Recent Updates
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Court sidesteps Connecticut student speech case
Court Alerts 10/30/2011The Supreme Court is refusing to disturb a court ruling that Connecticut school officials acted reasonably in disciplining a student for an Internet posting she wrote outside of school. The justices on Monday turned down an appeal from Avery Doninger...
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Man pleads guilty to Picasso theft at SF gallery
Court Alerts 10/28/2011A New Jersey man who walked out of a San Francisco gallery with a pencil sketch by Pablo Picasso worth $275,000 pleaded guilty to grand theft Thursday. Workers at the Weinstein Gallery said Mark Lugo brazenly snatched the drawing, called "Tete de Fem...
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US defends gun sale reporting requirement in court
Court Alerts 10/26/2011Gun store owners in southwestern border states argued in federal court Tuesday that the Obama administration cannot require them to report when customers buy multiple high-powered rifles.The Justice Department responded to a lawsuit seeking to block ...
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Names of Casey Anthony jurors released in Fla.
Court Alerts 10/25/2011A court released the names of the jurors in the Casey Anthony trial for the first time Tuesday since they acquitted the Florida woman of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.The "cooling off" period a judge cited in delaying the release for thre...
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Judge deciding if convicted killer gets DNA tests
Court Alerts 10/24/2011A Texas death row inmate is trying to convince the courts to force prosecutors to turn over knives, clothing and other evidence for DNA testing that his attorneys say could prove his innocence. But prosecutors say the request from 49-year-old Henry W...
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Mom pleads guilty to forcing beer on children
Court Alerts 10/21/2011A Connecticut mother has pleaded guilty to charges that she forced her 4-year-old son to drink beer and gave her 10-month-old daughter beer and cocaine. The Connecticut Post reports Juliette Dunn, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty Wednesday to risk of in...
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Lawyer: Student wrote rap lyrics not terror threat
Court Alerts 10/20/2011An aspiring rapper on trial over what authorities say was a note threatening a Virginia Tech-like killing spree set off "alarm bells" days before the writings surfaced on his college campus by pressing to get firepower he ordered from a gun dealer, a...
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Viacom to NY court: Scrap YouTube copyright ruling
Court Alerts 10/19/2011A lawyer for Viacom Inc. warned an appeals court panel Tuesday that there will be greater exploitation of copyright material on the Internet if the court lets YouTube get away with a business built on "rampant copyright infringement."The lawyer, Paul...
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Arpaio to testify about failed investigations
Court Alerts 10/18/2011The self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America will appear in court Tuesday to testify about his failed corruption investigations against three public officials who claim the cases were trumped up. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will testify at ...
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Utah man charged with threatening air marshals
Court Alerts 10/15/2011A Utah man has been charged in federal court after authorities say he threatened to shoot air marshals, hijack the flight and urinate in the cabin of a Delta Airlines plane en route from Amsterdam to Detroit. During a Thursday appearance in U.S. Dist...
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NY motorist pleads not guilty in fatal Amish crash
Court Alerts 10/14/2011A motorist arrested after a wreck that killed six Amish farmers in rural upstate New York pleaded not guilty Friday to aggravated vehicular homicide and manslaughter charges. Steven Eldridge entered his plea in Penn Yan, his hometown in the Finger La...
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High court looks at routine strip searches in jail
Court Alerts 10/12/2011The Supreme Court is grappling with the question of whether jailers need a reason to suspect someone may be hiding a weapon or drugs before subjecting the person to an invasive strip search.The court on Wednesday heard arguments concerning just how c...