The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration's 6-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, and is a new member of a secret national security court.
Bruno - “Apparently because of the Terrorist Threat and Felony Resisting Arrest charges, as well as being referred to as ‘crazy’ and in need of ‘psyche meds’ I was treated as a ’special inmate’ and kept in shackles and solidarity isolation. They kept
See http://heros-heroines.blogspot.com/2010/01/irredentists-controversy.html and through the Pa Right to Know Law it was learned that the Clerk of Courts for Lackawanna County is not even in Pennsylvania. The Clerk of Courts
The White House ripped CBS News on Thursday for publishing an online column by a blogger who made assertions about the sexual orientation of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, widely viewed as a leading candidate for the Supreme Court.
On a bright, sunny day in 2006, 18-year-old Nikki Catsouras took her father’s Porsche without permission and sped off down a California freeway at 100 mph before losing control and crashing into a toll booth.
She died instantly in a crash that dec
In a victory for ratings agencies, a U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed claims against Moody's Corp and McGraw-Hill's Standard & Poor's in litigation over nearly $100 billion of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc mortgage-backed securities.
US Supreme Court ruled video from the trial over California's same-sex marriage ban cannot be broadcast, handing a victory to those defending the ban. Attorneys said broadcasting the trial would turn it into a "media circus" and witnesses who testify
The Twilight Zone, a Baffling Sequel to the Painful Slap: a “Plaintiffs’ Counsel’s Motion for a Honest and Honorable Court System,” filed by my husband, Tajudeen "Taj" Oladiran, in the Federal District Court, Arizona, on October 1, 2009.
After
The quotation above is part of a judicial opinion filed on 1/13/2010 by a Federal Judge, John W. Sedwick, of the Federal District of Alaska, in dismissing Violation of Civil Rights Lawsuits filed by Tajudeen "Taj" Oladiran, and his spouse, against
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the right of police to confiscate vehicles from owners who have done nothing wrong. The decision narrowed the applicability of an "innocent owner" defense in cases where a vehicle is jointly owned. The h
Video cameras, long banned from most federal courtrooms, could be used in civil trials throughout the West under a new initiative in the federal judiciary’s Ninth Circuit. One of the first cases to be televised could be next month’s hearing over a ch
The justices will review a federal appeals court ruling siding with police officers who complained their department improperly snooped on their electronic exchanges on work accounts and faulted the text-messaging service for turning over transcripts
Florida's judges and lawyers can no longer "friend" each other on Facebook. The Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee stated online "friendships" create the impression that lawyers are in a special position to influence their judge friends.
An Indianapolis attorney has filed a class action lawsuit against the city, claiming that traffic court judges are penalizing motorists who challenge traffic tickets by slapping them with additional fines ranging from $500 to $2,500 to discourage peo
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear three cases in its current term examining a controversial federal statute that makes it a crime "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services."
The law is a powerful weapon in the arsenal of
Exactly eight years after Enron Corp filed for bankruptcy protection, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by investors against banks they accused of helping the energy company commit fraud.
Wednesday's dismissal by U.S. District Judge Melinda
The Supreme Court did all it could Monday to lock up forever some incendiary photos that show U.S. soldiers abusing foreign prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yielding to Congress and the White House, justices took the expected but formal step of
At the time he pronounced sentence on Danille, Judge Ezra had already sentenced her husband to 15 years in prison. Turning to the subject to her 4 children, Erza insisted it was Danille's duty to teach the children to serve and worship the government
By the time of the Rosenberg case, the grand jury process had been transformed into a rubber stamp for the government. Federal prosecutors now dispense all evidence, witnesses and testimony to grand jurors, who then retire to a deliberation room . .
A Louisiana justice of the peace who refuses to marry interracial couples resigned Tuesday, after weeks of calls for his ouster from civil rights groups and several public officials, including the governor.
Keith Bardwell quit with a one-sentence
The old woman sits in the corner reclining chair, as she does most of the time any more, looking at, well, nothing. The smell — a stinging mixture of urine and ammonia — doesn't seem to bother her as it does a visitor to this Phoenix nursing home. Or
2 victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking at least the $2.4 million they lost in the fraud. The victims said the agency was negligent and breached its duties by fai
He's just getting started. And if this fellow is any indication of the kind of judges we can expect to populate our federal courts, I guarantee you we will spend the next decade or more scratching our heads at the idiotic leftist decisions that will
Lester Watson flew many missions over Europe in the early 1940s. The 87-year-old veteran remembers those experiences as if they happened yesterday… Watson says he told the men he had a back injury and he should be “handcuffed in front,” but was tol
Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that "1,784 billion, trillion dollars" be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $200,164,000, court papers show.
The first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court says there's a serious problem with the government in Washington and many other states: They elect their judges. [She wants her pirates appointed.]
A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against two
U.S. defense contractors by Iraqi torture victims, saying the companies
had immunity as government contractors.
The lawsuit was filed in 2004 on behalf of Iraqi nationals who say
they or their relatives had been tortured or mistreated while detained
by the U.S. military at the Abu Ghraib prison.
The plaintiffs sued CACI International Inc, which provided
interrogators at Abu Ghraib, and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc's
Titan unit, which provided interpreters to the U.S. military.