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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the Article:= It was a daunting task. One hundred boxes of unnamed materials and documents found in the attic, crawl spaces and closets of the Washington County Courthouse needed to be preserved. Five years later, a team of volunteers, using grants and small county appropriations, have inventoried, flattened, placed in numbered acid-free file folders, photographed and [...]
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Motions and other court documents in the first death penalty trial since the state adopted restrictions on capital punishment this year will be posted on the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Web site, court officials said. Lee Edward Stephens is one of two prisoners charged with the 2006 fatal stabbing of Correctional Officer David McGuinn at the now-closed Maryland House...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
HOUSTON, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- www.BackgroundNow.com Publishes Background Checks for the Top Crime, Corruption and Fraud News. The Most Requested Court Documents for the Week Ending, Saturday, December 5th at
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Court documents recently unsealed in federal court in Northern California confirm an earlier report by The New York Times that Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire accused of insider trading, received insider trading information as far back as 1999.
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HipHopRX.com (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Ex Pretty Ricky group member Pleasure P now being taunted by bloggers as ‘Chester The Molester’ has been exposed by the media for allegedly molesting a 4 year old little boy! Turn the page for the full scoop….
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
DealBook has the recently unsealed court document naming Raj Rajaratnam as the recipient of confidential information on Intel, passed on by a woman now charged of aiding the hedge fund billionaire in a subsequent, expansive insider-trading scheme.
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Ruling is blow to rival Harry Shorstein, who is seeking a U.S. attorney appointment More than 16 months after losing re-election over a controversial grand jury report, former State Attorney John Tanner has discredited his legal nemesis, Harry Shorstein, by winning the release of previously-secret court documents today.
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CNSNews (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
A spokeswoman for the U.S. military's Special Operations Command Central confirmed to CNSNews.com that no court documents are available to the public yet in the prosecution of three Navy SEALS, charged with abuse of a terror suspect in Iraq.
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Bossip (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Yesterday, we hit you with the rumor about Pleasure P, aka Marcus Cooper, allegedly being a child molester. The girl, Laura Goldstein, that was accusing him, is the daughter of the attorney that represented him. Laura claimed she had court documents and now she has released them… SMH!!! In the words of Kanye West, This [...]
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Library Stuff (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Wired – “The federal court system charged the Department of Justice more than $4 million in 2009 for access to its electronic court filing system, which is composed entirely of documents in the public domain.”
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How Appealing (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
"DOJ Pays $4M a Year to Read Public Court Documents": At Wired.com's "Threat Level" blog, Ryan Singel has a post that begins, "The federal court system charged the Department of Justice more than $4 million in 2009 for access to...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Paying for public government documents when you are the government is not cheap. The Department of Justice pays Pacer (the document system run by The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts) -- $4 million a year for federal court documents. The amount was discovered through a FOIA request made by Carl Malamud, an advocate for an open source repository...
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Jamaia Star (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Despite having both his eyes gouged out by his male companion, court documents state that a St Andrew complainant does not wish to press criminal charges against his attacker.
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SlashGear (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Barnes and Noble don’t seem to need any assistance from Spring Design in holding up their nook ebook reader from hitting the market, but the latter’s hope for an official injunction while their allegations of “ misappropriated trade secrets ” are worked out through the courts has been denied . While the court documents agree that there is a “genuine...
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kevin drum (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
As you all know, the Transportation Security Administration mistakenly posted a copy of its screening manual a few days ago, providing access to lots of interesting little nuggets about how they operate. The manual was supposed to have sensitive portions blacked out, but as in so many previous cases, the people who did it didn't realize that PDF documents come in several flavors: Government...