en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/odd/court/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/odd/court_urged_to_enter_spurned_spo/ A plumber and a millionaire squared off in Mississippi over a woman. The woman chose the rich guy. The plumber sued the millionaire and won more than $750,000. Now Jerry Fitch Sr., a businessman from Holly Springs, Miss., wants the Supreme Court to ste news odd 2007-10-26 15:34:28 http://www.newsique.com/odd/court_urged_to_enter_spurned_spo/ Google Associated Press http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iFkg05PN361reUpYAF9hGHIWeiXw http://www.newsique.com/sources/google_ap/ 100 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/odd/court_urged_to_enter_spurned_spo/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/ex_is_hit_with_100k_sin_tax_/ A hard-partying Wall Street trader and his ex-girlfriend are in court over an allegedly broken $100,000 promise to keep on the straight and narrow. In recently filed court papers, Elisa Kwon accuses her former beau Greg Calvino, 45, of reneg ing on a p news odd 2007-10-01 11:12:23 http://www.newsique.com/odd/ex_is_hit_with_100k_sin_tax_/ New York Post http://www.nypost.com/seven/09302007/news/regionalnews/ex_is_hit_with_100g_sin_tax.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/nypost/ 84 Funny [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/odd/ex_is_hit_with_100k_sin_tax_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/austrian_judge_chimps_arent_peop/ He's now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he's having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria' news odd 2007-09-28 09:26:03 http://www.newsique.com/odd/austrian_judge_chimps_arent_peop/ SF Gate http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/162129478/2007-09-27-chimpanzee_N.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Funny [10] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/odd/austrian_judge_chimps_arent_peop/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/man_brings_donkey_to_testify_in_/ Faced with complaints that his donkey was too loud, attorney Gregory Shamoun decided to bring his case directly to the court: He had the donkey testify. Buddy the donkey appeared in court Wednesday. He walked to the bench and stared at the jury, the pi news odd 2007-04-19 15:57:34 http://www.newsique.com/odd/man_brings_donkey_to_testify_in_/ USA Today http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/110410414/2007-04-19-court-donkey_N.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/usatoday/ 91 Funny [9] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/odd/man_brings_donkey_to_testify_in_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/judge_oks_truckers_new_name_yno/ Justin Brady wanted a new name, and state District Court Judge Jerald Valentine has granted his request. His new name is Ynot Bubba. Bubba said after Monday's court proceeding that he had no celebration plans and instead planned to spend the day notifying news odd 2007-04-03 18:19:48 http://www.newsique.com/odd/judge_oks_truckers_new_name_yno/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_fe_st/my_name_s_bubba http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Funny [6] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/odd/judge_oks_truckers_new_name_yno/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/police_man_arrives_at_dui_hearin/ A man who arrived at court drunk for a drunken-driving hearing was again charged with driving under the influence, police said. Paul H. Zeigler, 45, of Glen Rock, appeared at a preliminary hearing at the Shrewsbury district court on March 26 for a DUI news odd 2007-04-03 06:57:50 http://www.newsique.com/odd/police_man_arrives_at_dui_hearin/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_fe_st/court_dui http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Funny [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/odd/police_man_arrives_at_dui_hearin/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/dog_with_college_degree_called_t/ An attorney challenging the authority of the city's police chief wants the department's police dog to appear in court as an exhibit, because he says the dog and the chief have criminal justice degrees from the same online school. 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A court heard yesterday how Robert Silvestro, 43, pulled out an air pistol and fired two pellets into Lesley Stevenson's head and chest. news odd 2006-11-15 08:22:46 http://www.newsique.com/odd/i_shot_my_girlfriend_then_marrie/ DailyRecord.co.uk http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_headline=i-shot-my-girlfriend---then-i-married-her-&method=full&objectid=18090310&siteid=66633-name_page.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/dailyrecordcouk/ 85 Under Rated [10] 85 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/odd/i_shot_my_girlfriend_then_marrie/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/sc_court_upholds_nasty_note_ruli/ Note to defendants: Don't tell the judge to kiss the body part you sit on. The South Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld a judge's contempt order against a St. Matthews woman who signed a court document with just such an instruction and told a probati news odd 2008-01-07 08:22:37 http://www.newsique.com/odd/sc_court_upholds_nasty_note_ruli/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080106/ap_on_fe_st/odd_contempt_charge http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/odd/sc_court_upholds_nasty_note_ruli/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/missouri_mans_beer_bribe_turns_s/ When a St. Louis man was charged with driving without a license, he didn't hire a good lawyer. Instead, he attempted to bribe a court clerk with beer, according to police. 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The Supreme Administrative Court in Stockholm last week ruled that the Swedish Prison and Probation Service had news odd 2007-06-26 12:52:50 http://www.newsique.com/odd/court_upholds_prisoners_right_to/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070626/ap_on_fe_st/sweden_prison_porn http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Amazing [4] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/odd/court_upholds_prisoners_right_to/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/teens_spared_in_impotent_ostrich/ Three German teenagers have been spared paying hefty damages after a court ruled it could not prove an ostrich farmer's claim that their festive firecrackers made one of his birds impotent. Court proceedings in the eastern town of Bautzen ended Monday news odd 2007-06-04 16:57:02 http://www.newsique.com/odd/teens_spared_in_impotent_ostrich/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_fe_st/impotent_ostrich http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/odd/teens_spared_in_impotent_ostrich/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/tv_extra_enters_court_in_police_/ A woman portraying a police officer as a TV extra took her part one step too far by entering a courtroom where her son faced a weapons charge, police said. Kimberly Chapman was working as an extra Monday on the Spike TV series "The Kill Point," starrin news odd 2007-05-25 08:19:05 http://www.newsique.com/odd/tv_extra_enters_court_in_police_/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070524/ap_on_fe_st/odd_tv_extra_charged http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/odd/tv_extra_enters_court_in_police_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/want_hair_dont_expect_insurance/ Bald men in Germany have no right to state-funded wigs, according to a new court ruling. A court in the southwestern state of Rhineland-Palatinate rejected an appeal by a man to have the costs of his hairpiece paid for by a statutory health insurer, sa news odd 2007-05-14 12:27:18 http://www.newsique.com/odd/want_hair_dont_expect_insurance/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070513/od_nm/germany_wig_dc http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/odd/want_hair_dont_expect_insurance/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/brewer_must_pay_alcoholic_beer_t/ A Brazilian court has ordered local brewer Ambev to pay 100,000 reals (US$49,400; euro36,400) to an alcoholic beer taster who drank about a liter and a half (3.2 pints) of beer each day. The unidentified employee alleged that the company did not provid news odd 2007-05-07 08:21:35 http://www.newsique.com/odd/brewer_must_pay_alcoholic_beer_t/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070506/ap_on_fe_st/brazil_beer_taster http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Funny [5] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/odd/brewer_must_pay_alcoholic_beer_t/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/russia_jails_gang_for_selling_kr/ A Russian court on Monday convicted six men for selling forged copies of number plates and passes reserved for senior Kremlin officials and the presidential bodyguard. The gang had sold special number plates and passes with a flashing blue light -- kno news odd 2007-03-19 22:00:50 http://www.newsique.com/odd/russia_jails_gang_for_selling_kr/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070319/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_russia_numberplates_kremlin http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/odd/russia_jails_gang_for_selling_kr/#comments http://www.newsique.com/odd/imposter_sits_in_on_defense_meet/ A truck driver who was once jailed for armed robbery posed as an army officer, mixed with the top brass and talked his way into high-level security meetings, an Australian court has been told. 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