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The possibility that a jury, instructed on alternative theories of guilt, may have found the defendant guilty on an erroneous theory because of a flaw in the instructions does not necessarily require reversal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Alex Kozinski , chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco, was accused in a complaint by a retired court executive of breaking into a judicial computer security system in 2001 to restore access to pornographic Web sites.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- A retired federal court executive alleged Alex Kozinski , chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco, broke into a judicial computer security system to restore access to pornographic Web sites, according to a filed complaint.
This week, newscasters reported that al Qaeda’s #2 terrorist disparaged the election of Barack Obama, and hurled racial slurs at Obama himself. “The report has not been confirmed by the State Department,” they all said, but they reported it anyway.
Concerns over President-elect Barack Obama's birthplace are heating up, with a hearing scheduled in a few days before the U.S. Supreme Court on a case that alleges he wasn't born in the U.S. and isn't eligible to hold office, but the current occupant of the White House isn't concerned.
A one-time vice presidential candidate who is considered an expert on the U.S. Constitution says it is up the electors from the 50 states to make certain President-elect Barack Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen before they cast votes for him in the Electoral College Dec. 15.
Supreme Court scholar Lane Sunderland, a political science professor at Knox College, praises federal appeals court judge John Roberts as a "wise choice by President Bush and an extraordinarily meritorious nominee" for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Law professor Daniel Farber will give a Constitution Day lecture, "Lincoln's Constitutional Legacy: How Lincoln Finished the Work of the Founding Fathers and Laid the Foundations for Modern America," at 4 p.m., Thursday, September 18, in Ferris Lounge, Seymour Union, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Three Princeton University students were named to study at the University of Oxford in England as Rhodes scholars, the most of any U.S. university.
Dignitaries including U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter marked the centennial of Providence's federal courthouse.
It may be pushing a major toll hike, but the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority has given out payraises of up to $31,000 to 13 managers over the past year. Executive Director Alan LeBovidge tells the Globe he's looking at the salary upgrades as a savings, since the pay increases coincided with the elimination of some management positions.
Barack Obama Tens of thousands of people are jumping aboard a petition that demands actual documentation of President-elect Barack Obama's eligibility to hold the highest office in the United States, not just assurances from party officials. Within only
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Convicted killer Robert Jean Hudson was executed Thursday night for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend after he beat down the door and barged into her Dallas-area apartment nearly a decade ago.
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, at 88, isn't showing any signs he's considering retiring from the bench, observers say.
The bidding war is over: Former Solicitor General Paul Clement, one of the most highly prized legal catches coming from the Bush administration, has decided to return to the Washington, D.C., office of Atlanta-based King & Spalding. "It feels great to be back," said Clement from the firm's offices on Thursday. A number of other firms were in the running, some of which, according to one ...
President-elect Barack Obama is expected to have the opportunity to appoint several justices to the Supreme Court, with much of the speculation centered on Justice John Paul Stevens, the oldest and longest-serving of the nine. While Stevens is giving few signals about when he intends to step down, voters who cast their ballots with the high court in mind made some of their views known on ...
