Recent Updates
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'Elvis' Shows Up at Kentucky Court Drunk
Court Alerts 03/06/2008One central Kentucky Elvis Presley impersonator may be singing "Jailhouse Rock" after showing up for court drunk and dressed like Presley.A Jessamine County District Court judge says 64-year-old David Blaisdell of Lexington must spend three days in j...
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Man Who Punched His Lawyer Sent to Jail
Court Alerts 03/05/2008A man who punched his lawyer in a Kentucky courtroom last month has been sentenced to six months in jail.Peter Hafer also has a new lawyer. Mark Bubenzer said his client is sorry and didn't mean to disrespect the court.But Scott County Circuit Judge ...
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Guilty Plea in NYC in Quran Desecration
Court Alerts 03/04/2008[##_1L|1090226499.jpg|width="120" height="101" alt=""|_##]A man who threw copies of the Quran into a toilet after disputes with Muslims at the college he once attended pleaded guilty Monday to disorderly conduct. A Quran recovered at Pace University ...
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Judge Delays Decision on Enron Funds
Court Alerts 03/01/2008Enron Corp. shareholders and investors hoping to get their cut of more than $7.2 billion recovered as part of a lawsuit they filed in connection with the company's collapse are going to have to wait a little longer.A federal judge on Friday delayed a...
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King Yaklin Wins $1M in Fee's, Georgia's Record
Court Alerts 02/29/2008A Superior Court judge has ordered a couple and their attorney suing Bishop Earl Paulk to pay more than $1 million in legal fees and court costs from a dismissed case. Mona and Bobby Brewer sued Paulk and his church, then known as Chapel Hill Harvest...
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Court rules sex offender can't go home
Court Alerts 02/29/2008A convicted sex offender who was forced to move by a state law can't return home. He has no rights to the property because his wife owns it, a judge ruled. The man, identified in court records as John B. Doe, had filed a lawsuit challenging a ...
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Businessman gets 33 months for contract fraud
Court Alerts 02/29/2008A Chicago-area businessman has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for helping an American subsidiary of Siemens AG land a fraudulent contract with Cook County's Stroger (STROH'-jer) Hospital.Faust Villazan of Western Springs pleaded guilty in May ...
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Mich. Court Rejects Detroit Mayor Case
Court Alerts 02/28/2008The state's highest court on Wednesday rejected an attempt by the city's mayor to prevent documents from being made public that detail a city settlement that helped conceal an apparent affair with a top aide.The Michigan Supreme Court unanimously uph...
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Body Parts Boss Can Plead Guilty in NYC
Court Alerts 02/28/2008Prosecutors had misgivings after making a plea deal with a man accused of plundering dead bodies and selling their parts to tissue companies for transplants.The victims' families clamored for a trial, and prosecutors felt there was plenty of evidence...
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Court Rules Against Tobacco Companies
Court Alerts 02/26/2008The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a tobacco industry request to intervene in a lawsuit by over a thousand West Virginia smokers.The justices declined to examine a trial procedure in which a jury first determines whether smokers as a group are enti...
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Court Rules Against Tobacco Companies
Court Alerts 02/25/2008The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a tobacco industry request to intervene in a lawsuit by over a thousand West Virginia smokers.The justices declined to examine a trial procedure in which a jury first determines whether smokers as a group are enti...
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Court victory for correction officers reversed
Court Alerts 02/24/2008A federal appeals court has reversed a correction officers union's U.S. District Court win against Nassau County, saying the lag payroll procedure imposed on the union members by county officials did not violate the Constitution. The decision Friday ...