Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
(By Joe DePriest, jdepriest@charlotteobserver.com) Embattled Lincoln County Sheriff Tim Daugherty will keep his job at least for a few more months. Superior Court Judge Richard Boner on Friday denied a petition filed by county attorney Jeff Taylor asking for Daugherty's immediate suspension. Daugherty faces another court hearing in January on the issue of whether he should...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
CLAYTON — A St. Louis County judge on Tuesday voided more than $780,000 in severance payments to the Northeast fire district's two lawyers and fire chief, and extended a freeze on district funds.Meanwhile, an attorney for Pulaski Bank filed court documents Tuesday indicating that the fire chief, Joseph L. Washington, deposited a check drawn on a district account at Pulaski. Washington...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
CLAYTON -- A St. Louis County judge ruled today that severance payouts approved by the Northeast fire board of more than $780,000 are void and that the district's freeze on funds remains in effect.Circuit Court Judge Richard C. Bresnahan issued the order in response to motions filed in court Monday to prevent fire Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District board...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Two Milwaukee judges are among six people recommended to fill an opening on the federal appeals court for the region. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman and Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Richard Sankovitz each made the short list announced Monday by the Federal Nominating Commission. Others mentioned as worthy candidates to serve on the U.S. 7th Circuit Court...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
he Army is appealing a federal district court ruling in September that rejected its environmental study of the impact of training more soldiers at the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site. The appeal was filed Monday with the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. In September, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch ruled a 2007 environmental study the Army did as a prerequisite...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A state judge has rejected a Waterbury police officer's request for probation for an alleged assault at the police department.
Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... several new audio records that have surfaced "out of an abundance of caution," he said. Superior Court Judge Richard Erlich rescheduled the plea change for Nov. 17. Oktollik will be sentenced the week of Nov. 30, when the other seven men are set to go to trial in Point Hope.
The Public Record (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee captured after 9/11, is expected to finally gain access to diaries he wrote during the years while he was being brutally tortured at secret black-site prisons by CIA interrogators. A federal court judge has ordered the government to turn over unredacted volumes of the diaries and other "specified" writings to defense attorneys representing...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
A Connecticut judge has ruled that the insurance company for a former Fairfield lawyer who killed his neighbor in 2006 won't be responsible for any damages that could be awarded in a lawsuit filed by the victim's family.
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Proposal Would Kill Beacon, Have Facebook Paying $9.5 Million Late last week, a federal judge in California gave preliminary approval to a settlement of the class action lawsuit regarding Facebook's Beacon program. The controversial program, launched back in November of 2007, allowed Facebook users to share online purchases made on third-party affiliate websites with their social networking...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Much-anticipated construction on the new Hanover High School has been delayed by a dispute over a contract on the project.DiscussLast Friday, Plymouth County Superior Court Judge Richard Chin granted a preliminary injunction that prohibited further work on the project by Bridgewater-based contractor Callahan Inc., which is alleged to have been unfairly awarded the construction...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
A convicted extortionist who accused financier Thomas H. Lee of rape, then threatened to kill his son when he wouldn’t pay her $9.7 million, is now free on probation.Yesterday in U.S. District Court, Laura Goldman, 51, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted extortion of one of the world’s richest men.U.S. District Court Judge Richard Stearns sentenced Goldman to five...
gary-weiss.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
In the past I've decried the behavior of U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Sullivan, who has pandered to public sentiment by refusing to release on bail the chief cooperating witness in the Bernie Madoff case, Frank DiPascali Jr. Doing so, I've pointed out, makes the job of cracking white collar cases harder, not just in the Madoff cases but in future cases. Hey, that's how...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... former First United Methodist Church—at 5th Avenue and Marion Street. U.S. District Court Judge Richard A. Jones will administer the oath. Constantine's staff promise a "reception," but they could not confirm whether there would be booze. So consider that an invitation to bring a flask . After laying his hand on the Yellow Pages or some other anachronistic book,...
Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
KOTZEBUE -- The trial for five of the eight men accused of wasting caribou near Point Hope will take place in Point Hope the week of Feb. 1, a state judge said Wednesday.
