Recent Updates
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Companies' `sexy' hair fight spills into NY court
Court Alerts 05/26/2008Victoria's Secret finds itself in one "sexy" legal fight after a trademark board ruled that its "So Sexy" hair products create confusion with a rival company's family of trademarks.The latest tussle over who has legitimate claim to what's "sexy" in t...
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Top court overturns dead fly-in-water damage claim
Court Alerts 05/23/2008A man who claimed that he became depressed, anxious and phobic after finding a a dead fly in a bottle of water will no longer get the judgment he won against a bottling company, Canada's top court ruled Thursday.Martin Mustapha will have to shell out...
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Court strikes down Va. late-term abortion ban
Court Alerts 05/22/2008A Virginia law banning a type of late-term abortion is still unconstitutional, even though a similar federal ban was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.The 2-1 decision by a panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
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Court upholds part of child pornography law
Court Alerts 05/20/2008The Supreme Court ruled Monday that leading someone to believe you have child pornography to show or exchange is a federal crime, brushing aside concerns that the law could apply to mainstream movies that depict adolescent sex, classic literature or ...
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Court rejects shorter sentence for
Court Alerts 05/19/2008The Supreme Court says a man with a long criminal record deserves a lengthy prison term, under a federal law aimed at keeping repeat offenders behind bars longer.Monday's 6-3 decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito, deals with provisions of the Arm...
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Family files lawsuit in metal bat injury case
Court Alerts 05/19/2008The family of a boy who suffered brain damage after he was struck by a line drive off an aluminum baseball bat sued the bat's maker and others on Monday, saying they should have known it was dangerous.The family of Steven Domalewski, who was 12 when ...
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Court hears man's claim to cut of Hughes' estate
Court Alerts 05/15/2008[##_1L|1303614106.jpg|width="130" height="90" alt=""|_##]It's the stuff movies are made of — literally: A delivery man says he rescued Howard Hughes after he found him face down and bloodied in the desert, so the reclusive billionaire left him $156 m...
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Merck says appeals court overturns Vioxx verdict
Court Alerts 05/15/2008A Texas appeals court on Wednesday overturned a multimillion-dollar verdict against Merck & Co. in one of the few trials it lost over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx.A jury in Rio Grande City, Texas, in April 2006 awarded $32 million to the widow ...
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Woman pleads guilty in Spitzer prostitution probe
Court Alerts 05/14/2008A woman accused of booking clients for a prostitution ring has pleaded guilty in the federal probe that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.Temeka Rachelle Lewis pleaded guilty Wednesday to promoting prostitution and money laundering. The...
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Ohio man jailed because daughter didn't earn GED
Court Alerts 05/13/2008A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.Brian Gegner, of Fairfield, was sentenced last week to 180 days in jail for contributing to the un...
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Appeals court rejects coach's appeal in bean case
Court Alerts 05/13/2008The Pennsylvania Superior Court has rejected the appeal of a former youth baseball coach convicted of offering a player $25 to bean a 9-year-old autistic teammate.The court didn't consider arguments on behalf of 31-year-old Mark Downs Jr. of Dunbar, ...
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Court rules that magistrate may preside
Court Alerts 05/12/2008[##_1L|1383336425.jpg|width="130" height="90" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal magistrate may preside over jury selection in criminal cases, as long as the attorney for a defendant explicitly permits it. The 8-1 decision came ...