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Appeals court hears online gambling case
LOUISVILLE ? Lawyers representing online gambling interests told the Kentucky Court of Appeals on Friday that Gov. Steve Beshear?s effort to seize domain names is blatantly ... (more...)
Court Hears of Srebrenica Victims? Ongoing Trauma
Two prosecution witnesses in the case against a Bosnian Serb charged with genocide testified at a Bosnian court about how survivors of the Srebrenica massacre are still traumatised ... (more...)
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The way Florida?s legislative districts are divided may have helped Republicans hang onto majorities in the state House and Senate. Thursday the Florida Supreme Court listened ... (more...)
Court hears arguments on payday lending law | Batesville Daily Guard
Court hears arguments on payday lending law Published: Friday, October 31, 2008. By Andrew DeMillo. Associated Press Writer. LITTLE ROCK (AP) ? A 1999 Arkansas law opened the ... (more...)
Court hears Boy George 'beat escort'
Pop star Boy George handcuffed a male escort to the wall and beat him with a metal chain as he tried to flee from a naked photo shoot, a London court has heard. The singer and disc ... (more...)
Court Hears of Medak Pocket Abuses
Witness claims Croat soldiers abducted his neighbours, whose bodies were later found in a cesspit. A Serb witness told the war crimes trial of two Croat generals this week that ... (more...)
Supreme Court hears water tax arguments
LINCOLN ? The state entered into a compact 65 years ago with Kansas and Colorado over use of Republican River water, and all state taxpayers must pay the cost to comply with it ... (more...)
Supreme Court Hears Harassment Case « AAUW Dialog
Monday marked the first day of the U.S. Supreme Court?s new term. During this term, the court will hear cases covering a number of important issues, including employment ... (more...)
Tennessee AG?s Brief Suggests Opposition to Walton-Fisk Deal - Arts Journal
Lawyers for Fisk University, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the Tennessee Attorney General's office got another chance to rumble at yesterday's hearing in Tennessee Court of Appeals, where the university is seeking a reversal of a lower court ... (more...)
RI judge hears arguments in music downloading case - Columbia Missourian
PROVIDENCE, R.I. A Rhode Island couple whose son is accused of illegally sharing songs online should not be forced to surrender their home computer for inspection because it would violate their right to privacy, their lawyer argued at a federal court ... (more...)
LA judge hears bid to dismiss MySpace conviction - Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An attorney for a woman convicted in a MySpace hoax directed at a teen who ended up committing suicide asked a judge to dismiss her convictions Thursday, saying a computer-fraud law was improperly used to prosecute her. U.S ... (more...)
TODAY: Obama says Congress must act boldly and now on economy - Charleston Daily Mail
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama implored Congress to "act boldly and act now'' on Thursday to fix an economy growing perilously weaker, and leading lawmakers set an informal goal of mid-February for enacting tax cuts and government ... (more...)
Arbiter's reaction to lawyer no proof of bias against Fantino, court ... - News1130.com
TORONTO - An adjudicator had every reason to feel he was being threatened by an experienced lawyer acting for Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino, and his reaction did not show he was biased, a court heard Thursday. Lawyer Julian ... (more...)
Man kicked like football - court hears - East Anglian Daily Times
AN IPSWICH man was kicked ?like a football? and left for dead in a town centre car park after being attacked by two men and a 16-year-old boy, it has been claimed. One of the men involved in the attack told a jury that he had started the violence ... (more...)
State Supreme Court hears appeal in Carlie Brucia case - Herald Tribune
TALLAHASSEE - Attorneys for the man sentenced to death for the abduction, rape and murder of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia argued today that he should receive a new trial because of mishandled DNA evidence. The challenge of Joseph P. Smith?s conviction ... (more...)
N.J. Supreme Court hears witness-intimidation case - Newark Star-Ledger
New Jersey's State Supreme Court today is hearing arguments in a case that deals with how the state can deal with witness intimidation in criminal cases. The state Attorney General's Office said that witness intimidation is "the greatest threat" to ... (more...)