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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.
They don't look alike. They don't sound alike. They don't even speak the same language. But Hamilton has a sister city or two in the Italian province of Umbria, and those family ties are strong.
The Supreme Court should deny the sect's demand for a monument to its beliefs, similar to one in a park featuring the Ten Commandments. In a case that reads like a law-school examination question, the U.S. Supreme Court was asked Wednesday to rule that a local government that displays the Ten Commandments on public property must also make room for the teachings of other religions. The ...
The National Geographic Society is challenging a photographer's U.S. Supreme Court petition for review, which, if granted, could revisit the high court's 2001 landmark copyright ruling that said publishers can't sell previously published freelance contributions for use in computer or online databases without renegotiating publication rights with the authors. Writing for the National Geographic, ...
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court lifted restrictions on the Navy's use of sonar during training exercises off the Southern California coast, ruling that national security needs trumped environmental concerns.
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices clashed over a Utah town's decision to allow a Ten Commandments monument in a public park, as they weighed a bid by a small religious group to erect its own display.
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a defeat to environmentalists Wednesday and cleared the way for the Navy to use high-powered sonar off the Southern California coast even if it poses a threat to whales and other marine mammals.
The nation's need for Navy sailors to practice using sonar to guard against enemy submarines "plainly outweighs" any legal requirement to protect orcas and other marine mammals, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (BP)--A city should not be required to include an exhibit from an unorthodox religious sect in a public park just because it has accepted a Ten Commandments monument for display in that setting, an attorney argued before the U.S. Supreme Court recently.
POLICE BEATOne dead in I-75 crash near MicanopyOne person was killed and three others injured Friday evening when a driver apparently lost control of his SUV on northbound Interstate 75 near Micanopy, causing the vehicle to leave the highway and strike a tree, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Texas Tech will host U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at 5 p.m. today at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center's Exhibit Hall. Walter Huffman, the dean of the School of Law, said Tech School of Law alumni Mark Lanier, who worked with Scalia in the past, invited and provided the funding for Scalia to visit Lubbock and speak as the second speaker in conjunction with the Sandra Day O'Connor ...
WASHINGTON - If the Supreme Court requires the Utah city of Pleasant Grove to post a monument to a spiritual group's Seven Aphorisms next to the Ten Commandments, what's to stop someone from demanding their own obelisk next to the Washington Monument or the Jefferson Memorial?
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today lifted restrictions on the Navy's use of sonar in training exercises off the California coast, a defeat for environmental groups who say the sonar can harm whales.
The city of Pleasant Grove, Utah, contends that just because it accepted a privately-donated Ten Commandments monument for a public park, it does not have to accept a monument from a little-known religious group called Summum espousing its principles.
In a partial victory for local military officials, the nation's highest court Wednesday cleared the way for the Navy to use sonar in war games in the open ocean off the coast of San Diego County and Southern California.
Ronald Klain, a former O'Melveny & Myers partner and former chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore, will become Vice President-elect Joe Biden's new chief of staff. Klain, who began his legal career as a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron "Whizzer" White in 1987, is a seasoned political veteran with nearly 20 years of experience in Washington, D.C. He first worked with Biden while chief ...
