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Jury sides with Les Schwab Tire Center employees in OT case
managers exempt from state laws requiring that they be paid time-and-a-half for hours worked beyond a regular 40-hour workweek. Les Schwab said it disagrees with the court ruling Tuesday and expects to appeal. The trial now moves to a penalty phase.
Updated: 02/11/2012 07:11P
Prosecutors, attorneys argue: Was there a second gunman in RFK's assassination?
That long-forgotten sound recording, which was discovered by a CNN International senior writer and highlighted in a CNN BackStory segment in 2009, is now at the heart of an ongoing court effort by convicted RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan to win a new trial
Updated: 02/11/2012 07:10P
Court to hear case of school bra search
AP RALEIGH – The case of a teenager who had to untuck her shirt and pull out her bra with her thumb as part of a search for pills at an alternative school in North Carolina is headed to the state Supreme Court. A 2-1 ruling last year by the state Court
Updated: 02/11/2012 06:24P
Rayney trial to cost at least $2m
Lloyd Rayney pictured outside the Supreme Court of WA with his daughters. Picture: Theo Fakos Source: PerthNow IT'S the $20000-a-day murder trial set to sting WA taxpayers more than $2 million. Nearly $500000 has been set aside for the presiding
Updated: 02/11/2012 06:19P
Top court: Mentally disabled don't need to explain concept of truth
By KRISTY KIRKUP, PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada says mentally disabled adults can testify if they promise to tell the truth, but they don't have to articulate what that means. The ruling stems from a case from the Ontario
Updated: 02/11/2012 06:16P
Panel orders new trial in Lawrence murder
By AP LAWRENCE — A Kansas Court of Appeals panel has ruled that a former Lawrence man convicted of killing his wife should get a new trial because of an error in jury instructions at his 2005 trial. The three-judge panel determined there was an error
Updated: 02/11/2012 06:09P
Sandusky requests for looser bail terms
by KVUE News Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was in court for a pre-trial hearing. Sandusky faces 52 criminal counts, stemming from accusations of sexually abusing 10 young boys. Sandusky asked a judge Friday to loosen the
Updated: 02/11/2012 05:31P
Huguely trial: Jurors see Love's damaged bedroom door
By Jenna Johnson and Mary Pat Flaherty CHARLOTTESVILLE — As more than two dozen witnesses took the stand this week for George Huguely V's trial for the murder of his former girlfriend Yeardley Love, jurors kept hearing about Love's bedroom door.
Updated: 02/11/2012 04:58P
As Ottawa fumbled, Canadian languished in China's court system
It was clear from the civil servant's e-mail that Husseyin Celil's case had again gone wrong. It was 2007, and Mr. Celil, a Canadian citizen imprisoned in China, was Ottawa's most important consular priority. He had been languishing in a cell on vague,
Updated: 02/11/2012 04:45P
Jeffre Wait announces candidacy for State Supreme Court Judge
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Jeffrey D. Wait, City Court Judge for the City of Saratoga Springs, has announced his candidacy for State Supreme Court for the Fourth Judicial District. Wait also serves as Acting County Court Judge and Supervising Judge for the
Updated: 02/11/2012 04:40P
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