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IMF chief resigns, will make new bid for bail
Court Alerts 05/19/2011Hours after Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned from his post as manager of the International Monetary Fund -- saying he felt compelled to focus his energy on the sexual assault charges he faces -- the French politician will try to get out of jail. Behin...
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Nevada High Court Won't Hear OJ Appeal
Court Alerts 05/18/2011The Nevada Supreme Court has declined to hear O.J. Simpson's appeal. Simpson's lawyer lost his bid Tuesday to appeal for his client's freedom before all seven members of the state's highest court. The court issued a terse ruling Tuesday saying it won...
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Another round of NFL talks ends without agreement
Court Alerts 05/18/2011The NFL and its locked-out players wrapped up another round of court-ordered mediation Tuesday without any signs of a new agreement and the clock ticking on the 2011 season.Officials and attorneys for both sides said they will return for more closed-...
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US contractor pleads guilty to offering bribes
Court Alerts 05/17/2011A San Diego-based defense contractor pleaded guilty Monday to offering bribes to a Navy official who, in return, placed $300,000 worth of orders from the company for military aircraft.Jesse Denome, owner of JD Machine Tech, Inc., admitted that from J...
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Court nixes case over anonymity in school suit
Court Alerts 05/17/2011The Supreme Court has declined to hear a dispute over whether students challenging a private Hawaiian school system's admissions policy must be identified.The court on Monday left in place lower court rulings against four non-Hawaiian students who ob...
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Mom in Conn. school residency case back in court
Court Alerts 05/12/2011A homeless single mother charged with intentionally enrolling her son in the wrong Connecticut school district asked prosecutors on Wednesday to drop the case so school officials can handle the matter administratively.Tanya McDowell deserves to be tr...
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Ex-Georgia bank exec to be sentenced for fraud
Court Alerts 05/11/2011A former Georgia bank executive who pleaded guilty to using customers and family members in a multimillion-dollar fraud conspiracy that led to his bank's downfall is scheduled to be sentenced to prison. Randy Jones could face at least 12 years in pri...
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Truman schools settle whistleblower lawsuit
Court Alerts 05/10/2011U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon in Lynchburg reached the opposite conclusion in a lawsuit filed by Liberty University, the conservative Christian school founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell. Two weeks before Hudson's ruling, the 1997 appointee of Pre...
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Lawyers for USS Cole bomb suspect file court case
Court Alerts 05/10/2011Lawyers for the suspected al-Qaida mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole said Tuesday they have filed a case against Poland at Europe's court of human rights over alleged abuse against him at a CIA-run site in that country about eight years ...
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Together, Phoebe and Tyler alerted us to a crisis
Court Alerts 05/09/2011Phoebe Prince was a recently arrived Irish immigrant, 15 and emotionally fragile, when high school bullying over two boys she dated apparently drove her to hang herself with a scarf in her Massachusetts home. Tyler Clementi was an 18-year-old violini...
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Hearing set in Palin stalker case
Court Alerts 05/09/2011A court magistrate is set to consider a request by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to extend a restraining order against a 19-year-old Pennsylvania man accused of stalking her. At Monday's hearing, a magistrate in Anchorage will consider extending the...
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2 teens in Mass. bullying case get probation
Court Alerts 05/04/2011Two of the six teenagers charged with bullying a Massachusetts high school freshman so relentlessly that she committed suicide have been sentenced to a year of probation.Sean Mulveyhill pleaded guilty to criminal harassment Wednesday in Franklin-Hamp...