Recent Updates
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High court rules for Monsanto in patent case
Court Alerts 05/15/2013The Supreme Court said Monday that an Indiana farmer violated Monsanto Co.'s patents on soybean seeds resistant to its weed-killer by growing the beans without buying new seeds from the corporation. The justices unanimously rejected the farmer's argu...
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SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Sitting out the speech
Court Alerts 02/15/2013While his colleagues got ready to go to the Capitol, Justice Antonin Scalia sat on a stage across town and held forth about why, for the 16th consecutive year, he would not be joining them for the State of the Union. He doesn't go when a Democrat is ...
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Parties in Va. Tech suit seek high court hearing
Court Alerts 02/15/2013Attorneys for the parents of two students who were killed in the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre want a state Supreme Court hearing on their request to put Tech's president on trial for negligence. Meanwhile, the state wants to reverse a jury's conclusio...
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Court: Judges cannot indefinitely delay appeals
Court Alerts 01/08/2013The Supreme Court says federal judges cannot indefinitely delay a death row inmate's federal appeals to see if the convict can become mentally competent enough to help his lawyer. The high court unanimously ruled Tuesday against Arizona death row inm...
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Justices won't reinstate award against Hustler mag
Court Alerts 12/10/2012The Supreme Court won't reinstate an award against a racy magazine in a dispute over nude pictures of a model published after she was killed by her professional wrestler husband. The court turned away a request by the family of Nancy Toffoloni Benoit...
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High Court to decide how logging roads regulated
Court Alerts 12/03/2012The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to switch gears on more than 30 years of regulating the muddy water running off logging roads into rivers. At issue: Should the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency keep considering it the same as water runn...
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ay marriage ban backers seek Supreme Court review
Court Alerts 08/01/2012Backers of California's ban on same-sex marriages asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to overrule a federal appeals court that struck down the measure as unconstitutional, a move that means the bitter, four-year court fight over Proposition 8 cou...
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Appeals court reinstates lawsuit against Glock
Court Alerts 07/27/2012A California appeals court has reinstated a now-retired paralyzed Los Angeles police officer's product liability lawsuit against gun manufacturer Glock. Enrique Chavez was paralyzed from the waist down when his 3-year-old son accidentally shot him wi...
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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...