Recent Updates
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Miss Universe pageant fights back on rigging claim
Court Alerts 06/11/2012The Miss Universe Organization says a former contestant should be made to pay for her "defamatory" claims that this year's Miss USA pageant was a sham. The New York-based organization made a filing with a dispute resolution company over the former Mi...
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2 men sentenced in Palin lawyer harassment case
Court Alerts 06/08/2012Two Pennsylvania men convicted of harassing Sarah Palin's Alaska lawyers were sentenced Friday to time served and five years' probation, with the proceedings briefly halted after a short outburst in court by one of the defendants. During his sentenci...
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Report: LAPD seeks Manson family member recordings
Court Alerts 05/27/2012Police want to review audio recordings of conversations between a Manson family member and his attorney as detectives search for information about unsolved killings. Los Angeles detectives seeking the material are merely practicing due diligence afte...
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2nd campaign aide to DC mayor pleads guilty
Court Alerts 05/23/2012For the second time in three days, a former campaign staffer to District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray has pleaded guilty to a federal offense arising from Gray's 2010 mayoral bid. Howard Brooks pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to the FBI about paym...
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Appeals court upholds key voting rights provision
Court Alerts 05/19/2012A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an Alabama county's challenge to the landmark civil rights law. The provision requires state, county and local governments with a history of discrimination t...
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Top Pa. judge charged with campaign corruption
Court Alerts 05/19/2012State Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin was charged Friday with illegally using her taxpayer-funded staff in her campaigns for a seat on the state's highest court in a scheme that ensnared her sister, a senator awaiting sentencing on similar cha...
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Lawyer enters not guilty plea for shooting suspect
Court Alerts 05/01/2012A California man accused of committing the nation's deadliest school shooting rampage since the 2007 attack at Virginia Tech pleaded not guilty Monday to murder charges. One L. Goh, 43, entered his plea through his lawyer, Deputy Public Defender Davi...
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High court rejects Christian campus groups' appeal
Court Alerts 03/19/2012The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from Christian groups that challenged a discrimination policy at California state universities. The justices on Monday are leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that found that the policy doesn't ...
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Court allows Edwards to hire mistress's lawyers
Court Alerts 03/16/2012Former presidential candidate John Edwards got his wish Thursday and is changing his defense team ahead of his criminal trial on charges of campaign finance violations, hiring the same attorneys who once helped his mistress in a lawsuit over the coup...
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Vegas woman skips court in scissors death case
Court Alerts 03/14/2012A mother accused of killing her 6-year-old daughter with scissors refused to leave her jail bed for her first court appearance Wednesday, drawing angry words from a Las Vegas judge and concern from her lawyer about her mental state. Las Vegas Justice...
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Court tosses jury award in Katrina jail lawsuit
Court Alerts 03/13/2012A federal appeals court on Monday threw out a jury's award of more than $650,000 to two Ohio tourists who were arrested in New Orleans on public drunkenness charges two days before Hurricane Katrina's landfall and jailed for more than a month after t...
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Miss. Supreme Court rules Barbour pardons valid
Court Alerts 03/09/2012The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the pardons issued by former Gov. Haley Barbour during his final days in office, including those of four convicted killers and a robber who had worked at the Governor's Mansion. Barbour, a Republican w...