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Today IRmep Director Grant F. Smith confronted US Attorney Ron Machen on NPR affiliate WAMU in Washington, DC. At issue were Machen’s statements that the FBI had prevented Stewart J. Nozette from passing US military secrets to Israel.
The controversial stop-and-frisk technique used on hundreds of thousands of minorities in New York City could soon be brought before a federal judge to decide on the constitutionality of the NYPD’s popular practice.
A teenager in Georgia has decided to take things into her own hands after her school and police said they could do nothing about the classmates bullying her on Facebook.
A judge is considering whether to raise or revoke the bond for George Zimmerman after his lawyer told the judge a website raised $200,000 for the defense. Mark O'Mara told the judge Friday that Zimmerman's family hadn't told him about the money be
A federal judge declared Gov. Rick Scott's order requiring drug testing for some 85,000 state workers unconstitutional Thursday.
Napolitano said, “...the law arguably violates the 14th amendment.”
A Brazilian court on Saturday barred 17 executives from Chevron and Transocean from leaving Brazil, pending criminal charges related to a high-profile oil spill last November.
The Justice Department on Thursday issued a 60-day stay of execution for hundreds of thousands of public pools which had been required to install ramps and wheelchair lifts by today or else face lawsuits over violating disability laws.
The Supreme Court said Monday that it will consider whether American courts can hear lawsuits alleging human rights atrocities that were committed overseas without a direct U.S. connection. The court took the rare move of delaying a decision in a
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over the reach of the Alien Tort Statute and a 20-year-old law that allows victims of torture to pursue civil lawsuits against the responsible individuals.
A US man who was threatened with jail time for posting comments about his estranged wife on his personal Facebook page unless he posted daily apologies for a month says the court ruling violates his freedom of speech. Mark Byron is making the apology
In order to make sure gays and lesbians are adequately represented on the judicial bench, the state of California is requiring all judges and justices to reveal their sexual orientation.
Defense Attorney Donna Uhlmann is questioning the legality of an incident in which the Attorney General’s office seized her cell phone from courtroom 9 in the Licht Judicial Complex. “My cell phone contains highly privileged information between my
THE British government will be held in contempt of court later this week if it does not physically produce a prisoner of war whom its special forces captured in 2004 and then handed over to American soldiers. The current legal drama began in Febru
The Wisconsin judge who recently ruled that we have no right to own a cow or drink its milk resigned to join one of Monsanto’s law firms.
A prospective juror in a fatal drunken driving crash case who left during jury selection has been ordered to stand in front of the Lake County Courthouse the next two Mondays with a sign that says, “I failed to appear for jury duty.” Court officia
A special prosecutor in Brockton, Mass., charged that Associate Medical Examiner Dr. Frank Evangelista changed his testimony during the trials that sent 2 men to prison for life. The men were convicted after they kicked the man to death, then robbed
The famous “Dublin Dr. Pepper” soft drink is going away — and with it, potentially a town’s whole economy Made with pure cane sugar instead of corn syrup or beet sugar, Dublin Dr. Pepper has a devoted following around the southern state and around
Six months after the June 4th, 2011 Chalking 8 incident outside Manchester Police Department I was found “guilty” of a violation and told I owed $248. Rather than pay the ransom I submitted a letter indicating that I’d sit the time.
“The attorney in this case was thrown in jail for simply doing his job. If allowed to stand, this judge’s actions could set a dangerous precedent in which defense attorneys fear punishment for defending their client’s best interests.”
Retrials were ordered for all state-court convicted defendants after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation probe into Judge Baumgartner’s activities revealed that he had, over the course of several years, been illegally under the influence of drugs whe
it is with deep regret this Court is compelled to find the Government allowed a key FBI agent to testify untruthfully before the grand jury, inserted material falsehoods into affidavits submitted to magistrate judges in support of applications for se
What does a man who attempted to pay a juror $2,500 for a “not guilty” verdict have in common with a 79 retired college professor who handed out information on jury nullification to people entering a court house? This is not a trick question, both me
Dr. Murray is no doubt wishing he hadn’t done that Michael Jackson documentary after an angry judge cited them several times to explain why he was sentencing the late pop star’s doctor to the max possible: four years in the slammer.
The Texas judge who was seen on an Internet video beating his teenaged daughter with a belt has been suspended from the bench while state officials investigate his actions and determine if he should face punishment.
I've been to Family Court a few times over the years, but it was never a place where I felt at home. Everything about it felt wrong, from the essential absence of anything remotely resembling rights, to the way everyone in the room talked down to ch
The metastasizing of federal laws has ensured that seemingly innocuous behavior without any criminal intent behind it can lead to a conviction for a federal crime. Artists, doctors, and even professional baseball players have reason to fear the feder
When Jerry Sandusky was initially arraigned prosecutors requested $500,000 bail and that Sandusky be required to wear a leg monitor. District Judge Leslie Dutchcot, ordered Sandusky be freed on $100,000 unsecured bail.
Suspected Al Qaeda operative Abdal Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the suicide boat attack on the USS Cole in 2000, appeared before a military judge at Guantánamo to face war crimes charges.
A disturbing video uploaded to Youtube last week showing a Texas [family court] judge severely beating his disabled teenage daughter has sparked an uproar on the internet and an investigation into the judge. The video, recorded in 2004 but uploade
