Recent Updates
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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 ...
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Judge rules Detroit mayor didn't violate bond
Court Alerts 08/12/2008A judge has ruled that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick didn't violate bond conditions in an assault case by visiting his sister, who is a potential witness for the prosecution.Judge Ronald Giles agreed Tuesday with the mayor's attorneys that a no-cont...
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Arson probed at SC prosecutor's after court burns
Court Alerts 08/08/2008Officials were investigating a suspicious fire that gutted the prosecutor's office in this rural county Thursday, three days after an arsonist torched the historic courthouse just half a block away.Police warned jumpy residents in this city of 8,300 ...
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Detroit mayor ordered jailed after bond violation
Court Alerts 08/07/2008Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been ordered to the county jail after a judge found the mayor violated the terms of his bond by going to Canada and not informing the court.The ruling by Judge Ronald Giles came after the mayor apologized to the cou...
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Judge removes Barker from wrongful termination suit
Court Alerts 08/07/2008A judge has dismissed allegations against Bob Barker in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a "Price is Right" employee, saying the game-show's longtime host was not her boss.Deborah Curling, a former production assistant, sued Barker, CBS and pr...
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Judge tosses sex crime convictions of DNA exonoree
Court Alerts 08/06/2008A judge on Tuesday recommended clearing the record of a wrongly convicted man who spent 25 years in prison for a series of sex crimes he did not commit.Steven Phillips responded by removing a tracking device that had been strapped to his ankle since ...
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Co-defendant in OJ Simpson case pleads guilty
Court Alerts 08/05/2008A fourth co-defendant pleaded guilty Monday in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping case, agreeing to testify against the Hall of Fame football player and one remaining co-defendant.Charles Ehrlich entered his plea to reduced charges of atte...