Recent Updates
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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...
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CA court to consider age discrimination claim against Google
Court Alerts 01/31/2008The California Supreme Court will hear Google Co.'s appeal of a discrimination lawsuit filed by a 54-year-old manager who claims he was fired after a supervisor told him his opinions were "too old to matter." A court of appeal in October ruled that a...
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Doc's Liposuction Death Guilty Plea Nixed
Court Alerts 01/31/2008A Brazilian doctor charged with manslaughter in an immigrant's liposuction death tried to plead guilty Wednesday, but the judge instead set the case for trial after the doctor contradicted prosecutors.Luiz Carlos Ribeiro appeared in Superior Court to...
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Four Plead Guilty To Killing Runaway Teen
Court Alerts 01/31/2008Four young men and women, who authorities say suffer from profound psychiatric problems, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Superior Court in Hartford to working together to kill a teenage runaway and stuff her body into a cardboard box after an argument du...
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Court Denies Alleged Nazi Guard's Appeal
Court Alerts 01/30/2008A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an alleged Nazi death camp guard's challenge to a final deportation order by the nation's chief immigration judge.A panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled there was no basis to John Demjanju...
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Kickback Case: Retired Lawyer Sentenced
Court Alerts 01/29/2008[##_1L|1151955727.jpg|width="120" height="101" alt=""|_##]A retired attorney who pleaded guilty in a lucrative kickback scheme involving class-action lawsuits against some of America's largest corporations was sentenced Monday to six months home dete...
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear city man's case
Court Alerts 01/28/2008The U.S. Supreme Court has set a date to hear arguments in the Indianapolis case of a man who wants to be his own lawyer. The justices will hear Ahmad Edwards' case March 26. In 2005, Edwards was convicted in Marion Superior Court of attempted murder...
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Advertiser sues Don Imus for unscripted comments
Court Alerts 01/26/2008Don Imus is being sued for more than $4 million by an advertiser on his former show who says the radio shock jock badmouthed the company and called its commercials for a book by the late President Gerald Ford "cheesy."Flatsigned Press Inc., a book pu...
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Child sex abuse lawsuit against priest can go forward
Court Alerts 01/26/2008A federal judge in Wilmington has rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit in a clergy sexual abuse case.Attorneys representing the Rev. Francis DeLuca argued unsuccessfully that the U.S. District Court did not have jurisdiction in the case.The attorne...
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Former CIM correctional officer pleads guilty to perjury
Court Alerts 01/24/2008An ex-Chino prison officer has pleaded guilty to lying to a federal grand jury investigating misconduct by another officer. Linda Diane Sherrow faces up to five years in prison when she returns for sentencing April 21 in U.S. District Court in Los An...
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Court case data discs go missing
Court Alerts 01/23/2008The Government has been accused of a "cavalier" attitude to personal information after it emerged that four CDs containing details from court cases have gone missing in the post.In the latest embarrassing loss of potentially sensitive data, the compu...