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Texas mom to plead guilty in death of son in NH
Court Alerts 09/28/2011A Texas woman accused of killing her 6-year-old son in New Hampshire and disposing of his body in rural Maine will plead guilty to killing him, court officials said. Forty-two-year-old Julianne McCrery will plead guilty to second-degree murder in the...
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Samsung seeks iPhone, iPad sale ban in Dutch court
Court Alerts 09/26/2011Samsung asked a Dutch court Monday to slap an injunction on Apple Inc. to prevent it from selling iPhones and iPad tablets in the Netherlands, saying Apple does not have licenses to use 3G mobile technology in the devices. The legal battle is the lat...
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Court rules that UBS trader should stay in custody
Court Alerts 09/22/2011An alleged rogue trader accused of losing Swiss banking giant UBS about $2.3 billion is "sorry beyond words," his lawyer said Thursday, as a judge ordered him to be held in jail until a hearing next month.Kweku Adoboli, 31, is charged with four offen...
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Retired players file lawsuit against NFLPA
Court Alerts 09/21/2011Twenty-eight former NFL players have filed a class-action federal lawsuit against the NFL Players Association, seeking at least $5 million in damages. They're alleging current players interfered with negotiations on the new collective bargaining agre...
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US court throws out 17-year terror sentence
Court Alerts 09/19/2011A federal appeals court has thrown out the 17-year prison sentence imposed on convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla.A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the sentence imposed by a Miami federal judge was t...
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Federal fraud charges for ex-Ohio St player
Court Alerts 09/14/2011Former Ohio State and NFL quarterback Art Schlichter was charged in federal court Wednesday with fraud linked to a million-dollar ticket-selling scheme.Schlichter deceived people by promising sports tickets at low prices based on his contacts, accord...
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Court to look at Mich. affirmative action ban
Court Alerts 09/11/2011A federal appeals court says it will take a fresh look at a decision that overturned Michigan's ban on affirmative action in college admissions and government hiring. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Friday that a majority of judges agreed ...
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Court upholds conviction in Iowa coach's death
Court Alerts 09/08/2011An appeals court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of a mentally ill man who shot his former football coach in the school's weight room. Mark Becker had argued that he was legally insane when he shot Aplington-Parkersburg High School Coac...
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Court tosses Sivak's death sentence
Court Alerts 09/08/2011The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the death sentence of an Idaho man convicted of brutally slaying a former coworker because the state allowed a jailhouse informant to lie on the witness stand. Lacey Mark Sivak was sentenced to death...
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US Space Scientist Pleads Guilty To Attempted Espionage
Court Alerts 09/07/2011U.S. government space scientist Stewart David Nozette has pleaded guilty to one count of attempted espionage for trying to sell classified information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer, the Associated Press reported Sept. 7. T...
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Citigroup ex-VP pleads guilty to embezzling $22M
Court Alerts 09/07/2011A former Citigroup vice president in New York City has admitted to embezzling more than $22 million from the bank for his personal use. Gary Foster pleaded guilty to bank fraud charges in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday. The New York Post says that...
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Texas voting district maps argued in court
Court Alerts 09/06/2011Attorneys for minority groups in Texas are criticizing the makeup of four new congressional seats. The state is getting the new seats because of mostly Hispanic population growth. But in opening statements Tuesday, attorneys argued that the new map i...