Attacks Health Trials

2010-03-19T21:00:52Z

Patrick O'Flaherty, who attended court, and suffers from a variety of respiratory ailments is seen outside Manhattan federal court, Friday, March 19, 2010, in New York. A federal judge on Friday rejected a legal settlement of more than a half-billion dollars for people sickened by ash and dust from the

Court: Anna Nicole Smith gets none of oil fortune

2010-03-19T23:45:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Court: Anna Nicole Smith estate to get none of $300M-plus she said late husband promised her</div><div><p>The elderly Texas billionaire who married Anna Nicole Smith in the last year of his life never intended to leave the former stripper any portion of his vast fortune, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.</p><p>The 9th Anna Nicole Smith leaves the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith's estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her. The 9th Anna Nicole Smith leaves the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith's estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her. The 9th Montana suspended over climate change</div><div><p>A federal judge has approved a first-of-its-kind settlement requiring the government to suspend 38,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana so it can gauge how drilling contributes to climate change.</p><p>At issue are the large amounts of greenhouse gases emitted by drilling machinery and practices such as...

Idaho high court: No new trials for 6 on death row

2010-03-17T16:30:08Z

<div id="subtitle">Idaho Supreme Court says no new trials needed for 6 death row inmates sentenced by judge</div><div><p>The Idaho Supreme Court has denied requests from six death row inmates who said they were entitled to new trials because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling made after their convictions called on juries, not judges, to impose...

Obama taps NPR reporter's sister for federal bench

2010-03-17T14:01:49Z

<div id="subtitle">Obama nominates sister of National Public Radio's Nina Totenberg for federal judgeship in Ga.</div><div><p>President Barack Obama has nominated the sister of National Public Radio legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg (TOH'-ten-burgh) for a federal jud...

Millennium plotter appealing sentence decision

2010-03-17T09:32:30Z

<div id="subtitle">Millennium bomb plotter to appeal ruling that 22-year sentence was too lenient</div><div><p>An al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted in an attempted bombing on the millennium is appealing a federal court's ruling that his 22-year sentence was too lenient.</p><p>A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals r...

Data show surge in consumer cases in fiscal 2009

2010-03-16T17:18:12Z

<div id="subtitle">New court data show surge in cases related to consumer issues in fiscal 2009</div><div><p>The number of new cases in federal courts related to consumer issues surged in the year ended last Sept. 30 as Americans battered by the recession fought foreclosures and downgraded debt ratings, data released Tuesday show.</p><p>The statistics were compiled by the Judicial Conference of the United States<...

Judge freezes assets of accused account hackers

2010-03-16T11:46:13Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge froze the assets of Russian hackers who allegedly hijacked online brokerage accounts and then placed unauthorized trades in order to manipulate markets.</p><p>The Securities and Exchange Commission ...

Obama chooses 1st young appeals court nominee

2010-03-13T20:45:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Obama borrows from GOP playbook in choosing 39-year-old liberal professor for appeals court</div><div><p>Thirteen months into his presidency, Barack Obama finally gave liberal supporters the kind of judicial nominee they had sought and conservatives feared.</p><p>Goodwin Liu, 39, is an unabashed liberal legal scho...

Judging Judges

2010-03-13T13:00:49Z

This undated image provided by the San Bernardino County Bar Association shows Superior Court Judge Robert Lemkau. Superior Court Judge Robert Lemkau made what turned out to be a fateful_and unpopular_ decision. Calling her a liar, the judge denied a woman's restraining order against a boyfriend who did exactly what he threatened. He ...

Appeals court upholds conviction in Miss. killings

2010-03-13T12:30:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Appeals court affirms conviction of reputed Klansman in civil rights era cold case in Miss.</div><div><p>A federal appeals court has upheld the 2007 conviction of a reputed Ku Klux Klan member in the kidnapping of two black men who were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi in 1964.</p><p>In a 2-1 ruling, the panel of judges said ...

Edwards Sex Tape

2010-03-12T02:23:11Z

Andrew Young, former aide to former Senator John Edwards, testifies the existence and location of a disc and missing flash drive during a hearing at the Chatham County Superior Court House in Pittsboro, US judge from Louisiana accused of taking cash, lying to Senate</div><div><p>The House voted unanimously Thursday to impeach a U.S. district judge from Louisiana, who lawmakers said avoided likely criminal charges related to alleged payoffs in part because the statute of limitations expired.</p><p>The House appro...

Guantanamo prisoner known as Hambali seeks release

2010-03-11T14:32:28Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of helping plan the 2002 bombings in the Indonesian resort area of Bali that killed more than 200 people on Thursday revived his legal bid to be released from the U.S. military prison.</...

Katrina Bridge Shootings

2010-03-11T09:46:05Z

U.S. Attorney James Letten, left, speaks to the media outside the Federal Court building in New Orleans,Thursday, March 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)

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NJ judge scolded for mocking defendant's English

2010-03-10T16:00:24Z

<div id="subtitle">NJ judge scolded for mocking Mexican defendant's English skills, comparing other to OJ Simpson</div><div><p>The New Jersey Supreme Court's disciplinary committee has publicly reprimanded a lower-court judge who belittled an immigrant defendant's poor English skills and compared another defendant to O.J Simpson.</p>...

Roberts: Scene at State of Union 'very troubling'

2010-03-10T05:45:11Z

<div id="subtitle">Chief Justice John Roberts says State of Union speech has 'degenerated to political pep rally'</div><div><p>U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a polit...

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