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• Chief Justice Roberts Suffers Seizure

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:13 am

  Tags: Supreme Court, News

  in minor scrapes, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said. He will remain in a hospital in Maine overnight. “It’s my understanding he’s fully recovered, said Christopher Burke, a spokesman for Penobscot Bay Medical Center, where Roberts was taken. Roberts, 52, was taken by ambulance to the medical center, where he

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• Congressional Chaplains, Madison and Context

  Published: July 15, 2007, 8:05 am

  Tags: Church State, 1st Amendment, History, Supreme Court, News, Activist Judges

  unconstitutional. Recent Courts have made a point of citing Madison’s Detached Memoranda in arguing against public religious expressions.” [See, for example, Lee v. Weisman, 505 U.S. 577, 617 (1992); Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783, 791 (1983); ACLU v. Capitol Square Review, 243 F.3d 289 (6th Cir. 2001); Sherman v. Cmty.

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• High court won't hear case of Union corrections officer

  Published: October 1, 2007, 7:50 pm

  Tags: Court News, Union County

  The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to pick up the case of a former Union County corrections officer, who claimed he was wrongfully fired after helping to prosecute a dozen colleagues accused of abusing illegal immigrants at the county jail...

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• Judge: McGreeveys must share driving daughter

  Published: October 1, 2007, 7:13 pm

  Tags: Court News, News, Politics, Union County

  A family court judge has ruled that former Gov. James E. McGreevey and his estranged wife Dina Matos McGreevey must share the responsibility of transportation for their 5-year-old daughter, after the pair disagreed about where to meet to drop her...

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• Jersey man sues for post-9/11 mistreatment

  Published: October 3, 2007, 8:33 am

  Tags: Court News

  AP Photo/Hakeem ShaheedHakeem Shaheed A New Jersey man filed a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing workers at a U.S. prison in Illinois of mistreating him and other Muslims after the 2001 terrorist attacks, at one time defiling his holy book...

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• Appeals court to consider high school football coach's prayers

  Published: October 3, 2007, 6:45 am

  Tags: Court News

  A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today is scheduled to hear an appeal from a New Jersey federal judge's ruling in the case of a New Jersey high school football coach who wants to lead...

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• Court hears football coach prayer dispute

  Published: October 3, 2007, 4:28 pm

  Tags: Court News, Education, Middlesex County, News, Religion, Sports

  East Brunswick school district claims coach violated policy

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• Former chief justice Zazzali back to work at 2 firms

  Published: October 3, 2007, 3:48 pm

  Tags: Court News, Essex County, News

  Amanda Brown/The Star-LedgerFormer chief justice, James Zazzali. James Zazzali's tenure as chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court was a whirlwind of activity. He criss-crossed the state visiting every county courthouse. He lobbied for judicial pay raises. And wrote...

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• NJ sues Woodbridge tour operator over Mecca travel deals

  Published: October 3, 2007, 2:49 pm

  Tags: Court News, Middlesex County, News, Religion

  Muslim cleric charged with consumer fraud for fake trips

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• Teen sentenced in car chase that left one man dead

  Published: October 3, 2007, 6:37 pm

  Tags: Court News, Essex County

  A Newark teenager was sentenced to 10 years in state prison today for leading police on a car chase in a stolen vehicle last year that cost one man his life and injured two others. As part of his sentence,...

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• Jury finds Elizabeth wrestling coach mishandled funds

  Published: October 3, 2007, 5:53 pm

  Tags: Court News, Education, News, Union County

  A Union County jury could not decide today whether a well-regarded Elizabeth wrestling coach is a thief, but did determine he mishandled tournament money intended for the board of education. The split verdict did not clear 39-year-old Terry Murray, who...

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• Court Ruling May Halt Executions Indefinitely

  Published: October 3, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Aclu, Illegal Activities, Supreme Court, News

  highest criminal appeals court late Tuesday stayed the lethal injection of a 28-year-old Honduran man who was scheduled to be put to death Wednesday Acting less than a week after it rejected another inmate's appeal 5 to 4, the appeals court justices provided no breakdown of the vote and did not give any reasoning for their decision. But

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• Cop's kin tried to sue other cop in deadly bridge crash

  Published: October 3, 2007, 7:56 pm

  Tags: Accident, Court News, Hudson County, News

  Two Jersey City police officers plunged from the Lincoln Highway Bridge on Christmas night 2005 and died as partners - but that didn't stop the family of one officer from trying to sue the other cop. Shawn Carson, 40, and...

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• Lawsuit claims Bloomberg's firm discriminates against women

  Published: October 4, 2007, 4:35 am

  Tags: Court News

  The women's complaint alleges NYC mayor is more active in day-to-day operations than he claims

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• NJ school voucher suit dismissed

  Published: October 4, 2007, 5:23 pm

  Tags: Court News, Education, News

  A Superior Court judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the state and a dozen districts that demanded students in failing schools be provided vouchers to attend schools of their choice. Known as Crawford v. Davy, the suit was filed...

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