Recent Updates
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Battle over faked Holocaust book in Mass. court
Court Alerts 08/26/2008It was a shock to Misha Defonseca's readers this year when she admitted that the best-selling story of her tortured childhood during the Holocaust was false, but her U.S. publisher saw it as an opportunity to undo a stinging, 7-year-old court judgmen...
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Prosecutors trying to get obese defendant to court
Court Alerts 08/22/2008Prosecutors are trying to decide how to jail and bring to court a nearly half-ton, bedridden woman accused of killing her 2-year-old nephew.A grand jury on Thursday indicted Mayra Lizbeth Rosales, 27, on one count of first-degree murder and on one co...
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Calif top court: Docs can't withhold care to gays
Court Alerts 08/20/2008California's highest court on Monday barred doctors from invoking their religious beliefs as a reason to deny treatment to gays and lesbians, ruling that state law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination extends to the medical profession.Justic...
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Killer of 11 train passengers faces sentencing
Court Alerts 08/20/2008A man who killed 11 people by causing a commuter rail disaster in Glendale faces sentencing, one month after a jury recommended he serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.During the penalty phase of Juan Alvarez's trial, jurors cried o...
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Texas seeks custody of teen Jeffs allegedly wed
Court Alerts 08/19/2008The mother of a girl allegedly given in marriage at age 12 to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs refused to answer questions Monday from attorneys for the state child welfare agency who had begun presenting evidence.The state wants to remove the g...
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Texas seeks custody of teen Jeffs allegedly wed
Court Alerts 08/19/2008The mother of a girl allegedly given in marriage at age 12 to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs refused to answer questions Monday from attorneys for the state child welfare agency who had begun presenting evidence.The state wants to remove the g...
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Court protests halt hearing in immigrant killing
Court Alerts 08/18/2008Courthouse protests have caused a brief interruption in the preliminary hearing of three teenagers charged in the beating death of a Mexican immigrant in a small Pennsylvania town.About 40 protesters outside the courthouse in Pottsville have been tol...
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Appeals court in NYC will rehear torture case
Court Alerts 08/15/2008A federal appeals court will reconsider its decision to toss out a Canadian engineer's lawsuit over torture he says he endured after being mistaken for an Islamic extremist.The move by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan was unusual no...
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Manchin, DuPont met over appeal of $196M verdict
Court Alerts 08/14/2008Gov. Joe Manchin's office acknowledged Wednesday that he conferred twice with chemical giant DuPont as it planned to appeal a $196 million punitive damage award in a West Virginia pollution case.His office also reviewed a draft friend-of-the-court br...
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Michigan 'Joker' sentenced to 1 day in jail
Court Alerts 08/14/2008A man accused of trying to steal a large Batman movie poster from a cinema lobby while dressed as the Joker has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of malicious destruction of property.Twenty-year-old Spencer Taylor entered the plea Wednesday in S...
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No bail for Md. mom accused in starving death
Court Alerts 08/13/2008A 21-year-old woman accused of staving her toddler to death while a member of a religious cult was ordered held without bail Tuesday, and her attorney suggested that she was not responsible for her son's slaying.Ria Ramkissoon wore a purple jumpsuit ...
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Court blocks MIT students from showing subway hack
Court Alerts 08/12/2008A federal judge has ordered three college students to cancel a presentation at a computer hackers' conference showing security flaws in the automated fare system used by Boston's subway.A U.S. district court judge in Massachusetts issued a temporary ...