America's Most Restrictive Abortion Law Will Almost Certainly Be Struck Down
Lawyers from both sides of the abortion debate have acknowledged that an Arkansas bill that bans terminations after 12 weeks is likely to be struck down in the courts.A vote by the Republican-dominated...
View ArticleJodi Arias Jurors Aren't Satisfied With Her Excuses For Mutilating Her Ex
PHOENIX (AP) — Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial made it clear they aren't satisfied with her stories about why she killed her lover, then methodically covered her tracks and couldn't recall much of...
View ArticleBay Area Software Engineer Faces A Felony Charge For Allegedly Ploughing Into...
Chris Bucchere, a software engineer and bicycle safety instructor, has to stand trial for the death of a 71-year-old he killed with his bicycle, the San Francisco Examiner reports.Judge Andrew Cheng...
View ArticleInvestigation Reveals How This Young Woman Was Killed By A Lion
DUNLAP, Calif. (AP) — The investigation into a lion attack that killed a 24-year-old woman who loved big cats is focusing on a cage door that the 550-pound animal managed to escape through to reach the...
View ArticleAnti-Abortion Activists Ask Supreme Court To Let Them Display Images Of...
The US Supreme Court has been asked to weigh in on whether anti-abortion activists can display crude photographs of aborted fetuses during protests.The conservative Thomas More Society has petitioned...
View ArticleJUSTICE KENNEDY: '9 Unelected People' Shouldn't Have So Much Power
Veteran Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse wrote a scathing op-ed this week taking the high court's conservative justices to task for assuming too much power in America.It appears "swing voter"...
View ArticleConcerns Grow As Local Police Look More And More Like The Military
With an influx in federal cash from Department of Homeland Security grants, local police departments nationwide have been outfitting their officers with armored vehicles, surveillance drones, and...
View ArticleBill Clinton Offers A Really Lame Excuse For Signing Anti-Gay Law
Bill Clinton is making headlines for writing an op-ed asking the Supreme Court to overturn the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act.This month, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to DOMA, which...
View ArticleSouth Dakota Passes Nation's First Law That Lets Teachers Bring Guns To Class
A new South Dakota law will allow teachers to carry guns in the classroom, the New York Times reports. South Dakota is the first state to pass a law that specifically allows teachers to carry guns in...
View ArticleJCPenney Could Suffer A 'Fatal Blow' If Martha Stewart Deal Falls Through
JCPenney has a lot to lose if its planned Martha Stewart line falls through. Macy's took Stewart and JCPenney to court after she announced a home goods line with the retailer. Macy's says that...
View ArticleCalifornia Judge Accused Of Giving A Woman A Job In Exchange For Sex
A married California Supreme Court judge allegedly traded sex for a job opportunity, the Orange County Weekly reported.The Orange County sheriff's office is investigating Judge Scott Steiner, who is...
View ArticleOsama Bin Laden's Son-In-Law Says He Didn't Conspire To Kill Americans
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, appeared before a US federal court in New York on Friday and pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to kill Americans.During a 15-minute...
View ArticleJodi Arias Calls Her Relationship With The Ex She Mutilated 'Complicated'
Thirty-two-year-old "Mormon Casey Anthony" Jodi Arias killed her ex-boyfriend back in 2008, and now the details of their bizarre relationship are coming out during her salacious murder trial.“He was my...
View ArticleOracle Has Resolved A Messy Lawsuit With A New Jersey University (ORCL)
Oracle announced that it has "amicably resolved" its dispute with Montclair State University.The New Jersey university sued Oracle in 2011, claiming that a demonstration of the software Oracle would...
View ArticleWhy I Fled My Dehumanizing Corporate Law Firm And Never Looked Back
It's no secret that corporate law can wreck your spirit.Jobs at big firms pay more than $165,000 a year to start, but the hours are notoriously long and the work can be mind-numbing.One former lawyer...
View ArticleGoogle Maps Might Be Banned In Germany Over A Patent Dispute (MSFT, GOOG)
The German courts are on the point of banning Google Maps over a patent dispute with Microsoft.A judge in Munich has told Google and its subsidiary Motorola Mobility that he is inclined to hold them...
View Article18-Year-Old Russian Beauty Queen Takes A Stand For Pussy Riot
The new Miss Russia took the unusual step Saturday of contradicting President Vladimir Putin by denouncing the jailing of two members of the Pussy Riot female punk band who performed a protest song in...
View ArticleProhibition Lives On In A New Jersey Town
Anyone who wants a beer in Haddonfield, New Jersey had better be ready for a drive: buying or selling alcohol anywhere within city limits is punishable with jail time.Since long before Prohibition --...
View ArticleMeet The 32-Year-Old At The Center Of History's Most Salacious Murder Trial
Jodi Arias has testified for 17 days in a murder trial that's devolved into a cable TV soap opera.The 32-year-old mutilated her Mormon motivational speaker ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander back in 2008....
View ArticleJailed Special Forces Hero Will Find Out Soon If His Conviction Will Be...
AN SAS sniper jailed for possessing a war trophy given to him by the Iraqi army will learn this week whether his conviction will be quashed.Sgt Danny Nightingale received an 18-month custodial sentence...
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