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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.
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.
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, ...
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.
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that military training trumps protecting whales in a dispute over the Navy's use of sonar in submarine-hunting exercises off California.
OMAHA — On the eve of the Republican national convention, David Kramer created a stir.
Students at Bowdoin College receive a lesson in gender equality from the woman who raised national awareness about sexual harassment.
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 ...
More than a half-dozen legal challenges have been filed in federal and state courts demanding President-elect Barack Obama's decertification from ballots or seeking to halt elector meetings, claiming he has failed to prove his U.S. citizenship status.
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 ...
Justices overturn restrictions that require Navy to stop using sonar when marine mammals are within 2,200 yards of vessels
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Republican National Committee filed a new legal challenge to the 2002 campaign finance law that bans political parties from taking corporate, union and unlimited individual donations.
The House's top Republican Thursday attacked plans by leading congressional Democrats to double a $25 billion assistance package for the country's ailing automakers, saying there were no assurances the extra money would be well spent.
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.
