With the Supreme Court last minute blessing, Alabama was set to execute Alan Miller last Thursday night, until it wasn’t. But it’s not like they didn’t try to kill him. The drama was great: the state canceled its execution minutes before midnight when his death warrant was due to expire. The execution team had encountered …

NEW YORK — New York City officials are appealing a judge’s ruling that they had no legal authority to fire members of the city’s largest police union for violating a COVID vaccination mandate -19. State Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank in Manhattan ruled Friday that the city’s health department warrant could not be used to …

The U.S. Senate voted 50 to 44 earlier this month to confirm that federal trial court judge and former Barrington-area resident John Lee would serve as a judge on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Chicago. The vote elevates Lee to a court one level below the U.S. Supreme Court that hears …

Lawyer Steven Donziger, who won a multi-billion dollar judgment against Chevron on behalf of Ecuadorian villagers. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Join now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Donziger won a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron for pollution in Ecuador A Chevron lawsuit against him led to contempt charges and a lengthy house arrest (Reuters) – …

Radical progressives seek to turn the state’s highest court into an automatic buffer for their agenda. The purely ideological drive is an assault on the independent judiciary, a bulwark of democracy. Wednesday, City and State Reported that a major gay Democratic club wrote to Governor Kathy Hochul convicting the openly gay judge who is now …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal appeals court to drop a judge’s order which temporarily prevented him from examining a batch of classified documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month. The department told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit …

A California appeals court ruling will effectively allow non-US citizens to vote in San Francisco school board elections in November, despite a court ruling earlier this year that struck down the local law as unconstitutional. California Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer overturned the city’s ordinance allowing noncitizens to vote on July 29. However, the First …

Sara Jean Green/The Seattle Times (TNS) The state Supreme Court has upheld a man’s 61-year prison sentence for his role in a double murder as a teenager, prompting dissenting justices to fear the ruling is a step backwards in the evolving field of law that generally considers young people less culpable. for crimes than adults. …

Circuit Court Judge James Plowman appointed a special prosecutor to replace Loudoun County prosecutors in the appeal of a father whose daughter was raped at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Va., last year by a teenager who then grouped another pupil in another school. Circuit Court Judge James Plowman appointed a special prosecutor to …

As President Joe Biden calls his political opponents “threats to democracy” and Republicans express doubts about the integrity of basic democratic institutions, a leading American jurist thinks he may have the answer. civic class. “A self-governing democratic republic cannot continue from generation to generation with an ignorant public,” said Douglas Ginsburg, former chief justice of …

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Burger King restaurant sign is displayed in Miami, Florida October 28, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo By Barbara Grzincic (Reuters) – A federal appeals court has revived https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/znvneweoopl/Arrington%20v%20Burger%20King.pdf a potential class action lawsuit against Burger King over its past use of a “no-hire” which prevented all franchisees from hiring the employees …

The brief cites a “chain of departures” at the agency since the directive was put in place in February, arguing that the remaining workers will be dangerously dispersed. The amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief was filed with the state’s Third District Court of Appeals, which is considering whether the policy, prompted by an …

Written by: Erica E. Flores – Skoler, Abbott & Presser, PC Getting an employment case thrown out before trial has always been pretty elusive in Massachusetts state courts, but if a recent decision by a split panel of the Court of Appeals is as written, it has become even more difficult. The majority opinion overturned …

Mark Pittman, put on the federal bench in Fort Worth by Donald Trump, thinks it’s simply unconstitutional to limit the sale of handguns to people 21 and older. In an opinion issued on Thursday Agreeing with a gun group that has sued to overturn Texas’ eminently valid ban on 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds having guns, …

By Andrew Karpan (August 22, 2022, 3:56 p.m. EDT) – A Chicago patent attorney arrived too late to appeal a Federal Circuit split decision that fined him and his client more than $100,000 for filing a “frivolous” appeal in court, the panel agreed Monday with a clerk’s ruling that it had 14 days to file …

A former senior judge from Afghanistan who is hiding from the Taliban with her son has filed an appeal with the Home Office after her application to enter the UK was refused. Lawyers for the woman – who goes by the surname ‘Y’ – said on Saturday they had filed an appeal on behalf of …

RALEIGH, North Carolina Although illegal marijuana and legal hemp look and smell the same, a criminal pot prosecution in North Carolina may still be legitimate when sight or smell contributes to a warrantless search and seizure, ruled the state appeals court on Tuesday. A three-judge panel found no error related to a trial judge or …

The US State Department argues that Griner is being wrongfully detained and her case has raised concerns that she is being used as a political pawn in Russia’s war on Ukraine. US officials have offered a potential prisoner swap with Russia in an attempt to get her home safely. Griner, 31, was arrested in February …

A woman who ran a health and nutrition coaching business on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a First Amendment challenge to a Florida law that barred her from providing dietary advice to clients. Heather Kokesch Del Castillo, a resident of Northwest Florida, was cited by the state Department of Health in 2017 …

North Carolina Green Party supporter Charlie Hammerle, left, attends a news conference where the lawsuit against the North Carolina State Board of Elections was explained on July 15, 2022 in Raleigh , North Carolina. Robert Willette [email protected] RALEIGH A federal appeals court has dismissed the Democrats’ last-ditch effort to block North Carolina’s Green Party from …

The Education Department may move forward with budget cuts after an appeals court temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that invalidated the budget process. The court of appeal order Tuesday brings a boost to back-to-school planning for the fall. Four days prior, a lower court judge ruled the city must redo the education department’s budget, …

No Utica. No judge. Longtime U.S. District Judge David N. Hurd, whose anticipated rise to “senior status” has created a vacancy on the bench for the Northern District of New York, no longer wants to be senior judge – well, not if his successor won’t be based in Utica, that is. In a July 14 …

First-generation law student Micah McGaha is grateful to serve as a judge’s clerk this summer and looks forward to putting his experience and training to good use as he continues his career as a lawyer. A native of Milton, Fla., and now a student at the University of Mississippi Law School in Oxford, McGaha said …