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A disbarred attorney who lived three doors down from Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton in suburban New York was convicted Saturday of murdering his wife in what prosecutors said was an attempt to collect life insurance money. Carlos Perez-Olivo was found guilty of second-degree murder and could get life in prison. Prosecutors said he shot his wife in the head as she dozed in their car during a drive home in 2006, and then claimed they had been attacked by a carjacker.

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A Georgia Supreme Court decision on Monday allowing a suit by an autistic child’s parents to go to trial could open the door to product liability claims against vaccine manufacturers. The court held that a federal vaccine statute’s pre-emption of liability claims applies only to side effects that were unavoidable “by means other than proper manufacturing and packaging.” The court took aim at conflicting rulings from two federal district courts and other states’ courts.

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The Supreme Court had a busy opening day on Monday, kicking off its October 2008 term with three cases instead of two — a schedule that will continue on most argument days through November. After hearing argument in one of this term’s highly anticipated pre-emption cases, the justices considered a First Amendment case involving union fees for litigation expenses. The third case concerned federal jurisdiction over petitions to compel arbitration.

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A standstill in formal litigation activity was declared late Monday by Citigroup, Wachovia and Wells Fargo, as the three sides tried to work out a settlement last night on the sale of Wachovia. The standstill, which puts a temporary halt to competing state and federal actions in Manhattan, expires at noon Wednesday, giving the parties time to complete an arrangement dividing the North Carolina-based bank’s assets.

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Law firms with banking and finance practices that were recently making deals with free-flowing credit are now scrambling to launch new groups to help clients simply survive the credit crisis. The ripples of collapsing financial institutions are already reaching areas such as white-collar crime, banking, securities and transactions. “Anyone who says they know where this is going is full of baloney,” says Bracewell & Giuliani Chairman Pat Oxford, who is heading the firm’s new financial industry task force.

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