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Illinois Lawyer Faces 3-Year License Suspension
An attorney who questioned the integrity and fairness of four judges should lose his law license for three years and until further court order, a lawyer-discipline panel recommended. The Attorney...
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Texas Judge Christopher Dupay Indicted on 8 Criminal Charges
A Galveston County judge has been indicted on eight criminal counts charging him with abuse of office, including retaliation against the attorney representing the judge's wife in a divorce case. The...
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Retraction
In our blogpost of the article regarding Texas Judge, Christopher Dupay, who was indicted on eight criminal charges, (posted 5/23/13) we inadvertendly transposed Mr. Dupay's name in the title of our...
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Senators Klobuchar and Cornyn Introduce "The Court-Appointed Guardian...
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John Cornyn (R-TX) this week introduced bipartisan legislation to help protect seniors from neglect and financial exploitation. The Court-Appointed Guardian...
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Physician Assisted Suicide
Vermont is now the fourth state in the country that allows physician assisted suicide. The law, allowing physicians to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients, took effect Monday when...
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Charges Piling up Against Ohio Lawyer Javier Armengau
Additional charges have been filed against a local lawyer accused of gross sexual imposition. Defense attorney Javier Armengau, 51, was charged with six counts of rape, five counts of sexual battery,...
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Two Arkansas Judges Disciplined for Courtroom Behavior
The State Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission today announced disciplinary actions against two judges for unethical behavior. * CIRCUIT JUDGE GERALD KENT CROW of Berryville was reprimanded...
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TN Governor, Bill Haslam Approves New Conservatorship Law
Gov. Bill Haslam has signed into law a measure making the first major revisions in more than a decade to the state law governing the process of placing state residents under the control of a...
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GA: Lawyer Discipline Cases Include Suspension, License Surrender
In the Supreme Court of Georgia Decided: May 20, 2013S13Y0399. IN THE MATTER OF DALE E. CALOMENI. PER CURIAM. This disciplinary matter is before the Court on the petition of Dale E. Calomeni (State Bar...
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Zsa Zsa's Home Sells for $11 Million
A judge Monday approved the terms of the sale of the ailing Zsa Zsa Gabor's longtime Bel Air residence for $11 million in a deal that will allow the 96-year-old actress to remain in the residence for...
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Jared E. Shafer Loses Guardianship. Looted Senior Citizen Returns To Claim...
For the first time known, a wealthy senior citizen was able to escape from the custody of Nevada court appointed "guardian" Jared E. Shafer, and recover the majority of his assets before he dies....
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CBS11: Friend, "They Just Took Her Away"
Friends say Denise Tighe was an independent woman, a native of Switzerland who came to the United States and, as a young adult, helped manage a bank on Wall Street. “She was a huge animal lover,” said...
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A Judge a Little More Than a Week, and Then OD'd
A former longtime prosecutor who died at the cabin of a fellow southwestern Illinois judge now under federal investigation succumbed to a cocaine overdose, a coroner announced Friday. Pike County...
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NY State Senator John Sampson Charged With Embezzlement
A prominent New York state senator pleaded not guilty on Monday to embezzlement and other charges alleging he brazenly tried to sabotage a federal fraud investigation of his law practice by seeking...
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Abuse May be Common but Often Hard to Quantify
State and Cornell University researchers estimated 260,000 New York residents older than the age of 65 were somehow abused or neglected — physically, financially or emotionally — in 2011. But, without...
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In Memoriam and Inspiration: 'She Worked Past Age 100, Inspired Many More'
In 40 years of interviews as a journalist, I've never met anyone quite like Hedda Bolgar. The pioneering psychoanalyst, who attended lectures by Sigmund Freud as a young woman and fled Vienna for the...
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Indicted Former Judge Craig Steven Key Resigns From Law Pactice
A former Lincoln County district judge indicted on charges of cattle theft, forgery and embezzling money from a client has relinquished his law license. A multi-county grand jury in April indicted...
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Tonight on T.S. Radio: Predatory Guardians: a $3 Billion Per Year Money Maker
5:00 PST … 6:00 MST … 7:00 CST … 8:00 EST Craig Keesler joins us from California to expose the case of 87 yr. old June Guinn. With all the adult protection agencies, law enforcement, district...
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Alabama Legislature Targets Abuse, Financial Exploitation of Seniors
The Alabama Legislature is making it easier to prosecute people who abuse, neglect or financially exploit senior citizens. The House and Senate passed different versions of the bill earlier in the...
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Township Council Hopeful is Accused of Raiding Estate of Client With Dementia...
As Clarksboro resident Joy Lippincott aged and slipped into dementia in recent years, she increasingly depended on a small group of people to manage her affairs, including her two daughters, a lawyer...
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