In the 2006 case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ballard v. Burton, Judge Carl E. Stewart writing for the Court held that an Alford guilty plea is a " variation of an ordinary guilty plea ".

In November 2006, Reilly's attorney presented to U. S. District Judge Susan Illston a letter from Hearst senior vice president James Asher to MediaNews President Jody Lodovic that said the two companies agreed to " offer national advertising and internet advertising sales for their San Francisco Bay area newspapers on a joint basis, and to consolidate the San Francisco Bay Area distribution networks of such newspapers ..." Illston, suggesting she had been misled by the companies when they said they had not been collaborating, issued a 14-page ruling forbidding Hearst and MediaNews from working together on national advertising sales or distribution.

* Origins ( Judge Dredd story ), a major Judge Dredd storyline running from 2006 through 2007

*** Big Ticket Entertainment ( semi-in-name-only since 2006, only shows running are Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown )

Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death was released in 2003 and Rogue Trooper followed in 2006 for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC.

In 2006 he was also featured in an episode of the television series Heart of a Poet produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge.

Stanwood R. Duval, United States District Court Judge, Eastern District of Louisiana as a result of the McWaters v. FEMA class-action, 7 February 2006 was set as the deadline for the official end of any further coverage of temporary housing costs for Katrina victims.

Pulaski County Judge " Buddy " Villines formally opened the bridge to the public on September 30, 2006.

On 27 September 2006, Judge Steven Wilson of the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs as to StreamCast's liability.

Ballot access was regained in 2003 based on a court order, lost again in 2005, and regained in February 2006 when Superior Court Judge Stephanie Joannides issued a preliminary injunction against the State of Alaska, preventing the state from denying access to the Green Party.

The plea agreement was unsealed and accepted by Judge James S. Moody on April 17, 2006.

Judge Moody sentenced al-Arian to the maximum 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release on May 1, 2006, and gave him credit for time served.

However, on September 21, 2006, Superior Court Judge Francis J. Darigan announced that the brothers had changed their pleas from " not guilty " to " no contest ," thereby avoiding a trial.

The new company was established on 1 February 2006, with the announcement of a new Abbey Board chaired by High Court Judge Bryan McMahon.

On August 17, 2006, U. S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit issued a 43-page ruling stating the program is unconstitutional, but did not immediately suspend the program and grants a temporary stay, in which the American Civil Liberties Union continued fighting the program's legality in the case ACLU v. NSA.

Glynn, His Sacred Honor Judge Richard Stockton a signer of the Declaration of Independence, 2006, page 197

In an " Order Granting in Part IBM's Motion to Limit SCO's Claims " dated June 28, 2006, Judge Brooke Wells ( the federal magistrate judge presiding over discovery aspects of the case ) barred SCO from asserting 187 of the 298 allegedly misused items that IBM had moved to exclude from the lawsuit for lack of specificity, stating “ many of SCO ’ s arguments and much of Mr. Rochkind ’ s declaration miss the mark ”, and comparing SCO's tactics with those of an officer who accuses a citizen of theft, but will not disclose what the citizen is accused of stealing.

In the first, Judge Dale A. Kimball affirmed Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells ' June 28, 2006 Order striking most of SCO's claimed evidence of code misuse as being too vague to be worth adjudicating.

* Jun 08, 2006 CBC News: Judge orders new trial for David Ahenakew

In 2006, Christian Bök and his work were the subject of an episode of the television series Heart of a Poet, produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge.

In late August, 2006, a three-judge panel of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously affirmed Judge Gleeson ’ s ruling, which mandated open primaries until the state legislature builds a new system.

West appears prominently in the 2006 video for California band STEFY's song " Chelsea " as " Judge Adam West ", presiding over the courtroom scene.

Bo Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006 with the fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson Band, featuring Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums, and Gus Thornton on bass.

* 1916 – Richard Fleischer, American film director ( d. 2006 )

* 1922 – Richard Mayes, English actor ( d. 2006 )

* The Free Software Movement and the Future of Freedom, a 2006 lecture by Richard Stallman

* 2006 – Richard Carleton, Australian reporter ( b. 1943 )

However, after Brando's death, the footage was reincorporated into the 2006 re-cut of the film, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut.

* Coates, Richard, " Properhood " in: Language, 82. 2 ( 2006 ): 356-82.

In 2006, Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins ' The God Delusion described pantheism as " sexed-up atheism.

** Richard Butler ( album ), the singer's self-titled album released in 2006

* Richard Rands, In Need of Review: SPLA Transformation in 2006 – 10 and Beyond, HSBA-Small Arms Survey, Working Paper 23, November 2010

* 1955 – Richard Burmer, American composer and musician ( d. 2006 )

On 9 June 2006 it was reported that Richard Wiseman had identified Milligan as the writer of the world's funniest joke as decided by the Laughlab project.

The highest-ranking Greens ever elected in the nation were: John Eder, a member of the Maine House of Representatives until his defeat in November 2006 ; Audie Bock, elected to the California State Assembly in 1999 but switched her registration to Independent seven months later running as an independent in the 2000 election ; and Richard Carroll, elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008 but switched parties to become a Democrat five months after his election.

* December 8 – Richard Fleischer, American film director ( d. 2006 )

* September 19 – Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer, and musician ( d. 2006 )

" Yankees / Yorkers ", in Richard Sisson ed, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia ( 2006 ) 193 – 95, 714 – 5, 1094, 1194,

The latest artistic project is the musical play The Pirate Queen by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Richard Maltby, Jr. and John Dempsey, which originally debuted at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre in October 2006, with American stage actor Stephanie J.

* Richard Parncutt, 2006 – 2010.

* Michael Hicks, Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III, Tempus 2006.

( His grandson Sam Troughton played one of Robin's colleagues in the 2006 BBC TV Series of the same name, and Patrick himself would make an appearance on the Adventures of Robin Hood starring Richard Greene.

The company's 50th anniversary was celebrated in 2006 with a Gala Concert in which tributes were paid to Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge, the principal artists, the chorus, production staff and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra ( the AOBO ) for their ' artistry and talent ' and the ' ensemble nature ' of the company.

* Steven F. Messner, Eric P. Baumer, and Richard Rosenfeld, “ Distrust of Government, the Vigilante Tradition, and Support for Capital Punishment ,” Law & Society Review ( September 2006 )

* Richard Zach, 2006, " Hilbert's program then and now ", in Philosophy of Logic, Dale Jacquette ( ed.

10 in: Harries, Richard and Brierley, Michael W. ( eds ), Public life and the place of the church: reflections to honour the Bishop of Oxford, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd, 2006, ISBN 0-7546-5301-3, ISBN 978-0-7546-5301-1

* The French version of a feature film, Maurice Richard was released in November 2005 ; the English-subtitled version entitled The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story was released in April 2006.