Recent Updates
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Federal judge ends BP's probation for Alaska spill
Court Alerts 12/27/2011A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed prosecutors' argument that a BP subsidiary violated its probation after an oil spill because of another spill on Alaska's North Slope.Judge Ralph Beistline also lifted BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.'s probation alto...
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Pa.'s rhyming justice pens insurance fraud opinion
Court Alerts 12/22/2011A state Supreme Court justice known for opinions written in rhyme has done it again, producing six pages of verse Thursday in the case of whether the maker of a forged check also had committed insurance fraud. Justice J. Michael Eakin, writing for a ...
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Alleged Ponzi schemer due in court
Court Alerts 12/21/2011Former Albuquerque real estate executive Doug Vaughan is due in court Wednesday to plead guilty to charges stemming from allegations he ran Ponzi scheme that swindled some 600 investors out of $74 million. Vaughan's attorney, Amy Sirignano, last week...
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NY top court allows private securities claims
Court Alerts 12/20/2011Enforcement by the state attorney general against securities fraud doesn't pre-empt private common-law claims of negligence against investment companies, New York's top court ruled Tuesday. The Court of Appeals rejected J.P. Morgan Investment Managem...
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Operative gets prison for bilking NYC mayor
Court Alerts 12/19/2011A political operative convicted of bamboozling Mayor Michael Bloomberg out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced to prison Monday un a case that brought the billionaire politician to the witness stand and gave the public a behind-the-scen...
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Court Rules in Favor of Davenport Strip Club
Court Alerts 12/16/2011The Iowa Court of Appeals has ruled that a Davenport strip club can open, rejecting city arguments that an ordinance regulating adult businesses prohibits it. KWQC-TV reports Chorus Line applied for a license to operate in 2009 but the city denied it...
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Wisconsin court accepts wind farm challenge
Court Alerts 12/15/2011The state Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Wisconsin regulators properly approved a huge wind farm in southern Minnesota. Regulators in Wisconsin and Minnesota gave Wisconsin Power & Light permission in 2009 to build the $450 million fa...
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Mass. court OKs release of Bishop inquest report
Court Alerts 12/13/2011The highest court in Massachusetts has sided with The Boston Globe in a battle to release a report and transcript of an inquest into the 1986 shooting death of the brother of an Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues in a 2010 shooting...
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Condemned inmate gets new trial after juror tweet
Court Alerts 12/08/2011The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a death row inmate's murder conviction and said he deserves a new trial because one juror slept and another tweeted during court proceedings. Erickson Dimas-Martinez's attorneys had appealed his 2010 ...
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Court: Assange can continue extradition fight
Court Alerts 12/05/2011A British court Monday gave WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to continue his legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex crimes allegations. The decision means Assange does not face immediate deportation. British judges said Assan...
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Pomerantz Law Firm Has Filed a Class Action
Court Alerts 12/03/2011Pomerantz Haudek Grossman & Gross LLP has filed a class action lawsuit against Pain Therapeutics, Inc. and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court, Western District of Texas, is on behalf of a class co...
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Pa. capital takeover challenged in federal court
Court Alerts 12/02/2011The state takeover of Pennsylvania's financially troubled capital city received a fresh challenge Thursday, as three Harrisburg residents filed a federal lawsuit calling it an unconstitutional violation of their rights and asking for it to be stopped...