Maryclaire Dale

May 12, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Government efforts to try an imprisoned cable executive and his son a second time for overlapping charges may amount to double jeopardy, a divided U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE,Associated Press Writer

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May 18, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Defendants filed their preliminary objections to plaintiff's complaint, which alleged trespass and negligence as a result of defendants' installation of a fence. The court agreed with defendants and struck her claim for punitive damages and her claim for "further relief as the court deem[ed] just and proper."

By MARYCLAIRE DALE,Associated Press Writer

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March 29, 2010 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - An electronic privacy expert is urging Congress to update wiretap laws to include secret video surveillance as a Senate subcommittee ponders the issue in Philadelphia.Monday's field hearing is being led by U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. It comes amid a lawsuit that accuses a Pennsylvania school district of spying on students through webcams on school-issued laptops.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

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September 02, 2009 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A U.S. appeals court upheld an Internet gambling ban Tuesday, rejecting a challenge from an association of off-shore bookies that the federal prohibition was too vague and violated privacy rights.The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia rejected arguments from Interactive Media Entertainment Gaming Association in New Jersey, which had filed the lawsuit hoping to legalize online betting in that state.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

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September 17, 2009 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - A wealthy Russian-American car exporter was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday for procuring girls from a Russian orphanage to have sex with them.Andrew Mogilyansky, 39, of suburban Philadelphia raped one girl on her 14th birthday and a 13-year-old in her first sexual encounter, the victims said in letters to the court.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

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April 10, 2007 | Daily Report Online

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. AP - Gov. Charlie Crist is being asked to pardon the late Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, 38 years after he was convicted of exposing himself during a Miami concert.Dave Diamond, a cable TV producer from Dayton, Ohio, wrote to Crist last month asking for the pardon. Diamond said the goal is to remember the Melbourne, Fla.

By Maryclaire Dale

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May 13, 2010 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - Government efforts to try an imprisoned cable executive and his son a second time for overlapping charges may amount to double jeopardy, a divided U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday.Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas, 85, and his son Timothy, 53, are already serving long sentences for fraud and conspiracy convictions in New York.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

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April 29, 2013 | Daily Report Online

The description of a shuttered abortion clinic as a "house of horrors" is a "political press fabrication," a lawyer for a doctor charged with killing four babies allegedly born alive there said Monday.

By MaryClaire Dale

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September 23, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

A U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia will again review the death sentence of famed inmate Mumia Abu Jamal, on orders from the Supreme Court.

By By MARYCLAIRE DALE,Associated Press Writer

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January 17, 2012 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - The U.S. Supreme Court has passed up a pair of cases for the online age - whether schools may censor students who are at home when they create online attacks against school officials and other students.The justices on Tuesday rejected appeals from Pennsylvania and West Virginia involving questions about the limits on criticism from students and where the authority of school officials ends.

By MaryClaire Dale

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