Recent Updates
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Advertiser sues Don Imus for unscripted comments
Court Alerts 01/26/2008Don Imus is being sued for more than $4 million by an advertiser on his former show who says the radio shock jock badmouthed the company and called its commercials for a book by the late President Gerald Ford "cheesy."Flatsigned Press Inc., a book pu...
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Child sex abuse lawsuit against priest can go forward
Court Alerts 01/26/2008A federal judge in Wilmington has rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit in a clergy sexual abuse case.Attorneys representing the Rev. Francis DeLuca argued unsuccessfully that the U.S. District Court did not have jurisdiction in the case.The attorne...
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Former CIM correctional officer pleads guilty to perjury
Court Alerts 01/24/2008An ex-Chino prison officer has pleaded guilty to lying to a federal grand jury investigating misconduct by another officer. Linda Diane Sherrow faces up to five years in prison when she returns for sentencing April 21 in U.S. District Court in Los An...
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Court case data discs go missing
Court Alerts 01/23/2008The Government has been accused of a "cavalier" attitude to personal information after it emerged that four CDs containing details from court cases have gone missing in the post.In the latest embarrassing loss of potentially sensitive data, the compu...
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Court Rejects Wireless Carriers' Appeal
Court Alerts 01/22/2008In a loss for wireless communications providers, the Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a lower court ruling preventing the industry from listing taxes and other government fees as separate line items on consumers' bills.Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mob...
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Woman in court over explosives
Court Alerts 01/21/2008A woman is appearing in court in connection with the discovery of explosives during a Garda raid of a home.Two pipe bombs, a shotgun, ammunition and drugs were seized during the search at Barry Park, Finglas, in north Dublin, last Friday. The 22-year...
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Texas Justice Charged in Arson Case
Court Alerts 01/18/2008A Texas Supreme Court justice has been charged with tampering with evidence in a fire that destroyed his home, a blaze the judge's wife is accused of setting, a television station reported Thursday.Justice David Medina was indicted in the June fire a...
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IRS seeks millions from tax swindler
Court Alerts 01/18/2008A telecommunications executive once called the biggest tax cheat in U.S. history is getting hit with new Internal Revenue Service demands seeking hundreds of millions of dollars just as he starts a nine-year federal prison term. The IRS sent Walter C...
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Court Overturns $1.5M Spanking Verdict
Court Alerts 01/17/2008An appeals court overturned a $1.5 million verdict awarded to a woman who was spanked in front of co-workers in what her employer called a camaraderie-building exercise.A jury in 2006 had ruled that Janet Orlando had suffered sexual harassment and se...
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Supreme Court Upholds NY Judicial Elections
Court Alerts 01/16/2008[##_1L|1191942093.jpg|width="104" height="138" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court unanimously upheld New York's unique system of choosing trial judges Wednesday, setting aside critics' concerns that political party bosses control the system. "A political p...
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Appeal Filed in Kucinich Debate Lawsuit
Court Alerts 01/16/2008The Nevada Supreme Court said Tuesday MSNBC can exclude Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich from a candidate debate.Lawyers for NBC Universal Inc., had asked the high court to overturn a lower court order that the cable TV news network in...
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Woman guilty of embezzling law firm funds
Court Alerts 01/16/2008A former office manager for a Columbia law firm pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing almost $706,000 from the company - one of the largest embezzlement cases in county history, according to the state's attorney's office. Christine McClain-Sloane, 41,...