A California landowner won his challenge to the constitutionality of a fee a California county charged him to obtain a building permit on Friday. In 2016, George Sheetz of Placerville, CA, attempted to build a home on a parcel of land he owned. When he applied for a building permit, he was gobsmacked to learn that in addition to typical fees, he had to pony up $24,000 for a "traffic impact mitigation fee." A unanimous Supreme Court agreed with Sheetz that the "mitigation" fees he had been...
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The Supreme Court confirmed the appeal court’s conviction of Moreno B. (35) and Giërmo B. (40) for the murder of Derk Wiersum. Their sentences of 30 years in prison for planning and executing the defense attorney’s murder is thereby final - no appeal is possible against the Supreme Court ruling.
The order came nearly three weeks after the National Investigation Agency told the court that it did not need her custody anymore.
Now she's 30 years old and getting married. You blink your eye and these things happen,' he marveled. The wedding song he wrote for her will be included on his next album Forever.
BATON ROUGE - The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday a Baton Rouge police officer's trial against Black Lives Matter activist Deray Mckesson may proceed, but justices wouldn't weigh in on what they thought of Mckesson's claim that he enjoyed First Amendment protection for his actions.Former BRPD officer Brad Ford was hit in the face with a piece of asphalt thrown by protesters in the days after the shooting of Alton Sterling. Ford says Mckesson is responsible because he summoned a crowd to Baton...
The former MAFS star took to Instagram on Saturday to confirm they had exchanged vows just weeks after first announcing their engagement.
Attorney Lisa Blatt, of Williams & Connolly LLP, poses for a photograph in front of the Supreme Court, Monday, April 8, 2024, in Washington. Blatt will argue her 50th case
Opinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — The streets in Washington, D.C., were festooned with flags of Japan in recent days, as the United States bestowed one of its rarest of honors, a lavish state dinner, on visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a chance to reaffirm and strengthen bonds between two key allies. Meanwhile, at Mar-a-Lago, a parallel gathering of future-focused faux diplomacy
Opinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — The streets in Washington, D.C., were festooned with flags of Japan in recent days, as the United States bestowed one of its rarest of honors, a lavish state dinner, on visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a chance to reaffirm and strengthen bonds between two key allies. Meanwhile, at Mar-a-Lago, a parallel gathering of future-focused faux diplomacy
Opinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — The streets in Washington, D.C., were festooned with flags of Japan in recent days, as the United States bestowed one of its rarest of honors, a lavish state dinner, on visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a chance to reaffirm and strengthen bonds between two key allies. Meanwhile, at Mar-a-Lago, a parallel gathering of future-focused faux diplomacy
Cosmas Enweluzo, SAN, is the Managing Partner of Liberty Chambers. In this interview, he x-rayed some of the problems in the justice sector including corruption, remuneration, flawed and inconsistent judgments, irregularities in appointment and political influence; and proffers solutions.