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The Michael Jackson wrongful death trial in Los Angeles concluded its third week of testimony on Friday, and a cache of emails surfaced over the weekend that could provide new insight on the influence the singer’s concert promoters exercised over his life. Attorneys for the Jackson family are arguing that promoter AEG Live owes them billions because the group pressured Michael to perform at the expense of his health, ultimately leading to his death. Last week two choreographers told the …

  The U.S. Supreme Court often clarifies what laws mean. But lawyers.com videojournalist Greg Presto reports when it comes to the Second Amendment, a decision from the high court has created questions and generated litigation about how the right to bear arms relates to bearing arms in public. Benjamin Van Houtin, the managing attorney for the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, explains the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that held a law abiding citizen has the right …

A jury verdict earlier this month to mentally disabled workers who were abused and forced to live in a “house of horrors” has been drastically slashed after trial. A federal law that limits damages will cut the jury’s award from $240 million to $1.6 million. After deciding that Texas-based turkey processing plant Henry’s Turkey Service subjected the workers to abuse, discrimination and physical punishment at home and at work, the jury awarded $7.5 million to each of the 32 workers. …

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev allegedly left a note implicating his involvement in the attack, according to CBS News. The discovery of the note could prove critical to the case against Tsarnaev, as questions remain about whether a court will ever see statements he wrote from his hospital bed before he was read his Miranda rights. The note was scrawled on the interior wall of the boat Tsarnaev was hiding in when he was captured, and it said the …

Do you always know what the recipients of your text messages are doing when you text them? An appellate court in New Jersey is considering whether text senders can be held liable when a driver reads a message and gets into an accident with a third party.   Duty Debate In Shannon Colonna’s case, the riders of a motorcycle reportedly sued both her and Kyle Best after Best crashed his pickup into them in Mine Hill, N.J., in September 2009. …