293 entries in 'Legal Business'
2024/11/14   Tight US House races in California as GOP maintains control over the chamber
2024/11/08   High court won’t review Kari Lake’s appeal over 2022 governor’s race defeat
2024/10/07   US court to review civil rights lawsuit alleging environmental racism
2024/10/02   Mississippi asks court to set execution for man on death row since 1976
2024/09/30   New rules regarding election certification in Georgia to get test in court
2024/09/06   Google faces new antitrust trial after ruling declaring search engine a monopoly
2024/09/02   Trial begins over Texas ‘Trump Train’ highway confrontation
2024/08/25   Venezuela’s Supreme Court certifies Maduro’s claims that he won presidential election
2024/07/28   Biden unveils a proposal to establish term limits for the Supreme Court
2024/07/26   Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect Monday
2024/07/17   Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison
2024/05/24   Marilyn Mosby to be sentenced for mortgage fraud and perjury convictions
2024/05/19   Hunter Biden arrives at court for a final hearing before his June 3 gun trial
2024/05/12   Justice Clarence Thomas calls Washington a 'hideous place'
2024/05/09   Gardena Employment Law Defense Legal Services
2024/05/05   Trump faces prospect of additional sanctions for violating gag order
2024/05/01   Retrial of Harvey Weinstein unlikely to occur soon, if ever, experts say
2024/04/12   What to know about abortion in Arizona under the near-total 1864 ban
2024/03/12   Trump wants N.Y. hush money trial to wait for Supreme Court immunity ruling
2024/03/11   Sen. Bob Menendez enters not guilty plea to latest criminal indictment
2024/03/07   Hong Kong court affirms landmark sedition conviction for pro-democracy activist
2024/02/14   North Carolina voter ID trial rescheduled again for spring in federal court
2024/02/07   Nevada Supreme Court sides with AP in Wynn defamation suit
2024/02/02   Court says GOP lawmakers who staged walkout can’t run for re-election
2024/01/15   What to know: South Africa's genocide case against Israel at ICJ
2024/01/07   NRA chief Wayne LaPierre announces resignation ahead of trial
2023/12/24   Wisconsin Supreme Court orders new legislative maps in redistricting case
2023/12/19   Google to pay $700 million to US states, consumers in app store settlement
2023/12/02   Court affirms actor Jussie Smollett’s convictions and jail sentence
2023/11/28   New Mexico Supreme Court upholds Democratic-drawn congressional map
2023/11/20   Trump celebrates win in Colorado election case during return visit to Iowa
2023/11/09   Ivanka Trump Gave Her Testimony in Trump Organization Fraud Trial
2023/10/24   Sydney court postpones extradition hearing of former US military pilot
2023/10/06   Trump lawyers seek dismissal of DC federal election subversion case
2023/09/25   Judge rules Trump committed fraud while building real estate empire
2023/09/17   A Supreme Court redistricting ruling gave hope to Black voters
2023/09/15   Hunter Biden is indicted on federal firearm-purchasing charges after plea deal fails
2023/09/06   Lawyers claim cable TV and phone companies also responsible in Maui fires
2023/08/23   After Roe v. Wade, the fight over abortion access moves to New Mexico
2023/06/25   Court sides with Jack Daniel’s in dispute with makers of dog toy
2023/06/11   Texas court dismisses GOP donor’s defamation lawsuit
2023/06/02   Federal appeals court overturns 1991 death sentence in Fresno double murder
2023/05/23   Tunisian court releases prominent radio director from prison
2023/05/12   Supreme Court rejects challenge to California pork law
2023/05/04   Donald Trump seeks to move NY criminal case to federal court
2023/03/10   German woman risks tougher sentence over Yazidi girl’s death
2023/03/06   EU legal advisor: Homegrown player quotas clash with EU law
2023/02/26   Panel scolds Wisconsin justice for remarks in Trump case
2023/02/19   Pakistani court acquits parents of activist in treason case
2023/02/16   Maryland mulls ending child sexual abuse lawsuit time limits
2023/02/02   South Korean court says stolen statue must return to Japan
2022/12/06   Former Nazi camp secretary voices regret, seeks acquittal
2022/10/17   Court rejects appeal to give American Samoans citizenship
2022/09/27   Appeals ruling leaves Trump fate in defamation suit in flux
2022/08/11   Federal horserace authority rules again blocked in 2 states
2022/07/29   Massachusetts governor signs bill protecting abortion access
2022/07/18   Abortion clinic goes before judge to challenge WVa ban
2022/06/14   Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation member
2022/04/18   Suit seeks to overturn renewed Philadelphia mask mandate
2021/10/18   Judge agrees to delay in sentencing for Gaetz friend
2021/09/07   Consumer Protection Law Attorney Website
2021/08/06   West African court to rule on Venezuelan’s extradition to US
2021/08/02   Men ordered to pay back $2.4M in health care fraud case
2021/07/31   How to Make Calls to Action Works
2021/06/21   High court sides with ex-athletes in NCAA compensation case
2021/04/27   Court to hear appeal of Dallas officer who killed neighbor
2021/04/19   US deports woman who lied about role in Rwandan genocide
2021/01/18   Groups ask court to restore protections for US gray wolves
2021/01/10   Louisiana Supreme Court has a new chief justice, John Weimer
2020/12/10   High court rejects GOP bid to halt Biden’s Pennsylvania win
2020/11/23   Trump's legal team cried vote fraud, but courts found none
2020/11/15   Chapter 7 bankruptcy - The Bankruptcy Means Test
2020/11/10   GOP tries again to get high court to ax health care law
2020/11/02   Legal armies ready if cloudy election outcome heads to court
2020/09/26   Ginsburg makes history at Capitol amid replacement turmoil
2020/09/19   Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
2020/07/14   New Orleans councilman, attorney plead not guilty to fraud
2020/07/03   High court won't hear abortion clinic 'buffer zone' cases
2020/06/13   International Criminal Court condemns US sanctions order
2020/05/30   Supreme Court rejects challenge to limits on church services
2020/05/12   Supreme Court appears likely to reject Trump immunity claim
2020/05/07   Ginsburg, from hospital, joins in on 'Obamacare' arguments
2020/04/12   Texas clinics ask Supreme Court to abortions during pandemic
2020/03/22   Court affirms conviction in hot-grease injuries to wife
2020/03/17   Australian highest court to rule on Cardinal’s appeal later
2020/02/22   Arkansas candidate's political ties targeted in court race
2020/02/20   Florida can’t bar felons who served their time from registering to vote
2020/02/10   Ruling ends court fight over merger of 2 school districts
2020/01/30   Wood County commissioner reprimanded by Supreme Court
2020/01/11   Former IAAF president’s corruption trial opens in Paris
2020/01/08   Greek court postpones retrial in US tourist's beating death
2019/12/29   Court: Washington drivers must use turn signals to turn
2019/12/24   Roberts will tap his inner umpire in impeachment trial
2019/12/18   Protests of Indian law grow despite efforts to contain them
2019/12/14   Kansas Supreme Court getting new member, new chief justice
2019/11/25   Supreme Court says Ginsburg released from hospital
2019/11/16   EU court refers doubts on Polish judiciary to national court
2019/10/20   The Latest: EU Parliament to be flexible on ratifying Brexit
2019/10/18   Supreme Court takes up case over quick deportations
2019/10/13   Arkansas judge: Court to hear 19 adoption scheme cases
2019/09/30   Egypt court asks religious figure to weigh in on sentences
2019/09/26   Transgender woman in Supreme Court case 'happy being me'
2019/09/22   Bulgarian court to eye revoking parole for Australian man
2019/08/30   Brazil court overrules Rio mayor on gay kiss book ban
2019/08/22   K-Global @ SiliconValley - Future is on 5G
2019/08/16   Mexico high court to Health officials: Regulate medical pot
2019/08/12   Gun-control backers concerned about changing federal courts
2019/08/10   Supreme Court rebuffs Alabama officer charged with murder
2019/07/27   Cyprus police frees 5 Israelis, 7 held in hotel rape probe
2019/07/05   Swedish court detains rapper A$AP Rocky on assault charge
2019/06/20   Supreme Court upholds cross on public land in Maryland
2019/06/17   High court avoids new case over same-sex wedding case
2019/05/20   Former Nissan chairman Ghosn appears in Tokyo court
2019/05/14   Supreme Court conservatives attack lame-duck arguments
2019/04/30   EPA reaffirms glyphosate safe for users as court cases grow
2019/04/26   Kansas court bolsters abortion rights, blocks ban
2019/04/23   Myanmar court rejects appeal of jailed Reuters reporters
2019/04/15   6 appear in court on charges they sent mosque attack images
2019/04/06   Parkland sheriff removal case heads to Florida Supreme Court
2019/03/28   Group takes oil refinery fight to North Dakota's high court
2019/03/25   High court won’t referee dispute over Michael Jordan images
2019/03/19   DC-area sniper shootings case to have Supreme Court hearing
2019/02/20   Florida school shooting suspect due back in court
2019/02/13   Court case to tackle jails' medication-assisted treatment
2019/01/01   Court extends detention for Nissan ex-chair Ghosn by 10 days
2018/12/22   NC court: Counties not responsible for school underfunding
2018/12/19   Human rights court rules against Greece in Sharia law case
2018/12/04   EU court adviser: Britain could change its mind on Brexit
2018/11/24   Government asks high court to hear transgender military case
2018/10/12   Manhattan DA drops part of Weinstein case
2018/10/11   Supreme Court wrestles with case on detention of immigrants
2018/09/14   Court: British surveillance violates European law
2018/09/07   Court: No review of 100-year sentence for attempted murders
2018/08/28   German court mulls jail for some over Munich air pollution
2018/08/13   Court: EPA violated law on harmful pesticide, orders ban
2018/08/08   Child remains found at New Mexico compound, man due in court
2018/08/01   Officer involved in militia leader's death named in court
2018/07/24   Top court: Social media posts violate no-contact order
2018/07/06   The Latest: Trump promises 'great' pick for Supreme Court
2018/07/06   The Latest: Trump promises 'great' pick for Supreme Court
2018/06/10   Kansas Supreme Court sends DNA request back to lower court
2018/06/06   Congressional Dems take Trump to court over foreign favors
2018/06/03   High Court Rules in Dispute Over Immigrant Teen's Abortion
2018/06/02   Romania: Court tells president to fire anti-graft prosecutor
2018/05/27   The Latest: Colorado governor announces Supreme Court pick
2018/05/25   Court: Montana minimizes impact of mining near Yellowstone
2018/05/07   Court asked to toss more cases tied to drug lab scandal
2018/04/29   Bakery appeals to UK Supreme Court in gay-rights cake case
2018/04/25   Court won't reconsider making public family slain autopsies
2018/04/23   Lake County courts to switch to online filing system in May
2018/04/08   Indian court grants bail to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan
2018/03/22   Courts weighing numerous challenges to political boundaries
2018/03/05   Philippine gov't asks Supreme Court to expel chief justice
2018/02/23   Pennsylvania congressional map battle lands in Supreme Court
2018/02/11   Find Lawyers, Law Firms & Legal Services
2018/01/29   Malaysia's top court annuls unilateral conversions of minors
2018/01/28   Top Pakistani court orders arrest of escaped police officer
2018/01/24   Court rules Puigdemont must return to Spain for re-election
2018/01/18   Court halts execution of Alabama inmate with dementia
2017/12/28   State high court won't hear Mateen Cleaves sex assault case
2017/12/22   Ohio court to hear big online school's funding case Feb. 13
2017/12/21   Ohio court indefinitely suspends law license of ex-judge
2017/12/04   Russian court keeps theater director under house arrest
2017/12/04   Asbestos Court to resolve hundreds of claims
2017/11/16   Free Speech Is Starting to Dominate the US Supreme Court's Agenda
2017/11/16   Court gives go-ahead for minimum alcohol price in Scotland
2017/11/03   Telescope permit decision appealed to Hawaii Supreme Court
2017/10/30   Court: No right to copy court reporter’s recordings
2017/10/26   Court gives government a win in young immigrants' cases
2017/10/14   Court agrees to take on US-Microsoft dispute over emails
2017/10/01   Supreme Court declines Michigan emergency manager law case
2017/09/24   Protests continue at Spanish court over secession arrests
2017/09/11   Chicago's lawsuit over sanctuary city threat goes to court
2017/09/07   Supreme Court's Kagan says Scalia death forced compromises
2017/08/30   Dispute over rights to Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan goes to court
2017/08/20   Court file: Michigan girl who killed toddler heard voices
2017/08/18   Kentucky governor, attorney general clash before high court
2017/08/14   Wyoming raises court fees for courtroom technology updates
2017/08/03   Personal Injury Website Design by Web Promo, Inc.
2017/07/18   Kansas faces skeptical state Supreme Court on school funding
2017/07/11   Supreme Court deadline nears for suit over wetland loss
2017/07/07   More court challenges expected for Trump's new travel ban
2017/06/21   EU Court: Vaccines Can Be Blamed for Illnesses Without Proof
2017/06/21   High Court ruling may hurt claims of talc link to cancer
2017/06/15   Groups sue seeking court oversight of Chicago police reforms
2017/06/06   Court to hear challenge to speed up California executions
2017/06/03   Trump admin asks Supreme Court to restore travel ban
2017/05/29   Court: Russian hacker can be extradited to US or Russia
2017/05/22   Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio loses another round in court
2017/05/15   Court likely to question if Trump's travel ban discriminates
2017/05/13   South Dakota and Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe clash in court
2017/05/10   Man arrested near UK Parliament in court on terror charges
2017/05/06   Indiana high court rejects appeal in malnourished teen case
2017/05/05   Trump 'absolutely' considered breaking up 9th Circuit Court
2017/05/01   Indiana high court to take up police unreasonable force case
2017/04/29   4th Arkansas inmate executed in 8 days lurches on gurney
2017/04/26   Judge W. Brent Powell Appointed to Missouri Supreme Court
2017/04/22   White officer headed to court ahead of civil rights trial
2017/04/04   Arkansas asks court to block order on execution drugs
2017/03/30   S Korea's Park questioned at court hearing on arrest request
2017/03/06   Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake
2017/02/12   Partisan struggle over NC governor's authority back in court
2017/01/05   Appeals court: Minnesota sex offender program constitutional
2016/12/05   Alabama inmate seeks execution stay from US Supreme Court
2016/10/28   Ted Cruz's Supreme Court remark draws White House criticism
2016/10/24   High court steps into fight on Vanderbilts' Breakers mansion
2016/10/19   As time runs out, dozens of judge nominees waiting on Senate
2016/10/17   Lithuania wants Gorbachev to testify in war crimes trial
2016/10/14   Free-speech rights of panhandlers argued in court
2016/09/28   Suspected people smuggler charged in Australian court
2016/09/12   Appeals court sympathetic to voting rules challenge
2016/08/23   Court considers Kansas rule that voters prove citizenship
2016/07/14   Appeals court orders Utah to fund Planned Parenthood branch
2016/07/13   Kyrgyzstan sends case of jailed journalist back to court
2016/07/12   Candidate filing begins Monday for appeals court seat
2016/06/09   Bollywood filmmaker challenges censoring of drug-abuse film
2016/06/07   High court rejects Google's appeal in class action lawsuit
2016/05/11   Planned Parenthood shooting defendant returning to court
2016/04/15   Obama's power over immigration drives Supreme Court dispute
2016/04/06   New York's top court: Parents can legally eavesdrop on kids
2016/03/24   Karadzic convicted of genocide, sentenced to 40 years
2016/03/15   White S.C. trooper pleads guilty in shooting of unarmed black man
2016/02/25   Court records: Apple's help sought in another iPhone case
2016/02/10   Supreme Court puts Obama's climate change plan on hold
2016/01/12   High court rejects appeal over Homeland Security records
2015/12/18   Japan court says requiring same surname in marriage is legal
2015/12/03   Court papers: Witness ID'd man in playground shooting
2015/11/17   Ruling gives Sandusky back $4,900-a-month Penn State pension
2015/11/07   Mississippi Supreme Court narrowly grants same-sex divorce
2015/11/02   California appeals court rejects right-to-die lawsuit
2015/10/16   Court again considers fate of seized gold coins worth $80M
2015/09/30   El Paso abortion clinic reopens amid Texas court battles
2015/09/23   Court suspends Pennsylvania attorney general's law license
2015/09/22   Court quashes some District of Columbia gun laws
2015/09/04   Clerk in gay marriage case to appear in federal court
2015/08/01   Federal report finds bias in St. Louis County family court
2015/07/28   Zimbabweans linked to illegal lion hunt appear in court
2015/07/22   Crimean Filmmaker Pleads Not Guilty in Terrorism Trial
2015/07/20   Wife says Chinese rights lawyer being denied legal counsel
2015/06/04   Brazil court convicts 2 firefighters in nightclub fire
2015/06/01   High court: Bankrupt homeowners can't void second mortgage
2015/03/31   Court rejects Duncan's death sentence appeal
2015/01/12   High court won't hear challenge to Vermont campaign law
2014/11/08   New York International Criminal Law Attorney
2014/09/04   Texas abortion clinic to reopen after court ruling
2014/07/11   Apple wins EU court case on store design trademark
2014/04/15   SC Supreme Court hears appeal in fatal dog attack
2014/03/05   Court: Broad protection for whistleblowers
2014/02/13   Nevada Officials Won't Defend Gay Marriage Ban
2014/01/27   Lawmakers push back against Washington high court
2014/01/20   Texas Supreme Court limits insurance exclusions
2014/01/06   Supreme Court Puts Utah Same-Sex Marriage on Hold
2013/12/23   Gay couples wed in Utah after judge overturns ban
2013/12/12   Court: Exec guilty over faulty French implants
2013/12/02   Seattle lawyer left $188 million charitable trust
2013/11/19   Spain court rejects handing pedophile to Morocco
2013/11/08   High court wrestles with prayer in government
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2013/08/26   SC trial lawyer Ron Motley dies at age 68
2013/08/06   Federal court officials fear budget cuts
2013/07/13   Iowa top court: Firing of attractive aide is legal
2013/06/04   US Supreme Court orders 6 death row cases reviewed
2013/05/14   Court dismisses lawsuits in power plant deaths
2013/01/18   Lawyer questions memory of Philadelphia accuser
2013/01/10   Court weighs warrantless blood tests in DUI cases
2012/10/27   Fla. to execute mass killer after court lifts stay
2012/10/19   Supreme Court views not 'liberal or conservative'
2012/10/08   Ex-NFL WR Hurd pleads not guilty to new charges
2012/09/29   Federal court upholds Texas open meetings law
2012/09/20   MacDonald goes to court in 'Fatal Vision' case
2012/09/05   W.Va. court hears 'rescue' funding arguments
2012/08/29   Ohio man pleads not guilty to Pitt threat charges
2012/08/22   Appeals court affirms oil company polar bear rules
2012/08/08   Appeals court affirms that cheering is not a sport
2012/08/03   Court spurns religious claim to name change
2012/07/20   Goldman agrees to settle mortgage debt class action
2012/05/07   Fed court reverses order for VA system overhaul
2012/01/31   Bernstein Liebhard LLP Announces Class Action
2011/07/11   Law Firm To Collect $35M In Forfeited Bonds
2011/05/05   Nevada Supreme Court hosting Law Day Live program
2011/04/27   Conn. high court hears death penalty appeal
2011/03/10   Lawyer-legislator says ethics opinion clears Prattville lawmaker
2011/02/02   Too big to stop? Obama's overhaul lumbers on
2010/01/05   UW Madison's patenting arm wins lawsuit
2009/11/23   Lawsuit: Botched Diagnosis Led to 30-Year-Old New York Teacher's Brain Hemorrhage Death
2009/09/21   Microsoft Lawsuit Shows Malicious Advertising a Growing Issue
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Tight US House races in California as GOP maintains control over the chamber
Legal Business | 2024/11/14 14:03
Republicans and Democrats awaited the outcome of vote-counting for crucial U.S. House districts in California on Wednesday, as the GOP clinched majority control of the chamber next year with a race call in neighboring Arizona.

In a rematch from 2022, Rep. Ken Calvert — the longest-serving Republican in the state’s congressional delegation — defeated rival Democrat Will Rollins in the 41st District, which lies east of Los Angeles and was a top target for national Democrats.

In Southern California’s Orange County, Democrat Dave Min defeated Republican Scott Baugh in a closely divided swing district, ending Baugh’s bid to seize the seat being vacated by Democratic Rep. Katie Porter in what was once a conservative stronghold.

The 47th District, southeast of Los Angeles, was a top target for national Republicans looking to protect and possibly expand the their narrow majority.

Calvert, who was backed by President-elect Donald Trump, claimed his 17th term in a district narrowly carried by Trump in 2020.

“This is a hard-fought victory that shows voters want someone who will put results above partisan politics,” Calvert said in a post on the social platform X.

Min, also posting on X, said that in Congress he will “fight to protect our democracy, safeguard our freedoms and expand economic opportunity.”

Baugh said on the same platform that “despite running a strong campaign … that effort is going to come up a little short.”

On Tuesday, Republican Rep. David Valadao’s victory in California’s 22nd District moved Republicans within two wins of retaining the House gavel, with the tally 216-207 in favor of the GOP, as counting continued in a sliver of races across the country.

With Calvert’s win, the Republican tally reached 217. That became 218 on Wednesday night, securing a majority margin, as Rep. Juan Ciscomani won reelection to a seat representing southeastern Arizona. Some squeaker races remained in play in California.

In the 45th District, anchored in Orange County, Republican Rep. Michelle Steel’s lead over Democrat Derek Tran was whittled down to a few hundred votes as counting continued.

California is known as a liberal protectorate — Democrats hold every statewide office, dominate the Legislature and congressional delegation and outnumber registered Republicans by a staggering 2-1 ratio. Still, Republicans retain pockets of political clout in the Southern California suburbs and vast rural stretches, including the Central Valley farm belt.

Orange County was once considered conservative holy ground, where white, suburban homeowners delivered winning margins for Republicans year after year. It was a foundational block in the Reagan revolution. But the county has become more demographically diverse and Democratic over time, like much of the state.

The 47th District, which includes Huntington Beach and other famous surf breaks, has been occupied by Porter, a progressive favorite who in 2022 narrowly defeated Baugh, a former Republican legislator. Porter, known for grilling CEOs during Capitol Hill hearings, stepped aside to run for U.S. Senate, but lost in the primary.

Given the stakes in the closely divided district, the contest was especially rancorous. Min ads called Baugh a “MAGA extremist” who would endanger abortion rights. Baugh said Min’s “extreme liberal views” were out of step with the district.


High court won’t review Kari Lake’s appeal over 2022 governor’s race defeat
Legal Business | 2024/11/08 16:22
The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to hear Republican Kari Lake’s latest appeal over her defeat in the 2022 governor’s race, marking yet another loss in her attempt to overturn the race’s outcome.

The court made its refusal to take up the former TV anchor’s appeal public on Thursday without explaining its decision.

Lake, now locked in a U.S. Senate race against Democrat Ruben Gallego, had lost the governor’s race to Democrat Katie Hobbs by over 17,000 votes.

The courts had previously rejected Lake’s claims that problems with ballot printers at some Maricopa County polling places on Election Day in 2022 were the result of intentional misconduct and that Maricopa County didn’t verify signatures on mail ballots as required by law. A judge also turned down Lake’s request to examine the ballot envelopes of 1.3 million early voters. In all, Lake had three trials related to the 2022 election.

Despite her earlier losses in court and a ruling affirming Hobbs’ victory, Lake had asked the Arizona Supreme Court to review her case, claiming she had new evidence to support her claims. Lawyers for Maricopa County told the court that Lake failed to present any new evidence that would change the courts’ findings.

Lake is among the most vocal of Republican candidates promoting lies that Donald Trump had won the 2020 election over President Joe Biden, which she made the centerpiece of her campaign for governor. While most other election deniers around the country conceded after losing their races, Lake did not.

The Lake campaign didn’t respond to an email seeking comment on the Supreme Court’s latest decision.


US court to review civil rights lawsuit alleging environmental racism
Legal Business | 2024/10/07 14:34
A federal appellate court is set to hear oral arguments Monday in a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies to place polluting industries in majority-Black communities.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is reviewing a lawsuit filed by community groups claiming St. James Parish “intentionally discriminated against Black residents” by encouraging industrial facilities to be built in areas with predominantly Black populations “while explicitly sparing White residents from the risk of environmental harm.”

The groups, Inclusive Louisiana, Rise St. James and Mt. Triumph Baptist Church, seek a halt to future industrial development in the parish.

The plaintiffs note that 20 of the 24 industrial facilities were in two sections of the parish with majority-Black populations when they filed the complaint in March 2023.

The parish is located along a heavily industrialized stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, known as the Chemical Corridor, often referred to by environmental groups as “Cancer Alley” because of the high levels of suspected cancer-causing pollution emitted there.

The lawsuit comes as the federal government has taken steps during the Biden administration to address the legacy of environmental racism. Federal officials have written stricter environmental protections and committed tens of billions of dollars in funding.

In the Louisiana case, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier of the Eastern District of Louisiana in November 2023 dismissed the lawsuit largely on procedural grounds, ruling the plaintiffs had filed their complaint too late. But he added, “this Court cannot say that their claims lack a basis in fact or rely on a meritless legal theory.”

Barbier said the lawsuit hinged primarily on the parish’s 2014 land-use plan, which generally shielded white neighborhoods from industrial development and left majority-Black neighborhoods, schools and churches without the same protections. The plan also described largely Black sections of the parish as “future industrial” sites. The plaintiffs missed the legal window to sue the parish, the judge ruled.

Yet the parish’s land-use plan is just one piece of evidence among many revealing ongoing discrimination against Black residents in the parish, said Pamela Spees, a lawyer for the Center of Constitutional Rights representing the plaintiffs. They are challenging Barbier’s ruling under the “continuing violations” doctrine on the grounds that discriminatory parish governance persists, allowing for industrial expansion in primarily Black areas.

The lawsuit highlights the parish’s decision in August 2022 to impose a moratorium on large solar complexes after a proposed 3,900-acre (1,580-hectare) solar project upset residents of the mostly white neighborhood of Vacherie, who expressed concerns about lowering property values and debris from storms. The parish did not take up a request for a moratorium on heavy industrial expansion raised by the plaintiffs, the lawsuit states.

These community members “have tried at every turn to simply have their humanity and dignity be seen and acknowledged,” Spees said. “That’s just been completely disregarded by the local government and has been for generations.”

Another part of the complaint argues the parish failed to identify and protect the likely hundreds of burial sites of enslaved people by allowing industrial facilities to build on and limit access to the areas, preventing the descendants of slaves from memorializing the sites. The federal judge tossed out that part of the lawsuit, noting the sites were on private property not owned by the parish.

At its core, the complaint alleges civil rights violations under the 13th and 14th amendments, stating the land-use system in the parish allowing for industrial buildout primarily in majority-Black communities remains shaped by the history of slavery, white supremacy and Jim Crow laws and governance.

Lawyers for St. James Parish said the lawsuit employed overreaching claims and “inflammatory rhetoric.” St. James Parish did not respond to a request for comment.


Mississippi asks court to set execution for man on death row since 1976
Legal Business | 2024/10/02 20:49
The Mississippi attorney general on Tuesday requested an execution date for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate.

Richard Gerald Jordan, now 78, was sentenced to death in 1976 for the kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter earlier that year in Harrison County.

The Mississippi Supreme Court rejected Jordan’s latest appeal Tuesday, and Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed papers hours later asking the court to set a date for the lethal injection.

“Jordan’s state and federal remedies have been exhausted,” Special Assistant Attorney General Allison Kay Hartman wrote on behalf of Fitch.

However, Krissy Nobile, Jordan’s attorney and director of the Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, told The Associated Press that she thinks state justices erred in not applying a 2017 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that dealt with independent mental health experts in death penalty cases.

“We are exploring all federal and state options for Mr. Jordan and will be moving for rehearing in the Mississippi Supreme Court,” Nobile said.

Mississippi Supreme Court records show that in January 1976, Jordan traveled from Louisiana to Gulfport, Mississippi, where he called Gulf National Bank and asked to speak to a loan officer. After he was told Charles Marter could speak with him, Jordan ended the call, looked up Marter’s home address in a telephone book, went to the house and got in by pretending to work for the electric company.

Records show Jordan kidnapped Edwina Marter, took her to a forest and shot her to death, then later called her husband, falsely said she was safe and demanded $25,000.

Jordan has filed multiple appeals of his death sentence. The one denied Tuesday was filed in December 2022. It argued Jordan was denied due process because he should have had a psychiatric examiner appointed solely for his defense rather than a court-appointed psychiatric examiner who provided findings to both the prosecution and his defense.

Mississippi justices said Jordan’s attorneys had raised the issue in his previous appeals, and that a federal judge ruled having one court-appointed expert did not violate Jordan’s constitutional rights.

Jordan is one of the death row inmates who challenged the state’s plan to use a sedative called midazolam as one of the three drugs to carry out executions. The other drugs were vecuronium bromide, which paralyzes muscles, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.

U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate has not issued a final decision in the execution drugs case, according to court records. But Wingate ruled in December 2022 that he would not block the state from executing Thomas Edwin Loden, one of the inmates who was suing the state over the drugs. Loden was put to death a week later, and that was the most recent execution in Mississippi.



New rules regarding election certification in Georgia to get test in court
Legal Business | 2024/09/30 14:37
Two controversial new rules passed by Georgia’s State Election Board concerning the certification of vote tallies are set to face their first test in court this week.

The Republican majority on the State Election Board — made up of three members praised by former President Donald Trump praised by name at a recent rally — voted to approve the rules last month. Democrats filed a legal challenge and argue the rules could be used “to upend the statutorily required process for certifying election results in Georgia.”

A bench trial, meaning there is a judge but no jury, is set to begin Tuesday before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney.

One of the rules provides a definition of certification that includes requiring county officials to conduct a “reasonable inquiry” before certifying results, but it does not specify what that means. The other includes language allowing county election officials “to examine all election related documentation created during the conduct of elections.”

A series of recent appointments means Trump-endorsed Republicans have had a 3-2 majority on the State Election Board since May. That majority has passed several new rules over the past two months that have caused worry among Democrats and others who believe Trump and his allies may use them to cause confusion and cast doubt on the results if he loses this crucial swing state to Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election.

Another rule the board passed more recently requires that poll workers count the number of paper ballots — not votes — by hand on election night after voting ends. A separate lawsuit filed by a group headed by a former Republican lawmaker initially challenged the two certification rules but was amended last week to also challenge the ballot counting rule and some others that the board passed.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and an association of county election officials had cautioned the state board against passing new rules so close to the election. They argued it could cause confusion among poll workers and voters and undermine public trust in the voting process.

The challenge to the certification rules filed by Democratic groups and others asks the judge to confirm that election superintendents — a multi-person election board in most counties — have a duty to certify an election by the deadline provided in the law and have no discretion to withhold or delay certification. They ask that it should be declared invalid if the judge believes either of the rules allows such discretion.

Lawyers for the State Election Board argue the Democrats are asking the judge to “declare what is already enshrined in Georgia law,” that county certification is mandatory and must occur by 5 p.m. the Monday after the election, or the next day if Monday is a holiday, as it is this year. They also argue the challenge is barred by the principle of sovereign immunity and seeks relief that isn’t appropriate under the law.

The challenge was filed by the state and national Democratic parties, as well as county election board members from counties in metro Atlanta, most chosen by the local Democratic Party, as well voters who support Democrats and two Democratic state lawmakers running for reelection. It was filed against the State Election Board, and the state and national Republican parties joined the fight on the board’s side.

The Democrats concede in their challenge that the two rules “could be read not to conflict with Georgia statutes” but they argue “that is not what the drafters of those rules intended.”

“According to their drafters, these rules rest on the assumption that certification of election results by a county board is discretionary and subject to free-ranging inquiry that may delay certification or render it wholly optional,” they wrote in a court filing.

They also note that numerous county election officials around the state have already sought to block or delay certification in recent elections and “the new rules hand those officials new tools to do so again in November.”

State lawyers argue that since the argument against the rules is based on the alleged intent of the people who presented them or the way some officials could interpret them, rather than on the text of the rules themselves, the challenge should be thrown out.


Google faces new antitrust trial after ruling declaring search engine a monopoly
Legal Business | 2024/09/06 22:44
One month after a judge declared Google’s search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech giant faces another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company, this time over its advertising technology.

The Justice Department, joined by a coalition of states, and Google each made opening statements Monday to a federal judge who will decide whether Google holds a monopoly over online advertising technology.

The regulators contend that Google built, acquired and maintains a monopoly over the technology that matches online publishers to advertisers. Dominance over the software on both the buy side and the sell side of the transaction enables Google to keep as much as 36 cents on the dollar when it brokers sales between publishers and advertisers, the government contends in court papers.

They allege that Google also controls the ad exchange market, which matches the buy side to the sell side.

“It’s worth saying the quiet part out loud,” Justice Department lawyer Julia Tarver Wood said during her opening statement. “One monopoly is bad enough. But a trifecta of monopolies is what we have here.”

Google says the government’s case is based on an internet of yesteryear, when desktop computers ruled and internet users carefully typed precise World Wide Web addresses into URL fields. Advertisers now are more likely to turn to social media companies like TikTok or streaming TV services like Peacock to reach audiences.

In her opening statement, Google lawyer Karen Dunn likened the government’s case to a “time capsule with with a Blackberry, an iPod and a Blockbuster video card.”

Dunn said Supreme Court precedents warn judges about “the serious risk of error or unintended consequences” when dealing with rapidly emerging technology and considering whether antitrust law requires intervention. She also warned that any action taken against Google won’t benefit small businesses but will simply allow other tech behemoths like Amazon, Microsoft and TikTok to fill the void.

According to Google’s annual reports, revenue has actually declined in recent years for Google Networks, the division of the Mountain View, California-based tech giant that includes such services as AdSense and Google Ad Manager that are at the heart of the case, from $31.7 billion in 2021 to $31.3 billion in 2023,

The trial that began Monday in Alexandria, Virginia, over the alleged ad tech monopoly was initially going to be a jury trial, but Google maneuvered to force a bench trial, writing a check to the federal government for more than $2 million to moot the only claim brought by the government that required a jury.

The case will now be decided by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, who was appointed to the bench by former President Bill Clinton and is best known for high-profile terrorism trials including that of Sept. 11 defendant Zacarias Moussaoui. Brinkema, though, also has experience with highly technical civil trials, working in a courthouse that sees an outsize number of patent infringement cases.

The Virginia case comes on the heels of a major defeat for Google over its search engine, which generates the majority of the company’s $307 billion in annual revenue. A judge in the District of Columbia declared the search engine a monopoly, maintained in part by tens of billions of dollars Google pays each year to companies like Apple to lock in Google as the default search engine presented to consumers when they buy iPhones and other gadgets.


Trial begins over Texas ‘Trump Train’ highway confrontation
Legal Business | 2024/09/02 22:43
A federal trial is set to begin Monday over claims that supporters of former President Donald Trump threatened and harassed a Biden-Harris campaign bus in Texas four years ago, disrupting the campaign on the last day of early voting.

The civil trial over the so-called “Trump Train” comes as Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris race into the final two months of their head-to-head fight for the White House in November.

Democrats on the bus said they feared for their lives as Trump supporters in dozens of trucks and cars nearly caused collisions, harassing their convoy for more than 90 minutes, hitting a Biden-Harris campaign staffer’s car and forcing the bus driver to repeatedly swerve for safety.

“For at least 90 minutes, defendants terrorized and menaced the driver and passengers,” the lawsuit alleges. “They played a madcap game of highway ‘chicken’ coming within three to four inches of the bus. They tried to run the bus off the road.”

The highway confrontation prompted an FBI investigation, which led then-President Trump to declare that in his opinion, “these patriots did nothing wrong.” Among those suing is former Texas state senator and Democratic nominee for governor Wendy Davis, who was on the bus that day. Davis rose to prominence in 2013 with her 13-hour filibuster of an anti-abortion bill in the state Capitol. The other three plaintiffs are a campaign volunteer, staffer and the bus driver.

The lawsuit names six defendants, accusing them of violating the “Ku Klux Klan Act,” an 1871 federal law to stop political violence and intimidation tactics.

The same law was used in part to indict Trump on federal election interference charges over attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection. Enacted by Congress during the Reconstruction Era, the law was created to protect Black men’s right to vote by prohibiting political violence.

Videos of the confrontation on Oct. 30, 2020, that were shared on social media, including some recorded by the Trump supporters, show a group of cars and pickup trucks — many adorned with large Trump flags — riding alongside the campaign bus as it traveled from San Antonio to Austin. The Trump supporters at times boxed in the bus, slowed it down, kept it from exiting the highway and repeatedly forced the bus driver to make evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision, the lawsuit says.

On the two previous days, Biden-Harris supporters were subjected to death threats, with some Trump supporters displaying weapons, according to the lawsuit. These threats in combination with the highway confrontation led Democrats to cancel an event later in the day.

The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages, alleges the defendants were members of local groups near San Antonio that coordinated the confrontation.

Francisco Canseco, an attorney for three of the defendants, said his clients acted lawfully and did not infringe on the free speech rights of those on the bus.  “It’s more of a constitutional issue,” Canseco said. “It’s more of who has the greater right to speak behind their candidate.”

Judge Robert Pitman, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, is set to preside over Monday’s trial. He denied the defendants’ pretrial motion for a summary judgment in their favor, ruling last month that the KKK Act prohibits the physical intimidation of people traveling to political rallies, even when racial bias isn’t a factor.

While one of the defendants, Eliazar Cisneros, argued his group had a First Amendment right to demonstrate support for their candidate, the judge wrote that “assaulting, intimidating, or imminently threatening others with force is not protected expression.”

“Just as the First Amendment does not protect a driver waving a political flag from running a red light, it does not protect Defendants from allegedly threatening Plaintiffs with reckless driving,” Pitman wrote.

A prior lawsuit filed over the “Trump Train” alleged the San Marcos Police Department violated the Ku Klux Klan Act by failing to send a police escort after multiple 911 calls were made and a bus rider said his life was threatened. It accused officers of privately laughing and joking about the emergency calls. San Marcos settled the lawsuit in 2023 for $175,000 and a requirement that law enforcement get training on responding to political violence.


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