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Case summaries and excerpts from the opinions by U.S. District Court judges for the 30 terrorism detainees ordered released from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison and the eight denied release since late 2008:
Ohio waded into uncharted territory Friday when it announced plans to switch from the usual three-drug cocktail used to execute inmates to a one-drug method that death penalty opponents praised as a step forward — albeit one that has apparently never been tried on prisoners.
An Idaho woman accused of ramming her pickup into another car, then hurling ranch salad dressing at the vehicle, has pleaded guilty to aggravated battery. Tiffany M. Wallace, 18, entered the plea in 4th District Court Monday in a deal with prosecutors. The Idaho Statesman reported Wallace was scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 11.
A U.S. District Court judge ruled Friday that Baxter International Inc. is not entitled to a higher Medicare reimbursement price for its hemophilia drug Advate.
An independent drug test on Jeremy Mayfield was negative for methamphetamines, contradicting the results of a NASCAR test taken 40 minutes earlier, the driver claimed in court documents filed Tuesday.
Excerpts from text of prepared remarks that were read in U.S. District Court on Thursday by former Pfc. Steven Dale Green, as provided by his attorneys. His actual remarks deviated at times from the written statement, his attorneys said.
Attorneys for a pair of Indiana state pension funds and a state construction fund will head to U.S. District Court on Tuesday to challenge the legality of Chrysler's plan to exit bankruptcy protection.
Jurors in Norfolk are deliberating the discrimination case of a female dock worker who was punished by her union for urinating on the job when a male co-worker who also relieved himself wasn't. The U.S. District Court jury began deliberations Wednesday in the case of Sonyo Tillett-Bond, who was told to go home after the Oct. 5, 2006, incident at the Portsmouth port.
The chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington on Monday said senators are "injuring the federal judiciary" by holding up nominations and making a political issue out of the clients represented by lawyers up for federal positions.
Bernard Madoff's prepared statement, delivered Thursday in U.S. District Court in New York:
Bernard Madoff could soon find himself in a courtroom with some of the same devastated investors who he is accused of ripping off in one of the biggest financial frauds in history.
An ex-girlfriend of Roberto Alomar filed an explosive lawsuit alleging the former baseball star insisted on unprotected sex for four years despite having AIDS.
A judge has postponed a hearing that would have been the first in federal court in Massachusetts to be streamed online.
Police said a West Valley City woman tried to avoid a drunken driving arrest by putting her daughter in the driver's seat before police arrived. Charges filed this week in 3rd District Court say the woman drove recklessly on Nov. 28 through a Costco parking lot in West Valley City. Authorities said she hit a curb and blew out a tire in the process.
The NFL wants an appeals court to reconsider a federal judge's order that blocked the suspensions of five players for violating the league's anti-doping policy, according to court documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Minnesota.
Rep. Vito Fossella was sentenced Monday to five days in jail for drunken driving, a humiliating coda to a political career ruined by revelations he'd fathered a child from an extramarital affair. Judge Becky Moore of Alexandria General District Court decided the New York Republican was so drunk he met the legal threshold for a five-day stint in jail.
Authorities have recovered a stolen 18-carat gold bookmark that reportedly was given to Adolf Hitler by his longtime mistress, Eva Braun. Christian Popescu, a Romanian national, was arrested Tuesday outside a Bellevue Starbucks after trying to sell the bookmark to an undercover agent for $100,000, according to papers filed in U.S. District Court.
An 18-year-old Hayden, Idaho, man was accused of stabbing his mother after she forbade him to use the Internet social networking site MySpace. The man was arrested last week for investigation of aggravated assault after his mother said he cut her wrist.
Former Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court Oct. 30 on cocaine trafficking charges.
A man was charged with burglary after he allegedly broke into a home, ate cheese from the refrigerator, made a mess in a bathroom and fell asleep on a child's bed. Tracy Mullins, 47, of Billings, was arraigned in District Court on Thursday by video from the county jail.
Jackson Browne doesn't want John McCain running on anything fueled by his lyrics. The singer-songwriter sued McCain and the Ohio and national Republican committees in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday, accusing them of using his song "Running on Empty" without his permission.
Sammy Villegas was the Mid-American Conference freshman of the year. The following season he helped Toledo reach the National Invitation Tournament.
A federal judge ordered Microsoft Corp. to pay Alcatel-Lucent $511.6 million in damages and interest, letting stand a jury's decision that the software maker infringed on two patents.
Excerpts from the drug indictment of Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California.
A Harrisonburg court has dismissed a case against a baby boy summoned to appear in court for an unpaid bill. Richard White said he was shocked when he got a subpoena in the mail requiring his 1-year-old son, Jacy, to appear in Rockingham County General District Court next Tuesday over a $391 chiropractor bill.
Obama birthplace lawyer fined for legal misconductA Georgia federal judge today fined Mission Viejo lawyer Orly Taitz $20,000 for legal misconduct in her claims that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and so should be removed as president.
ACORN to stand trial in Las VegasEvidence heard during more than six hours of testimony left "a lot of issues that have to be answered" before trial, Las Vegas Justice of the Peace William Jansen said.
Unbeknown to most of you but this year has been as the Queen would say a 'annus horribilis' year so far ! Justice is Blind Late last year I suffered a tear to the bowel. Don't ask me how!(I just don't known) Anyway I got a bad infection was on anti-biotics for sometime.
Politically and historically correct art don't always mixA bit of history is usually hidden behind a curtain in U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate's courtroom here.
Murder suspect to have psychiatric exam after laughing at prelimA murder suspect who laughed and smirked during his preliminary examination has been ordered to undergo a forensic psychiatric exam before standing trial.
MySpace Wins Record Suit Against 'Spam King'MySpace won on a default judgment when the defendants failed to appear. However, it is an interesting precedent to set with regards to the amount of compensation awarded.
Sheriff Forces Inmates to Pay RentA southern Georgia sheriff faces federal charges accusing him of billing inmates for room and board and interfering with an FBI investigation of local judges. An indictment unsealed Thursday in U.S.
Vick admits dog killing, conspiracy - CNN.comNFL star Michael Vick has admitted that he and two of co-conspirators killed dogs that did not fight well in papers filed Friday with a federal court in Virginia.
U.S. District Court Denies Wal-Mart Motion to Dismiss CaseWal-Mart Pharmacist to Have Day in Court Against Employer Federal Court Ruling Denies Wal-Mart's Attempt to Silence Pharmacist
Hearst Corporation Newspapers Sue For Steroid ListThe Hearst Corporation, which owns 12 daily newspapers, filed suit for access to a list of Major League Baseball players who purportedly received performance-enhancing drugs, the San Francisco Chronicle, a Hearst paper, reported Friday.
Texas jury awards $9 million to beating victimA jury awarded $9 million to a black man who suffered permanent brain damage after being beaten and dumped in a field by four men in 2003.
1998 pornography law kicked to the curb once againA federal judge has once again overturned the controversial 1998 Child Online Protection Act. In an opinion handed down today, US district court Judge Lowell Reed Jr. ruled that COPA was unconstitutional and issued a permanent injunction against its enforcement.
YouTube Hands Over User's Info to FoxThree weeks after receiving a subpoena from the U.S. District Court in Northern California, YouTube has reportedly identified a user accused by 20th Century Fox Television of uploading episodes of the show 24 a week prior to their running on television.
GEMA obtains injunctions against data exchange serviceshe German collecting society GEMA has obtained from the District Court in Cologne temporary injunctions against the operator of the data exchange services www.rapidshare.de and www.rapidshare.com.
Bush Urges Expanded Drilling Of Alaskan Wildlife"There are over 100 billion tons of untapped, domestic wildlife lying beneath, on, and above the surface of Alaska's North Slope region," said Bush during a White House press conference.
"Art" and Internet Child-sex LawsIt also covers only material that appeals to the "prurient, shameful or morbid interests of minors" that is "patently offensive" and "without serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors."
Google's 'thumbnails' infringe copyrightsThis Financial Times article does a better job of explaining the ruling than the Mercury News or AP articles. "Despite the ruling against Google, Judge Harz concluded that the company's practice of linking to and displaying a copy of the website where it had found the image did
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