Homeless couple shot by Los Angeles Sheriffs wins $4.1 million settlement
• thelibertybeat.comA homeless couple that was shot 15 times by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies has been awarded $4.1 million by a federal judge.
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Prisoner Released After DNA Clears Him . . . Judge Fires Clerk Who Told Prisoner How To Seek Testing
• Jonathan TurleyKansas Judge David Byrn was the presiding judge in the case of Robert Nelson, 49, who was sentenced to 70 years for a rape that he insisted that he did not commit. Byrn refused repeated requests from Nelson to prove his innocence
Justice seeking to block Bernanke testimony
• http://finance.yahoo.com, Associated PressGov't says Bernanke should not have to testify in AIG case absent extraordinary circumstances
Criminalizing begging in Michigan unconstitutional, court rules
• .A federal appeals court has ruled Michigan’s Depression-era law that criminalizes begging is unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment.
Judge: New York’s stop-and-frisk policy is unconstitutional if only minorities fingered
• National Constitution CenterU.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled on Monday that the New York City police department has violated the Constitution in how it implements a stop-and-frisk policy that targets certain groups of citizens.
Judge Orders Parents To Change Baby's Name To Martin Because Messiah Is Reserved For Jesus
• Jonathan TurleyParents in Tennessee came to court to deal with a dispute over the last name to be used for their 7-month-old son. However, Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew ordered the first name to be changed because the parents had named the boy “Messiah.”
Strip Club Owner Brings Epic Free Speech Fight To The US Supreme Court
• Business InsiderThe owner of an Albany, N.Y. strip club called Nite Moves has hired one of America's best free speech lawyers to help him convince the Supreme Court that taxes on lap dances should be illegal, The Daily Gazette reports.
Holy Schnikees! Snowden's father and Bruce Fein just issued a vicious beat down
• Daily Paul.comSnowden's father and Bruce Fein just issued a vicious beat down ...it was on George Stephanopoulos this morning...8/11/13
FIREARMS RECORDS BUREAU vs. JAY E. SIMKIN & others(1)
• socialaw.comFirearms. Practice, Civil, Action in the nature of certiorari, Judicial review of license to carry firearms. License. Statute, Construction. Administrative Law, Regulations. Words, "Suitable Person".
Federal judge: Bitcoin, “a currency,” can be regulated under American law
• ars technicaThe case revolves around Bitcoin Savings and Trust, a virtual Bitcoin-based hedge fund suspected of being a scam. BTCST shut down in August 2012, and the Securities and Exchange Commission formally charged founder Trendon Shavers
Calling All California Lawyers (and Others Who Want to Help Abused Homeowners)!
• http://www.nakedcapitalism.comCalling All California Lawyers (and Others Who Want to Help Abused Homeowners)! Please Ask California Court of Appeal to Publish an Important Pro-Borrower Chain of Title Ruling
Judge Chastises Jury For Acquitting Defendant; Promises Not Done With Defendant
• Jonathan TurleyThat did not stop Judge Amy Salerno from chastising a jury for finding a defendant not guilty. Even more worrisome is the alleged statement of the judge that the verdict did not matter because she was not done with the defendant.
Judge who accepted private-prison bribes to send black kids to jail sentenced to 28 years
• boingboing.netIn 2009, I wrote about Judge Mark A. Ciavarella, one of two Pennsylvania judges who was paid bribes by a private prison contractor to send black children to prison and keep the for-profit prisons full.
Wyeth forced to pay half a billion dollar fine for illegal marketing of Rapamune drug
• naturalnews.comBig Pharma Wyeth will pay nearly a half-billion dollars in penalties to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from improper marketing of its prescription drug, Rapamune.
Police Helicopter and Patrol Cars Dispatched for Man Photographing Courthouse
• Photography Is Not a CrimeWith a .45 caliber legally strapped to his side, Jordan McManus decided to photograph the federal courthouse in Phoenix, realizing he would probably draw attention from police, especially after reading about Raymond Michael’s experience
Comcast proposes six strikes alternative to convert pirates into paying customers
• extremetech.comThe film and music industries have been waging a war against file sharing through the courts for years, but have more recently started working with governments and ISPs to stop sharing at the source.
More Complaints Than Proposed Solutions at Trial Over Police Searches
• New York TimesThe judge overseeing the trial examining the constitutionality of the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices had a novel idea for how to reduce illegal police stops.
Court Rules Business Records Are Not Protected By The Fourth Amendment
• .The Fifth Circuit Court ruled the state can collect all of the location history data from your cellular phone without a warrant, and they can compel service providers, through the threat of force, to hand over data without any probable cause.
Judge Napolitano - Reaction To Bradley Manning Verdict
• Daily Paul.comJudge Napolitano - Reaction To Bradley Manning Verdict
U.S. government routinely steals almost half of all raisin harvests from American farmers
• naturalnews.comRecently declared by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to be "the world's most outdated law," a little known U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) policy that steals up to half of American raisin farmers' harvest while providing little or no compensa
Right-to-die battle: court of appeal rejects paralysed man's case
• The GuardianJudges reject Paul Lamb's request for help from doctors to die but allow another man to get help to travel to Swiss clinic
Bernanke ordered to testify in AIG case
• ft.comA judge has ordered Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, to testify about the bailout of AIG in a case where the government is accused of illegally appropriating the insurer and using it “to covertly funnel billions of dollars to foreign entit
Pepsi forks over $9 million settlement, agrees to stop calling Naked Juice 'natural'
• naturalnews.comThe Pepsi-owned Naked Juice brand will soon be getting a labeling makeover following a lawsuit that challenged the processed food giant's indiscriminate and deceptive use of the word "natural."
'Do the Right Thing': World Rallies Behind Bradley Manning
• Common DreamsInternational Day of Solidarity as the whistleblower awaits sentencing, faces 11th hour switch in charges
Verdict in Bradley Manning WikiLeaks case to be read on Tuesday
• ReutersThe verdict in the court-martial of Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, accused of the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history, will be read on Tuesday, the presiding judge said on Monday.
Halliburton to plead guilty to destroying evidence in BP spill
• Washington PostThe oil services giant Halliburton agreed Thursday to plead guilty to destroying evidence during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in 2010, admitting to one count of criminal conduct and agreeing to pay the $200,000 maximum statutory fine....
Coca-Cola facing huge class action lawsuit over alleged false claims for Vitaminwater
• naturalnews.comFor years, the Coca-Cola Company has been deceptively marketing its "vitaminwater" beverage brand as a healthy alternative to plain water
In Tempe, It’s Coercion
• Simple JusticeThe silliest part of any guilty plea is the part when the court asks if anyone has threatened or coerced the defendant into pleading guilty.
NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials say
• Washington PostA secret court on Friday extended the National Security Agency’s authority to collect and store the phone records of tens of millions of American cellphone customers, the top U.S. intelligence official confirmed.
Feds seize gold coins worth $80 million from Pennsylvania family
• Russia TodayA federal judge has upheld a verdict that strips a Pennsylvania family of their grandfather’s gold coins — worth an estimated $80 million — and has ordered ownership transferred to the US government.
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