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Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. Supreme Court case may prompt Congress to scale back the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley law, the measure that tightened oversight of financial disclosure after the Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc. collapses.
COLUMBUS -- The state's decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what might have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.
Students at two high schools, a public school in Rock Hill and a heralded private school in New York City, have very different takes on the First Amendment.
Ohio waded into uncharted territory Friday when it announced plans to switch from the usual three-drug cocktail used to execute inmates to a one-drug method that death penalty opponents praised as a step forward — albeit one that has apparently never been tried on prisoners.
Ohio's death chamber is set to resume executions next month using a single drug that has been used in the U.S. to euthanize pets but never to put condemned prisoners to death.
Ohio waded into uncharted territory Friday when it announced plans to switch from the usual three-drug cocktail used to execute inmates to a one-drug method that death penalty opponents praised as a step forward.
The discussion of Monday’s arguments in Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida has continued through the end of the week. At Concurring Opinions, Alex Kreit comments on the arguments, highlighting in particular Chief Justice Roberts’s interest in the role that a juvenile offender’s age could play in Eighth Amendment proportionality review. Kreit speculates that [...]
Ohio waded into uncharted territory Friday when it announced plans to switch from the usual three-drug cocktail used to execute inmates to a one-drug method that death penalty opponents praised as a step forward _ albeit one that has apparently never been... Ohio - Lethal injection - Capital punishment - United States - United States district court
Ruth Gilmer, Eleana Reyes and Alva Martinez have a few things in common, including their Hispanic heritage. Gilmer and her husband Ted Gilmer live in Kasson Township. She works at the Traverse City office of Rehmann Robson, an accounting firm, as an as read more
One of the most memorable moments of Cecelia Klingele's yearlong U.S. Supreme Court clerkship wasn't crafting an opinion on a particular case or listening to an oral argument.
Ohio on Friday became the first state to adopt a procedure for lethal injections that uses one drug, a method never before tried on U.S. inmates.
A filing in U.S. District Court shows Ohio will switch to a one-drug approach to lethal injection executions, with a muscle injection available as a back up.
The more people know about the U.S. Supreme Court, the less they like it, correspondents who cover the judicial body explained to a packed Robertson Hall on Wednesday.
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary committee launched the Federalist Society's annual convention Thursday morning with a call to oppose President Barack Obama's most liberal nominees for the federal bench. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said that the confirmation process this summer of Justice Sonia Sotomayor showed that conservatives have a superior approach to interpreting the law. He ...
Groklaw: "I know you are dying to know what happened today in oral argument in In Re Bilski before the US Supreme Court. Here is the transcript [PDF] so you can read it for yourself and not have to depend on me or any journalist."
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that asks: For purposes of diversity jurisdiction, where is a company's principal place of business? The answer will be crucial in determining whether a corporation can be sued in federal court or in plaintiff-friendly state courts.
