Study: Murders among black youths on the rise

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of young black men and teenagers who either killed or were killed in shootings has risen at an alarming rate since 2000, a new study shows.

The study, to be released Monday by criminologists at Northeastern University in Boston, comes as FBI data is showing that murders have leveled off nationwide.

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Court Weighs How Maternity Leaves Affect Pensions

Several Supreme Court justices questioned on Wednesday whether AT&T Corp. is discriminating against former employees by paying smaller retirement checks to women who took pregnancy leaves in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Lawyer now lives among his clients

It's not unusual for a lawyer to have to meet a criminal client in a prison.

It's another thing to bump into your client because you're living in the same jail.

So it is for D. Scott Perrine, now housed at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in the Northeast. It's the same prison housing Perrine's client Pete Hopkins, 20, one of three men whose beating by Philadelphia police on May 5 was captured on an infamous video by a Fox29 news helicopter.

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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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