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  • Egypt court sentences 11 to death over 2012 soccer riot

    Egypt court sentences 11 to death over 2012 soccer riot

    Recent Cases 06/11/2015

    An Egyptian criminal court from the Mediterranean city of Port Said on Tuesday sentenced 11 people to death over a 2012 soccer riot that killed more than 70 people and injured hundreds in what was Egypt's worst soccer disaster to date and one of the ...

  • New Jersey's top court sides with Christie on pensions

    New Jersey's top court sides with Christie on pensions

    Legal Issues 06/10/2015

    New Jersey's top court sided with Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday, giving him a major victory in a fight with public worker unions over pension funds and sparing a new state budget crisis.     The state Supreme Court overturned a lower-court...

  • Oscar Pistorius case: Court sets November for appeal

    Oscar Pistorius case: Court sets November for appeal

    Headline Legal News 06/08/2015

    Oscar Pistorius' case will go in front of South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal in November, the court said Monday, when prosecutors will challenge the decision to acquit him of murder for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius would again f...

  • Judge grants new trial in death of intern Chandra Levy

    Judge grants new trial in death of intern Chandra Levy

    National News 06/04/2015

    A judge has formally granted a retrial in the case of a man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy.   D.C. Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher on Thursday granted a motion for a new trial the case of Ingmar Guandique, who was convict...

  • Brazil court convicts 2 firefighters in nightclub fire

    Brazil court convicts 2 firefighters in nightclub fire

    Headline Legal News 06/04/2015

    A court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced two firefighters to a year behind bars in connection with a 2013 nightclub fire that killed more than 200 people in southern Brazil. The two and six other firefighters had been charged with negligence and ...

  • German court cancels session in Auschwitz guard trial

    German court cancels session in Auschwitz guard trial

    Headline Legal News 06/03/2015

    A German court has canceled another session in the trial of a 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard due to his poor health. The Lueneburg state court said Wednesday's session in the trial of former SS sergeant Oskar Groening was called off, the fourth t...

  • Court upholds sentence for son of Schwarzenegger ally

    Court upholds sentence for son of Schwarzenegger ally

    Recent Cases 06/03/2015

    A California appeals court on Tuesday upheld former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to dramatically reduce the manslaughter sentence of a political ally's son, saying his conduct may be considered wrong but it didn't violate any laws.   On...

  • High court throws out conviction for Facebook threats

    High court throws out conviction for Facebook threats

    Recent Cases 06/01/2015

    The Supreme Court has thrown out the conviction of a Pennsylvania man accused of making threats on Facebook.   The justices ruled Monday that it was not enough for prosecutors to show that the comments of Anthony Elonis would make a reasonable p...

  • High court won't hear appeal over Walker campaign probe

    High court won't hear appeal over Walker campaign probe

    Recent Cases 05/18/2015

    The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a conservative group seeking to end an investigation into possible illegal coordination between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's 2012 recall campaign and independent groups. The justices on Monday let stand an...

  • Attorney: Court orders release of anti-nuclear activists

    Attorney: Court orders release of anti-nuclear activists

    Headline Legal News 05/17/2015

    A federal appeals court has ordered the immediate release of an 85-year-old nun and two fellow Catholic peace activists who vandalized a uranium storage bunker, their attorney said Friday.   The order came after the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of App...

  • Pandora loses to BMI in court hearing, vows to appeal

    Pandora loses to BMI in court hearing, vows to appeal

    Headline Legal News 05/16/2015

    Pandora Media Inc. lost a court hearing Thursday in a dispute with music publishing rights group BMI over royalty rates, but the Internet streaming leader said it will appeal. Pandora said it's confident it can win later since the appeals court — the...

  • Appeals court skeptical of fairness of trader's conviction

    Appeals court skeptical of fairness of trader's conviction

    National News 05/15/2015

    An appeals court panel on Wednesday expressed doubts about the fairness of a prosecution that led to a prison sentence for a man convicted of defrauding a government bailout program. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had pl...

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