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Baseline Killer Suspect Gets 438 Years
Court Alerts 12/15/2007[##_1L|1048825293.jpg|width="120" height="101" alt=""|_##]A man accused of being the Phoenix Baseline Killer was sentenced to 438 years in prison Friday for a brutal attack in which he raped a woman while pointing a pistol at her pregnant sister's be...
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Lawsuit claims Kidd groped model at club
Court Alerts 12/15/2007New Jersey Nets star Jason Kidd is being sued by a 23-year-old model who accused him of groping and threatening her at a Manhattan nightclub two months ago. An attorney for Kidd called the allegations "false" and "defamatory" and the lawsuit an attem...
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Woman Pleads Guilty in NY Fatal Stabbing
Court Alerts 12/14/2007[##_1L|1279364011.jpg|width="140" height="105" alt=""|_##]The girlfriend of a former tour manager for Billy Joel and Paul Simon pleaded guilty Thursday to stabbing the man to death two years ago during a fight in their apartment. Kathleen Connors, 39...
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'Ultimate Fighting' star pleads guilty to assault charge
Court Alerts 12/14/2007Jon Koppenhaver, known as “War Machine” from Spike TV's reality series “The Ultimate Fighter,” pleaded guilty Thursday in Superior Court to a felony assault charge. The professional cage-fighter choked a Las Vegas man unconscious and hit him in the f...
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U.S. court turns down cemetery appeal
Court Alerts 12/14/2007Bensenville’s last chance for a favorable ruling regarding the removal or graves at a local cemetery to make way for O’Hare International Airport expansion may lie with the U.S. Supreme Court. The United States 7th Circuit Court of Appeals last week ...
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Court upholds California bid to slash auto emissions
Court Alerts 12/13/2007In a major environmental victory for California and 16 other states, a federal court in Fresno on Wednesday upheld a bid to slash auto emissions to combat global warming, a move fiercely opposed by automakers and the Bush administration. The fight no...
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Nazi Era Picasso's Prompt Legal Battle
Court Alerts 12/12/2007The Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation asked a court yesterday to declare them the rightful owners of two Picasso paintings that a Jewish scholar claims were the rightful property of a relative persecuted in Nazi Germany. T...
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Software Vendors Accuse Prestigious Law Firm Of Piracy
Court Alerts 12/11/2007A Philadelphia law practice recently ranked among the nation's top 200 firms has been accused by a software industry group of stealing business applications made by Adobe, Symantec, and other vendors, InformationWeek has learned. In a lawsuit filed l...
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Bank Robber Blames Gambling and Loan Sharks
Court Alerts 12/07/2007Self-described gambling addict Scott A. Hasenjaeger was hedging his bets when he robbed a Marseilles bank in January -- he said in court this week he was partly hoping to get caught and partly hoping to get away. Either way, a federal judge called in...
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Bengal's Founder's Kids Lose 4 Year Battle
Court Alerts 12/06/2007Two children of one of the founders of the Cincinnati Bengals have lost their four-year court battle over his estate, which includes about 30 percent of the shares in a team that Forbes estimated is worth $912 million this year. A Hamilton County Pro...
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Supreme Court Rules for Railroads in GA Case
Court Alerts 12/04/2007[##_1L|1152767699.jpg|width="131" height="91" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that railroads may challenge state methods for determining the value of their property, a decision that could lower some railroad tax bills. The cour...
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Court clears way for casino groundbreaking
Court Alerts 12/04/2007SugarHouse Casino is planning to break ground on its Philadelphia project in a matter of weeks, aided by a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision on Monday. The court ordered the city of Philadelphia to process permits needed to begin construction on th...