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Court upholds conviction in Pa. murder case
Lawyer Blogs 11/08/2011The Supreme Court used its first opinion of the new term on Tuesday to uphold the murder conviction of a man in a Pennsylvania grocery store shooting. The high court on Tuesday upheld Eric Greene's conviction in the 1993 shooting death of the owner o...
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Police: Judge won't be charged over video beating
Lawyer Blogs 11/04/2011A Texas family law judge whose daughter secretly videotaped him savagely beating her seven years ago won't face criminal charges because too much time has elapsed, police said. Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams likely would have been ch...
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Appeals panel sides with CBS over Super Bowl fine
Lawyer Blogs 11/03/2011In the latest court battle over the steamy 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that CBS should not be fined $550,000 for Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction." The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals held its gro...
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Court upholds convictions of 5 in Fla. terror plot
Lawyer Blogs 11/02/2011A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the convictions of five men accused of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to destroy a landmark Chicago skyscraper and bomb FBI offices in several cities. A three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S....
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SF court to hear appeal by Tucson rampage suspect
Lawyer Blogs 11/01/2011A federal appeals court will hear arguments Tuesday on requests from attorneys for the Tucson, Ariz., shooting rampage suspect to halt their mentally ill client's forced medication with psychotropic drugs and rescind his stay at a Missouri prison fac...
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High court avoids dispute over highway crosses
Lawyer Blogs 10/31/2011The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal of a ruling that 12-foot-high crosses along Utah highways in honor of dead state troopers violate the Constitution. The justices voted 8-1 Monday to reject an appeal from Utah and a state troopers' group that wa...
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PETA lawsuit seeks to expand animal rights
Lawyer Blogs 10/26/2011A federal court is being asked to grant constitutional rights to five killer whales who perform at marine parks — an unprecedented and perhaps quixotic legal action that is nonetheless likely to stoke an ongoing, intense debate at America's law schoo...
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Missouri appeals court upholds red-light camera fines
Lawyer Blogs 10/25/2011A Missouri appeals court has upheld an ordinance in a suburban St. Louis city that imposes a $100 fine when cameras catch vehicles running red lights. The Eastern District appeals court on Tuesday rejected an argument that the Creve Coeur ordinance v...
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US appeals court upholds roadless rule in forests
Lawyer Blogs 10/22/2011A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a rule prohibiting roads on nearly 50 million acres of land in national forests across the United States, a ruling hailed by environmentalists as one of the most significant in decades. Mining and energy compa...
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Indiana, Planned Parenthood in court over funding
Lawyer Blogs 10/21/2011Planned Parenthood of Indiana can end a dispute over a law that would cut some of its public funding if it became two separate entities, with one offering abortion services and the other offering general health services, an attorney for the state tol...
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SC high court to hear primary case
Lawyer Blogs 10/20/2011South Carolina's Supreme Court has agreed take a case challenging the state's authority to conduct the GOP's first-in-the-South presidential primary in January.Papers are due in court next week.Beaufort, Chester, Greenville and Spartanburg counties s...
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Minn. appeals court upholds $1M U verdict
Lawyer Blogs 10/18/2011The Minnesota Court of Appeals has upheld a $1 million civil verdict against the University of Minnesota and men's basketball coach Tubby Smith, denying their request for a new trial. The ruling Monday says the school must pay $1 million to Jimmy Wil...