Recent Updates
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Mom pleads guilty to forcing beer on children
Court Alerts 10/21/2011A Connecticut mother has pleaded guilty to charges that she forced her 4-year-old son to drink beer and gave her 10-month-old daughter beer and cocaine. The Connecticut Post reports Juliette Dunn, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty Wednesday to risk of in...
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Lawyer: Student wrote rap lyrics not terror threat
Court Alerts 10/20/2011An aspiring rapper on trial over what authorities say was a note threatening a Virginia Tech-like killing spree set off "alarm bells" days before the writings surfaced on his college campus by pressing to get firepower he ordered from a gun dealer, a...
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Viacom to NY court: Scrap YouTube copyright ruling
Court Alerts 10/19/2011A lawyer for Viacom Inc. warned an appeals court panel Tuesday that there will be greater exploitation of copyright material on the Internet if the court lets YouTube get away with a business built on "rampant copyright infringement."The lawyer, Paul...
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Arpaio to testify about failed investigations
Court Alerts 10/18/2011The self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America will appear in court Tuesday to testify about his failed corruption investigations against three public officials who claim the cases were trumped up. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will testify at ...
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Utah man charged with threatening air marshals
Court Alerts 10/15/2011A Utah man has been charged in federal court after authorities say he threatened to shoot air marshals, hijack the flight and urinate in the cabin of a Delta Airlines plane en route from Amsterdam to Detroit. During a Thursday appearance in U.S. Dist...
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NY motorist pleads not guilty in fatal Amish crash
Court Alerts 10/14/2011A motorist arrested after a wreck that killed six Amish farmers in rural upstate New York pleaded not guilty Friday to aggravated vehicular homicide and manslaughter charges. Steven Eldridge entered his plea in Penn Yan, his hometown in the Finger La...
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High court looks at routine strip searches in jail
Court Alerts 10/12/2011The Supreme Court is grappling with the question of whether jailers need a reason to suspect someone may be hiding a weapon or drugs before subjecting the person to an invasive strip search.The court on Wednesday heard arguments concerning just how c...
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Court won't hear appeal from Alamo followers
Court Alerts 10/11/2011The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from followers of evangelist Tony Alamo (uh-LAHM'-oh) who had their children taken away when they wouldn't agree not to expose them to the controversial ministry. The high court on Tuesday refused to hear an app...
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Airline attack suspect sought martyrdom
Court Alerts 10/11/2011A young Nigerian allegedly on a terrorist mission for al-Qaida prayed, washed and put on perfume moments before trying to detonate a bomb in his underwear to bring down an international jetliner on Christmas 2009, a prosecutor told jurors as the man'...
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Ga. ban on guns in places of worship before court
Court Alerts 10/06/2011A federal appeals court in Atlanta is hearing from a gun rights group that wants to overturn a Georgia state ban on guns in places of worship. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta will hear arguments Thursday on whether the 2010 law viol...
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Court seems divided over Miranda rights case
Court Alerts 10/05/2011The Supreme Court seemed split Tuesday on whether to require police to read Miranda rights to prison inmates every time they interrogate them about crimes unrelated to their current incarceration. The high court heard arguments from lawyers from the ...
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Court turns away appeal over commandments display
Court Alerts 10/04/2011The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of an Ohio judge wanting to display a poster of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom. The display has been covered with a drape since a federal judge ordered Richland County Common Pleas Ju...