Recent Updates
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ACLU of Arkansas sues over adoption restrictions
Court Alerts 12/30/2008More than a dozen families filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new Arkansas law banning unmarried couples living together from becoming foster or adoptive parents.The Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behal...
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Little girl's claims at issue in high court case
Court Alerts 12/03/2008A Massachusetts girl's awful experience on a school bus is at the heart of a case argued in the Supreme Court Tuesday over limits on lawsuits about sex discrimination in education.The 5-year-old kindergarten student in Hyannis, Mass., told her parent...
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FCC appeals Janet Jackson case to Supreme Court
Court Alerts 11/21/2008The Federal Communications Commission has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the indecency case over Janet Jackson's breast-baring performance at the 2004 Super Bowl.The FCC this week appealed a ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in ...
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Army vet guilty of conspiracy, not murder in Colo.
Court Alerts 11/20/2008A jury acquitted a former Fort Carson soldier of first-degree murder in the slaying of a fellow Iraq war veteran but convicted him of a lesser charge of conspiracy to commit murder.Louis Bressler, 25, was convicted Wednesday in connection with the De...
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Ex-NJ state Sen. Bryant guilty of fraud, bribery
Court Alerts 11/19/2008The former chairman of the state Senate's budget committee was convicted Tuesday of bribery and pension fraud, making him one of the most powerful New Jersey public officials found guilty of federal corruption in recent years.Former state Sen. Wayne ...
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Gay arts group sues Milwaukee for discrimination
Court Alerts 11/11/2008A gay arts group has sued the city of Milwaukee in federal court for violating its free speech rights three years ago when officials shut down a musical revue featuring nudity.The city temporarily shut down performances of "Naked Boys Singing!" in Au...
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Ariz. boy accused in slayings to appear in court
Court Alerts 11/10/2008An 8-year-old boy is due in court Monday to face two counts of premeditated murder in the shooting death of his father and a friend, a hearing on the same day mourners were to gather for a funeral.Police say the boy, a third-grader, confessed to plan...
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Court to decide on convict's right to test DNA
Court Alerts 11/05/2008The Supreme Court will decide whether, years after his conviction, a defendant has a constitutional right to test genetic evidence found at the crime scene.The justices, in an order Monday, accepted the appeal of prosecutors in Alaska. They asked the...
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Lawyer defends actions of mother in Nev. abduction
Court Alerts 11/05/2008The mother of a 6-year-old boy who was abducted from her home this month had gone to police after she got a warning note in July but was told that there was no imminent threat and that she should buy a shotgun, her lawyer said Thursday.Lawyer Dennis ...
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Court weighs amputee's case; limits on drug suits
Court Alerts 11/03/2008The Supreme Court appeared likely Monday to decide an amputee's lawsuit against a drug maker based on how much federal regulators knew about an anti-nausea drug's risks in the event of a botched injection.Several justices indicated that if the U.S. F...
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Court won't review Golden Venture smuggling case
Court Alerts 11/02/2008A woman convicted for her role in a smuggling conspiracy that ended with the deaths of 10 Chinese immigrants has lost a Supreme Court appeal.Cheng Chui Ping, better known by her nickname, Sister Ping, was sentenced to 35 years in prison, for heading ...
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US appeals court weighs local Pa. law on illegals
Court Alerts 10/31/2008Lawyers for a small eastern Pennsylvania city asked a federal appeals court Thursday to uphold a local law that would keep illegal immigrants from working or renting apartments there, in a case with national implications.Cities and municipalities acr...