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| A British judge ruled against Exxon Mobil Corp. on Tuesday, tossing out an order to freeze $12 billion in assets belonging to Venezuela's state oil company in a case that stemmed from the nationalization of a project last year. Judge Paul Walker noted that such freezing orders are rare and occur in cases where there is "usually compelling evidence of serious international fraud." 
"In the present case there is no suggestion whatever of fraud on the part of (Petroleos de Venezuela SA) or any entity or person associated with it," Walker said in a summary of conclusions released by the court.
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The Supreme Court affirmed that police have the power to conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest that turns out to have violated state law.  Defendant was convicted for possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute, but his conviction was reversed by the Virginia Supreme Court. The court reasoned that since arresting officers should have issued defendant a citation for driving with a suspended license under state law rather than arresting him and the Fourth Amendment did not permit search incident to citation, an arrest search violated the Fourth Amendment.
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Officer John Haleas is accused of falsifying information in drunk driving arrests. Officers Michael Bernichio and Daniel Murphy are accused of writing up identical drug arrest reports against two men and then picking which one to charge. The Cook County state's attorney's office says it has dropped 150 DUI cases brought by Haleas. He had been honored for making more DUI arrests than any other police officer in Illinois. Police superintendent Jody Weis says the officers have been stripped of their official powers. 
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(CNN) -- The announced pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears -- the 16-year-old children's television star and younger sister of beleaguered pop star Britney Spears -- is casting new light on how states deal with the thorny issue of consensual sex among teens. 
Spears, the star of Nickelodeon's "Zoey 101," told OK! Magazine that she's pregnant and that the father is her 18-year-old boyfriend. There has been no public talk of criminal prosecution in the case. Consensual sex between the two may well have been legal, depending on where and when it took place. But critics of the nation's statutory rape laws say that laws that are ignored in some cases can be used to put other teens in prison and land them on sex-offender registries.
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| LOS ANGELES (AP) - Stop that $1 million check: It turns out the call girl linked to Eliot Spitzer had already shed her clothes for "Girls Gone Wild" as an 18-year-old while partying in Miami, the video company's founder said Tuesday. Joe Francis had reached out to Ashley Alexandra Dupre, now 22, with an offer of $1 million to appear in a non-nude spread for his company's new magazine, plus a chance to join the "Girls Gone Wild" tour bus, his company announced Tuesday. 
But Francis said someone had a revelation at the Tuesday morning staff meeting: Did anyone think to check the archives? They did, he said - and there she was.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- East Lansing police say they made 52 arrests and ticketed 48 people at a party near the campus of Michigan State University where fights broke out and officers were pelted with bottles and cans.   Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd early today. Police say 3,000 to 4,000 people had gathered for the Cedar Fest party in East Lansing last night. Police say the crowd became increasingly unruly about 1 a.m. Tear gas was fired about 2 a.m. after repeated loudspeaker warnings to leave were ignored, and the crowd had dispersed about an hour later.
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