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Beyoncé reportedly offered $500 million to become 'X-Factor' host

By theGrio

5:14 PM on 02/02/2012

Allegedly, Simon Cowell has been courting pop diva Beyoncé and the if the figures are to believed he's offering the GDP of a small country to get her...
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Atlanta judge orders Obama to court to counter 'birther' claim

By Jay Scott Smith

3:00 PM on 01/24/2012

theGRIO REPORT - Judge David Farrar is demanding to see Obama's Hawaiian hospital records, which are confidential under federal law, or his mother's OB/GYN records from when she was carrying Obama...
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First African-American woman on 6th Circuit Court

By theGrio

3:30 PM on 09/07/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has confirmed Bernice Donald as a judge on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
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Ala. judges impose death though juries vote for life in prison

By News One

1:25 PM on 07/13/2011

NEWS ONE - African-American Iraq War veteran, Courtney Lockhart, will now be sentenced to death instead of the life imprisonment for the 2008 murder of 18-year-old Lauren Burk...
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LA Reid deemed meaner than Simon Cowell on 'X-Factor'

By theGrio

10:34 AM on 05/09/2011

Seems Cowell might have competition for the title of "meanest judge" on The X Factor in music industry veteran and table-mate Antonio "L.A." Reid....
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NFL players can go back to work -- for now

By theGrio

8:58 AM on 04/26/2011

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The NFL is a long way from playing football again -- even if players are welcomed back to work with no lockout to stop them...
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LA judge admonished for Ku Klux Klan comment

By theGrio

11:01 AM on 03/17/2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Superior Court judge was admonished Wednesday for a comment referring to the Ku Klux Klan in a case involving two African-American defendants...
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Jackson doc ordered before judge considering delay

By theGrio

11:12 AM on 03/02/2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) - During two previous sessions, Pastor grilled Murray's defense attorneys about why they haven't turned more information over to prosecutors...
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Barrier breaker: Va.'s first black chief justice dies

By theGrio

11:12 AM on 02/09/2011

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Hassell was appointed to the Supreme Court by then-Gov. Gerald L. Baliles in 1989. In 2003 he became the court's first black chief justice and the 24th overall...
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Judge upholds California's affirmative action ban

By theGrio

10:28 AM on 12/09/2010

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging California's voter-approved ban on affirmative action in public university admissions...
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1,000 letters urge prison for ex-officer in Oscar Grant case

By theGrio

9:04 AM on 11/05/2010

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mehserle could face up to 14 years in prison after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter for shooting 22-year-old Oscar Grant on a train platform in 2009...
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Jackson doctor's legal bills issue in Texas court

By theGrio

8:58 AM on 10/21/2010

HOUSTON (AP) - An insurer for the doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death has asked a judge to rule that it is not responsible for the physician's legal bills...
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T.I. headed back to prison for 11 months

By theGrio

5:23 PM on 10/15/2010

ATLANTA (AP) - During the hearing, T.I. begged U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr. not to send him back to prison, saying he needed to get help for drug addiction...
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T.I.'s talking down suicidal man may help image with judge

By theGrio

8:08 AM on 10/15/2010

ATLANTA (AP) - T.I. is scheduled to appear in court on Friday to explain to a judge why he should stay out of prison...
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Black judge rejects plea deal for 'white boy'

By theGrio

3:06 PM on 10/06/2010

MSNBC - A black judge from western Pennsylvania rejected a plea agreement for a man accused of fighting with police during a traffic stop, saying it was "a ridiculous plea that only goes to white boys."...
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Detroit-area judge says 'Supreme Court needs me'

By theGrio

9:17 AM on 10/04/2010

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) - Denise Langford Morris, 56, is promising civility on the state's highest court, something definitely lacking among liberal and conservative justices the past two years...
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Man thwarts convicted felon and saves judge's life

By theGrio

6:26 PM on 09/13/2010

VIDEO - "I just did what I had to do to save her, I would have did it for anybody," says the good Samaritan...
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NJ governor dumps high court's only black judge

By theGrio

2:21 PM on 05/03/2010

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey's new Republican governor has made his first move to reshape the state Supreme Court, ousting the only black justice and nominating a lawyer with long experience in private practice to take his place...
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Black female judge, a former third-grade teacher, makes Supreme Court nominee list

By theGrio

5:26 PM on 04/21/2010

President Obama has assembled a list of about 10 candidates and aims to look outside the box - and take his time -- in his search for a new justice...
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Judge strikes down Arkansas gay adoption ban

By theGrio

4:26 PM on 04/19/2010

VIDEO - An Arkansas circuit court judge has declared Arkansas' unmarried couples adoption and foster law unconstitutional...
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