Recent Updates
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Supreme Court asked to give access to secretive court’s work
U.S. Court Watch 04/19/2021Civil liberties groups are asking the Supreme Court to give the public access to opinions of the secretive court that reviews bulk email collection, warrantless internet searches and other government surveillance programs.The groups say in an appeal ...
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Ex-police chief gets 1 year in prison for hiring scandal
U.S. Court Watch 04/15/2021The former police chief of Connecticut’s largest city was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in prison for rigging the hiring process that led to his appointment in 2018.A federal judge in Bridgeport handed down the punishment to Armando ...
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Court rules Norman violated FOIA when approving budget
U.S. Court Watch 04/14/2021The city of Norman violated the state’s Open Meeting Act when it approved a budget that cut the police budget by $865,000, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.The court upheld a circuit judge’s December ruling that a required notice ...
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Ramsey Clark, attorney general under Johnson, dies at 93
Court Alerts 04/09/2021Ramsey Clark, the attorney general in the Johnson administration who became an outspoken activist for unpopular causes and a harsh critic of U.S. policy, has died. He was 93.Clark, whose father, Tom Clark, was attorney general and U.S. Supreme Court ...
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Husband of high court candidate begins prison sentence
Legal Compliance 04/06/2021The husband of a Pennsylvania appellate court judge who is running for the state’s highest court began serving a prison sentence Tuesday in a long-running case, authorities said.Charles McCullough’s incarceration comes as voters decide wh...
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Ex-Iowa wastewater plant supervisor sentenced for tampering
Court Alerts 04/02/2021A former Iowa wastewater treatment plant official has been sentenced to three months in federal prison for manipulating water sample test results to ensure plant discharges into the Missouri River met federal requirements. Jay Niday, 63, of Sergeant ...
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Appellate court arguments set for Charleston church shooter
U.S. Court Watch 03/29/2021Attorneys for the man sentenced to federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation are set to formally argue that his conviction and death sentence should be overturned.Oral arguments have been set for...
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South Africa’s ex-president should be jailed, argues lawyer
Law & Politics 03/25/2021Lawyers for a commission investigating corruption in South Africa have asked the country’s highest court to jail former president Jacob Zuma for two years for failing to cooperate with its probe. The commission of inquiry into high-level graft,...
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Israel revokes permit of Palestinian foreign minister
Legal Compliance 03/21/2021Israel on Sunday revoked the VIP permit of the Palestinian foreign minister after he returned to the West Bank from a trip to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Israeli and Palestinian officials confirmed.The move appeared to be Israeli r...
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Colorado court: Speed-reading bills violates constitution
Bankruptcy 03/15/2021The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that state Senate Democrats violated the constitution in 2019 when they responded to Republicans’ request that bills be read at length by having computers speed-read the bills in an intelligible garble.The C...
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Drug trafficker says he bribed Honduras president
U.S. Court Watch 03/11/2021A convicted Honduran drug trafficker and former leader of a cartel testified in United States federal court Thursday that he paid now-President Juan Orlando Hernández $250,000 for protection from arrest in 2012.Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, f...
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Courts wrestle with whether manslaughter is always violent
Bankruptcy 03/06/2021Once annually, sometimes less, the full federal appeals court in New York meets to confront a perplexing legal question. Most recently, it was to decide whether shooting somebody point-blank in the face and stabbing somebody to death are violent acts...