A 17-year-old Mexican who came into the United States illegally pleaded guilty Friday in a San Diego court to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot four times in the head. Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez pleaded guilty to killing Border Patrol officer, Robert Rosas Jr., federal prosecutors said, while he was on routine patrol. Castro admitted he entered the United [...]
U.S Airlines may be watching the European Court of Justice ruling today that said airlines in the European Union must pay up to 600 euros (roughtly $900 U.S. dollars) to passengers whose flights are delayed three or more hours, the same amount as their flight had been cancelled. In August 2009, a plane departing from [...]
The New York’s highest court, the New York Court of Appeals ruled on Nov. 19 by a split-decision affirmed the recognition of same-sex marriages by a county executive and a state agency but, but declined to extend full New York recognition to such marriages contracted in other states and countries where they are legal. The four-judge [...]
Former Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu (shoo) was sentenced by Manhattan federal court to 24 years in a federal prison for violating campaign finance laws. Hsu’s, 56, donations became an embarrassment for then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign. His arrest led Clinton to return more than $800,000 to donors linked to Hsu. Prosecutors, who urged the [...]
A Kentucky football coach acquitted last week in the death of a player says there are no winners after his criminal trial. Pleasure Ridge Park High School coach David Jason Stinson told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday that the case was “never Jason Stinson vs. ,” and the death of his offensive lineman and [...]
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that children who may have been poisoned by lead paint cannot claim manufactures designed a defective product, even though lead was the key ingredient in the paint. The court ruled 6-0 that a plaintiff suing lead pigment manufactures for lead poisoning cannot bring “design defect” claim. The lawsuits, including [...]
Mississippi settled an antitrust suit with Microsoft Corp for $100 million on Thursday and said businesses, individuals, schools and local government would be eligible for a share of the pot. Jan Schaefer, spokeswoman for Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, said “Anyone who made a purchase from January 1, 1996, to today is eligible for a [...]
A man who won $18 million settlement from the the city of New York, after he was paralyzed in a ferry crash has asked that he be allowed to increase his lawyer’s pay. James McMillan, was paralyzed when his neck was broken in the 2003 Staten Island ferry crash. McMillian was awarded $22.9 million by [...]
WASHINGTON – Today, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a 5-4 decision, upheld the Federal Communication Commission’s indecency policy, a ban on one-time utterances of certain expletives over the nation’s airwaves. The court’s ruling said the FCC — which was prompted by celebrities cursing on a FOX Television broadcast during an awards show– [...]
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – Attorneys for 255 individual and 19 organizational plaintiffs in Newdow v. Roberts filed an appeal with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today. The lawsuit claims that “so help me God” in the Presidential Oath of Office said by Chief Justice John Roberts violated the Establishment and Free [...]
