Recent Updates
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Kansas lawyer gets nearly 4 years for Texas fraud
Court Alerts 08/10/2011A lawyer from Kansas has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison over a $2.3 million Ponzi scheme in Texas. A federal judge in Beaumont on Tuesday sentenced 62-year-old Clifford R. Roth of Leawood, Kan. Roth pleaded guilty March 14 to interstat...
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Court rules firing of NJ casino dealer unlawful
Court Alerts 08/09/2011A federal appeals court has sided with an Atlantic City casino dealer who says he was targeted because he was involved in union organizing. Bally's Park Place fired Jose Justiniano in 2007. The casino claimed he misused family medical leave time by a...
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Woman pleads guilty in videotaped beating
Court Alerts 08/07/2011A woman whose beating of a transgender woman at a McDonald's restaurant near Baltimore was captured on videotape has pleaded guilty to the attack.Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger says 19-year-old Teonna Brown pleaded guilty Thurs...
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Judge: Jail for driver in fatal US bus crash
Court Alerts 08/06/2011A tour bus driver who caused a crash that killed three Japanese tourists last year was spared a lengthy prison term Friday when a judge sentenced him to less than a year in jail for his role in the wreck.Yasushi Mikuni was facing the prospect of 15 y...
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Calif. court hears appeal on gay juror dismissals
Court Alerts 08/05/2011A federal appeals case pending in California could determine if trial lawyers should be barred from dismissing potential jurors because they are gay. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Thursday in Pasadena that challenge a Los Ange...
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Appeals court overturns rare Mich. death sentence
Court Alerts 08/03/2011A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned a death sentence for a western Michigan man who was convicted of drowning a young woman in a remote lake to prevent her from pursuing a rape case against him. The court upheld Marvin Gabrion's convictio...
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NJ high court to rule in case of retired judge
Court Alerts 08/01/2011New Jersey's Supreme Court has upheld the censure of a retired Superior Court judge. Steven Perskie was disciplined in March for not recusing himself in a timely fashion from a case involving his former campaign treasurer. A state Supreme Court commi...
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Ore. sheriff taking pot user gun permit case to DC
Court Alerts 07/28/2011An Oregon sheriff who lost a state legal battle to deny a concealed handgun license for a medical marijuana patient has decided to take his case to the U.S. Supreme Court.Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters has argued that issuing the license would v...
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Public defenders file new motion in Demjanjuk case
Court Alerts 07/22/2011Attorneys for John Demjanjuk want an American court in Cleveland to set aside the ruling that led to his deportation to Germany and his conviction on Nazi war crimes charges.The request for a new hearing on the retired autoworker's denaturalization c...
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Ex-CEO convicted in scam at auto-chemical company
Court Alerts 07/20/2011A former corporate executive officer of a New York-based automotive-chemical company was convicted Tuesday in a multimillion-dollar investor fraud scheme that enabled him to buy expensive jewelry and take private jets. A jury in Manhattan state Supre...
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Wife of NY pharmacy suspect pleads not guilty
Court Alerts 07/19/2011A woman accused of driving the getaway car after her husband allegedly massacred four people in a holdup for prescription painkillers pleaded not guilty to an upgraded robbery charge on Tuesday. Melinda Brady now faces a first-degree robbery charge, ...
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Women guilty of having 80 cats in car
Court Alerts 07/14/2011Two New York women have pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges after 80 cats were found in two cars in Vermont. They were arrested last October. At the time police said they were driving from shelter to shelter trying to put some of the cats up for...