judge to make decision on Arcata panhandling law; ordinance remains a rift in city politics - Eureka Times-Standard
28 May 2012, 4:26 am
A Humboldt County Superior Court judge will rule on the constitutionality of Arcata's panhandling ordinance, which limits the locations where people are allowed to panhandle and carries penalties for aggressive panhandling. The ordinance was the ...

UK judge to Hear Radical Preacher Bail Application - ABC News
28 May 2012, 3:36 am
A U.K. immigration judge is to decide whether radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada should be granted bail. Abu Qatada is being held in a high-security prison while he fights deportation to Jordan over terror charges. Both the British and Jordanian ...

judge starts probing corruption case against Shafi - zeenews.india.com
27 May 2012, 10:14 pm
Cairo: A judge will soon begin investigating MP Essam Sultan's profiteering and corruption accusations against Egypt's presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq. judge Osama el-Saadi, who was delegated by the justice minister to probe a lawsuit filed by Sultan ...

NY judge: Apple statements damage lawsuit position - Yahoo Finance
27 May 2012, 4:16 pm
NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge cited the confident voice of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs on Tuesday as she refused to toss out lawsuits alleging the company and various publishers conspired to drive up the price of electronic books.

judge assigned civil suit against Floyd County - Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier
27 May 2012, 2:22 pm
CHARLES CITY, Iowa --- A new judge will handle "every aspect" of a pending lawsuit leveled against Floyd County. judge Bryan McKinley was overseeing Theresa Farmer's case, which alleges she endured sexual harassment, retaliation and discrimination while ...

Age row: SC judge asked me to 'blow with wind', Gen V K Singh says - Times of India
26 May 2012, 4:03 pm
NEW DELHI: Five days before his controversial 26-month tenure as Army chief comes to an end, Gen V K Singh on Saturday voiced criticism of the defence ministry for "selectively leaking" information to "fix" him. In a series of interviews to TV ...

Letters asked judge for leniency in Rutgers webcam case - USA Today
26 May 2012, 1:54 pm
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) – The letters came from a man who was once beaten with a baseball bat in a racially motivated attack, the widow of a Minnesota judge, a group representing lesbian, gay and transgendered people from South Asia, a gay ...

judge sends honor student to jail for missing school - Raw Story
26 May 2012, 10:27 am
A Houston-area teenager has been jailed and fined for missing school by a judge who hopes to make an example of her. 17-year-old Diane Tran is working two jobs while taking advanced placement and dual credit courses at Willis High School in ...

Letters asked judge for leniency in NJ webcam case - ksl.com
25 May 2012, 6:56 pm
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - The letters came from a man who was once beaten with a baseball bat in a racially motivated attack, the widow of a Minnesota judge, a group representing lesbian, gay and transgendered people from South Asia, a gay member of the ...

judge strikes down Defense of Marriage Act provision in California employees' case - Contra Costa Times
25 May 2012, 9:38 am
OAKLAND -- A federal judge ruled Thursday that the state's public-employee pension system must make long-term care insurance equally available to same-sex spouses and partners. U.S. District judge Claudia Wilken said a provision of the federal ...