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A paid hit man has been executed in Texas for the contract killing of a San Antonio woman in a life insurance scheme nearly a quarter-century ago. Rolando Ruiz was convicted of accepting $2,000 to fatally shoot 29-year-old Theresa Rodriguez outside her home in 1992 as she was getting out of a car with her husband and brother-in-law, who both orchestrated her murder.
Lynne Jackson, a descendant of Dred Scott, right, hugs Charles Taney III, a descendant of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney on the 160th anniversary of the Dred Scott decision in front of the Maryland State House, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Annapolis, Md. On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Dred Scott v.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to back out of a lawsuit over transgender students' bathroom access is a disappointment that will keep transgender children in limbo, said 17-year-old plaintiff Gavin Grimm, who's become a national face of the issue.
Community leaders say a Sikh man who told police that a man shot him in the arm and said to go back to his country is recovering at home in suburban Seattle and is encouraged by an outpouring of support. Community leaders say a Sikh man who told police that a man shot him in the arm and said to go back to his country is recovering at home in suburban Seattle and is encouraged by an outpouring of support.
Community leaders say a Sikh man who told police that a man shot him in the arm and said to go back to his country is recovering at home in suburban Seattle and is encouraged by an outpouring of support. Community leaders say a Sikh man who told police that a man shot him in the arm and said to go back to his country is recovering at home in suburban Seattle and is encouraged by an outpouring of support.
Advocates for the homeless are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider their challenge to Ohio's voting rules governing provisional and absentee ballots. Cleveland.com reports the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, the Columbus Coalition for the Homeless and the Ohio Democratic Party filed their petition Friday.
She's been a Supreme Court justice for more than two decades, but if you had asked her in high school what she'd love to be, Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have said a diva. She recently sat down with News4's Barbara Harrison to talk about her love of the opera and her friendship with soprano star -- and Washington native -- Denyce Graves.
Filmmaker Gabrielle Burton said she didn't plan for her documentary about the drag scene in Ohio's capital city to achieve wider distribution at a time of political and cultural division. "Kings, Queens, & In-Betweens" had screenings in Columbus and New York last Friday and becomes available on iTunes, Amazon and some cable providers next week.
The newest revelations that the Obama administration wiretapped, that is "bugged" President Trump and all of his men, in the lead up to and after the November 8, 2016, elections are not surprising. In this regard, for over 2 years the highest levels of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been secretly investigating the "harvesting" of highly confidential information including financial records of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, other justices, over 156 judges, prominent businessmen like Donald Trump, and public activists like me.
Shakespeare famously said it, leaving others to debate its meaning. Many insist that it was intended not as condemnation of corrupt lawyers, but rather was meant to illustrate the critical importance of lawyers as a barrier to tyranny.
LESS THAN AN HOUR after Barack Obama was elected president for the first time, I was standing outside our former building at Broad and Callowhill streets and watched as hundreds of young people marched toward City Hall. They were black, brown and white, waving their cellphones, chanting and cheering Obama's victory.
No one knows yet what effect, if any, the rollback of part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Water Rule will have, although some already are celebrating the move. According to an article by Colorado State University researchers Reagan Waskom and David Cooper, posted Tuesday morning on the website theconversation.com , the rollback could mean even more confusion for farmers and ranchers.
Major technology companies and other businesses, warning of the negative business consequences of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against a transgender boy's sex discrimination claim, on Thursday stepped into a simmering controversy that pits them against the Trump administration.
Gavin Grimm of Gloucester says he can use the bathroom that matches his gender identity. The School Board disagrees, and the Supreme Court is set to hear the case.
A coalition of 53 companies on Thursday backed transgender rights at the U.S. Supreme Court, signing on to a brief supporting a Virginia student who is fighting to use the school bathroom that corresponds with his gender identity. The court has scheduled oral arguments for March 28 on whether the Gloucester County School Board in Virginia violated a federal anti-discrimination law when it blocked Gavin Grimm, a female-born transgender high school student who identifies as male, from using the boys' bathroom.
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Supreme Court's recent ruling in Fry v. Napoleon Comm. Schools limits IDEA's exhaustion requirement to those cases which seek relief for a denial of FAPE allowing for some claims brought under Title II and Section 504 on behalf of IDEA eligible students to proceed directly to court without implementation of IDEA's administrative processes before litigation is commenced.
The Texas Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that conservatives hope will provide an opening to challenge the landmark 2015 ruling legalizing gay marriage nationwide. The all-Republican court initially refused to hear the lawsuit, which challenged Houston's decision to offer same-sex spousal benefits to municipal employees.
THE rape and murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanka in 1994 inspired a host of federal and state laws tracking sexual predators and publicising information on their crimes and whereabouts. Many states also passed laws keeping such criminals away from schools, playgrounds and parks.
The Supreme Court is mainly ruling for African-Americans in Virginia who say lawmakers packed 12 legislative districts with black voters to make other districts whiter and more Republican. The justices said Wednesday that a lower court that upheld the 12 districts used the wrong legal standard when it determined that race did not play too large a role in creating the districts.
Last week White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer predicted "greater enforcement" of the federal ban on marijuana in the eight states that have legalized the drug for recreational use. This week Attorney General Jeff Sessions, an old-fashioned drug warrior who thinks "good people don't smoke marijuana," seemed to confirm Spicer's warning, telling reporters, "We're going to look at it...and try to adopt responsible policies."