Thursday, September 11, 2008

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Cabbies have a right to appeal a suspension, with the penalty stayed until an administrative hearing officer issues a decision.
Nine men who own or operate taxis at the airport had appealed a district judge's refusal to issue a temporary injunction blocking the commission from imposing the penalties. The men said their religious beliefs prohibit them from carrying alcohol.
The Appeals Court ruling Tuesday upholds the lower court's decision. Both courts said that the respondents failed to show that they would suffer irreparable harm if a temporary injunction was not granted. Both courts also noted the appeal process that allows cabbies to keep working while their case is pending.
Airports Commission spokesman Patrick Hogan said Tuesday that there have been only five refusals of service so far this year


In a stunning setback for federal prosecutors trying to bring unsolved civil-rights-era crimes to justice, an appeals court in New Orleans has overturned the conviction of reputed Ku Klux Klan member James Earle Seale for the murders of two black Mississippi teenagers in 1964. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Seale's attorney that the statute of limitations in the case had expired.
In its ruling, the court vacated Seale's 2007 conviction and rendered a judgment of acquittal.
Seale was convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy in the May 2, 1964 abductions of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. Both were 19




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