The High Court pulled up judge Vivekanand Sharan Tripathi for his conduct in a case pertaining to alleged forced religious conversions by Muslim clerics.
Tyler Boebert, son of Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, told a court on Thursday that he cannot afford a lawyer as he faces more than a dozen criminal charges.Boebert, 19, was reportedly praised by Judge John F. Neiley for his "attire" while appearing at Colorado's Garfield County court on Thursday, according to Westword. The congresswoman's son then revealed that he had been not been able to hire a lawyer due to "the prices" and requested a public defender."We are working to hire an...
Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology have found that the correlation between face masks and perceptions of trustworthiness may be linked to social norms rather than how they impact appearance.
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money election interference case appears poised to rule that the former president repeatedly violated his gag order. But what’s much less clear is how he chooses a punishment that preserves judicial integrity and avoids political theater.It won’t be easy. After an hour-long hearing, which concluded with Judge Juan Merchan warning Trump’s attorney that he is “losing all credibility with this court,” an angry Trump stormed out of the courtroom, refusing to...
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial on Tuesday warned that Trump's lawyer was "losing all credibility" in his arguments that the former president should not be punished for violating a gag order in the case. Justice Juan Merchan said he would not immediately rule on prosecutors' request
To the editor: I worked in Los Angeles as an attorney for 30 years, mostly downtown in the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. Sometime during that period, that court decided to use tape recorders instead of court reporters at hearings. ("No transcript, no appeal: California courts face 'crisis' over lack of records," April 12) Visualizing blank or garbled recordings being the only evidence of what transpired at a hearing, I was nervous. I forget for how long the hearings were taped, but it was soon...
The opinion stops short of saying lawyers can carry guns into courtrooms, but hints that will probably change once someone files another lawsuit.
Individuals being barred from entering Ontario’s legislature while wearing a keffiyeh say the garment is part of their cultural identity— and the only ones making it political are the politicians banning it. On Monday, Kitchener resident Beisan Zubi drove to Toronto to listen to Question Period, but she wasn’t allowed in the building because she was wearing a keffiyeh. The scarf, she said, belonged to her mother. “It's older than I am. This is something that's been passed down to me. I'm...
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The Arkansas Supreme Court recently broadened the list of people who are allowed to bring guns into a courthouse.
Perhaps more than any other pro athletes, baseball players are a superstitious bunch. Everything they do, from the route they take to the ballpark, what they eat and what they wear can often be determined by how well they are playing individually or how well the team is playing. And in some cases, they insist
Alina Habba, an attorney and spokesperson for former President Trump, said in a Tuesday interview that it was “unlikely” that Trump fell asleep in the courtroom during the first two days of jury selection for his hush money case in Manhattan, despite reports indicating otherwise. “If anything, he's probably brutally bored,” Habba told Fox News’s