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The Lanier Law Firm Investigating 401(k) Retirement Plan for BP Employees
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2010/06/28 08:44
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| The Lanier Law Firm is investigating possible legal claims related to a 401(k) retirement plan for U.S. employees of energy giant BP span id=quote119047824 class=quotepeekbase bgQuote up jquery1277739795078=28span class=bgChannel/quotes/comstock/13*!bp/spanspan class=bgRealtimeChannel/quotes/nls/bp/span/span. The law firm believes there are potential violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) by those in charge of BP's retirement plan, which is known as the BP Employee Savings Plan (ESP). pThe Lanier Law Firm has maintained a prominent role in the BP litigation since filing one of the nations' first class-action lawsuits against BP following the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has yet to stop the millions of gallons of crude oil currently spewing into the gulf. /ppBP not only disregarded important safety rules, they also took unbelievably unnecessary risks, which is why people are facing one of the worst environmental and financial disasters in history, says attorney Evan Janush of The Lanier Law Firm. There are laws designed to protect employees from the precise, devastating scenario facing a lot of workers at BP. /ppAt the end of 2009, BP's U.S. Employee Savings Plan had more than $2 billion invested in BP stock. Since the explosion and eruption of oil, BP's stock price has fallen by approximately half, accounting for more than $100 billion in lost stock value. The retirement plans for many company employees are tied to the stock, costing them what is believed to be hundreds of millions of dollars. /ppThe Lanier Law Firm founder Mark Lanier, who recently was named by The National Law Journal as one of the most influential attorneys in the nation during the past decade, says the people responsible for BP's 401(k) plan knew or should have known about the company's inability to provide a safe work environment on the Deepwater Horizon, as well as its inability to contain the massive release of oil -- two factors that have contributed heavily to the downturn in BP's stock price. /ppThe law firm has identified several potential legal claims for participants in the BP Employee Savings Plan whose accounts included units from the BP stock fund. Learn more at a href=http://www.lanierlawfirm.comfont color=#004176www.lanierlawfirm.com/font/a. /ppAbout The Lanier Law Firm /ppWith offices in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Houston and New York, The Lanier Law Firm is committed to addressing client concerns with effective and innovative solutions in courtrooms across the country. The firm is composed of outstanding trial attorneys with decades of experience handling cases involving oil amp; gas law, maritime law and ERISA litigation. /p |
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Martin Ginsburg, justice's husband, dies
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2010/06/28 08:42
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| Martin Ginsburg, the husband of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a prominent lawyer in his own right, died Sunday from complications of metastatic cancer. He was 78. The Supreme Court said in a statement that Ginsburg died at home.pThe Ginsburgs celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary last week. They met on a blind date as undergraduates at Cornell University./ppMartin Ginsburg was an expert in tax law and taught at New York University, Columbia University and Georgetown University over the course of his career./ppJudy Areen, interim dean of Georgetown University Law Center, said Sunday: Marty Ginsburg was not only one of the most innovative legal thinkers of our time, he was a gifted teacher and respected colleague. He will be deeply missed./p |
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Calif man accused of extortion through hacking
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2010/06/24 09:00
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| Federal agents have arrested a man accused of hacking into computers to obtain personal data to extort sexually explicit videos from women and teenage girls in exchange for keeping their information private.pThe Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says 31-year-old Luis Mijangos was arrested Tuesday in Santa Ana./ppFBI experts say he infected more than 100 computers used by about 230 people, including at least 44 juveniles./ppThe alleged scheme involved using peer-to-peer networks to infect computers, induce victims to download malware disguised as songs, and control those computers to spread malware through contact lists./ppMijangos allegedly searched computers for sexual or intimate images to blackmail victims into making videos for him. Prosecutors say he also was able to control some webcams to capture intimate scenes./p |
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Woman pleads guilty to burglaries while pregnant
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2010/06/24 02:01
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| An Ohio woman who authorities say burglarized homes while her children waited in her car and at times used her 5-year-old son to help with break-ins has pleaded guilty to various charges. Samantha Brewer, of the Cincinnati suburb of Cleves, pleaded guilty Wednesday to burglary, attempted burglary and child endangering.pA prosecutor says most of the crimes occurred while 26-year-old Brewer was taking her sons, now 6 and 7, to or from school. Authorities say she sometimes used her younger son as a lookout and at least once put him inside a house through a window to unlock the door./ppBrewer was pregnant at the time of the April and May burglaries in Harrison. She says she gave birth to a girl on June 4 while in jail./ppShe blamed the burglaries on an addiction to pain medication./p |
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Ex NFL player Dillon pleads not guilty to DUI
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2010/06/24 01:02
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| Former NFL running back Corey Dillon has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor DUI charges stemming from his April arrest in Southern California. Dillon entered his pleas Monday in Malibu Superior Court.pThe former Cincinnati Bengals and New England Patriots running back was arrested early April 21 in Calabasas in northwestern Los Angeles County./ppSheriff's Lt. Rich Erickson says two deputies were driving north on Mulholland Drive when they saw a red Camaro with paper plates and two male occupants driving slowly behind them. The deputies pulled the car over and arrested Dillon on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol./ppOn May 1, Dillon was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence after an argument with his wife, but prosecutors declined to file charges in that case, citing insufficient evidence./p |
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High court upholds anti-terror law
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2010/06/21 09:01
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| pThe Supreme Court has upheld a federal law that bars material support to foreign terrorist organizations, rejecting a free speech challenge from humanitarian aid groups./ppThe court ruled 6-3 Monday that the government may prohibit all forms of aid to designated terrorist groups, even if the support consists of training and advice about entirely peaceful and legal activities./ppMaterial support intended even for benign purposes can help a terrorist group in other ways, Chief Justice John Roberts said in his majority opinion./ppSuch support frees up other resources within the organization that may be put to violent ends, Roberts said./ppJustice Stephen Breyer took the unusual step of reading his dissent aloud in the courtroom. Breyer said he rejects the majority's conclusion that the Constitution permits the government to prosecute the plaintiffs criminally for providing instruction and advice about the terror groups' lawful political objectives. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor joined the dissent./p |
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High court to review mental health advocacy suit
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2010/06/21 09:01
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pThe Supreme Court says it will decide whether Virginia's advocate for the mentally ill can force state officials to provide records relating to deaths and injuries at state mental health facilities./ppThe justices agreed Monday to review a federal appeals court ruling dismissing the state advocate's lawsuit against Virginia's mental health commissioner and two other officials./ppBacking the appeal, the Obama administration said the ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond threatens to undermine the enforcement of federal laws that Congress designed to protect especially vulnerable individuals from the abusive and neglectful practices that can result in injury and death./ppThe Virginia advocate's office, like those in the other 49 states, was created under two federal laws that give states federal money for monitoring the treatment of the mentally ill in state facilities. The first law grew out of public reports in the 1970s of crowded, filthy conditions and abusive treatment of mentally retarded children at the Willowbrook State School in New York./ppThe issue for the court is whether the Eleventh Amendment prohibits a state agency from going to federal court to sue officials of the same state. The state itself could not be sued in the same circumstances.
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