Topic: U.S. Courts

Court upholds 10-year sentence for killer

A federal appeals court has upheld the 10-year prison sentence given a former Lake County man who sent a racist and threatening letter to a judge ...

Race Complicates Reservation Crime Fight

For more than two hours on the night of May 16, 2007, Shane Maggi terrorized a Native American couple at their home on the Blackfeet Indian ...
Email Close [X] The Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a settlement in its civil lawsuit against former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio.. ...

Court throws out $926 million Rocky Flats award

Email Close [X] A $926 million award to thousands of Colorado homeowners in a lawsuit involving plutonium contamination from a now-defunct nuclear ...

Jury deadlocks in Fernanda Romero's marriage fraud case

A federal judge declared a mistrial Friday after jurors told him deliberations had grown hostile in the marriage fraud case of Mexican-born actress ...
Email Close [X] Two prominent, popular brothers who operate the second-largest vegetable farm in Hawaii will be sentenced in federal court this ...
!-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;" #rebrandedpompoms Back in July, a federal judge said cheerleading isn't a...
neoflexycurrent writes "Three adult media entertainment producers filed suit Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of...
Yesterday, Manhattan Federal Judge Miriam Cedarbaum ruled that ladies' nights are a legal part of New York's nightlife, dismissing a complaint by...
In what is being described as the first judgment of its kind in the UK, a family was awarded nearly $140,000 after a medical assessment panel...