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  • NY court: Chimps don't have same rights as humans

    NY court: Chimps don't have same rights as humans

    Recent Cases 12/05/2014

    A chimpanzee is not entitled to the rights of a human and does not have to be freed by its owner, a New York appeals court ruled Thursday. The three-judge Appellate Division panel was unanimous in denying "legal personhood" to Tommy, who lives alone ...

  • Court reverses woman's conviction in child's death

    Court reverses woman's conviction in child's death

    Recent Cases 09/22/2014

    A state appeals court Wednesday overturned the conviction of a South Texas woman imprisoned for capital murder in the 2006 salt poisoning death of her 4-year-old foster son. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a new trial for Hannah Overton o...

  • Ohio to court: Privatizing prisons in budget is legal

    Ohio to court: Privatizing prisons in budget is legal

    Recent Cases 09/08/2014

    State lawyers tell the Ohio Supreme Court that using a budget bill to privatize state prisons didn’t violate a constitutional provision holding bills to a single subject.In a brief filed today, Ohio said the state’s budget, like any family’s, involve...

  • Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada gay marriage laws in court

    Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada gay marriage laws in court

    Recent Cases 09/07/2014

    For the first time since it declared California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional, the federal appeals court in San Francisco is readying to hear arguments over same-sex weddings in a political and legal climate that's vastly different than when it...

  • NC Supreme Court again weighs Duke Energy rates

    NC Supreme Court again weighs Duke Energy rates

    Recent Cases 09/06/2014

    North Carolina's highest court is examining whether state utilities regulators correctly weighed the consumer impact of two rate increases for a Duke Energy operating unit. The state Supreme Court was scheduled to hear arguments Monday in two lawsuit...

  • German court: chronically ill could grow marijuana

    German court: chronically ill could grow marijuana

    Recent Cases 07/22/2014

    Some Germans may soon be able to grow their own marijuana to relieve chronic pain after a ruling from a court in Cologne. The Cologne administrative court ruled Tuesday in favor of three plaintiffs who had sued for the right to grow marijuana for the...

  • Court rules against HealthSouth in auditor dispute

    Court rules against HealthSouth in auditor dispute

    Recent Cases 06/17/2014

    The Alabama Supreme Court ruled against Birmingham-based HealthSouth Corp. on Friday in a legal dispute linked to the accounting fraud that rocked the rehabilitation company more than a decade ago. The justices rejected an appeal filed by HealthSouth...

  • Toal seeking millions to safeguard SC court info

    Toal seeking millions to safeguard SC court info

    Recent Cases 03/14/2014

    The head of South Carolina's judicial system says she needs more money to safeguard digital information for courts around the state. Chief Justice Jean Toal told a Senate panel Wednesday that it would take about $5.5 million to set up a site at Clems...

  • French court blocks secret recordings of Sarkozy

    French court blocks secret recordings of Sarkozy

    Recent Cases 03/14/2014

    A French court has ordered an ex-aide of Nicolas Sarkozy to pay 10,000 euros ($14,000) in damages and costs to the former French president over secret recordings that were published in an online journal, and instructed the publication to pull down th...

  • Two men found guilty for selling U.S. company’s technology

    Two men found guilty for selling U.S. company’s technology

    Recent Cases 03/07/2014

    A federal jury found two men guilty Wednesday of economic espionage involving the theft and sale of a U.S. company’s technology to a competitor controlled by the Chinese government. The jury returned the verdicts against Robert Maegerle and Walter Li...

  • Supreme Court allows Stanford Ponzi scheme suits

    Supreme Court allows Stanford Ponzi scheme suits

    Recent Cases 02/28/2014

    The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that victims of former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford's massive Ponzi scheme can go forward with class-action lawsuits against the law firms, accountants and investment companies that allegedly aided the $7.2 billion...

  • Man pleads not guilty in deadly Lodi crash

    Man pleads not guilty in deadly Lodi crash

    Recent Cases 02/03/2014

    A man has pleaded not guilty to murder, driving under the influence and other charges in a car crash in Central California that killed five members of a family, including a pregnant woman. The Record of Stockton reports that 28-year-old Ryan Morales ...