Recent Updates
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Calif. high court upholds affirmative action ban
Court Alerts 08/03/2010California's high court on Monday upheld the state's 14-year-old law barring preferential treatment of women and minorities in public school admissions, government hiring and contracting.In a 6-1 ruling, the state Supreme Court rejected arguments fro...
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US appeals court: Pa. prison can ban Muslim scarf
Court Alerts 08/03/2010Prison officials can ban employees from wearing religious headscarves out of concerns they pose a safety risk, a U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Monday in a split 2-1 decision.Prison officials have legitimate concerns the headscarves can hid...
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Jury questioning begins in Anna Nicole Smith case
Court Alerts 08/02/2010Jury questioning is slated to begin Monday in Los Angeles in the drug conspiracy trial of Anna Nicole Smith's doctors and her lawyer-boyfriend.Superior Court Judge Robert Perry says questionnaires filled out by prospective jurors show most of them kn...
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2 re-sentencings ordered in $1.9B Ohio fraud case
Court Alerts 07/29/2010A federal appeals court has ordered two executives convicted in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud case to be resentenced.The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati said Wednesday the government hadn't proved Donald Ayers and Roger Faulkenberry ...
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Ark. mom pleads guilty in trunk deaths of children
Court Alerts 07/28/2010A Springdale woman has been sentenced to six months of work release and fined $2,000 in the heat stroke deaths of her two children who had locked themselves in the trunk of a car.Twenty-five-year-old Katrina Markley pleaded guilty Monday to two misde...
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Jury finds Texas man guilty of beheading children
Court Alerts 07/27/2010A South Texas man accused of beheading his common-law wife's three children was found guilty of capital murder Monday at his second trial.A state appeals court had overturned John Allen Rubio's previous conviction and death sentence in 2007, saying t...
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Carrier asks federal judge to settle pilot dispute
Court Alerts 07/27/2010US Airways has asked a federal judge to resolve a seniority dispute involving its pilots.Executives with the Tempe, Ariz.-based carrier said Monday's legal action in U.S. District Court in Phoenix is called a complaint for declaratory relief. They sa...
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Former NH teacher faces hearing on nude photos
Court Alerts 07/26/2010A former New Hampshire high school teacher charged with e-mailing nude photographs of herself to a 15-year-old student faces a court hearing.Forty-one-year-old Melinda Dennehy of Hampstead is scheduled to appear Monday in Derry District Court on a fe...
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GOP Sen. Lugar to support Kagan for Supreme Court
Court Alerts 07/22/2010Republican Sen. Richard Lugar says he'll vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice.The Indiana Republican is the second in the GOP to announce he's breaking with his party to back President Barack Obama's nominee to succeed retired Justi...
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'South Park' critic in Va. court on terror charge
Court Alerts 07/22/2010A Virginia man who once threatened the creators of "South Park" will spend at least one more day in jail on separate charges of trying to join a Somali terror group linked to al-Qaida. Twenty-year-old Zachary Chesser of Oakton, Va., made an initial a...
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Seton Hall ex-coach Gonzalez pleads not guilty
Court Alerts 07/21/2010Former Seton Hall basketball coach Bobby Gonzalez has pleaded not guilty to a shoplifting charge.Gonzalez is accused of taking a satchel worth about $1,400 from the Polo Ralph Lauren store in The Mall at Short Hills last month. Police say he removed ...
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Court grants bail to jailed ex-media mogul Black
Court Alerts 07/20/2010Conrad Black, the brash former newspaper magnate who lived extravagantly before his 2007 federal conviction for defrauding shareholders, may soon be released from a Florida prison after a federal appeals court granted him bail Monday.The ruling from ...