Recent Updates
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Court to review order for Calif. to reduce inmates
Court Alerts 06/15/2010The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it will review whether California must cut its prison population by nearly 40,000 inmates to improve medical and mental health care, escalating a legal battle that has been playing out for two decades. The justic...
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Jackson doctor fighting to keep medical license
Court Alerts 06/14/2010Nearly a year after he went from anonymity to notoriety, Michael Jackson's doctor returns to court for a pretrial hearing that will determine when he goes to trial and what he will be able to do in the meantime.Dr. Conrad Murray is likely to face the...
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Calif. high court to hear church's property appeal
Court Alerts 06/14/2010The California Supreme Court has decided to hear an Orange County church's appeal to keep its beachfront church property, despite breaking away from the main Episcopal Church.St. James Anglican Church, a theologically conservative breakaway church, h...
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OJ lawyer to make high court appeal for new trial
Court Alerts 06/11/2010O.J. Simpson's lawyer says time could be the biggest hurdle he'll face when he asks the Nevada Supreme Court on Friday to overturn the imprisoned former football star's conviction in a September 2007 hotel room heist and grant a new trial. "We only h...
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Utah judge denies motion for condemned inmate
Court Alerts 06/10/2010Lawyers for a death row inmate scheduled for execution by a firing squad on June 18 failed Wednesday to persuade a federal judge to block a commutation hearing because the process is riddled with conflict. The emergency hearing in U.S. District Court...
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Court weighs whether to release militia members
Court Alerts 06/09/2010A federal prosecutor has told an appeals court in Ohio that five jailed members of a Midwest militia are a threat to public safety. The prosecutor says they should stay in jail until they're tried on charges of plotting to overthrow the government.Bu...
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Ohio couple plead not guilty to terror conspiracy
Court Alerts 06/09/2010An Ohio couple have pleaded not guilty to charges that they conspired to provide thousands of dollars to a Mideast terrorist group. Hor Akl and his wife, Amera Akl, appeared in federal court Tuesday in Toledo on charges they planned to conceal up to ...
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NM high court to hear arguments in emissions case
Court Alerts 06/08/2010The New Mexico Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday afternoon in a legal battle over an environmental group's effort to establish a cap on greenhouse gas emissions in the state. State regulators and the New Mexico Environmental Law Center ar...
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2 New Jersey Terror Suspects to Appear in Court
Court Alerts 06/07/2010Two young New Jersey men are scheduled to appear in federal court in Newark Monday morning on charges of trying to join a terrorist group.The two were arrested Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport before they could board separate flights...
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Jury sentences man to death for Nev. coed murder
Court Alerts 06/04/2010A jury sentenced a 28-year-old Nevada man to death for raping and killing a college coed after sexually assaulting two others in Reno more than two years ago.The same Washoe County District Court jury that convicted James Biela (BEEL'-uh) last week d...
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Court: Are medical residents students or employees
Court Alerts 06/02/2010The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to will decide whether student doctors are students or employees when it comes to collecting Social Security taxes.The high court will hear an appeal from the Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minn., and the University of Min...
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2 men get probation for Big Dig fraud
Court Alerts 05/27/2010Two former managers of a company convicted of supplying substandard concrete to the Big Dig highway project in Boston have avoided prison time for their roles in the scheme.A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced 64-year-old Robert Prosperi of Lynnfie...