Historic London Court Hears Final Case

One of London's most famous courts heard its last case Friday, bringing an end to 270 years of dispensing justice. The last day at Bow Street Magistrates Court was a typical mix, including a terrorist case, and ending with a petty offender being placed on probation for a month.

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Hearing for Wizards' Arenas Rescheduled

Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas missed a court hearing Tuesday on a charge of resisting an officer without violence, and a warrant was briefly issued before the arraignment was rescheduled.

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Court Stands Ground on Immigration Measure

The Colorado Supreme Court stood its ground Monday, refusing to allow a ballot initiative that would deny most state services to illegal immigrants.

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Supreme Court Rejects Glaxo Appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal in a dispute over the Apotex Inc. development of a generic alternative to GlaxoSmithKline PLC's antidepressant drug Paxil.

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Appeals Court Backs Bush on Wiretaps

A federal appeals court sided with the Bush administration Friday on an electronic surveillance issue, making it easier to tap into Internet phone calls and broadband transmissions.

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1st Post-Katrina Trial Held in New Orleans

Criminal jury trials began in New Orleans' state district court Monday for the first time since Hurricane Katrina flooded a stately courthouse.

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NYC Gun Court Gets Tough on Offenders

The court case listed as the People vs. Godfrey Hayle looked like an unremarkable one: Police claimed the 44-year-old suspect tried to ditch a 9 mm handgun last year during a drug bust.

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Orleans Parish Criminal Court Reopens

Nine months after Hurricane Katrina flooded the evidence room, drowned the electrical system and spawned a bumper crop of mold, the Orleans Parish Criminal Court building is reopening.

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Ala. Candidates Revive Judicial Debate

In a debate with powerful echoes of the turbulent civil rights era, four Republicans running for Alabama's Supreme Court are making an argument legal scholars thought was settled in the 1800s: that state courts are not bound by U.S. Supreme Court precedents.

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Phoenix Suns Lose Home-Court Advantage

Playing at home has hardly been an advantage in the Western Conference final.

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British Soldier Cleared in Iraqi's Death

A military judge Thursday cleared a British soldier of killing a 15-year-old Iraqi who drowned after allegedly being forced into a canal.

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Thousands March in Turkish Capital

More than 15,000 Turks, including judges, lawyers and students, marched in the Turkish capital Thursday to condemn an attack by a suspected Islamist gunman that killed a judge and wounded four others.

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Thousands March in Turkish Capital

More than 15,000 Turks, including judges and lawyers, marched in the Turkish capital Thursday to condemn an attack by a suspected Islamic gunman that killed a judge and wounded four others.

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Ex-Newspaper Owners Seek to Revive Suit

A lawyer for the former owners of The Salt Lake Tribune asked a federal appeals court Thursday to revive their lawsuit challenging the $355.5 million price set for them to buy the paper back.

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Colo. Court to Decide on Lynx Protections

A federal appeals court heard arguments Wednesday over whether a lynx that has federal protection in Colorado is still protected if it wanders across the state's southern border into New Mexico.

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FDA Asks Court to Restore Ephedra Ban

A federal judge who lifted the ban on dietary supplements containing low doses of the weight-loss aid ephedra misunderstood the law, the Food and Drug Administration argued Monday in trying to restore the ban.

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Roberts Seeks Harmony for Courts, Congress

Chief Justice John Roberts acknowledged Thursday that relations between Congress and the judiciary are strained and he is relying on a new official to help ease the tension.

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Judge: Jackson in California During Claim

Michael Jackson proved that he was in California when a New Orleans-area man claimed the pop star kidnapped and molested him for nine days in 1984, a federal judge ruled.

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Haas Retires From Clay Court Tournament

Mardy Fish advanced to the final of the U.S. Clay Court Championship when fifth-seeded Tommy Haas retired after five games Saturday night because of pain in his right wrist.

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Melzer Advances to U.S. Clay Court Finals

Jurgen Melzer blended power and finesse Saturday to beat seventh-seed Paul Goldstein 6-3, 6-4 in the semifinals of the U.S. Clay Court Championships.

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Baghdatis Retires With Lower Back Pain

Fourth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus retired in his second-round match against American Vince Spadea on Thursday night because of lower back pain.

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Sierra Leone Tribunal an Experiment

The Sierra Leone court that made Charles Taylor the first African president to answer war crimes charges is an experiment in international justice, a hybrid tribunal being tested by the debate over where the former Liberian president should be tried.

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Ex-Ohio Judge Takes Over 'Divorce Court'

A new judge is donning the "Divorce Court" robes.

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Federal Judge Appointed to FISA Court

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates has been named to replace a judge who resigned from the secretive court set up by Congress to oversee domestic spying.

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Prosecutor: Int'l Court Should Be Faster

The International Criminal Court, which has a Congolese rebel leader in jail as its first defendant, will have speedier proceedings than the U.N. special tribunal for Yugoslavia, the court's chief prosecutor said Saturday.

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Secret court may end up hearing AT&T; illegal surveillance lawsuit

A lawsuit in San Francisco federal court accusing AT&T; of illegally collaborating with the Bush administration's electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens would be transferred to a secret court accessible only to the government under new legislation backed by the White House.

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Kyrgyz court sentences MP's killers to death

From the page: -- Two Kyrgyz men charged with killing a parliamentarian have been sentenced to death, the general prosecutor's office said on Monday. --

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Dutch Court OKs 'Pedophile' Political Party

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- A Dutch court refused Monday to ban a political party whose main goal is to lower the age of sexual consent from 16 to 12. The judge said it was the voters' right to judge the appeal of political parties.

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Advocates quietly push for slavery reparations

Advocates quietly push for slavery reparations With global attention and cases in court, scholars say issue has momentum

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Federal court says pre-"sanitized" movies infringe copyright

I guess there's one issue the MPAA and I agree on. If consumers want to use technology to strip out the naughty bits at home, that's one thing. But, for a company to make money doing it is indefensible.

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Amish Farmer Says Milk Law Opposes Beliefs, Amish Ohio Farmer in Court After Selling Raw Milk to Undercover Agent; Disputes Milk Law - CBS News

My brother attended the hearing held Friday. I will try to have his report on Newsvine as soon as I can.

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Rubbing Salt into the Wound

For whatever reason Natasha Ryan ran away in 1998 at the age of 14. She was since found some years later shacked up with her boyfriend. She has since been located after an extensive police investigation and thought murdered.

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Guantanamo Tribunals 'illegal'

In a blow to the legal strategy pioneered in the wake of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the high court ruled President George W Bush had no authority to order such tribunals, which it said contravened the Geneva Conventions.

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WP: A sharp rebuke for Bush - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

It appears the Bush administration is saying that the Supreme Courts decision against Bush policy really means it depends on what the meaning of is is. Some also seem to be saying that we need to take another look at what was done in a fit of temper.

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Penis pump judge faces stiff sentence

A retired US judge is himself before the beak in Bristow, Oklahoma, "on charges he used a penis pump on himself in the courtroom while sitting in judgment of others", AP reports.

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Man could go to jail for writing off-color remark on check

This has to be one of his personal worst days... Poor guy. I will make sure to never write anything like that on the memo line.

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Telegraph | News | Campbell in court accused of injuring maid with phone

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Court finds family guilty of honour killing

A landmark verdict finds nine people guilty for conspiring to kill a young Pakistani woman and her husband in the largest honour killing case ever tried in Europe

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Seed Newsvine

A new Bill of Rights? But in court who are the judges? In the European Court of Human Rights we have judges from different nations with a big incentive to be fair. British judges sometimes, believe a witness simply because he is wearing a police uniform.

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Re-education in Israel's Courts

Oriyah Shirel is a 15 year old girl who lives in Hebron. She is a typical "settler" teenager, busy with school and social events while devoting much of her time to help strengthen the Jewish hold on the Land of Israel.

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NASCAR Owner Charged With $20 Million Tax Fraud

NASCAR Owner Charged With $20 Million Tax Fraud A NASCAR team owner is accused of defrauding the government of more than $20 million in taxes.

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Judge Dismisses Child Rape Case After Attorney Late For Court

Judge Dismisses Child Rape Case After Attorney Late For Court 'Don't Treat Me Like A Punk,' Judge Says A Cuyahoga County, Ohio, judge threw out the charge against a man accused of raping a girl six years ago when the prosecutor in the case was 45 minutes late to trial.

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Call for terrorism court

AUSTRALIA has been urged to establish an exclusive terrorism court similar to the Northern Ireland judicial system to avoid disclosing potentially sensitive security information to juries.

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Texas Art Teacher Loses Job After Topless Photos Surface

Texas Art Teacher Loses Job After Topless Photos Surface AUSTIN, Texas -- A Texas high school teacher is fighting for her teaching license after her partner posted topless pictures of her on the Internet.

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Roanoke County students appear in N.Y. court

Court proceedings against three Roanoke County teenagers charged with throwing paint cans off the roof of a Manhattan hotel have been postponed until Sept. 8.

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Blockbuster Fires Back at Netflix With Suit of its Own

Another battle between corporate giants is shaping up, courtesy of the Ministry of Silly Patents, otherwise known as the US Patent and Trademark Office.

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U.S. court tosses lawsuit over "In God We Trust."

Michael Newdow, the Sacramento, California lawyer and doctor who had previously launched a court challenge on behalf of his daughter over the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance said in schools, had argued that "In God We Trust" on monetary instruments violates his rig …

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Ex-gang enforcer becomes an 'urban translator'

I'm seeding this because I it calls to mind Barbara Billingsley translating "jive" in the movie Airplane. It's also encouraging to me that our justice system is sometimes "blatantly and humourously" absurd instead of the usual "inuriatingly" absurd.

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Man accused of crashing UBS servers

Sounds pretty ingenious to me... You're mad that you don't get a bonus, so you crash all (many) of your employer's servers in the country. Maybe this is bank employees' version of "going postal." Well, at least nobody died... maybe they lost a lot of money...

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Court backs government broadband wiretap access

A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the government's authority to force high-speed Internet service providers to give law enforcement authorities access for surveillance purposes.

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