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Khmer Rouge defendant falls ill during trial
The Khmer Rouge's former foreign minister was taken to hospital yesterday after suffering breathing difficulties during his atrocities trial at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court, officials said. Ieng Sary, 86, is the eldest and most frail of the
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:21P
Sandusky Case: Different Judge Orders Release of Documents from Probation and
Joe Amendola filed a brief in support of his May 10 motion for continuance and urged the court to grant its request, though Judge John Cleland has yet to acknowledge the motion. In a 34-page document, Amendola re-hashed the reasons why his client,
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:20P
Court: Colorado Day of Prayer Is Unconstitutional
Instead, the court wrote, the decision centered on the idea that “religious liberty protected by the Constitution is abridged when the State [sic] affirmatively sponsors the particular religious practice of prayer.” In 2010, a US District Judge ruled
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:19P
Jonathan Vilma sues Roger Goodell for 'false' statements
revealed in existing grievances with arbitrators, an appeal hearing with Goodell or in Federal Court in Louisiana. Vilma, 30, is asking for unspecified damages and filed the 16-page lawsuit independent of the NFLPA. No date has been set for trial.
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:19P
Legal Hitch Hits Mladic's Trial
The presentation of evidence in court was supposed to begin towards the end of the month. The halt came on the second day of the trial after prosecutors submitted evidence alleging that Mladic orchestrated the massacre of more than 7000 Muslim men and
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:18P
Drew Peterson murder trial to start at the end of July
Peterson, 58, appeared at the Will County courthouse earlier this month for the first time in 1 1/2 years as he prepares to finally go on trial on charges he killed 40-year-old Savio. He returned to court Thursday morning looking thinner and sporting a
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:16P
Rajat Gupta trial could feature big corporate stars
NEW YORK: Lloyd Blankfein, Warren Buffett and other well-known chieftains of corporate America might be called to testify at the insider trading trial starting on Monday of former Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Procter & Gamble Co director Rajat Gupta.
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:15P
Court rules NY town's prayer violated Constitution
GREECE, NY (AP) - A federal appeals court has ruled an upstate New York town board violated the constitutional ban against favoring one religion over another by opening nearly every meeting over an 11-year span with prayers that stressed Christianity.
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:14P
Cope returns to court May 30
Christopher Brian Cope will return to Caddo Parish District Court May 30 at 1:30 pm when Judge Mike Pitman is expected to rule on defense motions, including one which requests that a scheduled July 23 jury trial date be continued.
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:14P
Drew Peterson set to go on trial end of July
Drew Peterson arrives for a court appearance at Will County Courthouse in Joliet today. (Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2012) More than three years after he was arrested for the murder of his third wife, Drew Peterson is set to finally go on
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:14P
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