Recent Updates
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Texas Ban on Sex Toy Sales Is Overturned
Court Alerts 02/14/2008A federal appeals court has overturned a statute outlawing sex toy sales in Texas, one of the last states — all in the South — to retain such a ban.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Texas law making it illegal to sell or promote ob...
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Ansonia must pay lawyer in drug case
Court Alerts 02/13/2008The Ansonia Board of Education has been ordered by a federal judge to pay $17,902 in legal fees and another $1,294 in court costs to a Bridgeport lawyer who successfully overturned the expulsion of a former high school football player arrested on a m...
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State Will Handle WVU-Rodriguez Lawsuit
Court Alerts 02/12/2008The lawsuit over a $4 million buyout clause in the contract of former West Virginia University football coach Rich Rodriguez is headed back to the court where it originated.A federal judge ruled Monday the matter belongs in Monongalia County Circuit ...
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Appeals Court Upholds Isley's Sentence
Court Alerts 02/12/2008An appellate court has upheld Ronald Isley's 37-month federal prison sentence for tax evasion.The three-judge panel rejected the 66-year-old R&B singer's argument that his sentence was unreasonable due to his age, poor health and lack of proof th...
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Lawyer accused of way-too-firm handshake
Court Alerts 02/11/2008A lawyer who allegedly shook a legal opponent's hand so fiercely she injured her shoulder is now facing physical assault charges in Florida. An attorney for private lawyer Brewer Rentas said her client never intended to harm a federal prosecutor in F...
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Illinois Court Upholds Free-Speech Right For Ad
Court Alerts 02/08/2008A newspaper advertisement harshly criticizing a competitor for a discount sale might have been distasteful and juvenile but also was constitutionally protected free speech, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday.Chicago men’s clothing store Imperi...
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Disorder in the Court: Lawyer Punched
Court Alerts 02/07/2008[##_1L|1147570715.jpg|width="130" height="97" alt=""|_##]A public defender who was punched in court by a disgruntled client said Thursday he doesn't blame the man who gave him with two black eyes. The disorder in the court, captured on video, happene...
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Georgia loses major ruling on rights to Lanier water
Court Alerts 02/06/2008It would take an act of Congress to get more drinking water out of Lake Lanier for metro Atlanta, a federal appellate court ruled Tuesday.Alabama and Florida immediately declared a major victory in the 18-year, tri-state water war, with Alabama Gov. ...
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NY broker in Cunningham scandal pleads guilty
Court Alerts 02/05/2008[##_1L|1112444944.jpg|width="130" height="132" alt=""|_##]A New York mortgage broker who was involved in the Randy “Duke” Cunningham bribery scandal pleaded guilty to two charges Monday in federal court. John Michael pleaded guilty to conspiracy to c...
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Jailhouse Lawyer Gets a Hearing
Court Alerts 02/05/2008While other prisoners are lifting weights or playing basketball, Michael Ray is working 40 hours a week, his head buried in legal texts and journals. Over the years, the jailhouse lawyer has helped dozens of fellow inmates file appeals, sometimes wit...
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Court: Elderly sisters must split lottery winnings
Court Alerts 02/03/2008The Connecticut Appeals Court has ruled a 1995 pact struck by two widowed sisters to split each other’s future gambling winnings is still binding despite the fact they no longer speak to one another.The decision paves the way for a public family feud...
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Abortion provider must turn over files
Court Alerts 02/01/2008One of the nation's few late-term abortion doctors was ordered Wednesday to turn over about 2,000 patient medical records to a Kansas grand jury investigating his practice. Abortion opponents hope that the records will lead to further criminal charge...