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  • Bally Total Fitness again files for Chapter 11

    Bally Total Fitness again files for Chapter 11

    U.S. Court News 12/02/2008

    Bally Total Fitness Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday for the second time in less than two years, hindered by debt and limited refinancing options amid the credit crunch.The Chicago-based gym operator will use existing cas...

  • Clintons' ex-NY neighbor gets 25 years for murder

    Clintons' ex-NY neighbor gets 25 years for murder

    U.S. Court News 12/02/2008

    A man who lived a few doors down from Bill and Hillary Clinton was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison for shooting and killing his wife.Carlos Perez-Olivo, 60, listened impassively as Westchester County Judge Barbara Zambelli imposed the...

  • Hawaiian Telcom files for bankruptcy protection

    Hawaiian Telcom files for bankruptcy protection

    U.S. Court News 12/02/2008

    Hawaiian Telcom Communications Inc., the largest telephone company in Hawaii, said Monday that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.The company had been working with creditors since October on a debt-restructuring agreement and said it d...

  • Calif. high court asked to hear gay marriage cases

    Calif. high court asked to hear gay marriage cases

    U.S. Court News 11/17/2008

    The state attorney general and sponsors of the ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California urged its Supreme Court to hear a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn the ban, saying the matter is too urgent to be unsettled."The petiti...

  • US appeals court hears arguments in ND hemp case

    US appeals court hears arguments in ND hemp case

    U.S. Court News 11/13/2008

    An attorney for two North Dakota farmers argued they should be able to grow industrial hemp under state regulations without fear of federal criminal prosecution.Attorney Joe Sandler told a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday t...

  • Payday lending law violated constitution

    Payday lending law violated constitution

    U.S. Court News 11/06/2008

    A 1999 state law allowing so-called payday lenders to charge high fees for short-term loans violates the state constitution, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday.In a 6-0 decision, the court said the fees permitted under the 1999 Check Cashers A...

  • Hall & Oates sue in NY over `Maneater' recording

    Hall & Oates sue in NY over `Maneater' recording

    U.S. Court News 11/05/2008

    Daryl Hall and John Oates have filed a lawsuit saying their music publisher failed to protect their rights to their 1982 hit "Maneater."The pop duo's lawsuit says they learned in April 2007 that an unidentified singer-songwriter had used "Maneater" i...

  • Court to decide on convict's right to test DNA

    Court to decide on convict's right to test DNA

    U.S. Court News 11/03/2008

    The Supreme Court will decide whether, years after his conviction, a defendant has a constitutional right to test genetic evidence found at the crime scene.The justices, in an order Monday, accepted the appeal of prosecutors in Alaska. They asked the...

  • Navy Refuses to Release McCain Car Crash Records

    Navy Refuses to Release McCain Car Crash Records

    U.S. Court News 10/20/2008

    Journalists say the U.S. Navy refuses to release documents about a 1964auto accident in which then-Lt. John McCain was involved, and injured,along with another man, outside the main gate of the Norfolk Navy Base.The Navy allegedly located the documen...

  • Court Stays Guantanamo Prisoner Release

    Court Stays Guantanamo Prisoner Release

    U.S. Court News 10/09/2008

    The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday stayed a federaljudge's order that the Bush administration free 17 prisoners fromGuantanamo. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina ordered the governmentto bring the prisoners to his court Friday, s...

  • Tokyo Broadcasting Sues ABC for Ripping off Shows

    Tokyo Broadcasting Sues ABC for Ripping off Shows

    U.S. Court News 10/07/2008

    ABC's "reality" show "Wipeout" is a ripoff of Tokyo BroadcastingSystem's shows, the Japanese network claims in Federal Court. TBS saysABC's show might "more aptly be titled 'Swipe-Out, given that it isnothing more than a blatant copycat combination o...

  • State Farm Won't Back Mean Mom

    State Farm Won't Back Mean Mom

    U.S. Court News 10/06/2008

    State Farm says a policyholder, a mother, suggested her daughter taunta girl the daughter doesn't like by writing insults, including "bitch,""whore," "slut" and "you have no friends," on disposable diapers andstrewing them about the girl's yard. The ...

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