He and fellow plotter Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed discussed making the IED using instructions in an al-Qaeda manual. Iqbal was caught on covert recordings telling Ahmed: I was looking and drove past like the TA centre, Marsh Road. At the bottom of their gate there's quite a big gap. If you had a little toy car it drives underneath one of their vehicles or something.
Seeking legal guidance promptly can significantly influence the outcome of a case. When individuals face legal challenges, whether they are related to personal injury, criminal charges, or family disputes, the initial steps taken can set the tone for the entire process. Engaging a qualified attorney early on ensures that individuals are informed about their rights and obligations, which can prevent missteps that may jeopardize their case.
Gail Slater, the top antitrust enforcer at the Justice Department, announced Thursday that she has left her post, just weeks before the agency's next major tech monopoly trial against entertainment giant Live Nation is set to begin. "It is with great sadness and abiding hope that I leave my role as AAG for Antitrust today," Slater posted from her personal X account. Slater thanked the staff of the Antitrust Division and called the role "the honor of a lifetime." In a statement, Attorney General Pam Bondi thanked Slater for her service, but did not directly address questions about what precipitated her departure or who would take over as the acting leader of the Division.
Witnesses play a crucial role in personal injury cases, often serving as the backbone of the evidence presented in court. Their testimonies can provide essential context and details that may not be captured through physical evidence alone. In many instances, the accounts of witnesses can corroborate the claims made by the injured party, lending credibility to their narrative. This is particularly important in personal injury cases, where the burden of proof lies with the plaintiff. A strong witness can help
The regulators say an investigation found the company accepted 426 in-play bets across 32 tennis matches between February 2024 and June 2025. However, they highlight that online in-play betting, where wagers are made on a sporting event after it has commenced, isn't allowed in Australia under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. The in-play sports bets that were allegedly found in the investigation were described to have been accepted in breach of the IGA and were voided by Tabcorp and the bets refunded.
Marriage is a romance, but legally, it is also a financial partnership. While no one anticipates separation, a prenuptial agreement acts as a crucial roadmap to protect your assets and save you stress down the line. But if you have already exchanged vows, is it too late? Absolutely not. Whether you are engaged or celebrating an anniversary, you can still secure your future.
There's big delays in our court system and I will share my frustration that sometimes I don't think these persistent offenders are getting the deterrent sentence they need. We do have a problem with repeat offenders coming back to stores time and time again and we do need some concerted effort to tackle them and stop their offending.
When Baker McKenzie announced plans to cut roughly 700 business services staff, the firm pegged some of the blame squarely on AI, feeding into the technology-fueled paranoia surrounding artificial intelligence. It certainly doesn't help that the AI hype cycle turns on tech gurus juicing up their VC sugar daddies with promises that AI will replace human workers any moment now,
I know a little place where the ingredients are always fresh. You can get a mega-burrito and a Dos Equis to wash it down for not much more than 10 bucks. If you're in a bad mood when you arrive, you won't be for long, because the workers smile, they laugh, they seem like they're having so much fun making your food just the way you like it that you can't help but start to feel like you're having a little fun yourself.
Murdaugh's attorneys argued Wednesday before the South Carolina Supreme Court, asking the justices to overturn the two murder convictions and life sentence Murdaugh is serving for the shooting deaths of his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, outside their home in June 2021. The defense argues the trial judge made rulings that prevented a fair trial, such as allowing in evidence of Murdaugh stealing from clients that had nothing to do with the killings but biased jurors against him.
One morning in January, Crystal Carrero went to her usual grocery store in Crown Heights. But when she went to pay, the cashier told her there was no money on her Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card. "It was impossible," she remembered saying, because she hadn't used any of the funds, and she had recently checked the balance: $923, her monthly benefits from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps low-income households afford groceries.
Officially, Rich Ruohonen is listed as the alternate on the U.S. men's Olympic curling team in Milan-Cortina. Unofficially, he might be the most indispensable 54-year-old personal injury attorney in the Olympic Village. He'd also be oldest American to ever compete at the Winter Olympics. "I'm not the dad and I'm not the coach," his homemade T-shirt communicates to other athletes, The Wall Street Journal reported. He's there to compete.
Just before 9 pm on Wednesday, January 21, I landed at the British Airways terminal at London's Heathrow Airport. I was flying in from Cairo for what was my fourth visit since I left the US. I was headed to Birmingham. It hadn't even been a year since I had been forced to leave the United States after sustained political pressure connected to my activism in support of Palestine.
We were both in our 60s and had no health problems that were about to kill us any time soon, but our parents had recently died, so end of life issues were on our minds. Plus everyone knows writing a will is the responsible thing to do. We'd talked to lawyers. While I considered my friend a close one, we didn't have many friends in common. I knew he had a brother and sister.
Perkins Coie Implements Data-Driven Forecasting When working together, two Litera solutions - Foundation Scoping (formerly known as Clocktimizer) and Foundation - can offer critical insights into pricing trends so that firms can increase revenue and profitability while also improving client service. Before GenAI was a household term, there was Foundation Scoping, which uses natural language processing to identify, categorize and analyze timecard data, providing useful insights for scoping and matter management.
The attorney general of Pennsylvania announced on Monday (February 9) that a Schuylkill County novelty game company has admitted guilt in what prosecutors describe as a sweeping illegal gambling operation that reached far beyond its home base. At the center of the case is Deibler Brothers Novelty Company, which authorities say placed and operated hundreds of unlawful video gambling machines across large parts of the state.
Today, we filed a lawsuit in federal court against Massachusetts. Congress gave the CFTC, not states, exclusive authority over event contracts. These are national markets with critical questions that must be resolved in federal court 🧵- Neal Kumar (@HereComesKumar) February 9, 2026
A captain with the Pasadena Fire Department has been charged with nine counts of committing lewd acts with a minor under age 14. Prosecutors allege he sexually abused three victims over a period spanning more than two decades. Christopher James Ramstead, 47, of Thousand Oaks was arrested Wednesday and, if convicted, faces up to 135 years to life in state prison, according to the L.A. County district attorney's office. He pleaded not guilty Monday and was ordered held without bail.
A federal judge in Nevada has shut down Coinbase Financial Markets Inc.'s last-ditch effort to stop state gambling regulators from cracking down on its event-based trading products, clearing the way for the case to continue in state court. In a February 7 order, U.S. District Judge Cristina D. Silva denied Coinbase's request for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction. She also dismissed the company's federal lawsuit without prejudice, ending the case and sending the dispute back where it started.
Well, I see a lot of things. There seems to be at some point, you know, familiarity with the area. If you notice when he walks up, he has his head down. Maybe he thinks there's some surveillance camera outside he's missing, but then he seems if you look, he seems surprised I see it playing right now he seems like he's going to knock on the door, and then seems surprised by the presence of that doorbell camera right there.
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DOJ Lawyer Invites Judge To Hold Her In Contempt Just To Get Some Rest: Government attorney called out the challenges preventing her from complying with court orders and begs for rest. The DOJ immediately fired her.
Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. But recent debates about the law often overlook how it works in practice. To mark its 30th anniversary, EFF is interviewing leaders of online platforms about how they handle complaints, moderate content, and protect their users' ability to speak and share information.
A pair of scammers from Queens is facing federal charges for allegedly defrauding public health programs of a combined $120 million, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported on Monday. Inwoo Kim, also known as Tony Kim and Long Jin, 42, and Daniel Lee, also known as Daniel Yang, 56, both of Flushing, are alleged to have run an adult day care and pharmacy empire starting in 2016 based on scamming taxpayer-funded Medicaid and Medicare, to rake in an illegally obtained $120 million.
"Sarita" on Instagram appears to be the account the agency reported, showing a blonde woman wearing a Massachusetts State Police uniform, complete with a badge and a gun. In the pictures posted since Dec. 29, her name tags reads "Sara," "St. Pay," and "St. May." In one, the letters are unintelligible. The account has more than 100,000 followers as of Sunday evening. MSP declined to confirm the account.
Two dozen people who sued the owners and tenants of a Carson-based warehouse responsible for a putrid smell emanating from the Dominguez Channel waterway, which led to hospital visits and headaches, won a multimillion-dollar verdict Friday. Those plaintiffs were awarded $6 million in punitive damages along with $2.89 million in compensatory damages in a mass tort lawsuit that dates back to 2021.
Victims of deepfake image abuse have called for stronger protection against AI-generated explicit images, as the law criminalising the creation of non-consensual intimate images comes into effect. Campaigners from Stop Image-Based Abuse delivered a petition to Downing Street with more than 73,000 signatures, urging the government to introduce civil routes to justice such as takedown orders for abusive imagery on platforms and devices.
Prosecutors said the company was using a large soil screener, weighing nearly 36,000 pounds, to process soil and other materials. Part of the machine, known as the tail conveyor, weighed about 1,500 pounds and could be raised or lowered during operation. Court records show the tail conveyor had unexpectedly closed on several occasions in the years leading up to the deadly incident, and that the machine had previously suffered a ruptured hydraulic pressure line.
