Indiana Girl Sues For Chance To Play Baseball

Logan Young has been playing baseball with the boys for nine years, and she and her parents don't think that should change now that she's in high school.

The 14-year-old and her family have filed a federal lawsuit over an Indiana High School Athletic Association rule that prohibits the Bloomington South freshman from trying out for the high school baseball team because she is female.

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Innocent Man Freed After 23 Years Files Suit

A man who spent 23 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit sued St. Louis County and the officers who arrested him, saying investigators ignored inconsistencies in the victim's description.

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Opportunities emerge for law firms, even as they struggle

The global financial crisis has been hard on big law. Some firms in Atlanta and around the country are even laying off lawyers as clients cut back on service.

Amid the turmoil, Alston & Bird managing partner Richard Hays sees a promising niche in what's sure to be a confusing new financial, regulatory and legislative environment for clients.

"For law firms, that presents an opportunity," he says. "We are staying close to it."

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Supreme Court Argument Report: Lawyers as 'Repeat Players'

During argument at the Supreme Court on Monday in a confrontation clause case, the justices and attorneys engaged in some spirited exchanges concerning whether defense lawyers -- especially those "repeat attorneys" who appear often before the same judges and prosecutors -- would be likely to take undue advantage of a rule requiring forensic technicians to testify when lab reports are admitted as evidence in drug cases.

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Man with 'largest collection of infants and babies' porn gets 10 years

A Central Florida man who had a massive child-pornography collection that included victims as young as newborns was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison Wednesday.

Tony Guerra, a former food-services worker at what was then called Disney-MGM Studios, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of receiving and distributing child pornography.

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Jury finds racism in deputy's case;

Black supervisors in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department were acting out of racism when they called a group of Latino deputies the "Mexican Mafia" and disciplined a member, jurors found Thursday.

Angel Jaimes, a 19-year veteran of the department, was harassed because of his Mexican origin by his supervisors, who, according to testimony, said the station "was run by Mexicans and they were going to change that," the panel concluded.

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Paralegal Pleads Guilty to Taking $1.7 Million From Firm

A former paralegal at a South Windsor, Conn., law firm has pleaded guilty to stealing $1.7 million from her employer to pay her gambling debts.

Patricia Baddeley-Meehan of Ellington, Conn., admitted in her plea Thursday that she took the money between 2003 and 2007 from her employers, the Berman & Russo law firm.

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