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Can Prosecutors Be Sued By People They Framed?
Council Bluffs :: IA :: USA | 2 days ago
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Do prosecutors have total immunity from lawsuits for anything they do, including framing someone for murder? That is the question the justices of the Supreme Court face Wednesday. On one side of the case being argued are Iowa prosecutors who contend "there...
Tags: US Supreme Court
Court rejects civil-rights era murder case
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Supreme Court Monday refused to review the 2007 conviction of a former Ku Klux Klan member in the 1964 kidnapping and murder of two black teenagers...James Ford Seale was accused in the slayings of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, kidnapped...
Tags: Supreme Court Won't Review, US Supreme Court, Mississippi-Louisiana, Ku Klux Klansman, rights era, black teenagers, James Ford Seale, era cases
Record-setting 243 entries in Round the Sound race
Saint George :: Bermuda | 13 days ago
Credibility The event was organised by the Dolphin Swim Team of Bermuda and the Bermuda Open Water Swimmers. The Charity supported this year was the National Trust's "Buy Back Bermuda" Campaign. Dolphins Swim Club member Brian Frick said part of the reason the swim...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, US Supreme Court
Supreme Court to hear Uighurs' case
Washington :: DC :: USA | 16 days ago
Credibility And the court's decision to hear it could further complicate plans to close the military prison in January, a deadline the Obama administration recently said it might be unable to meet. Last year, the court ruled 5 to 4 that a Guantanamo detainee had...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, supreme courts, The Supreme Court, United States, US Supreme Court, Homeland Security Department, Guantánamo Bay Uighur, Senate
US Supreme Court asked to hear R-71 case
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 17 days ago
Credibility Supreme Court has been asked to rule on whether people who sign a referendum should have their names made public. The Supreme Court has been asked to rule on whether people who signed a referendum on gay rights should have their names made public. Backers...
Tags: US Supreme Court, Washington, appeals court, court asked, domestic partners, gay rights, federal appeals
Supreme Court Agrees to Review Enron Executive's Conviction
Washington :: DC :: USA | 23 days ago
Credibility Skilling's conviction to see if he received a fair trial in the hothouse atmosphere of Houston following the collapse of the nation's seventh largest company in 2001. It will also consider whether federal prosecutors properly applied the "honest services"...
Tags: Enron Corp., U.S. Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Jeff Skilling, Houston, Jeffrey K. Skilling, honest services, Jeffrey Skilling, Rod Blagojevich, fair trial
Court mulls law on animal cruelty
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to let stand a federal law barring some depictions of animal cruelty, such as dogfighting videos, by declaring that such images are not protected by the First Amendment. But a broad spectrum...
Tags: animal cruelty, US Supreme Court, federal law, dog fight, court justices, cruelty video, Congress, human sacrifice, court weighs, free speech
Dogfighting Case Gets Its Day In Court
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Related NPR Stories October 6, 2009 The Supreme Court hears a major free speech case on Tuesday that asks whether the government can make it a crime to sell or possess any depiction of animal cruelty. The case is about dogfighting videos, but critics...
Tags: free speech, The Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, animal cruelty, dog fights, pit bull
Supreme Court declines Pledge of Allegiance case
Jacksonville :: FL :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility An appeals-court panel didn't rule his way, and now the Supreme Court won't get involved. A Florida teenager has lost his bid to have the US Supreme Court decide whether students in public schools have a First Amendment right to refuse to stand and repeat...
Tags: US Supreme Court, Supreme Court Refuses, Pledge of Allegiance, U.S. Supreme Court, Florida, court won
How the Supreme Court Works
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Ever get into a fight with your sister, say, over who spilled the soda on your iPod? Your sister blames you and claims you bumped her into the soda, causing the spill...Finally you ask your mom, the highest authority in the house, what she thinks.
Tags: US Supreme Court, The Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, justices john, justices sonia, chief justices, guns rights, associate justices
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