ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, February 22, 1996 TAG: 9602220066
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: METRO
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a federal pension law bars some lawsuits aimed at forcing a company's officials to pay court-ordered judgments in disputes over pension benefits.
The court ruled 8-1 that an employee of a defunct South Carolina company could not sue the company's chairman in federal court to force him to pay pension benefits the company had been ordered to pay.
Such lawsuits are not authorized by the federal Employment Retirement Income Security Act, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the court. - Associated Press Jury deadlocks in rapper's trial
LOS ANGELES - Jurors who acquitted rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg and his former bodyguard of murder deadlocked Wednesday on a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.
The jurors said they deadlocked 9-3 in favor of acquittal in the shooting death of a gang member.
They also acquitted the rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, of a separate charge of accessory after the fact in the Aug. 25, 1993, death of 20-year-old Philip Woldemariam.
The mistrial applies only to the manslaughter charges. Prosecutors said they had not decided whether to retry the pair on those charges. - Associated Press
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