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Missouri school funding disputes
1993 • Before the case reaches the Missouri Supreme Court, the Legislature passes a new formula directing $315 million in new spending mostly to districts with low property tax wealth. 2004 • With the formula vastly underfunded, some school districts
Updated: 04/29/2012 09:24A
Missouri school funding disputes
1993 • Before the case reaches the Missouri Supreme Court, the Legislature passes a new formula directing $315 million in new spending mostly to districts with low property tax wealth. 2004 • With the formula vastly underfunded, some school districts
Updated: 04/29/2012 09:24A
Delayed justice
The vacancies include an opening on the Supreme Court, left vacant with the January retirement of Justice James E. Duggan, and seven Circuit Court openings. Locally, the Cheshire County Superior Court has been operating since Judge John P. Arnold's
Updated: 04/29/2012 09:19A
Maine court clerk hours cut back for the week
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Maine state courts will be closed to the public during the morning hours this coming week for the court system's spring administrative week. The Maine Judicial Branch says all District and Superior court clerk offices,
Updated: 04/29/2012 09:04A
Witness cites 2nd shooter, cover-up in RFK's death
The US District Court in Los Angeles is set to rule on a request by the 68-year-old Sirhan that he be released, retried or granted a hearing on new evidence, including Rhodes-Hughes' firsthand account. At his 1969 trial, Sirhan's original defense team
Updated: 04/29/2012 09:03A
Verdict hinges on accomplice liability
After seven days of testimony and more than two dozen witnesses called by the prosecution, the jury soon will be asked to go through what Judge Bradley Ferencz said will be a “lengthy and complex” verdict sheet. The heart of the defense is there was no
Updated: 04/29/2012 08:48A
Edwards trial about broken relationships
Former US Sen. and presidential candidate John Edwards arrives at federal court this past week in Greensboro, NC, for his criminal trial for allegedly violating campaign finance laws. GREENSBORO, NC — For hour after grueling hour, Andrew Young sat on
Updated: 04/29/2012 08:39A
Neither cameras in court nor courts in camera
I realise many were disappointed that this was all they got of the case, but surely if they had been genuinely concerned they could have shown up at the Edinburgh High Court during the trial to sit on the hard public benches through what was at times
Updated: 04/29/2012 08:22A
Is this a trial or a pulpit?
( AP) AS ANDERS BEHRING BREIVIK has given shocking and remorseless accounts to a Norwegian court of how he massacred 77 people, his testimony has revived a debate about how much of a public platform mass-murderers should be given in trials.
Updated: 04/29/2012 08:08A
New judge will at last get all courtrooms operating in Jackson County District
By Danielle Salisbury | Danielle_Salisbury@mlive.com JACKSON, MI -- Without a fourth judge, Jackson County District Court operates a bit like an airport, District Judge Michael Klaeren said. When it is sunny, all goes smoothly, but when the storms come
Updated: 04/29/2012 08:06A
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