Snipes' attorneys file appeal
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Wesley Snipes is trying again to have his federal tax-evasion trial moved from this central Florida city.
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Five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for infecting hundreds of children with the virus that causes AIDS have appealed their convictions, their attorney said Sunday.
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FAIRFAX, Va. -- Lawyers for convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad asked a judge to throw out charges against him, saying prosecuting him again violates his right against being tried twice for the same offense.
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Two weeks after the fact, lawyers for the NBA and the players' union had their own little brawl. Attorneys for the two sides fought before an arbitrator and in federal court Friday, arguing over what avenues of appeal should be employed for the four players suspended by commissioner David Stern for fighting with fans during a Nov. 19 Pacers-Pistons game.
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Fifteen people convicted of corruption charges in the oil giant Elf Aquitaine scandal are appealing.
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Three Americans on trial in Afghanistan  for illegally imprisoning and torturing Afghans have appealed  to the U.S. ambassador to request the charges be dropped,  lawyers for two of them said Wednesday.
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U.S. Justice Department lawyers filed an appeal Friday aimed at blocking a lawsuit by a former Islamic charity that has challenged a Bush administration secret surveillance program.
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Lawyers for three Americans charged with torturing suspects in a private jail during a freelance hunt for terrorists in Afghanistan appealed Wednesday to the US ambassador to help stop their trial.
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By David Kravets Associated Press  SAN FRANCISCO -- Attorneys for Southwestern Indian tribes urged a federal appeals court last week to block the proposed expansion of an Arizona ski resort they say already desecrates land they hold sacred and sullies their religious beliefs.
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By Andrea Weigl, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 17--Attorneys for two death row inmates have moved the death penalty debate from one obscure state agency to another by filing a petition with the N.C. Office of Administrative Hearings.
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Action film star Wesley Snipes sued the city Monday, charging that it had no jurisdiction to seek his DNA in a paternity suit filed in Indiana by a woman he said was crack-addicted and mentally ill.
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Some aggrieved investors are turning to lawyers to pursue possible legal claims stemming from losses at two Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge funds that were virtually wiped out from large, illiquid bets on risky mortgages.
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U.S. attorneys whose resignations have been sought by the Justice Department in recent months:
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The attorneys general of five states and the U.S. Virgin Islands filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to try to force the government to reduce pesticide use in public housing projects.
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Three Americans on trial in Afghanistan  for illegally imprisoning and torturing Afghans have appealed  to the U.S. ambassador in Kabul to intervene in the case,  lawyers for two of them said on Wednesday.
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The prosecution in the tax evasion trial of Wesley Snipes rested Friday, clearing the way next week for the defense and its potential list of celebrity witnesses, including Snipes himself.
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Lawyers for convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad asked a judge to throw out charges against him, saying prosecuting him again violates his right against being tried twice for the same offense.