Recent Updates
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Appeals court refuses to halt Ohio execution
Court Alerts 09/16/2009A federal appeals court has refused to halt the execution of an Ohio man who raped a 14-year-old girl and stabbed her to death. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Tuesday denied 53-year-old Romell Broom's request to stay the execu...
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Court rules against Universal Music in Veoh case
Court Alerts 09/15/2009A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled against Universal Music Group in a copyright lawsuit against online video site operator Veoh Networks Inc., although Universal says it will appeal.U.S. District Judge Howard Matz on Friday dismissed the 2007 s...
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King children return to court in estate dispute
Court Alerts 09/14/2009The surviving children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King are back in court, wrangling over their parents' estates. The Rev. Bernice King and Martin Luther King III sued their brother, Dexter King, last year to force him to ope...
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Official: 2 men settle suits alleging priest abuse
Court Alerts 09/14/2009Two men who filed lawsuits alleging they were sexually abused by a former priest have reached settlements with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pueblo, a newspaper reported Sunday. Monsignor Mark Plewka of the diocese confirmed the settlements with a ma...
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Oregon crash defendant tries to make amends
Court Alerts 09/11/2009No one disputes that Jack Alvord, driving drunk, struck a blind man on a sidewalk and then drove off. Still, even the prosecutor and the victim agree that Alvord has gone to great lengths to make amends. Alvord pleaded guilty last month to drunken dr...
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Madoff judge to be nominated to appeals court
Court Alerts 09/10/2009The White House plans to nominate the judge who presided over the Bernard Madoff case to the appeals court that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor served on, Sen. Charles Schumer said Wednesday.Schumer said in a statement that his office told the ...
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NYC man to be charged for Nadal on-court kiss
Court Alerts 09/09/2009A New York City man arrested for running onto the court at the U.S. Open to kiss Rafael Nadal will be charged with trespassing and faces possible jail time if convicted, prosecutors said Wednesday.Noam U. Aorta dashed out of the stands at Arthur Ashe...
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NHL says Coyotes relocation fee up to $195 million
Court Alerts 09/08/2009Two studies conducted for the NHL set a potential relocation fee of $101 million to $195 million to move the Phoenix Coyotes to Hamilton, Ontario.The figures are listed in a lengthy brief filed over the weekend in the bitter fight in U.S. Bankruptcy ...
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Accused Holocaust museum shooter appears in court
Court Alerts 09/02/2009A white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum appeared in court Wednesday in a wheelchair, the first time he has been seen publicly since the June shooting.James von Brunn, 89, had been hospitalized s...
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Couple never on FBI radar in CA girl's kidnapping
Court Alerts 09/01/2009Police resumed their search Monday for possible links to unsolved crimes at the home of the Northern California sex offender charged with kidnapping a little girl and hiding her in his backyard for 18 years.Three agencies in the San Francisco Bay are...
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Fashion designer asks LA judge for new trial
Court Alerts 09/01/2009A fashion designer convicted of sexually assaulting aspiring models has asked a judge for a new trial, citing alleged juror and prosecutorial misconduct.Anand Jon Alexander, awaiting sentencing, made an eloquent and impassioned plea Monday for a new ...
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Fla. man agrees to plead guilty in ammo sales case
Court Alerts 08/31/2009A man accused in a scheme to illegally ship nearly $300 million in Chinese-made ammunition to the Afghan military has agreed to a plea deal that recommends he serve just two years of probation. Under the deal, prosecutors will drop 84 counts of wrong...