Recent Updates
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Filmmaker: I was undercover operative for law firm
Court Alerts 07/09/2010A filmmaker who went to Nicaragua to make a documentary said Thursday he became an undercover operative for a Texas law firm that was suing Dole Foods on behalf of purported banana plantation workers who claim they were left sterile by pesticide expo...
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Maine retailer wins verdict against law firm
Court Alerts 07/08/2010A mattress and furniture retailer here has won a $7.3 million emotional distress verdict against a law firm in a case involving the now-defunct Northern Mattress & Furniture Co. of Fairfield, Maine, according to a report in the Kennebec Journal.P...
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Pfizer gets EU approval for kids' cholesterol drug
Court Alerts 07/07/2010The European Union has approved a new chewable form of cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor for children 10 and up with high levels of bad cholesterol and triglycerides, a type of blood fat, Pfizer said Tuesday.The approval includes children whose high bl...
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Appeals court orders new hearing for detainee
Court Alerts 07/06/2010A U.S. appeals court says an Algerian protesting his Guantanamo detention deserves a new lower court review. The review should determine whether he was part of al-Qaida.The three-judge panel reversed a decision that concluded Belkacem Bensayah's impr...
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Former mortgage exec pleads not guilty in Va.
Court Alerts 07/02/2010The former head of a mortgage lending company accused of scheming to steal more than $500 million from the government's financial bailout fund has pleaded not guilty in the case.Lee Bentley Farkas entered the not guilty plea Friday in Alexandria, Va....
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Trucker gets life term for attacks on 2 Pa. women
Court Alerts 06/30/2010A former trucker serving at least 75 years in prison for knife attacks on women in New Jersey and Massachusetts will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to similar charges in Pennsylvania.Forty-five-year-old Adam Leroy Lane ple...
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Fake IBM playboy pleads guilty
Court Alerts 06/30/2010A 36-year old Dutch man conned thousands of pounds out of show jumpers and horse riding fans by claiming to be the son of a big boss at IBM.George Carlo Schouten of Finchampstead, Berkshire said his old man was helping out by sponsoring his show jump...
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Rapper 'Lil Boosie' pleads not guilty to murder
Court Alerts 06/29/2010Baton Rouge rapper Torrence "Lil Boosie" Hatch has pleaded not guilty to several charges including first-degree murder.Hatch appeared Monday before state District Judge Mike Erwin.Hatch's attorney, Marcus Allen, spoke after the hearing and said Hatch...
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Vivendi hails US court ruling on shareholder claims
Court Alerts 06/28/2010Vivendi on Friday hailed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting foreign shareholders' rights to seek compensation in the United States.Vivendi is trying to exclude French shareholders from a U.S.-based class action lawsuit on whether it misled investor...
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Kan. doc to appeal conviction in painkiller case
Court Alerts 06/25/2010Defense attorneys plan to seek the release of a Kansas doctor and his wife while they appeal their convictions on charges they conspired to profit from illegally prescribing painkillers to patients who later died.Jurors found Dr. Stephen Schneider an...
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Ga. death row inmate in rare innocence hearing
Court Alerts 06/24/2010A federal judge heard new testimony Wednesday in the case of a Georgia death row inmate given a rare chance by the U.S. Supreme Court to prove his innocence nearly 20 years after a jury convicted him of killing a police officer.Attorneys for Troy Ant...
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Supreme Court lifts ban on biotech alfalfa
Court Alerts 06/21/2010The Supreme Court lifted Monday a four-year ban on the sale in the United States of genetically modified alfalfa, which farmers fear contaminates others crops.A district court judge in California in May 2007 blocked the US biotech giant Monsanto from...