Civil Rights Era case wrapping up
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Jurors deciding the case of a reputed Klu Klux Klansman will have to decide without hearing from him whether he took part in the deadly attacks of two black teenagers in the Jim Crow-era.
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The judgement ended a long-running dispute over payments on life insurance policies taken out by Holocaust victims.
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The US supreme court signalled its shift to the right yesterday in a decision that undermines a landmark legal ruling of the civil rights era that outlawed segregation in schools.
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This week's resignation of its president points to an internal split: civil rights vs. economic progress.
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All but closing the books on a crime that helped give rise to the civil rights movement, a grand jury has refused to bring any new charges in the 1955 slaying of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was beaten and shot after whistling at a white woman in the Mississippi Delta.
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With Edgar Ray Killen back on trial, the state struggles with vestiges of its segregationist past.
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Prosecutors dismissed all charges Wednesday, Nov. 3, against two Montclair High School students who were accused of raping a 15-year-old schoolmate last month, ending a case that brought
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Michael Jackson and his ex-wife, Deborah Rowe, have settled their lengthy legal battle over custody and visitation rights for their two children, her lawyer said Friday.
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Significant decisions by the Supreme Court on the racial makeup of schools:
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A panel of federal judges Friday revived the last remaining lawsuit stemming from disputes over congressional redistricting after the 2000 census.
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Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education. In the case, Roderick Jackson -- formerly a basketball coach at a public high school -- alleges that he was removed
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RR Donnelley &amp; Sons settled a decade-old race discrimination case stemming from the 1993 closing of its Lakeside Press plant, the company said Thursday.
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A judge in one of the nation's longest-running school desegregation cases released the Little Rock district from federal supervision Friday, nearly 50 years after President Eisenhower sent in troops to escort nine black students into all-white Central High.
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Testimony in the Phil Spector murder trial drew to a close here Monday as a senior member of the music producer&#39;s defense team resigned, citing a difference of opinion with the rock legend.
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SANTA MARIA, California Damage control by prosecutors in the Michael Jackson child molestation case takes center stage today. In the closing act of the latest series of California courtroom hearings, deputies are expected to testify.
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Lawyers defending Conrad Black and three former associates wrapped up their case on Tuesday after less than two weeks of testimony designed to show that the one-time media baron and his co-defendants did not commit a $60 million corporate theft.
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Lawyers defending Conrad Black and three former associates against criminal fraud charges wrapped up their case on Tuesday after the one-time media baron and three co-defendants turned down a last chance to take the stand in their own defense.