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Mets Owe $83 Million Due to Madoff Scam, if not More
A trial on March 19 will determine if anything over $83 million is owed. Picard is charging the owners for having “willfully blinded themselves” to Madoff's illegal scheme, but the US District Court Judge Jed S Rakoff opines that this would be hard to
Updated: 03/05/2012 03:21P
Iran court overturns death sentence for US marine accused of spying
"The sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court ... The case has been sent back" to the court for retrial, prosecutor general Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei told a press conference, ISNA news agency reported without elaborating.
Updated: 03/05/2012 03:18P
Jaitly, 2 others on trial in Tehelka's case
Eleven years after a sting operation was done to expose alleged corruption in a defence deal, a special CBI court on Monday ordered trial of former Samata Party president Jaya Jaitly and two others charged with taking bribe and criminal conspiracy to
Updated: 03/05/2012 03:18P
Court officer injured during melee in Plymouth Trial Court
PLYMOUTH - A court officer was injured Monday during a reported melee involving two prisoners at the Plymouth Trial Court on Obery Street. According to emergency broadcast reports, a court officer was transported to Jordan Hospital in Plymouth with
Updated: 03/05/2012 03:17P
Chauncey suit heading for trial
A Chauncey man's long-pending public-records lawsuit against the village is finally set to go to trial in Athens County Common Pleas Court in May. Plaintiff Tom Baggs claims the village has illegally denied him access to billing records from its water
Updated: 03/05/2012 03:16P
Forced medication of Jared Lee Loughner OK'd by court
By Carole Williams Tucson shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner can be forcibly medicated with antipsychotic drugs, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. In a 2-1 ruling, the US 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals said prison authorities have the right to
Updated: 03/05/2012 02:26P
Appeals court rules Tucson shooter can be forcibly medicated
(Reuters) - Authorities can continue to forcibly medicate accused Tucson shooter Jared Loughner at a Missouri prison hospital to prepare him for trial, a US appeals court ruled on Monday in denying a request by his attorneys to end the treatment.
Updated: 03/05/2012 02:19P
Iran court 'overturns' US national's sentence
"The sentence was overturned by the supreme court ... The case has been sent back" to the court for retrial, ISNA quoted Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, prosecutor general, on Monday as saying. Hekmati, born in the US to an Iranian immigrant family,
Updated: 03/05/2012 02:19P
State supreme court upholds Brockton road rage killer's life sentence
By Maria Papadopoulos The state's highest court has upheld a life sentence of a Brockton man convicted of first-degree murder after an apparent case of road rage in 2005. Walter Bishop, a retired security guard, shot and killed Sandro deAndrade outside
Updated: 03/05/2012 02:17P
Conn. high court rules prisoners can be force-fed
(AP) Connecticut prison inmates who go on hunger strikes can be restrained and force-fed to protect them from life-threatening dehydration and malnutrition, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday. The 7-0 decision came in the case of 51-year-old prisoner
Updated: 03/05/2012 02:16P
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