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  • Request denied to halt enforcement on new tobacco rules

    Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 11/06/2009 05:01 am

    A federal judge has turned down a request by the nation’s No. 2 cigarette-maker and others to immediately halt enforcement of new federal regulations on tobacco products. Their challenge to ...

  • Judge rethinks denying damages in Mass. mob case

    WRIC 8 News | 11/03/2009 04:54 pm

    A federal judge is reconsidering his decision that the mothers of two women allegedly slain by FBI informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi are not entitled to ...

  • NY judge: Kerik's behavior worries jail officials

    WRIC 8 News | 10/31/2009 04:44 pm

    Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is displaying worrisome, risky behavior in jail, a federal judge said Friday after speaking with the jail's psychiatric director.

  • Sentencing delayed in federal child-porn case

    Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 10/31/2009 05:01 am

    A federal judge in Richmond delayed sentencing in a local child-pornography case yesterday, concerned about the rationale behind the sentencing guidelines in such cases. U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne ...

  • Al-Qaida sleeper agent to be sentenced in Ill.

    WRIC 8 News | 10/29/2009 01:15 pm

    A federal judge in Illinois is expected to decided whether to send an admitted al-Qaida member to prison or grant his lawyers' demands to set him free.

  • Judge suspends ban on exit polling near NJ polls

    WRIC 8 News | 10/23/2009 11:47 pm

    Exit pollsters and journalists can continue to approach voters near polling sites in New Jersey after a federal judge suspended a state court ruling banning the practice within 100 feet ...

  • Holladay House will liquidate its assets

    Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 10/23/2009 05:01 am

    Holladay House Furniture has failed in its attempt to restructure and will liquidate its assets. The Aylett furniture retailer has asked a federal judge to convert its bankruptcy from Chapter ...

  • Judge tosses civil suits against Xe

    WWBT 12 News | 10/21/2009 11:05 pm

    Associated Press - October 21, 2009 6:05 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge has tossed out a series of lawsuits filed by alleged Iraqi victims of the contractor ...

  • Judge tosses civil suits against Xe

    WRIC 8 News | 10/21/2009 11:05 pm

    Associated Press - October 21, 2009 6:05 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge has tossed out a series of lawsuits filed by alleged Iraqi victims of the contractor ...

  • Judge revokes bail for NYC ex-police commissioner

    WRIC 8 News | 10/20/2009 06:47 pm

    A federal judge has revoked bail for former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik (KEHR'-ihk) and sent him to jail to await trial on corruption charges.

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