Recent Updates
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NJ Supreme Court chews over case of inflatable rat
Court Alerts 02/06/2009The New Jersey Supreme Court is expected to decide whether a 10-foot inflatable rodent has rights. The pink-eyed giant rat appears at union protests around the state. The case has pitted a local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ...
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Iowa City police say man showed up drunk for jail
Court Alerts 02/05/2009Authorities say an Iowa City man may not have picked the best time to get loaded when he showed up drunk to serve a public intoxication sentence. Now he faces another charge.Police say the 19-year-old showed up at the Johnson County Jail on Tuesday t...
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Court: Deport NYC ferry crash widow
Court Alerts 02/04/2009A federal appeals court says a Jamaican immigrant whose American husband died in the 2003 Staten Island ferry crash can't stay in the United States. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia says Osserritta Robinson was no longer eligible...
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Prosecutors want at least 2 years for escort boss
Court Alerts 02/04/2009The boss of a prostitution ring used by disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer should serve at least two years in prison, prosecutors said Tuesday.In papers filed in U.S. District Court, they argued Mark Brener earned "substantial punishment" w...
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Court rejects Polanski bid to disqualify LA judges
Court Alerts 02/03/2009Roman Polanski's attorneys have lost their bid to disqualify all Los Angeles Superior Court judges from considering their request to dismiss the 31-year-old sex case against the fugitive director. The California 2nd District Court of Appeal issued th...
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Man guilty of false report in Harrison gun case
Court Alerts 01/29/2009A Philadelphia man who says he was shot by Indianapolis Colts receiver Marvin Harrison has been convicted of a misdemeanor for giving police false information about the incident.The April 28 shooting occurred near Harrison's car wash in North Philade...
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Court: Christian school can expel lesbian students
Court Alerts 01/28/2009A California appeals court has ruled that a Christian high school can expel students because of an alleged lesbian relationship. The 4th District Court of Appeal in Riverside on Monday upheld California Lutheran High School's right as a private, reli...
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Cheerleading is a contact sport, Wis. court rules
Court Alerts 01/27/2009High school cheerleading is a contact sport and therefore its participants cannot be sued for accidentally causing injuries, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a case being closely watched in the cheerleading world.The court ruled that a fo...
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Gatehouse and New York Times Co. settle lawsuit
Court Alerts 01/26/2009An agreement has been reached in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by GateHouse Media against The New York Times Co. GateHouse sued the Times, the parent company of The Boston Globe and its Boston.com Web Site, last month, claiming the Globe's n...
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Court turns away suit over Confederate flag shirts
Court Alerts 01/23/2009A full federal appeals court won't hear a lawsuit by three Tennessee students threatened with suspension if they wore Confederate flag T-shirts. A three-judge panel ruled in August that Blount County, just south of Knoxville, could ban the clothing. ...
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Court sides with police officers in search case
Court Alerts 01/22/2009The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police officers in Utah who searched a suspect's home without a warrant cannot be sued for violating his constitutional rights.In ruling unanimously for five officers attached to the Central Utah Narcotics Task ...
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Court reinstates Wash. murder conviction
Court Alerts 01/21/2009The Supreme Court has reinstated the murder conviction of the driver in a gang-related, drive-by shooting that horrified Seattle in 1994.By a 6-3 vote, the court on Wednesday reversed a federal appeals court that had thrown out the second-degree murd...