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An appeals court today ruled in a favor of a Miramar woman who challenged a Broward County judge for increasing her bail on an illegal abortion charge. The decision from the Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach means Tonuya Rainey, who...
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Corsican shepherd to boycott court on day of verdict Friday 27 March 2009 A Paris appeal court is expected to deliver its verdict as to the role played by Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna in the 1998 murder of prefect Claude Erignac on Friday. But Colonna,...
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A federal appeals court has rejected another request from an American Indian man seeking to have his assault conviction overturned following reports that jurors discussed racial stereotypes at his trial. In October 2007, a jury convicted Kerry Dean Benally...
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Ark. — A federal appeals court has rejected a request by Susan McDougal to unseal her grand jury testimony from the Whitewater investigation...Louis said Friday that McDougal should have asked a lower court judge to examine the records and decide if they...
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The commissioner of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Bart Chilton, warned today of "rampant Ponzimonium". He was speaking as the biggest Wall Street fraudster on record, Bernard Madoff , failed to gain release from prison. A federal appeals...
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Bernard Madoff's longtime accountant was arrested on fraud charges Wednesday as authorities blamed him for failing to make the most basic auditing checks that would have exposed an epic fraud that cost investors billions of dollars. Prosecutors say David...
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Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's lawyer has asked a federal appeals court to let his client stay out of prison until sentencing. Lawyer Ira Sorkin spoke Thursday to a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S...He said a judge made a legal error when he ordered...
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Appellate judges weighing whether to ban the spreading of tons of poultry wastes in the Illinois River watershed as a public health danger expressed skepticism Wednesday about parts of the case. “They approached it very skeptically, as I think they should,”...
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The Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a West Virginia man for violating a federal law barring people convicted in domestic violence cases from possessing firearms. In a 7-2 vote Tuesday, the court ruled that a federal appeals court in Richmond,...
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Casino operator Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday, according to court documents, wiped out by the recession and a mountain of debt. The move was widely expected, coming days after the casino operator's...
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