Supreme Court takes major Texas abortion clinic case
Amid a blitz of new state-imposed regulations on abortion clinics, the US Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine whether such restrictions enacted in Texas rise to the level of imposing an undue...
View ArticleCourt ruling gives Sandusky back his Penn State pension
Click photo to enlarge FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2015 file photo, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky leaves the Centre County Courthouse after attending a hearing about...
View ArticleTwo local men accused in race war plot ordered held without bond
Two local men who authorities say plotted to shoot up or bomb synagogues and black churches waived their preliminary hearings in federal court Thursday, and a judge ordered they remain held because of...
View ArticleCourt orders state to restore Jerry Sandusky's Penn State pension
The state must restore the $4,900-a-month pension of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky that was taken away three years ago when he was sentenced to decades in prison on child...
View ArticleHearing on Boston Marathon bomber's retrial motion set for December 1
By Valerie Vande Penne BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal court in Massachusetts set Dec. 1 as the date to hear a motion by lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seeking a new trial in the deadly bombing at the...
View ArticleSupreme Court agrees to hear biggest abortion case in 2 decades
The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide a major abortion case involving efforts by conservative states to regulate the procedure, promising what could be the court's most important pronouncement...
View ArticleRuling gives Sandusky back $4,900-a-month Penn State pension
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The state must restore the $4,900-a-month pension of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky that was taken away three years ago when he was sentenced to...
View ArticlePimp wants change in Criminal Code
A convicted pimp on Tuesday filed a judicial review at the Constitutional Court calling for an amendment to the Criminal Code that would allow his former clients and sex workers to be charged. The...
View ArticleSpanish couple sentenced to 18 years for murdering adopted Chinese daughter
A separated Spanish couple were sentenced on Thursday by a court to 18 years in prison for drugging and suffocating their 12-year-old adopted Chinese daughter, in a case that has drawn the attention of...
View ArticleRuling restores Sandusky's $4,900-a-month Penn State pension
Harrisburg, Pa. — The state must restore the $4,900-a-month pension of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky that was taken away three years ago when he was sentenced to decades in...
View ArticleSierra Leone News: LAC murder trial … Judge warns musicians
As the alleged murder trial involving Baimba Moi Foray aka LA Chocolate (1st accused) and two others Kicks- off at the High Court, Justice Alusine Sesay has warned musicians to refrain from producing...
View ArticleJudgments: Key cases in brief
The presumption that a lost will was intended to be revoked is rebutted by circumstantial evidence. In re McDermott (2015) IEHC 622 (High Court, Baker J, October 14th, 2015) The High Court grants an...
View ArticleThe Charlie Brown Assassination Plot
When the cops came for the former child actor who played Charlie Brown, he was hanging out with his dog Snoopy. Now, he faces more than four years in prison over a cop-killer conspiracy. Charlie Brown...
View ArticleCourt: Timing of his child-sex crimes saved Jerry Sandusky's state pension
Saying he wasn't a Penn State employee when he committed his crimes, Commonwealth Court on Friday ordered the reinstatement of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's $4,900-a-month state...
View ArticleAccused murderer Lionel Patea to stand trial over death of Tara Brown
The former bikie charged with murdering Gold Coast mother Tara Brown has been committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court. Lionel Patea faced the Southport Magistrates Court on Wednesday before...
View ArticlePsychiatric eval ordered for suspect in Capitol-attack plot
CINCINNATI — An Ohio man accused of plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol with guns and bombs must undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine whether he can stand trial, a federal judge in Cincinnati...
View ArticleSecret program at Guantanamo’s Camp 7 hears everything
MIAMI — A secret Defense Department program provides unfettered eavesdropping on the accused terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo’s clandestine Camp 7 lockup, recently released war court documents show....
View ArticleJared Fogle wants leniency because he’s ‘sorry’
Jared Fogle’s attorneys asked a judge for leniency Thursday, saying in court documents that the former Subway pitchman “is profoundly sorry” as he awaits sentencing on child pornography and sex-crime...
View ArticleProsecutors seek 12½ years for ex-Subway spokesman Fogle
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jared Fogle's attorneys asked a judge for leniency Thursday, saying in court documents that the former Subway pitchman "is profoundly sorry" as he awaits sentencing on child...
View ArticleSecret eavesdropping program at Guantanamo’s Camp 7 hears everything
MIAMI — A secret Defense Department program provides unfettered eavesdropping on the accused terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo’s clandestine Camp 7 lockup, recently released war court documents show....
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