Recent Updates
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Court turns down appeal in murder plot case
Court Alerts 04/18/2011The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal in a murder-for-hire plot after the star prosecution witness forged documents used at trial and lied about his military background. The court said Monday it will not review a divided appeals court ruling that,...
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Conn. doctor accused of hedge fund insider trading
Court Alerts 04/13/2011A Harvard-trained physician who became a health care investment analyst has been charged in New York with evading $30 million in losses for a hedge fund by obtaining inside information from a fellow doctor.Charges against Joseph Skowron III were anno...
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Media get jurors' names in Mass. mom's trial
Court Alerts 04/12/2011News organizations have argued successfully for the release of jurors names in the case of a Massachusetts woman who was convicted of attempted murder for withholding cancer medication from her autistic son. Lawrence Superior Court Judge Richard Welc...
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Court orders Pa. troopers to disclose moonlighting
Court Alerts 04/11/2011A court is ordering the Pennsylvania State Police to release records sought by The Associated Press about work that its employees perform while they are off-duty.The Commonwealth Court opinion filed Monday upholds an earlier decision by the state Off...
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Court ruling could mean NJ budget scramble
Court Alerts 04/10/2011Gov. Chris Christie is warning that if the state Supreme Court rules the way it usually does on a long-running school funding case, it could doom other state services. The build-up about the immediate consequences gives the chapter of the court case ...
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Lawyers for NFL, players talk mediation with judge
Court Alerts 04/09/2011The locked-out NFL players don't want to go back to collective bargaining with the league. They have now made a move to allow their former union boss to be present if court-supervised talks take place between the two sides.Attorneys for the NFL and t...
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Sen. Orie's attorney files Superior Court appeal
Court Alerts 04/08/2011Republican state Sen. Jane Orie's lawyer wants her public corruption retrial barred because of double jeopardy and wants the Pennsylvania Superior Court to recuse the trial judge from presiding over it.Orie is scheduled to be retried Monday on confli...
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Court considers whether ex-sheriff targeted 2 men
Court Alerts 04/07/2011A federal appeals court is set to consider a lawsuit that claims that a former Forsyth County sheriff used his office to harass and intimidate them after they supported a referendum that would have reduced the office's powers. The 11th Circuit Court ...
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Louisiana to get $12M in Health Net case
Court Alerts 04/06/2011The Louisiana Supreme Court has ordered Health Net Inc., a major health maintenance organization, to cover more than $180 million in claims by consumers, health care providers and creditors in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.Louisiana Insurance Commiss...
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Appeals court in NYC reinstates wiretaps lawsuit
Court Alerts 04/05/2011A lawsuit challenging a law that lets the United States eavesdrop on overseas communications more widely and with less judicial oversight than in the past was reinstated Monday by a federal appeals court that said new rules regarding surveillance had...
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Wis. judge to look at how union law was passed
Court Alerts 04/01/2011Having declared that Wisconsin's divisive union law isn't really a law yet, a judge was set to return to one of the underlying questions dogging the measure — whether Republicans violated the state's open meetings law during the frenzied run-up to pa...
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Abuse cases against Santa Rosa diocese withdrawn
Court Alerts 03/31/2011A lawyer for four men who claim they were molested by a priest at their Northern California parish says he has temporarily withdrawn his clients' lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa. Attorney Joseph George said Wednesday that he...