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Judge hears challenges to APS indictment
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 7 days ago
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Sponsored Links The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A Fulton County judge indicated Wednesday he may give appellate courts the chance to determine if the Atlanta Public Schools test-cheating indictment is faulty before the racketeering case goes to
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New trial for former NIU student charged in 2010 shooting
Sycamore :: IL :: USA | 30 days ago
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Zachary Isaacman will get another opportunity to convince a judge or jury he was justified in shooting a fellow Northern Illinois University student in the leg in February 2010. Isaacman, 25, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in May 2011 for
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Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Islamic law in U.S. courts
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 1 month ago
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Congress to pass Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's (D-TX) resolution to denounce human rights violations against women around the world, on Capitol Hill in Washington on October 9, 2007. (UPI Photo/Alexis C. May 19 (UPI) -- Does Islamic law, Sharia, have a
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New plan for Kansas judiciary selection emerges
Topeka :: KS :: USA | 1 month ago
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Legislators who believe the Kansas Senate should have the power to confirm appellate court judges, including Supreme Court justices, have a new plan that they hope will get approved before lawmakers adjourn this year, an influential senator involved
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Legislature leaves open question about judges
Nashville :: TN :: USA | 1 month ago
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Tenn. (AP) When the Legislature failed to extend the life of the Judicial Nominating Commission , it effectively ended merit-based selection of judges in Tennessee. It also left open the question of whether there is any mechanism to replace a
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Paterson mayor files appeal to challenge discipline in OT scandal
Paterson :: NJ :: USA | 3 months ago
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Mayor Jeffery Jones is asking the state appellate courts to decide whether the City Council had the authority last year to discipline high-ranking members of his administration for their roles in Paterson 's overtime controversy. Paterson Mayor
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Court overturns verdict in case against ex-customs chief
Belgrade :: MT :: USA | 4 months ago
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The Supreme Court of Cassation has quashed the Appellate Courts decision to sentence ex-Federal Customs Administration Head Mihalj Kertes to six years in jail. Mihalj Kertes (FoNet, file) Kertes was found guilty of transferring multi-million sums to
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The Crackdown Takes a Hit
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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The federal crackdown on medical cannabis in California has garnered headlines throughout the nation. But over the past fifteen months, there's been another, less-publicized crackdown on medical pot in the state. Many of California's local district
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Lights Out: Eviction Stay Snuffed for Sixteenth Street Synagogue
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 months ago
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The Appellate Court has denied the Sixteenth Street Synagogue a stay of eviction that would have kept it in its home of 67 years while it explores its dwindling legal options...The Synagogue is reaching the final stages of decade-long legal battle to
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Shul's Out: Sixteenth Street Synagogue Praying Its Staying
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 months ago
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The stay of eviction that the Sixteenth Synagogue received at the eleventh hour, allowing it remain at 3 West 16th Street through 2012, might have been a holiday miracle. But the holidays are over, and so it would seem, are the last vestiges of hope
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