Recent Updates
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Age bias bill responds to Supreme Court ruling
Court Alerts 10/07/2009Democrats want to counter a recent Supreme Court ruling that makes it harder for older workers to prove they are the victims of age discrimination.The Senate Judiciary Committee is hearing testimony Wednesday on a bill that would effectively nullify ...
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Former Yale lab tech appears in court, hearing set
Court Alerts 10/06/2009A former Yale University lab technician charged with strangling a graduate student and stuffing her body behind a laboratory wall appeared in court Tuesday, but did not enter a plea to murder.Twenty-four-year-old Raymond Clark III appeared in an oran...
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Court halts Ohio execution, cites injection flaws
Court Alerts 10/05/2009A federal appeals court has halted the execution of a man who strangled his 67-year-old neighbor, citing last month's failed attempt to execute another inmate in Ohio.The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Monday to delay the execution of 43...
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Appeals court: NCAA must open records in FSU case
Court Alerts 10/02/2009A Florida appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that the NCAA must release documents on Florida State's appeal of an academic cheating penalty.The 1st District Court of Appeal upheld a circuit court decision Thursday. The Associated Press and...
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Ex-Clinton aide pleads not guilty in prison case
Court Alerts 10/01/2009A former top aide to Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas has pleaded not guilty to charges of trying to smuggle contraband into a prison.Betsey Wright is accused of trying to smuggle tattoo needles, a box cutter, a knife and tweezers into t...
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U.S. court nixes request for rehearing on sports betting
Court Alerts 09/30/2009Delaware's appeal of a ruling that its plan to allow betting on professional sports violates a federal ban will not be heard, a federal court ruled on Tuesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in court documents signed by Judge Thomas...
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Former Danielle Steel aide pleads guilty to fraud
Court Alerts 09/29/2009A former aide to Danielle Steel is facing time in federal prison after admitting she stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the romance novelist.Federal prosecutors announced Monday that 47-year-old Kristy Watts, who also goes by the name Kristy...
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Bomb plot suspect pleads not guilty in NY court
Court Alerts 09/29/2009The Afghan-born man at the center of a U.S. anti-terrorism probe pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to allegations he plotted a bomb attack in the United States, and a federal judge ordered him held without bail.Prosecutors accuse Najibullah Zazi, 24, a C...
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Perrysburg Township sues Toledo law firm
Court Alerts 09/29/2009Perrysburg Township trustees are suing a Toledo law firm, contending that one of the lawyers asked for several thousand pages of copies in a public records request but did not pay for them.The suit, filed yesterday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court,...
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Supreme Court judge could be trial witness
Court Alerts 09/28/2009A Michigan Supreme Court justice may be called as a defense witness on behalf of a retired Wayne County judge accused along with an assistant prosecutor and two police officers of allowing lies during a drug trial. Justice Maura Corrigan's agreement ...
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Lawyer: Sept. 11 conspirator deserves new trial
Court Alerts 09/25/2009A lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui has told a federal appeals court in Virginia that the Sept. 11 conspirator is entitled to a new trial.Moussaoui is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to helping plan the 2001 terrorist attacks. But his lawye...
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National Lampoon CEO pleads guilty to conspiracy
Court Alerts 09/24/2009The CEO of National Lampoon Inc. has pleaded guilty to conspiracy.Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia say CEO Daniel Laikin was part of a plot to artificially inflate the company's stock price by paying people to buy shares. The 47-year-old man, who ...