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Judge strikes down SB 1070 provisions
US District Court Judge Susan Bolton said it is illegal for the state to make it illegal for someone to enter a car which is stopped in traffic to go to work elsewhere. She also struck down another provision criminalizing drivers who stop to pick up
Updated: 03/01/2012 08:04A
American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact Announce: Brad Pitt
The reading is an unprecedented account of the Federal District Court trial in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now Perry v. Brown), the case filed by AFER to overturn Proposition 8, which stripped gay and lesbian Californians of the fundamental freedom to
Updated: 03/01/2012 08:02A
UN-backed court says it will deliver verdicts next month in Charles Taylor war
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A UN-backed war crimes court said Thursday it will issues the decision in the trial of the former Liberian President Charles Taylor next month. Taylor is the first former African head of state to be prosecuted at an
Updated: 03/01/2012 07:55A
Judge Could Limit Testimony In Edwards Case
Edwards' trial has been delayed while the former senator undergoes treatment for a heart condition. Edwards' lawyers and prosecutors submitted court filings last month over anticipated testimony from Andrew Young about conversations he had with heiress
Updated: 03/01/2012 07:52A
Wife's 3rd murder trial in jury's hands
Last spring, an appeals court overturned her conviction, and the other was thrown out due to a hung jury. The prosecution rested their case earlier this week, and the defense tried to have charges thrown out against her due to lack of evidence.
Updated: 03/01/2012 07:51A
Charles Taylor to Hear Verdict April 26
The court trying former Liberian president Charles Taylor for war crimes says it will hand down its verdicts next month. The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone said Thursday it will announce April 26 whether Taylor is guilty on 11 counts of
Updated: 03/01/2012 07:50A
CHEPSTOW ROAD MURDER TRIAL: Blood traces found in flat
Kamil Semrau, 28, of ChepstowRoad; Pawel Lysonik, 22, of Capel Crescent, Newport; Lukas Kalkowski, 30, of Laundry Road, Pontypridd; and Stanislaw Gliszczynski, 31, of no fixed abode; are on trial at Cardiff Crown Court accused of murdering Mr
Updated: 03/01/2012 07:50A
Court extends police custody of 2 Italian marines
In a bid to get the case quashed against the marines in India,Italian authorities told the Kerala High court that they had initiated criminal proceedings against them. whoever causes death of a person was punishable with a prison term of not less than
Updated: 03/01/2012 07:46A
Court weighs term, meted out in terror case, to disbarred lawyer with Staten
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals panel that listened to oral arguments contained the same judges who ordered disbarred attorney Lynne Stewart, a Wagner College graduate, resentenced in 2009 when they said they had "serious doubts" that her original
Updated: 03/01/2012 07:41A
Make a clean breast
The case dates back to Oct. 25, one day prior to the Seoul mayoral by-election, when Choo Jin-woo of SisaIN magazine claimed on a podcast that Kim, who presides at a Seoul trial court, called a prosecutor to take action against a blogger, against whom
Updated: 03/01/2012 07:35A