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GM bankruptcy plan gains approval

Posted on July 06, 2009
General Motors cleared a major hurdle toward a quick exit from bankruptcy as a judge approved a government-backed plan to create a "new GM" that sheds major debts of the ailing Detroit automaker.The ruling released late Sunday paves the way for a "reinvention" of GM, which filed for bankruptcy protection on June 1 and has vowed to emerge as a leaner, more profitable company once freed from its burdensome debts...

Scientist's mental state at issue in NYC hearing

Posted on July 06, 2009
A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist accused of helping al-Qaida and shooting at FBI agents in Afghanistan has been forced to appear in Manhattan court by a judge's order.Aafia Siddiqui (ah-FEE'-uh see-DEE'-kee) kept her hands folded as she entered court Monday surrounded by marshal's deputies...

Mass. mom pleads not guilty to denying son meds

Posted on July 06, 2009
A woman accused of withholding cancer treatment from her autistic son by canceling appointments and not filling prescriptions pleaded not guilty Monday to an attempted murder charge in the boy's death.Kristen LaBrie was ordered held on $15,000 cash bail during her arraignment Monday in Salem Superior Court...

African leaders denounce international court

Posted on July 06, 2009
After bitter wrangling, Africa's leaders agreed Friday to denounce the International Criminal Court and refuse to extradite Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for crimes against humanity in Darfur.The decision at the African Union summit says AU members "shall not cooperate" with the court in The Hague "in the arrest and transfer of President Omar al-Bashir of the Sudan to the ICC...

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Rowe deciding whether to seek custody

Posted on July 06, 2009
Deborah Rowe, the ex-wife of Michael Jackson and the mother of two of his children, has not reached a final decision on whether to seek custody of the children, a lawyer said Thursday. Attorney Eric M. George made the disclosure on a telephone conference call but declined to take questions...

Montreal woman gets 15 years in son's Vt. drowning

Posted on July 02, 2009
A Vermont judge has sentenced a Montreal woman to 15 years in prison for drowning her young son three years ago. Judge Michael Kupersmith issued the sentence to 51-year-old Louise Desnoyers (day-noy-AY') on Wednesday in Grand Isle County after hearing her apology to family, friends and the court...

Injunction against Delta in Mesa case upheld

Posted on July 02, 2009
A federal appeals court has upheld a preliminary injunction barring Delta Air Lines Inc., the world's biggest airline operator, from terminating a regional flying contract with Mesa Air Group Inc. subsidiary Freedom Airlines. Phoenix-based Mesa had said that the termination of the contract, if successful, would cripple its airline...

Mass. man charged with murder in son's beating

Posted on July 02, 2009
A man accused of beating his 7-year-old son to death of Father's Day was charged Tuesday with murder and was ordered held without bail. Leslie Schuler, 36, is accused of repeatedly beating Nathaniel Turner, culminating in a brutal assault on June 21, when he's alleged to have slammed the boy's head into a wall so hard it left a dent...

Jackson's will to be filed in court Wednesday

Posted on July 01, 2009
Heavy construction equipment and workers passed through the wrought-iron gates of Neverland Ranch, fueling speculation that it could soon be hosting a funeral or a permanent memorial to Michael Jackson. The activity occurred Tuesday, the day before Jackson's will was expected to be filed in court...

Group sends Sotomayor docs to Senate

Posted on July 01, 2009
A Puerto Rican legal advocacy group late Tuesday sent a trove of documents from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's past to the Senate panel considering her nomination. Latino Justice PRLDEF sent the Judiciary Committee more than 350 pages of documents from the 12 years Sotomayor spent on its board, opening what could be an ugly new chapter in the debate over confirming the federal appeals court judge as the first Hispanic justice...

Court fails to decide on anti-Hillary movie

Posted on July 01, 2009
The Supreme Court has failed to decide on whether a scathing documentary about Hillary Rodham Clinton that was shown during the presidential race should be regulated as if it were a campaign ad. The court said Monday it will hear arguments in the case again in a special session on Sept...

White firefighters win Supreme Court appeal

Posted on June 30, 2009
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge. The ruling could alter employment practices nationwide and make it harder to prove discrimination when there is no evidence it was intentional...

Frenzy outside the court: Madoff gets 150 years

Posted on June 30, 2009
Inside a packed Manhattan courtroom, Miriam Siegman and eight other victims of Bernard Madoff directed their anger at the 71-year-old disgraced financier. Madoff "discarded me like road kill," Siegman said.Even before the one-time financier was sentenced to 150 years in prison, Siegman, 65, hobbled out of the federal courthouse and into the media scrum that has followed the secretive money manager from his Upper East Side apartment seven months ago to this sentencing Monday...

Baseball got free pass from antitrust laws in 1922

Posted on June 30, 2009
Football may be the nation's most popular sport, but baseball is the favored game with the Supreme Court, which gave the national pastime an exemption from antitrust laws in 1922. Thirty-five years later, the court refused to grant one to the National Football League, saying, essentially, that the court muffed that first call but that it was up to Congress to reverse it...

Bernard Madoff gets maximum 150 years in prison

Posted on June 29, 2009
Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to the maximum 150 years in prison for his multibillion-dollar fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin handed down the sentence in New York on Monday. Defense attorneys had sought 12 years, while prosecutors wanted the maximum...

Convicted Ponzi-Schemer Madoff To Learn Fate Monday

Posted on June 29, 2009
Convicted Ponzi-scheme operator Bernard Madoff will learn Monday morning whether he'll spend the rest of his life behind bars for running a decades-long swindle that bilked thousands of investors out of billions of dollars. Madoff, who admitted in March to orchestrating one of the largest and longest-running white-collar frauds in recent memory, is set to be sentenced at a hearing before U...

Supreme court allows NY state's bank lending probe

Posted on June 29, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the New York attorney general's office can investigate whether national banks discriminated against minorities seeking mortgages. The justices overturned part of a ruling by a U.S. appeals court that entirely blocked the state office from investigating or enforcing the fair lending laws against national banks because they are subject instead to federal regulation...

Cornell student charged in wife's slaying in NY

Posted on June 29, 2009
A Cornell University graduate student charged with murdering his wife is being held without bail in an upstate New York jail. Blazej (BLAH'-zay) Kot appeared in Tompkins County Court on Wednesday but didn't enter a plea. Defense attorney Joseph Joch (YAWK) says he will plead not guilty at a future court appearance...

Pa. man admits peeping on women for 2 decades

Posted on June 29, 2009
A suburban Philadelphia landlord has admitted setting up spy cameras and secretly recording women tenants for nearly two decades. Thomas Daley, of Phoenixville, put cameras behind mirrors and in ceiling fans in bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms at five apartment buildings in Norristown...

Justices Rule Lab Analysts Must Testify on Results

Posted on June 26, 2009
Crime laboratory reports may not be used against criminal defendants at trial unless the analysts responsible for creating them give testimony and subject themselves to cross-examination, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a 5-to-4 decision. The ruling was an extension of a 2004 decision that breathed new life into the Sixth Amendment?s confrontation clause, which gives a criminal defendant the right ?to be confronted with the witnesses against him...

Court says strip search of Ariz. teenager illegal

Posted on June 26, 2009
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday school officials violated an Arizona teenage girl rights by strip-searching her for prescription-strength ibuprofen, saying U.S. educators should not force children to remove their clothing unless student safety is at risk...

Legal, insurance fees mounting for Metro

Posted on June 26, 2009
The deadly Metro crash that killed nine people and injured more than 70 is already having a financial effect on the transit system, with legal fees and insurance premiums mounting. The first of what is expected to be many lawsuits was filed two days after Monday?s crash, with the parents of 15-year-old Davonne Flanagan, who broke a leg, seeking $950,000 from the transit system because of what the suit called its negligence in maintenance and personnel training...

Accused Holocaust museum shooter not in court

Posted on June 26, 2009
Prosecutors said Tuesday that a white supremacist accused of opening fire in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum still hasn't recovered enough to appear in court but has been turned over to the District of Columbia's Corrections Department. Prosecutor Nicole Waid told U...

Supremacist blogger accused of threatening judges

Posted on June 25, 2009
A white supremacist blogger was arrested at his New Jersey home Wednesday and charged with threatening to assault or murder three Chicago-based judges who refused to overturn local ordinances banning handguns. Hal Turner, 47, a former Internet radio talk show host, was taken into custody by FBI agents who went to his North Bergen home with a search warrant, according to the U...

Supreme court to decide federal sex offender law

Posted on June 25, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it would decide whether Congress may adopt a federal law that keeps sex offenders in custody indefinitely after they complete their prison sentences. The high court agreed to hear an Obama administration appeal seeking to reinstate a 2006 law providing for the continued detention of "sexually dangerous" convicted federal inmates who have served their prison terms...

Judge refuses company's guilty plea in bay spill

Posted on June 25, 2009
A federal judge has refused to let a shipping company plead guilty to two misdemeanor environmental crimes for an oil spill from one of its ships in San Francisco Bay. The judge ruled Monday that if Hong Kong-based Fleet Management Ltd. wants to plead guilty, it has to admit to charges in a revised indictment...

Woman pleads guilty, took dead mother's benefits

Posted on June 25, 2009
A Florida woman accused of hiding her dead mother's body and collecting federal benefits for six years has pleaded guilty to a theft charge. Penelope Jordan pleaded guilty Monday to theft of government property.The 61-year-old woman was arrested in March after police found her mother's decaying body barricaded in a bedroom in Sebastian, about an hour north of West Palm Beach...

Chris Brown Pleads Guilty in Deal

Posted on June 25, 2009
The R&B singer Chris Brown pleaded guilty in a Los Angeles court on Monday to one count of felony assault on the pop star Rihanna, The Associated Press reported. Mark Geragos, a lawyer for Mr. Brown, said that under the terms of the plea deal, Mr...

US Supreme Court issues first ruling to limit Voting Rights Act

Posted on June 24, 2009
The 8-1 ruling by the US Supreme Court Monday on the Voting Rights Act has been greeted with a mixture of relief and praise from many civil rights groups and liberal commentators. ?It?s fair to say this case was brought to tear the heart out of the Voting Rights Act, and today that effort failed,? said Debo Adegbile, lead attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund...

Court won't get involved Massachusetts tax fight

Posted on June 24, 2009
The Supreme Court won't stop Massachusetts from taxing out-of-state corporations that work in that state but don't have in-state buildings or employees. The court refused on Monday to hear an appeal from Capital One Bank and Geoffrey, Inc., a subsidiary of Toys R Us that licenses the company's giraffe logo and other trademarks...

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