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Forbes - Fri Dec 18, 2:36 pm ETCourt hands another big victory to estate of Chicago's famed Burton Kanter.
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Court hands another big victory to estate of Chicago's famed Burton Kanter.
Anthony Seminerio could be freed if the court strikes down federal honest services laws. FILE PHOTO This book was closed, some thought.
The Judicial Council of the 9th Circuit authorized television cameras in certain district court proceedings Thursday, reviving a national controversy just weeks before a groundbreaking trial over same-sex marriage is slated to begin in San Francisco.
Donald B. Boyd Jr., of Oak Park, was sworn in as a member of the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 13. The admission ceremony was held in the U.S. Supreme Court Chamber, in Washington, D.C., and was presided by all nine Justices including Chief Justice John Roberts and the newest Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. This happened to have been Justice Sotomayor's fourth day on the bench as well.
In Bush v Gore, the United States Supreme Court, in an unprecedented ruling that proclaimed it should not be used as precedent, decided the...
MARIETTA - David Nahmias, who prosecuted terrorists in Washington and Atlanta before being appointed to the state Supreme Court in August, expressed confidence in the decision to try suspected terr...
Starting this evening, we’re introducing a new feature on SCOTUSwiki. For the first time, the “pages” for five cases are now open to various degrees for editing. For each case before the Court, SCOTUSwiki hosts a wiki page with links to its briefs, analysis by SCOTUSblog, and media coverage. Until now, editing of these pages [...]
Two state supreme court justices from neighboring states find themselves in disagreement these days -- not over a legal issue, but over how they should have gotten their jobs.
More than 5,000 registered sex offenders in Kentucky may live closer to schools and day care centers as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court rejection of an appeal by the commonwealth involving a Kentucky Supreme Court ruling.
It's been used to go after allegedly corrupt politicians, cops and CEO types from Minnesota to Manhattan.
Cell phones aren't just for talking anymore. People use them for everything from texting and sending intimate photographs to handling work e-mail and accessing the Internet to pay their bills.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals partially overturned the convictions of Mississippi attorney Paul Minor and former judges John Whitfield and Walter "Wes" Teel. A federal jury convicted Minor, Teel and Whitfield in 2007 for federal bribery and honest services fraud, but they appealed, arguing that prosecutors changed jury instructions to muddy the definition of an exchange of services for ...
NEWARK — New Jersey has a new top federal prosecutor.
NEWARK — The new U.S. Attorney for New Jersey will be formally sworn in Monday in a ceremony at Rutgers School of Law in Newark.
WASHINGTON —The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a case brought against The Commercial Appeal by a former Raleigh-Egypt High School and Georgetown University basketball player.The high court denied a rehearing in the case of Kevin Millen, 36, who had lost his case at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals after filing suit in the federal district court in Memphis last year. Millen acted ...
Paul J. Fishman would probably have been installed in the position a decade ago had Al Gore won the presidency.