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Spammer Ralsky pleads guilty to stock fraud

Posted on June 23, 2009
Alan Ralsky, a spam kingpin who was convicted of felony bank fraud in 1995, could face more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty in a stock fraud case involving spam messages that pumped up Chinese "penny" stocks. Ralsky and four other individuals pleaded guilty on Monday, joining three others who had pleaded guilty earlier, the US Department of Justice announced on Monday...

Judge strikes down NYC's green-cab incentive

Posted on June 23, 2009
A judge on Monday rejected the city's latest maneuver to force taxicab owners to buy fuel-efficient hybrids, the second time in eight months he deemed such rules to be pre-empted by federal laws. Under the rules rejected by U.S. District Judge Paul A...

High court rules narrowly in voting rights case

Posted on June 22, 2009
The Supreme Court ruled narrowly Monday in a challenge to the landmark Voting Rights Act, exempting a small Texas governing authority from a key provision of the civil rights law but side-stepping the larger constitutional issue. The court, with only one justice in dissent, avoided the major constitutional questions raised in the case over the federal government's most powerful tool to prevent discriminatory voting changes since the mid-1960s...

Court says public must pay for private special ed

Posted on June 22, 2009
The Supreme Court has made it easier for parents of special education students to be reimbursed for the cost of private schooling for their children. The court ruled 6-3 Monday in favor of a teenage boy from Oregon whose parents sought to force their local public school district to pay the $5,200 a month it cost to send their son to a private school...

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Court to rule on federal sex offenders law

Posted on June 22, 2009
The Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of a federal law that permits sex offenders to be kept behind bars after they complete their prison terms. The justices, acting Monday, say they will consider the Obama administration's appeal of a lower court ruling that invalidated the law...

Ex-NBA star Jayson Williams back in court

Posted on June 22, 2009
Retired NBA star Jayson Williams is in a New Jersey courtroom for a hearing that could determine whether he'll be sent to prison. Williams wants a judge on Monday to delay sentencing him for covering up the shooting of a hired driver more than seven years ago...

'Craigslist' killer back in court to face new charges

Posted on June 22, 2009
Philip Markoff, the former medical student accused of killing a 25-year-old masseuse he met through Craigslist is being arraigned in Boston today for first-degree murder and other charges. Philip Markoff is expected to be in Suffolk Superior Court on Monday morning...

No benefits for LA girl born from dead man's sperm

Posted on June 19, 2009
A 10-year-old girl conceived from the frozen sperm of a dead man cannot receive his Social Security benefits, a federal appeals court ruled. A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court's rejection of child survivor benefits for Brandalynn Vernoff, who was born nearly four years after her father's death in 1995...

Court upholds settlement in asbestos lawsuits

Posted on June 19, 2009
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to let an insurance company settle some asbestos lawsuits for about $500 million in exchange for blocking any future litigation resulting from its long relationship with Johns Manville Corp., once the world's largest producer of asbestos...

Court makes it harder to prove age discrimination

Posted on June 19, 2009
The Supreme Court has made it harder to prove discrimination on the basis of age, ruling against an employee in his mid-50s who says he was demoted because of his age. In a 5-4 decision Thursday written by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court said a worker has to prove that age was the key factor in an employment decision, even if there is some evidence that age played a role...

State court again strikes down Philly gun laws

Posted on June 19, 2009
A state appeals court ruled Wednesday that the city cannot enforce an assault weapons ban and a law prohibiting guns bought by one person and given to another, measures passed by City Council in an effort to combat persistent gun violence. The 6-1 ruling marked the latest setback for Philadelphia officials, who have fought for years for the right to pass their own gun legislation...

Court upholds LAPD ban on asking immigration status

Posted on June 18, 2009
A state appellate court Wednesday upheld the validity of the LAPD's Special Order 40, the controversial policy that bans officers from asking the immigration status of crime victims and witnesses. In affirming a lower-court ruling, the three-judge panel said the 30-year-old order strikes the appropriate balance between immigrants' rights to equal protection and the Los Angeles Police Department's need to protect communities...

High court rules in favor of ex-Enron executive

Posted on June 18, 2009
The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a former Enron Corp. executive in a ruling that makes it unlikely he can be tried a second time on charges related to financial fraud at the one-time energy giant. The court, in a 6-3 vote, threw out an appeals court ruling that would have allowed a retrial of F...

Court upholds settlement in asbestos law

Posted on June 18, 2009
The Supreme Court has agreed to reinstate a roughly $500 million settlement of asbestos lawsuits against the Travelers Companies Inc. Travelers had been named in lawsuits alleging that it tried to hide dangerous health effects of asbestos. The company argued that asbestos claims be paid out of a trust created by Johns Manville in the 1980s and approved by a federal bankruptcy judge...

Court finds convicts have no right to test DNA

Posted on June 18, 2009
The Supreme Court said Thursday that convicts have no constitutional right to test DNA evidence in hopes of proving their innocence long after they were found guilty of a crime. The decision may have limited impact because the federal government and 47 states already have laws that allow convicts some access to genetic evidence...

NJ man freed after murder convictions overturned

Posted on June 17, 2009
After spending more than 20 years in prison for two murders he repeatedly denied committing, Paul Kamienski spoke Tuesday as a man freed under unusual circumstances. Last month, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia overturned his 1988 convictions and double life sentence in the murders of a Florida couple in 1983 in what prosecutors described as a drug deal gone bad...

Mich. court gives judges say in witnesses' dress

Posted on June 17, 2009
The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday voted to give judges authority over how witnesses dress in court after a Muslim woman refused to remove her veil while testifying in a small claims case. A statewide court rule letting judges regulate the appearance of witnesses ? such as asking them to remove face coverings ? was approved by a 5-2 vote...

Ga. court: Travel Web site shorting city on tax

Posted on June 16, 2009
The Georgia Supreme Court concluded Monday that the online travel company Expedia Inc. has shortchanged a west Georgia city on hotel and occupancy taxes. The court's 4-3 ruling ? the first such decision by Georgia's top appellate court ? found that Expedia must collect hotel occupancy taxes from its customers and pay them to the city of Columbus...

Judge: Simpson `acquittal suit' to stay in storage

Posted on June 16, 2009
A judge on Monday ordered O.J. Simpson's former manager to keep the former football star's so-called acquittal suit in storage until it is determined who rightfully owns it. The ruling came after a contentious hearing that ultimately spilled into a courthouse hallway, where the former manager, Mike Gilbert, and a lawyer for Fred Goldman exchanged heated accusations...

Sen. Jeff Sessions 'troubled' over Obama court picks

Posted on June 16, 2009
The top Republican on the Senate committee reviewing Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court said Monday that he is concerned President Obama is driving federal courts "far to the left" by choosing "activist" judges for the bench. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala...

High court won't review 'Cuban 5' espionage case

Posted on June 16, 2009
Cuban exiles said Monday they were relieved the Supreme Court refused to review the convictions of five intelligence agents for the communist country, despite calls from Nobel Prize winners and international legal groups to consider the case. The convictions stand against the so-called "Cuban Five," who maintain they did not receive a fair trial because of strong anti-Castro sentiment in Miami...

Hearing for Supreme Court nominee poses challenges

Posted on June 15, 2009
U.S. Senate Republicans are in a quandary over the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, aiming to raise pointed questions about her record without angering increasingly influential Hispanic voters. Senator John Cornyn exemplifies the Republican dilemma over Sotomayor, who is the daughter of Puerto Rican parents who seems certain to be confirmed by the Democratic-led Senate as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice...

Court steps into dispute between Shell, stations

Posted on June 15, 2009
The Supreme Court is stepping into a dispute between Shell Oil Co. and gas station operators who claim the oil company tried to drive them out of business. The justices, in an order Monday, say they will hear arguments next year in a case involving eight Shell station operators in Massachusetts who are fighting changes in lease terms that they say were intended to convert stations run by franchisees to company-owned facilities...

Court goes further spelling out deportation rules

Posted on June 15, 2009
The Supreme Court says immigration officials do not have to have a jury determine the financial impact of an immigrant's crime in their deportation decisions. The court, in an unanimous decision Monday, turned away Manoj Nijhawan's appeal. Nijhawan, who immigrated to the United States from India in 1985, had been convicted of fraud and money laundering, and stipulated that that the loss exceeded $100 million...

Court to determine if bankruptcy hearing needed

Posted on June 15, 2009
The Supreme Court will decide whether student loans can be dismissed through bankruptcy with just a notice to the collector instead of a hearing proving that paying the money back would cause an "undue hardship." Francisco Espinosa gave United Student Aid Funds Inc...

High court steps into Fla. beach erosion dispute

Posted on June 15, 2009
The Supreme Court has stepped into a property-rights dispute over plans to rebuild eroded beaches on Florida's Gulf coast. The court agreed to decide whether the Constitution imposes limits on governments' authority to combat beach erosion when beachfront private property would be affected...

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