Recent Updates
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Wisconsin court accepts wind farm challenge
Court Alerts 12/15/2011The state Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Wisconsin regulators properly approved a huge wind farm in southern Minnesota. Regulators in Wisconsin and Minnesota gave Wisconsin Power & Light permission in 2009 to build the $450 million fa...
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Mass. court OKs release of Bishop inquest report
Court Alerts 12/13/2011The highest court in Massachusetts has sided with The Boston Globe in a battle to release a report and transcript of an inquest into the 1986 shooting death of the brother of an Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues in a 2010 shooting...
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Condemned inmate gets new trial after juror tweet
Court Alerts 12/08/2011The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a death row inmate's murder conviction and said he deserves a new trial because one juror slept and another tweeted during court proceedings. Erickson Dimas-Martinez's attorneys had appealed his 2010 ...
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Court: Assange can continue extradition fight
Court Alerts 12/05/2011A British court Monday gave WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to continue his legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex crimes allegations. The decision means Assange does not face immediate deportation. British judges said Assan...
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Pomerantz Law Firm Has Filed a Class Action
Court Alerts 12/03/2011Pomerantz Haudek Grossman & Gross LLP has filed a class action lawsuit against Pain Therapeutics, Inc. and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court, Western District of Texas, is on behalf of a class co...
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Pa. capital takeover challenged in federal court
Court Alerts 12/02/2011The state takeover of Pennsylvania's financially troubled capital city received a fresh challenge Thursday, as three Harrisburg residents filed a federal lawsuit calling it an unconstitutional violation of their rights and asking for it to be stopped...
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NY court hears hedge fund boss' bail arguments
Court Alerts 12/01/2011A federal appeals court did not immediately rule Wednesday whether hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam must report to prison next week for an 11-year sentence for insider trading, the longest term ever given for the crime. Attorney Patricia Millett tol...
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Man tied to Ohio Craigslist case appears in court
Court Alerts 12/01/2011A suspect in a deadly Craigslist robbery plot was wheeled into court in an unrelated case Thursday, his head bobbing rhythmically, and he later ignored questions about the mounting body count and his relationship with a teen murder suspect. Richard B...
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Jackson's family calls for stiff sentence for doc
Court Alerts 11/29/2011Michael Jackson's family told a judge Tuesday that they were not seeking revenge but want the doctor who killed the superstar to receive a stiff sentence that serves as a warning to opportunistic doctors. "The Bible reminds us that men cannot do just...
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Supreme Court won't hear skycaps' appeal on tips
Court Alerts 11/28/2011The Supreme Court has left in place a ruling that denied $333,000 to airport skycaps who claimed they were cheated out of tips when American Airlines started charging curbside baggage fees. The court on Monday rejected an appeal from nine skycaps at ...
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Texas asks court to stop redistricting plan
Court Alerts 11/25/2011The Supreme Court has been asked to stop a federal court from implementing a state redistricting map in Texas that could increase minority representation in the state Legislature. The state's attorney general, Greg Abbott, filed the request with the ...
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Defendant in $670M scam enters guilty plea in Va.
Court Alerts 11/22/2011A man who cooked the books for a $670 million insurance industry scam pleaded guilty Monday to charges he helped mislead thousands of investors worldwide. Jorge Luis Castillo, 56, Hackettstown, N.J., entered pleas in U.S. District Court to conspiring...