Amanda Knox acquittal overturned

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com03/26/2013 // West Palm Beach , Florida, US // JusticeNewsFlash // Justice News Flash // (press release) Italy – Amanda Knox has been ordered to be retried in Italy. As reported by The Wrap, Italy’s Court of Cassation overturned the 25-year-old’s acquittal Tuesday. Knox was convicted, along with Raffaele Sollecito for the 2007 […]

Husband of reality star files for divorce

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com03/26/2013 // West Palm Beach , Florida, US // JusticeNewsFlash // Justice News Flash // (press release) Atlanta – Former NFL player Kordell Stewart has filed for divorce from “Real Housewives of Atlanta” reality star Porsha Stewart. As reported by omg!, Stewart filed to end the couple’s marriage Friday in Fulton County Superior […]

Singer Dionne Warwick makes bankruptcy filing

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com03/26/2013 // West Palm Beach , Florida, US // JusticeNewsFlash // Justice News Flash // (press release) New Jersey – Singer Dionne Warwick has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy claiming to owe the IRS more than $10 million. As reported by omg!, Warwick filed for bankruptcy last week in New Jersey through a […]

Suspected drunken driver hits pedestrians in crosswalk

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com03/26/2013 // West Palm Beach , Florida, US // JusticeNewsFlash // Justice News Flash // (press release) Seattle – A baby and his mother were injured in a pedestrian accident in which his grandparents were killed Monday by a suspected drunken driver. As reported by the Associated Press (AP), Karina Schulte, 33, and […]

False Claims Act Amendments – Leading The Fight on Fraud Into the 21st Century

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com03/26/2013 // San Francisco, California, US // Justice News Flash: Featured Column // Kathleen Scanlan // (press release) The False Claims Act, passed during the Civil War, remained essentially the same law until World War II. Repeated efforts to narrow its scope and reach failed. As one court noted in 1885, “The statute […]

Learning to Speak The Language of the False Claims Act

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com03/26/2013 // San Francisco, California, US // Justice News Flash: Featured Column // Kathleen Scanlan // (press release) If you are like most people you never really understand the Latin peppered everywhere in legal writing, or how it relates to the legal process. Since lawsuits involving the False Claims Act tend to be […]

California County May Help Restore Public Faith With Whistleblower Ordinance

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com03/26/2013 // San Francisco, California, US // Whistleblower Law Firm // Keller Grover // (press release) San Mateo County, which is more widely known as Silicon Valley, recently passed a new whistleblower ordinance that some hope may help restore public faith following a string of fraud and abuse reports, as noted in a […]