Recent Updates
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Federal court rules for Ohio festival free speech
Court Alerts 02/13/2012A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of two Christians who say their free speech rights were violated at a southwest Ohio corn festival. A 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals three-judge panel ruled unanimously Monday that a policy against solici...
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Miss high court hears challenge to Barbour pardons
Court Alerts 02/10/2012Feuding attorneys asked the Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday to determine the validity of pardons that Haley Barbour gave to convicted killers and other convicts during his final days as governor. Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. said the court wou...
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Ariz Supreme Court bars candidate from running
Court Alerts 02/08/2012The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a ruling that barred a woman from running for a city council seat because she doesn't speak English proficiently. The state's highest court ruled that Alejandrina Cabrera's name shouldn't appear on the Ma...
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Oracle rejects $272M SAP award, wants new trial
Court Alerts 02/07/2012Database software maker Oracle is rejecting a court-ordered award for $272 million from German rival SAP, saying it would rather have another trial over SAP's theft of software and customer-support documents. A jury awarded Oracle Corp. $1.3 billion ...
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Ga. court overturns assisted suicide restrictions
Court Alerts 02/06/2012Georgia's top court struck down a state law that restricted assisted suicides, siding on Monday with four members of a suicide group who said the law violated their free speech rights. The Georgia Supreme Court's unanimous ruling found that the law v...
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Miss. high court takes ex-gov pardons case
Court Alerts 02/02/2012The Mississippi Supreme Court said Wednesday it will take up the legal challenge to the pardons ex-Gov. Haley Barbour gave out in his last days in office. State Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat, wants to invalidate dozens of the 198 pardons that...
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Judge rules against explorers in treasure dispute
Court Alerts 02/01/2012A federal judge has ruled against a deep-sea exploration company in a dispute with Spain over 17 tons of silver coins recovered from a sunken 19th century Spanish galleon. Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc., which found the treasure off th...
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Iowa mom pleads not guilty in newborn twins' death
Court Alerts 01/30/2012A Huxley woman accused of killing her newborn twin daughters and hiding their bodies in the trunk of her car has pleaded not guilty. Jackie Burkle is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. She is being held on $1 million bond. Her attorney e...
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Court denies new trial in Wis. mill worker death
Court Alerts 01/27/2012A Wisconsin appeals court on Thursday denied the request for a new trial made by a man convicted in the grisly 1992 killing of a Green Bay paper mill worker. Rey Moore, 65, was one of six men convicted of killing their co-worker Tom Monfils. His body...
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Defamation suit filed against pen-named Utah mayor
Court Alerts 01/26/2012A Utah mayor who wrote news stories under a false identify is being sued for defamation. In court papers, Chris Hogan alleges an article by West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder falsely claimed he was accused of extortion and fired from UTOPIA, a fiber-...
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More charges filed in Los Angeles arsons case
Court Alerts 01/25/2012A German man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to additional charges accusing him of setting nearly 50 fires, mostly to parked cars, which terrorized parts of Los Angeles over the New Year's weekend. Deputy Public Defender Gustavo Sztraicher entered the ple...
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Court upholds murder conviction in toddler's death
Court Alerts 01/24/2012Georgia's top court has unanimously upheld the murder convictions and life prison sentences given to a metro Atlanta couple for strangling and beating to death the woman's young daughter. The Georgia Supreme Court's decision on Monday involved the De...