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The suit claims it is blatantly unconstitutional to deny American citizens the right to have a lawyer, and to deny American lawyers the right to represent clients, without first obtaining a permission slip from Executive Branch [Treasury] officials.
The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial of a polygamist leader of a breakaway Mormon sect, who was convicted of forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her first cousin. Warren Jeffs, 54, whose word was considered God's will to thousands
A Muslim woman is suing Somerset New Jersey Medical Center citing the Patients Bill of Rights for removing her headscarf during treatment.
Legal question: Can a woman consenting to have sex with a man, accuse the man of rape? It’s a million-dollar question. The likes of Mike Tyson who was indicted years back for this kind of rape, paid millions of dollars to know th
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The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project (NPMSRP) was started in March of 2009 s to generate statistical and trending information about police misconduct in the United States.
From prosecutors in Los Angeles to justice officials in Washington, the Swiss decision to free Roman Polanski was described as a disappointment and to some, an injustice. The Swiss, for their part, described Polanski as "a free man."
Many of you have read Edgar Steele's articles on his Conspiracy Pen Pal site. He is not a particularly pleasant individual, but he is remarkably intelligent and a top flight lawyer and investigator. Recently he was investigating corruption that app
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In her time of need, Lindsay Lohan is finding solace in the comforting words of the Cato Institute. What does America's leading libertarian think tank have to offer America's bad girl? A like-minded view of the U.S. legal system, apparently.
Politics the most likely explanation
Google-owned YouTube won a major victory Wednesday when a federal judge ruled the video-sharing site was protected under U.S. copyright law. Viacom, which vowed an appeal, was seeking $1 billion in damages in a case testing the depths of copyright
The Washington Post published this two weeks ago, but unless he releases something today, Attorney General Eric Holder has missed the deadline, condemning thousands more to sexual assault in prison:
As a group, state governments could save $7.6 billion, while local governments could save $7.2 billion.
One of many hundreds in America's prison gulag
The Sovereignty of the People of America through its only legitimate international agent, The united States of America, republic union of states individually holding the One People's property in the form of political will duly assigned and accepted
The US currently incarcerates a higher share of its population than any other country in the world. A reduction in incarceration rates just to the 1993 level would lower correctional expenditures by $16.9 billion per year, with the large majority o
The FBI thought it was closing in on Joran van der Sloot in the notorious Natalee Holloway missing-teenager case, and he was videotaped and paid $25,000 in a sting operation. But when the agency delayed his arrest to help build a criminal case, he to
As a sheriff's deputy dumped the contents of Joy Uhlmeyer's purse into a sealed bag, she begged to know why she had just been arrested while driving home to Richfield after an Easter visit with her elderly mother. No one had an answer. Uhlmeyer
Kimberly Yates was serving time for a drug offense when she was raped. Unlike many inmates in her situation, Yates was believed by the authorities when she reported what had happened. They prosecuted the guard responsible for the attack; he received
There is a bail reduction hearing this morning for two environmental activists who protested mountain-top removal coal mining and had their bail set at $100,000. EmmaKate Martin and Benjamin Bryant took part in non-violent civil disobedience to bl
Michelle Ortiz was serving one year at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, a state prison in Marysville, when she was molested by a male guard. When Ortiz reported the first assault to prison official Paula Jordan, the official told the inmate that the m
Juveniles may not be sentenced to life in prison without parole for any crime short of homicide, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday, expanding its command that young offenders must be treated differently from adults even for heinous crimes.
It took 5 years and 40K, but Prison Legal News prevailed in court against private prison giant. PLN gets the documents and their legal fees back.
The long awaited new rule book for the Obama-era war court does not resolve a key issue that bedeviled its predecessor: Whether an accused war criminal can plead guilty to a crime carrying the death penalty directly to a judge rather than to a milita
The son of a Democratic Tennessee lawmaker was convicted Friday on two charges in the hacking of Sarah Palin's e-mail account while she campaigned on the Republican presidential ticket in 2008. The federal court jury reached its verdict against Da
Having ignored the hype surrounding a Gizmodo writer shenanigans with a secret unreleased Apple iPhone, because I just don't care at all, I'm now constrained to pay attention. Things changed when police executed a search warrant on his resident.
A judge told attorneys for nine members of a Dover Township-based militia charged with trying to launch war against the U.S. that they must prove their clients aren’t as dangerous as prosecutors claim before she will release them.
Erick Williamson has argued since his October arrest that he should not be punished for being naked in the privacy of his own home. A jury agreed with him Wednesday and acquitted him of all charges.
The tape was played by federal prosecutors at the bond hearing for the 8 Hutaree members. It captures an anti-government rant by a man alleged to be the group's leader. He calls birth certificates, driver's licenses, building permits, and other gove
The public does not have the right to see [public] court applications and orders for wiretaps in the Galleon hedge fund insider trading case, lawyers for accused fund founder Raj Rajaratnam argued on Wednesday.
The public does not have the right to see [public] court applications and orders for wiretaps in the Galleon hedge fund insider trading case, lawyers for accused fund founder Raj Rajaratnam argued on Wednesday.
