Recent Updates
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Judge strikes down NC ban on public profanity
Court Alerts 01/09/2011A North Carolina judge has struck down a 98-year-old state ban on public profanity.Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour dismissed a misdemeanor charge against Chapel Hill resident Samantha Elabanjo on Wednesday. She had been convicted in July of using ...
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Navajo high court halts discretionary spending
Court Alerts 01/06/2011The Navajo Nation’s high court has banned elected tribal officials from doling out public money until the tribe establishes rules on their financial aid program.The court made the decision this week in a case that challenged the reduction of the Trib...
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NY appeals court overturns rape conviction .
Court Alerts 01/04/2011A state appeals court has overturned the conviction of a man found guilty of raping his underage sister-in-law in Queens.Luis Gomez has served nearly four years of a nine-year prison term for rape, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child....
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Court: Fla. Grandmother Can’t Sue Battleship NJ
Court Alerts 01/01/2011A Florida grandmother injured in a fall aboard the Battleship New Jersey cannot sue its operators for damages, an appellate court has ruled.The panel said the Home Port Alliance – which runs the ship as a museum and memorial on the Camden waterfront ...
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Neb. high court reinstates suit against attorney
Court Alerts 12/30/2010The Nebraska Supreme Court has reinstated a lawsuit against an attorney that was filed by a former client convicted of securities fraud.Bryan Behrens had sought to sue Christian Blunk for more than $8 million due to Behrens client-investors. In court...
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Texting trolley driver admits guilt in Mass. crash
Court Alerts 12/30/2010A subway driver who authorities say was texting his girlfriend just before his trolley slammed into the back of another one near an underground station, injuring more than 60 people, pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to probation.Aiden Quinn...
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Judge dismisses Klaudt's court filings
Court Alerts 12/24/2010A judge dismissed a federal court filing by Ted Klaudt (klowt) that he's illegally imprisoned because of an insufficient indictment and a court that did not have jurisdiction.The former state legislator from northwest South Dakota is serving 44 years...
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Vander Plaats may back impeaching Iowa justices
Court Alerts 12/24/2010Conservative activist Bob Vander Plaats said he would consider supporting efforts to impeach the remaining four Iowa Supreme Court justices if they don't take his advice and voluntarily step down from the bench. "Right now, I'm focused on the resigna...
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Man linked to Smurfs sentenced in NY extortion bid
Court Alerts 12/22/2010A Florida businessman who once factored in the Smurfs cartoon empire lost a bid Tuesday to withdraw his guilty plea in an $11 million shakedown plot targeting his financier son-in-law.With that, Stuart R. Ross was sentenced to the five years' probati...
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Contractor pleads guilty to illegal gratuity
Court Alerts 12/22/2010A contractor doing business with the Army has pleaded guilty to providing an illegal gratuity to the former director of construction at Fort Carson.Wendel P. Torres, a registered agent with a Colorado Springs-based company, faces up to two years in p...
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Judge orders feds to pay $2.5M in wiretapping case
Court Alerts 12/22/2010A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the U.S. government to pay more than $2.5 million in attorney fees and damages after he concluded investigators wiretapped the phones of a suspected terrorist organization without a warrant.U.S. District Court Judge...
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Arizona, Nevada sue BofA over loan modifications
Court Alerts 12/19/2010Attorneys general in Arizona and Nevada filed civil lawsuits Friday against Bank of America Corp., alleging that the lender is misleading and deceiving homeowners who have tried to modify mortgages in two of the nation's most foreclosure-damaged stat...