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Madoff gets 150 years in prison

Business | Lawsuits and scandals
2009-6-30

CONVICTED swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison yesterday for fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a symbolic message to those who might imitate his crimes and to victims...

Judge charged over unjust verdict

National
2009-3-31

A JUDGE in southwest China has been charged with delivering an unjust verdict which resulted in the death of a woman. The prosecutors in Yumen City, Gansu Province, have lodged the charge, today's Lanzhou Morning...

US judge tosses out legislator's lawsuit against God

Odd
2008-10-16

A JUDGE has thrown out a Nebraska state legislator's lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn't properly served due to his unlisted home address. State Senator Ernie Chambers filed the lawsuit last year...

Markets expert judge gets the gavel

Business | Banking
2008-9-21

THE luck of the draw gave the biggest bankruptcy in history to the second-most junior bankruptcy judge in Manhattan. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's case was randomly assigned to US Bankruptcy Judge James Peck,...

Junior judge to settle Lehman case

Business | Banking
2008-9-17

THE luck of the draw gave the biggest bankruptcy in history to the second-most junior bankruptcy judge in Manhattan. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's case was randomly assigned to United States Bankruptcy Judge...

Lawyer says NBA is out to 'destroy' disgraced ref

Sports | Olympics
2008-6-25

THE NBA wants to financially "destroy" disgraced referee Tim Donaghy for embarrassing the league during the playoffs with allegations that referees were encouraged to manipulate results through foul calls, his lawyer...

Bestiality video overshadows court trial

World
2008-6-13

JUDGE Alex Kozinski is more accustomed to appearing on lists to fill United States Supreme Court vacancies than in headlines involving pornographic scandals. But yesterday, the chief judge of the country's...

Australian judge aborts drug trial because jurors were playing Sudoku

Odd
2008-6-11

A JUDGE aborted a drug conspiracy trial yesterday after some jurors were found to have been playing the puzzle game Sudoku while evidence was being given. Sydney District Court Judge Peter Zahra ended the trial...

Sect children take DNA paternity tests

World
2008-4-22

MORE than 400 children taken from a polygamous sect's West Texas ranch will undergo DNA testing this week, an attempt to determine who their parents are and if any sexual abuse took place. US Officials planned...

Former judge given life term for graft in Shenzhen

National
2008-1-5

A COURT in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen sentenced a former judge to life imprisonment yesterday for taking bribes of more than 3.7 million yuan (US$507,000). Pei Hongquan, former vice president of Shenzhen...