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21 hours ago ago from Crime and Consequences Blog
A New Twist on Kiyemba : On SCOTUSblog yesterday, Lyle Denniston wondered whether Supreme Court review of Kiyemba, et. al. v. Obama, et. al . ( 08-1234 ) was "going forward, or not?" Denniston's question was prompted by the Obama Administration's decision to transfer some of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners to a newly acquired federal prison in Thomson, Illinois. Denniston believes that the posture of the Kiyemba case could conceivably change ...
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8 hours ago ago from SIFF-PUNE
Wrongly jailed for 10 yrs, man gets Rs 1L Shibu Thomas, TNN 2 September 2009, 08:32am IST MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday asked the Maharashtra government to pay Rs 1 lakh as compensation to a 40-year-old man who languished in prison for over 10 years for a crime he didn't commit. Malegoan resident Bapu Mali was in jail for five years as an undertrial battling rape and murder charges. Even after the trial court acquitted him, ...
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2 hours ago ago from Sentencing Law and Policy
This new piece from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , which is headlined Georgia Supreme Court halts Carlton Gary s execution, reports that the last execution scheduled for 2009 was put on hold this afternoon: The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday halted the execution of the so-called Columbus stocking strangler, ordering a judge to consider Carlton Gary s request for DNA testing. The 5-2 ruling came four hours before Gary was to be ...
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4 hours ago ago from Unleashed
Vermont's highest court is being asked to decide what a dog's love is worth, the AP reports. The state Supreme Court on Thursday was to hear a case that began in July 2003, when Denis and Sarah Scheele, who were visiting relatives, let their mixed-breed dog wander into Lewis Dustin's yard and he fatally shot it. Now the Scheeles are asking the court to carve out a new legal doctrine that a dog's owners can sue for emotional distress ...
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19 hours ago ago from Vote Bill Connor for Lieutenant Governor
“In expounding the Constitution of the United States, every word must have its due force and appropriate meaning; for it is evident from the whole instrument that no word was unnecessarily used or needlessly added…Every word appears to have been weighed with utmost deliberation, and its force and effect to have been fully understood. No word in the instrument, therefore, can be rejected as superfluous or unmeaning…” Chief Justice John ...
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BA Wins Court Injunction
5 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
BY KAVERI NITHTHYANANTHAN LONDON--British Airways PLC on Thursday secured an injunction at the U.K. High Court preventing its cabin crew from striking over the busy Christmas and New Year period. The court's decision will be a relief to the around one million travelers whose plans were threatened by the walkout, which had been due to start Tuesday. "We are delighted for our customers that the threat of a Christmas strike has been lifted ...
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10 hours ago ago from Media General - NBC13.com
Search: Keyword Site Web | RSS + - Text Size Print Share This Ga high court stops Stocking Strangler' execution Associted Press Published: December 17, 2009 JACKSON, Ga. (AP) - The Georgia Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for a man convicted of strangling three elderly women with their own ...
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1 hour, 12 minutes ago ago from Media General - TBO.com
TALLAHASSEE - The Florida Supreme Court has affirmed the murder conviction and death sentence of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia's killer. The justices today rejected an appeal from 42-year-old Joseph Smith including his challenge of testimony about DNA evidence. A security camera behind a Sarasota car wash captured the girl's abduction in 2004. The 5-0 opinion also upheld Smith's kidnapping and sexual battery convictions. Smith's lawyer ...
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4 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Ill. high court delays rule on medical malpractice SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The Illinois Supreme Court is not yet issuing an opinion on whether the state's medical malpractice law is constitutional. The court announced earlier this week it could rule Thursday on whether damage awards in medical mistakes may be capped. But no opinion was released. Justices traditionally give no reason for the timing of their decisions. The General ...
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22 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
My guess is that if you went out on to the streets and stopped anyone at random and asked whether a person who had been kidnapped and tortured should be able to sue anyone responsible, everyone would answer in the affirmative. The conduct is clearly illegal and should be subject to punishment in the criminal courts and compensation in the civil courts. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is considering whether claims by 5 plaintiffs that they ...
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