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Supreme Court wrestles with TV profanity case
Legal News Center 11/06/2008The Supreme Court spent an hour on Tuesday talking about dirty words on television without once using any or making plain how it would decide whether the government could ban them.The dispute between the broadcast networks and the Federal Communicati...
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Court leaves NC campaign finance law untouched
Legal News Center 11/03/2008North Carolina's system of publicly financed judicial campaigns remained intact Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge over a provision for additional funds in expensive races.The justices declined, without comment, to consid...
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Amputee awaits high court, wants musical glow back
Legal News Center 10/30/2008When Diana Levine turned 63 recently, her daughter made her a birthday card, drawing on Greek mythology with an illustration of Diana the Huntress, her bow string drawn taut, an arrow ready to fly.But the arm pulling at the bowstring was amputated be...
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Iowa appeals court orders Chicago officer freed
Legal News Center 10/01/2008An appeals court Wednesday ordered a Chicago police officer freed from prison in an Iowa assault case that has top brass back home defending one of their own.The Iowa Court of Appeals said Officer Michael Mette's trial judge had no testimony on which...
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Federal judge upholds early voting in Ohio
Legal News Center 09/29/2008An Ohio county must allow new voters to register and cast an absentee ballot on the same day during a weeklong period that begins Tuesday, a federal judge ruled Monday.U.S. District Judge James Gwin in Cleveland issued a temporary restraining order f...
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Va. court strikes down anti-spam law
Legal News Center 09/13/2008The Virginia Supreme Court declared the state's anti-spam law unconstitutional Friday and reversed the conviction of a man once considered one of the world's most prolific spammers.The court unanimously agreed with Jeremy Jaynes' argument that the la...
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Judge rejects anti-Obama group's request
Legal News Center 09/12/2008A federal judge dealt a blow Thursday to the advertising plans of a conservative group that purports to tell "the real truth" about Barack Obama's abortion views.U.S. District Judge James Spencer denied a preliminary injunction sought by The Real Tru...
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Federal judge to appear in court on sex charges
Legal News Center 09/03/2008U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent, usually in charge of dispensing justice, is to find himself on the other side of the bench as a defendant.Kent was to make his first court appearance Wednesday after being indicted last week on federal sex crimes foll...
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Detroit mayor's political future back in court
Legal News Center 09/01/2008A lawyer for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick asked a judge Friday to freeze next week's hearing that could remove him from office, accusing Gov. Jennifer Granholm of being too biased to preside over the case.Dan Webb also said the rules for the hearing would ...
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Court: US can block mad cow testing
Legal News Center 08/29/2008A federal appeals court says the government can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease.Because the Agriculture Department tests only a small percentage of cows for the deadly disease, Kansas meatpacker Creekstone Farms P...
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Detroit mayor returns to court in assault case
Legal News Center 08/22/2008A court hearing could determine if Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will be allowed to attend the Democratic National Convention.Kilpatrick was scheduled to be arraigned Friday on charges of assaulting two Wayne County investigators. It's one of two cr...
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Appeals court reverses Steinbeck copyrights ruling
Legal News Center 08/14/2008A federal appeals court Wednesday reversed a ruling that awarded one of John Steinbeck's sons and a granddaughter publishing rights to 10 of the author's early works, including "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men."The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Ci...