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Texas lawmaker moves to impeach appeals judge
Austin :: TX :: USA | 9 months ago
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Texas — A Texas lawmaker is trying to impeach a judge on the state's highest criminal appeals court for what he calls "neglect of duty" in a death penalty case. Rep. Lon Burnam filed a resolution Monday seeking to start the process against Court of Criminal...
Tags: Texas, appeal court, criminal appeal, Judge Sharon Keller, impeach appeal, burnam filed, appeal judge, presiding judge, Lon Burnam
Polanski motion to disqualify judges rejected
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility A California appellate court Monday rejected Roman Polanski's motion to disqualify all Los Angeles Superior Court judges in the Oscar-winning director's efforts to have a 32-year-old sex offense case dropped, according to a court spokeswoman. Polanski's...
Tags: Roman Polanski, Los Angeles Superior Court, Mr Polanski, court judges, California, District Court of Appeal, Los Angeles County, entire los, appeal court, court rejected
Denying passport to man convicted in terror case justified: appeals court
Ottawa :: Canada | 10 months ago
Credibility The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld the foreign affairs minister's power to deny a passport to an Algerian-Canadian who spent four years in a French prison for his involvement in a terror network. The three-member appeal court in Ottawa unanimously...
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School can expel lesbian students, court rules
Riverside :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility An appeals panel finds California Lutheran High School in Riverside County is not a business and therefore doesn't have to comply with a state law barring discrimination based on sexual orientation. January 28, 2009 The appeals court called its decision...
Tags: California Lutheran High School, District Court of Appeal, appeal court, expel lesbians, Riverside County
Convicted terrorist wants new trial
Richmond :: VA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Attorneys for Zacarias Moussaoui , who pleaded guilty in the Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. terrorist attacks, asked a federal court in Virginia for a new trial Monday. Moussaoui's current lawyers contend his 2005 guilty plea was invalid because his trial attorneys...
Tags: Zacarias Moussaoui, terrorist attacks, pleading guilty, appeal court, federal appeal, helped plan, Virginia, conspirator zacarias, Richmond Times-Dispatch, guilty plea
The Ticker
Washington :: DC :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility T he Senate voted, 52-42, in favor of President-elect Barack Obama’s request for $350 billion in unspent financial bailout funds...Jaffe to appear at a hearing Wednesday afternoon if the Bernard Madoff associate fails to provide testimony to state securities...
Tags: Boston Scientific Corp., appeal court, Federal Circuit, Johnson & Johnson Co., Cordis Corp, running patent
No ruling in Duke lacrosse slander appeal
Raleigh :: NC :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Lawyers for Duke University told a North Carolina appeals court that slander allegations made by the school's ex-lacrosse coach should have gone to arbitration. The North Carolina Court of Appeals made no immediate ruling Wednesday after hearing arguments...
Tags: Duke University, Mike Pressler, appeal court, lacrosse coach, heard arguments, lacrosse slander, coach mike, carolina appeal, duke lacrosse, North Carolina
Mbeki 'vindicated' by Zuma ruling
Cape Town :: South Africa | 10 months ago
Credibility In a statement, Mr Mbeki lambasted the High Court judge, saying he had made "unjustified findings against persons who were not called upon to defend themselves". Like the appeals court, Mr Mbeki accused the judge of having failed to distinguish between...
Tags: Mr Zuma, Mr Mbeki, Thabo Mbeki, South Africa, appeal court, SCA
Court upholds Skilling conviction, orders resentencing
Houston :: TX :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility An appeals court today upheld former Enron Chief Executive Jeff Skilling's 19 federal felony convictions, but ordered a trial court to resentence him...Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans sided with the government, ruling that a theory of guilt that...
Tags: Jeff Skilling, Enron Corp., appeal court, Jeffrey Skilling, enron chief, Jeffrey K. Skilling, prison term, energy giant, chief executive, federal appeal
NFL asks appeals court to reconsider suspensions
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility The NFL is asking an appeals court to reconsider a federal judge's order that blocked the suspensions of five players for violating the league's anti-doping policy. Attorneys for the NFL on Monday filed notice they were asking the 8th Circuit Court of...
Tags: NFL Players Association, appeal court, federal judges, doping policy, UnitedHealth Group Inc., U.S, court documents, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, 8th circuit
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