of Representatives. House lead= ers said the final bill will be voted on today, with Senate approval expect= ed later this week. But the bill may hit a snag on the Senate side as lawma= kers tinker with an ethics amendment applying to federal prosecutors. Ful= l Text New York Federal Judge Slams Attorney's Tactics in Surety Bond D= ispute as 'Sleazy' New York Law Journal An attorney in a dispute over a su= rety bond has been hit with sanctions after raising the ire of a federal ju= dge in New York. It was not just that Alfred Ferrer III filed an unwarrante= d order to show cause, but when he filed it. "Dante should have reserved a = special place in hell for lawyers who file unwarranted orders to show cause= on the eve of a holiday," said U.S. District Judge John Martin of the Dec.= 23, 1999, filing. Full Text Trial Opens in California E-Mail Threat C= ase The Recorder A Santa Clara County, Calif., prosecutor, undaunted by on= e judge's rejection of his Internet stalking case, set out Monday to convin= ce a jury that a Fremont, Calif., man was tormenting a Michigan couple from= half a continent away. The case is part of an effort by Santa Clara's High= -Tech Crime Unit to crack down on crimes committed under cover of Internet = anonymity. But the prosecutors may find it a tough sell. Full Text Tosc= o Settles Over Refinery Explosion The Recorder Tosco Corp. has settled wha= t could have been a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by relatives of one e= mployee who was killed and another worker who was seriously injured during = an explosion at Tosco's California refinery two years ago. Steven Duncan an= d the family of Ernest Pofahl will be able to collect workers' compensation= in addition to the settlement award. Tosco was acquired by Phillips Petrol= eum last month. Full Text Employee Awarded $150,000 After Co-Worker Fals= ely Accuses Him of Rape The Legal Intelligencer In a case that turned the = tables on sexual harassment, a Philadelphia jury awarded $150,000 to a man = who said his employer invaded his privacy by subjecting him to an embarrass= ing, police-style interrogation after he had an innocent, romantic tryst wi= th a female co-worker that she had reported to management as a rape. The ju= ry also found the woman had defamed the man by making false accusations. Fu= ll Text For Troubled Teen, There's No Escape Legal Times He's the prod= uct of three generations of retardation, mental illness, and physical and s= exual abuse. According to prosecutors, the teen-age boy is also a dangerous= criminal. A recently released opinion from a Washington, D.C., Superior Co= urt judge about the boy offers a seldom-seen view into a high-profile juven= ile case, and the unsettling history of the defendant's childhood and ascen= t to violent crime. 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The suit seeks relief for all co= mpanies that Credit Suisse took public, putting scores of dot-coms in the p= osition of being both defendants and potential plaintiffs in the hundreds o= f related cases before U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in New York. Fu= ll Text [IMAGE] A Matter of Faith Corporate Counsel After September's= terrorist attacks, travel giant Cendant Corp. saw its stock plunge. Just a= s he did in 1998 when Cendant was embroiled in one of the biggest back-offi= ce frauds in U.S. history, general counsel James Buckman turned to his reli= gious faith for support. For Buckman -- a devout Catholic and committed cap= italist -- saving Cendant is a moral obligation. Visit In-House Counsel = ADVERTISEMENT FREE Acrobat Legal Solutions CD! Beat your court filing d= eadlines. Acrobat 5.0 makes it easy to create Adobe PDF files for e-filing,= document review...and so much more. 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