<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : lawyers : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Lawyers to serve notices on Facebook]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/85236/1/" /><id>85236</id><summary><![CDATA[Lawyers to serve notices on Facebook]]></summary><issued>2008-12-16T17:32:13+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-16T17:32:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Canberra lawyers have won the right to serve legally binding court documents by posting them on defendants' Facebook sites.<br/><br/>*big brother...As fast as DSL*]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Federal Judges Grill CIA Lawyers on JFK Secrets]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39372/1/" /><id>39372</id><summary><![CDATA[Federal Judges Grill CIA Lawyers on JFK Secrets]]></summary><issued>2007-10-24T05:34:03+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-24T05:34:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Lawyers for the Central Intelligence Agency faced pointed questions in a federal court hearing Monday morning about the agency's efforts to block disclosure of long-secret records about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. (Back and to the left...)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Wigs off as courtroom tradition ends]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/27265/1/" /><id>27265</id><summary><![CDATA[Wigs off as courtroom tradition ends]]></summary><issued>2007-07-13T06:41:19+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-13T06:41:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Lawyers and judges are to break with centuries-old tradition and cease wearing horse-hair wigs of white fake curls in non-criminal cases.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pepsi ordered to pay one BILLION dollars to a  couple of dudes in Waukesha, Wisconsin]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135220/1/" /><id>135220</id><summary><![CDATA[Pepsi ordered to pay one BILLION dollars to a  couple of dudes in Waukesha, Wisconsin]]></summary><issued>2009-10-29T17:58:11+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-29T17:58:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The uber idea they claim Pepsi stole from them?  Selling purified bottled water.  No sh*t.  One billion dollars. <br/><br/>For their part, Pepsi (who's lawyers never showed up for the trial) claims the statute of limitations should preclude the lawsuit.  But also that they weren't aware of the lawsuit until after the ruling.<br/><br/>I'd LOVE to see the board meeting where they talk about this one!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Trading Favors for Campaign Cash?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/63003/1/" /><id>63003</id><summary><![CDATA[Trading Favors for Campaign Cash?]]></summary><issued>2008-05-24T09:10:24+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-24T09:10:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Nevada's system of electing judges means the decision-makers have to ask for campaign funds, often from the very lawyers who try cases in front of them. They say it's not an ethical dilemma for them, but is it? The FBI has an audiotape in which a prominent local attorney speaks candidly about how he uses campaign dollars.<br/>*Justice for sale in Las Vegas too?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Indian lawyers tie man to tree and beat him]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/22259/1/" /><id>22259</id><summary><![CDATA[Indian lawyers tie man to tree and beat him]]></summary><issued>2007-05-31T20:15:30+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-31T20:15:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<i>&quot;This whole court room is out of order!&quot;</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Why Medical Malpractice Is Off Limits ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/133838/1/" /><id>133838</id><summary><![CDATA[Why Medical Malpractice Is Off Limits ]]></summary><issued>2009-09-29T18:32:52+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-29T18:32:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Malpractice suits with outrageous rewards and huge rates for malpractice insurance cost Americans $200 billion annually in health-care costs. Serious tort reform could help 300 million Americans. Democratic controlled congress has resisted such reforms. Trial lawyers rank among the largest contributors to Democrats but that is just a coincidence right?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Oh, the irony]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60841/1/" /><id>60841</id><summary><![CDATA[Oh, the irony]]></summary><issued>2008-05-06T17:19:00+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-06T17:19:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Manitoba Bar Association pulled out of inquiry because it lacked funds to hire a lawyer.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Eminent Domain - A  womans fight to keep her property.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55614/1/" /><id>55614</id><summary><![CDATA[Eminent Domain - A  womans fight to keep her property.]]></summary><issued>2008-03-25T07:07:11+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-25T07:07:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Avon Schools: Progress yes. Eminent domain no. <br/><br/><br/>That's the slogan used by Avon Citizens for Change. The group has registered as a political action committee with the Lorain County Board of Elections and started a legal defense fund to help Mary Jane Wolfe in her fight to keep her property.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Abducted by aliens? Call now for compensation]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/2387/1/" /><id>2387</id><summary><![CDATA[Abducted by aliens? Call now for compensation]]></summary><issued>2006-10-06T21:12:59+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-06T21:12:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Lawer hopes to earn more by helping people who claim to have been abducted by aliens.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Rape Charge Against Councilman Is Dismissed]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48247/1/" /><id>48247</id><summary><![CDATA[Rape Charge Against Councilman Is Dismissed]]></summary><issued>2008-01-24T11:58:13+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-24T11:58:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A State Supreme Court justice threw out the rape indictment against City Councilman Dennis P. Gallagher this morning, finding that prosecutors had unfairly prejudiced members of the grand jury when presenting the case against him, a lawyer for Mr. Gallagher said.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Westlaw may be winning the war for lawyers]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58568/1/" /><id>58568</id><summary><![CDATA[Westlaw may be winning the war for lawyers]]></summary><issued>2008-04-16T16:38:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-16T16:38:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Not that anybody really cares which company ends up with all the cookies, but today's layoffs at Lexis Nexus may lead to Westlaw picking up the slack, and the future income.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Florida residents can be arrested for using sign language]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/129567/1/" /><id>129567</id><summary><![CDATA[Florida residents can be arrested for using sign language]]></summary><issued>2009-07-31T11:19:20+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-31T11:19:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Well not quite, but a new law makes displaying a photograph of yourself flashing a gang sign punishable by 5 years in prison. Lawyers are fighting this as unconstitutional.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[User-friendly Apple shows a blogger its ruthless core]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/45134/1/" /><id>45134</id><summary><![CDATA[User-friendly Apple shows a blogger its ruthless core]]></summary><issued>2007-12-24T05:30:41+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-24T05:30:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For reasons that can only be plumbed by a team of intellectual property lawyers and psychiatrists, Jobs and his company are pathologically hostile to anyone daring to publish stories about forthcoming products.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Wanted: 5ft 8in woman to put head down toilet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/107133/1/" /><id>107133</id><summary><![CDATA[Wanted: 5ft 8in woman to put head down toilet]]></summary><issued>2009-04-14T18:01:16+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-14T18:01:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It's a strange way to prove murder - but lawyers are after a 1.7m (5ft 8in) woman to stick her head down a toilet for that very reason.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Beatles Sue to Block 1962 Tapes' Release]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55257/1/" /><id>55257</id><summary><![CDATA[Beatles Sue to Block 1962 Tapes' Release]]></summary><issued>2008-03-22T10:27:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-22T10:27:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Lawyers for the Beatles sued Friday to prevent the distribution of unreleased recordings purportedly made during Ringo Starr's first performance with the group in 1962.<br/><br/>Eight unreleased tracks are said to be among the recordings, including Paul McCartney singing Hank Williams' &quot;Lovesick Blues&quot; and McCartney and John Lennon singing &quot;Ask Me Why.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The world's weirdest cases]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40766/1/" /><id>40766</id><summary><![CDATA[The world's weirdest cases]]></summary><issued>2007-11-06T08:47:36+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-06T08:47:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[From the man who sued God to the man who sued TV for making his wife fat, people turn to lawyers for the strangest things.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Courtroom Ghost]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/24313/1/" /><id>24313</id><summary><![CDATA[Courtroom Ghost]]></summary><issued>2007-06-18T18:50:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-18T18:50:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A courthouse camera captures images of a moving spot of brilliant, unexplainable light that inspires sheriff's deputies, lawyers, clerks and judges to come up with theories ranging from logical to loopy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Courthouse News Service]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62853/1/" /><id>62853</id><summary><![CDATA[Courthouse News Service]]></summary><issued>2008-05-22T23:04:11+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-22T23:04:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Site is filled with legal stories, lawsuits, photos and more. Most articles have links to pdf files of legal filings. It is basically a news wire for lawyers and those interested in legal cases.<br/><br/>Includes lawsuits such as one where a land owner is suing FEMA and Homeland Security for failure to pay rent on his land since June of 2007]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[My best-selling Holocaust book is a hoax]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/52572/1/" /><id>52572</id><summary><![CDATA[My best-selling Holocaust book is a hoax]]></summary><issued>2008-02-29T15:01:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-29T15:01:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Belgian writer has admitted that she made up her best-selling &quot;memoir&quot; depicting how, as a Jewish child, she lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust, her lawyers said Friday.]]></content></entry></items></xml>