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Travis County District Judge John Dietz Rules "Below-Ground" Equipment Used in
that a dispute between Southwest Royalties, Inc. ("Southwest Royalties") and the State of Texas regarding the taxability of oil and gas production equipment used "below-ground" has been decided by Travis County District Court Judge John Dietz.
Updated: 04/20/2012 03:33P
Travis County District Judge John Dietz Rules "Below-Ground" Equipment Used in
that a dispute between Southwest Royalties, Inc. ("Southwest Royalties") and the State of Texas regarding the taxability of oil and gas production equipment used "below-ground" has been decided by Travis County District Court Judge John Dietz.
Updated: 04/20/2012 03:33P
North Carolina judge commutes death sentence, cites jury race bias
In the first test of North Carolina's controversial Racial Justice Act, Cumberland County Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks said he found intentional and systematic discrimination by prosecutors over two decades against black jurors in death penalty
Updated: 04/20/2012 03:23P
Schaffer pleads guilty in Mallove murder trial
Chad Schaffer, 34, of Norwich pleas guilty to first degree manslaughter with a sentence of 25 years suspended after 16 years served Friday in the 2004 Norwich murder of Eugene Mallove at Norwich Superior Court. At left is his attorney Bruce McIntyre.
Updated: 04/20/2012 03:19P
Ferguson's fate rests in judge's hands
by Mark Slavit A Cole County judge must now decide whether Ryan Ferguson's murder trial still stands in court. Judge Daniel Green held a week long evidentiary hearing for Ferguson based on new evidence in his case that could give Ferguson a new trial
Updated: 04/20/2012 03:19P
6 get life in prison for village chief's murder
In his 26-page decision, Judge Edilberto Claravall of the Regional Trial Court Branch 60, found all the elements of murder present stressing, “…the accused, conspiring with one another and armed with an unlicensed firearm, with treachery and evident
Updated: 04/20/2012 03:15P
Racial Justice trial: No execution for black inmate, judge rules
The ruling was the first under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act, passed in 2009, which allows judges to reduce death sentences to life in prison without parole in cases where defendants prove racial bias in jury selection. Prosecutors fought the law
Updated: 04/20/2012 03:13P
Court in shock as Norway gunman describes...
Survivors and victims' relatives hugged, cried and shook, trying to comfort each other during testimony that completed the first week of Breivik's trial for a bombing-and-shooting rampage that left 77 people dead on July 22.
Updated: 04/20/2012 03:10P
Fourth Circuit Vacates Stark Damages Award; Provides Interpretation of Key
Tuomey Healthcare Sys. is an appeal of a district court's decision directing Tuomey Healthcare System, a Sumter, South Carolina-based health system, to pay approximately $44 million to the US Government as equitable relief for alleged violations of the
Updated: 04/20/2012 03:08P
Italy compensation to killed fishermen families
The government's criminal case against the two marines would be unaffected by the settlement and continue in the courts of Kerala, lawyers for both families said. “The criminal case has been initiated by the state. The family doesn't have control over
Updated: 04/20/2012 03:08P
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