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'A fool, a maniac, and a man who loves Russia': Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine goes low with a flurry of personal attacks on Donald Trump as the vice presidential debate turns ugly Preparing for the worst: Floridians clear supermarket shelves and board up their homes while South Carolina is ready to evacuate one million people as deadly Hurricane Matthew hits the Caribbean and barrels toward the US 'We will never know why God called Noah home so soon': Parents of one-year-old boy who was shot dead while in a bedroom with his three-year-old brother release statement Boy, 12, is charged with a felony after posing as a clown on a video app and 'threatening to kill the students at his Florida middle school because he thought it would be funny' Texas set to execute inmate for first time in six months: Man set for lethal injection on Wednesday - 13 years after he murdered a couple and shot ... (more)
If losing $916 million and possibly avoiding federal income taxes for nearly two decades makes Donald Trump a brilliant businessman, we shudder to think what would make him a bad one. Like so much that involves Trump and his business dealings, this latest revelation remains shrouded in secrecy attributable to his refusal to release his tax returns.
In this June 23, 2010 file photo, then-Puerto Rican Sen. Hector Martinez-Maldonado talks to reporters outside federal court in San Juan. The Supreme Court seems skeptical of Martinez-Maldonado's bid to avoid a second trial on bribery charges.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gestures as he speaks to the Economic Club of New York luncheon in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 15, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar Lawyers representing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sent a letter to The New York Times threatening a lawsuit after the paper published several pages of Trump's 1995 tax returns.
This undated booking photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows James McKinney. The Supreme Court won't hear Arizona's appeal of a lower court ruling that overturned McKinney's death sentence and opened the door for other death row inmates in the state to challenge their sentences.
Prosecutor Update on three appeals: Critical Area Appeals Are Over; Durland Loses Dispute with Neighbor; Hearing Set on Deadline for Challenging Building Fee Common Sense Alliance v. San Juan County - The legal challenge to the 2012 critical areas ordinance has ended! The effort to overturn the County's Critical Area regulations concluded on Monday Oct. 3, 2016 when the United States Supreme Court denied the request of Common Sense Alliance to hear its appeal.
It is business as usual for the Supreme Court justices despite the irresolution of the vacancy left by the untimely death of conservative-leaning Justice Antonin Scalia earlier this year. On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the Washington Redskins in which the NFL team was challenging the decision to cancel the team's trademarks after critics deemed it offensive to Native Americans.
The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Bharat Malkani now available via SSRN. Here is the abstract: The US Supreme Court has repeatedly invoked the idea of dignity in its Eighth Amendment jurisprudence, particularly in cases involving capital punishment.
Scalia's absence haunts Supreme Court's new term The late justice's impact will be felt on cases accepted, denied and delayed Check out this story on HometownLife.com: http://usat.ly/2dTrUxb The Supreme Court kicks off a new term Monday without Justice Antonin Scalia, whose absence will have a major impact. WASHINGTON - Justice Antonin Scalia will be missing when the Supreme Court opens its 2016 term Monday, but his influence lives on in the cases the court has granted, denied and delayed.
An evenly divided Supreme Court opens a new term this week with a few dozen mostly low-profile cases. But perhaps the biggest question of the year won't even be settled by the justices.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact California's ban on "gay conversion" therapy aimed at turning youths under age 18 away from homosexuality, rejecting a Christian minister's challenge to the law asserting it violates religious rights. The justices, turning away a challenge to the 2012 law for the second time in three years, let stand a lower court's ruling that it was constitutional and neither impinged upon free exercise of religion nor impacted the activities of clergy members.
Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is a professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard University and was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
Customers who tried to sue Wells Fargo over the fake accounts that were created in their names, for example, were blocked from the courts and forced into arbitration. It's doubtful that many residents of New Jersey know or care about arbitration.
On March 18, 2011, an Illinois man named Elijah Manuel was asleep in the passenger seat of his car while his brother was driving when their vehicle was stopped by Joliet police for allegedly failing to signal. Here is how the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit summarized Manuel's allegations about what happened next: A police officer detected an odor of burnt cannabis from inside the car.
With 37 days until Election Day on Nov. 8, some voters may wonder about the identification they need when going to the polls. A 2013 state law required voters to present at least one of seven forms of photo identification prior to casting a ballot.
In a story Sept. 30 about suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, The Associated Press erroneously reported the age limit for judges could be raised if voters approve a measure on the November ballot to do so.
Proponents of a statewide ballot initiative want to get big money out of politics by backing a federal constitutional amendment that says free speech in the form of political contributions belongs to people, not corporations. Instead of trying to overturn a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United that led to the creation of Super PACs and "dark money" in politics, Initiative 735 backers seek a constitutional amendment they hope will level the political playing field.
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore testifies during his ethics trial before the Alabama Court of the Judiciary at the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery, Ala., on Wednesday Sept. 28, 2016.