Recent Updates
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Court Overturns $1.5M Spanking Verdict
Court Alerts 01/17/2008An appeals court overturned a $1.5 million verdict awarded to a woman who was spanked in front of co-workers in what her employer called a camaraderie-building exercise.A jury in 2006 had ruled that Janet Orlando had suffered sexual harassment and se...
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Supreme Court Upholds NY Judicial Elections
Court Alerts 01/16/2008[##_1L|1191942093.jpg|width="104" height="138" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court unanimously upheld New York's unique system of choosing trial judges Wednesday, setting aside critics' concerns that political party bosses control the system. "A political p...
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Appeal Filed in Kucinich Debate Lawsuit
Court Alerts 01/16/2008The Nevada Supreme Court said Tuesday MSNBC can exclude Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich from a candidate debate.Lawyers for NBC Universal Inc., had asked the high court to overturn a lower court order that the cable TV news network in...
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Woman guilty of embezzling law firm funds
Court Alerts 01/16/2008A former office manager for a Columbia law firm pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing almost $706,000 from the company - one of the largest embezzlement cases in county history, according to the state's attorney's office. Christine McClain-Sloane, 41,...
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Court Maintains Ruling Against Spears
Court Alerts 01/15/2008Britney Spears went to a courthouse Monday but abruptly left amid a swarm of paparazzi without attending a hearing in her child-custody battle with her ex-husband, missing a chance to try to persuade a commissioner to restore her visitation rights to...
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High court to hear TV judge's case
Court Alerts 01/13/2008For 10 years, Judge Alex E. Ferrer decided criminal cases in the Florida courts. Now, as "Judge Alex," he arbitrates petty disputes on his syndicated television show -- and his decisions are final. Sometimes, though, people who agree to arbitrate dis...
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Britney in court for major hearing
Court Alerts 01/13/2008Britney Spears' effort to regain access to her two small children will go back to court on Monday for what a lawyer described as "the most significant hearing in the case so far".Police and emergency medical technicians who were summoned to the singe...
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Mars Chocolate Heir Loses Natural Gas Drilling Fight
Court Alerts 01/11/2008An attempt by the reclusive billionaire heir to the Mars chocolate bar fortune to ban drilling for natural gas on his Montana ranch was defeated in a court hearing late on Tuesday. A judge ruled that Forrest Mars Jr, the former chief executive of the...
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Not Guilty Plea in Nev. Sex Tape Case
Court Alerts 01/10/2008A man accused of raping a little girl after a videotape of the child being assaulted was found in the Nevada desert pleaded not guilty Wednesday, and a judge set a trial date for April.Chester Arthur Stiles, 37, stood next to his appointed lawyers an...
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Guilty plea in Middletown fatal shooting case
Court Alerts 01/09/2008A 28-year-old Hartford man has accepted a plea deal in a fatal shooting outside a Middletown barbershop in 2006. Angel DeThomas was one of four people in a car found speeding from the crime scene after Anthony Hall was shot and killed. Last year he r...
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Court Imposes Strict Deadline in Lawsuit
Court Alerts 01/08/2008The Supreme Court on Tuesday imposed a six-year deadline for suing the federal government in property disputes.The justices ruled 7-2 that a company waited too long to complain in court that the government took the firm's property.The decision came i...
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Minnesota Supreme Court denies Blom's third appeal
Court Alerts 01/03/2008[##_1L|1344592987.jpg|width="130" height="90" alt=""|_##]For the third time, an appeal by convicted killer Donald Blom has been turned back by the Minnesota Supreme Court. Blom was convicted in the 1999 kidnapping and killing of 19-year-old Moose Lak...