JACKSON, Miss. — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from a Mississippi death row inmate who argued there was an alleged constitutional error in his trial for the slaying of a junior college student. Charles Ray ...

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WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission says it won’t appeal a court decision that struck down rules it designed to ensure that the transmission of all Internet content be treated equally. The agency says it will fashion new rules. The ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a former top official in Somalia who has been ordered to pay Somali torture victims $21 million. The justices did not comment Monday in letting stand lower court rulings ...

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Appeal Timeliness — Order Directing Attorney’s Fees Perez v. AC Roosevelt Food Corp. 13-497-cv Judges Winter, Jacobs and Straub Background: The defendant appealed from an order granting the plaintiff’s motion for attorney’s fees. ...

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The sentencing of a former West Seneca doctor, convicted of poisoning his wife, was defective under a 1998 law, but the remedy under an amended law was not, the Court of Appeals has ruled. The court Thursday rejected yet another ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday to hear an appeal of a lower court decision that a federal judge called the “death” of software patents. In a worst-case scenario for the high-tech industry, if the Supreme Court upholds ...

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New York State Court of Appeals Appeal Indigent Defendant — Assignment of Counsel People v. Kordish No. 252 SSM 25 Memorandum Background: When a state provides for an appeal from a criminal conviction, the United States Constitution compels the state ...

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Last week, attorneys for four-time DWI offender Robert Pealer filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to have the most recent felony DWI conviction overturned.  The petition claims that Pealer’s rights under the Sixth Amendment were ...

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The Appellate Division, Fourth Department will take a second look at a recent appeal, on a rare order of the state Court of Appeals. The case involves a Buffalo man who claimed he did not get a fair trial because ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal that sought to keep interviews with former Irish Republican Army members from being turned over to police in Northern Ireland. The order leaves in place a lower court ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a Minnesota woman who has been ordered to pay record companies $222,000 for the unauthorized downloading of copyrighted music. The justices did not comment Monday in letting stand ...

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ERIE, Pa. — An Erie woman is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn her conviction and life sentence for her role in a bizarre bank robbery plot that left a pizza deliveryman dead when a collar bomb he was ...

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