Recent Updates
-
Arkansas court tosses conviction in woman's meth case
Court Alerts 10/02/2015The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the conviction of a woman who was sentenced to 20 years in prison after giving birth to a baby with methamphetamine in his system. Melissa McCann-Arms, 39, was convicted by a jury in Polk Count...
-
Connecticut court stands by decision eliminating execution
Court Alerts 10/01/2015The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday stood by its decision to eliminate the state's death penalty, but the fate of capital punishment in the Constitution State technically remains unsettled. The state's highest court rejected a request by...
-
Indiana's high court to consider State Fair stage collapse
Court Alerts 09/25/2015The Indiana Supreme Court is set to consider whether the state is responsible for some of the legal damages faced by a company that supplied stage rigging that collapsed at a state fair event in 2011, killing seven people. The justices are scheduled ...
-
Court quashes some District of Columbia gun laws
Court Alerts 09/21/2015In a mixed decision, a federal appeals court on Friday struck down as unconstitutional several strict gun registration laws in the nation's capital, but upheld other restrictions aimed at public safety. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Distri...
-
German court rules against Lufthansa pilot strike
Court Alerts 09/09/2015A German court issued an injunction Wednesday ordering a halt to a strike by pilots at Lufthansa, Germany’s biggest airline, that caused the cancelation of 1,000 flights. Lufthansa welcomed the ruling by the state labor court in Frankfurt but said th...
-
Kentucky court session planned in former women's coach case
Court Alerts 09/09/2015A pretrial conference is planned in the case of a former college women's basketball coach accused of groping a player. The session has been scheduled for Tuesday morning in a Kenton County court for Bryce McKey. McKey's attorney has entered a not-gui...
-
Clerk in gay marriage case to appear in federal court
Court Alerts 09/03/2015A county clerk in Kentucky who has repeatedly defied court orders by refusing to issue marriage licenses will appear before a federal judge who could hold her in contempt of court. Rowan County clerk Kim Davis has been summoned to the hearing at 11 a...
-
Bangladesh court bans Rana Plaza movie because of terrifying scenes
Court Alerts 09/01/2015Bangladesh’s high court has imposed a six-month ban on a film about a garment worker who was rescued from the rubble 17 days after a five-storey factory complex collapsed, killing more than 1,000 people. The director, Nazrul Islam Khan, had argued th...
-
Amended voter identification law subject of court hearing
Court Alerts 08/24/2015North Carolina's voter identification mandate recently was eased before its slated 2016 start. But attorneys for voters and groups who oppose the law say the new exceptions don't mean their lawsuit challenging voter ID should evaporate. A Superior Co...
-
Ex-Gov. Blagojevich to ask Supreme Court to hear case
Court Alerts 08/19/2015A full appellate court indicated Wednesday that it will not rehear an appeal of Rod Blagojevich's corruption convictions, and his lawyer responded that the imprisoned former Illinois governor will appeal next to the U.S. Supreme Court. After a three-...
-
Appeals court won't reconsider ex-Virginia governor's case
Court Alerts 08/12/2015A federal appeals court on Tuesday declined to review the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, letting his convictions on public corruption charges stand. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had unanimously upheld McDo...
-
Juvenile court decision due in Slender Man stabbing case
Court Alerts 08/10/2015A pivotal decision is due this week in the case of two 13-year-old Wisconsin girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please online horror character Slender Man — keep them in adult court or move them into the juvenile system. The stakes are enormous...