Recent Updates
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Court allows release of domestic partner petitions
Court Alerts 10/15/2009Washington's secretary of state can release the names and addresses of people who signed petitions calling for a public vote on the state's expanded benefits for domestic partners, a federal appeals court said Thursday.A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit...
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Top NY court hears challenge to arena land-taking
Court Alerts 10/15/2009Homeowners and businesses resisting the forced sales of their properties for a massive development in Brooklyn have told New York's top court it's unconstitutional for a state agency to order them out.In oral arguments Wednesday at the Court of Appea...
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Accused 1968 Cuba hijacker pleads not guilty in NY
Court Alerts 10/14/2009A fugitive who avoided prosecution for more than four decades after hijacking a 1968 Pan American flight to Cuba pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges including kidnapping and aircraft piracy.Luis Armando Pena Soltren, 66, appeared in Manhattan fe...
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Florida appeals court again rules against NCAA
Court Alerts 10/14/2009A Florida appellate court again has rebuffed the NCAA's effort to prevent public disclosure of documents on academic cheating at Florida State.The documents, with students' names blacked out, could be released as early as Wednesday, said Carol Jean L...
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Taped confession to child deaths played in court
Court Alerts 10/08/2009A Maryland man calmly described to detectives how he methodically drowned his three young children by holding them underwater in a hotel bathtub for 10 minutes each — a confession that was recorded by police and played in court Wednesday. Mark A. Cas...
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Jury to deliver verdict in NYC Astor trial
Court Alerts 10/08/2009A court spokesman says jurors have a verdict in the criminal trial over the handling of New York philanthropist Brooke Astor's fortune.Courts spokesman David Bookstaver says the jury notified a judge Thursday that it had reached a decision in its 11t...
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Age bias bill responds to Supreme Court ruling
Court Alerts 10/07/2009Democrats want to counter a recent Supreme Court ruling that makes it harder for older workers to prove they are the victims of age discrimination.The Senate Judiciary Committee is hearing testimony Wednesday on a bill that would effectively nullify ...
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Former Yale lab tech appears in court, hearing set
Court Alerts 10/06/2009A former Yale University lab technician charged with strangling a graduate student and stuffing her body behind a laboratory wall appeared in court Tuesday, but did not enter a plea to murder.Twenty-four-year-old Raymond Clark III appeared in an oran...
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Court halts Ohio execution, cites injection flaws
Court Alerts 10/05/2009A federal appeals court has halted the execution of a man who strangled his 67-year-old neighbor, citing last month's failed attempt to execute another inmate in Ohio.The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Monday to delay the execution of 43...
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Appeals court: NCAA must open records in FSU case
Court Alerts 10/02/2009A Florida appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that the NCAA must release documents on Florida State's appeal of an academic cheating penalty.The 1st District Court of Appeal upheld a circuit court decision Thursday. The Associated Press and...
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Ex-Clinton aide pleads not guilty in prison case
Court Alerts 10/01/2009A former top aide to Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas has pleaded not guilty to charges of trying to smuggle contraband into a prison.Betsey Wright is accused of trying to smuggle tattoo needles, a box cutter, a knife and tweezers into t...
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U.S. court nixes request for rehearing on sports betting
Court Alerts 09/30/2009Delaware's appeal of a ruling that its plan to allow betting on professional sports violates a federal ban will not be heard, a federal court ruled on Tuesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in court documents signed by Judge Thomas...