WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - The Justice Department lawyer who has led the government's civil racketeering case against the tobacco industry for the past five years is leaving the department after clashing with some of her supervisors over the direction of the multibillion-dollar case.
Sarah Harman, a leading family lawyer, was last night found guilty of "conduct unbefitting a solicitor" for misleading the court and passing confidential court papers to her sister, Harriet Harman, then solicitor general.
The Foreign Office has protested to Russia about the deportation of a leading British human rights lawyer on his way to observe the politically sensitive trial of Stanislav Dmitrievsky, a director of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship.
WASHINGTON, 3:57 p.m. Nov. 30 (AP): As a young government lawyer opposed to abortion rights, Samuel Alito argued for a strategy of chipping away at the landmark Supreme Court 1973 ruling legalizing abortion rather than mounting an all-out assault likely to inflict a defeat on the Reagan administration, according to documents released Wednesday.
Taking Vioxx for a month was enough to cause a Florida man's fatal heart attack, his widow's lawyer said in an opening statement Tuesday in a federal liability lawsuit against drug maker Merck.
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