Due to the action — or, more accurately, the inaction — of the U.S. Supreme Court, organizers of mass protests in Texas and two other states now could be on the hook financially for any criminal act committed by an attendee. On Monday, the high court opted not to hear the case of Mckesson v. Doe, leaving in place a 2019 decision by the notoriously conservative New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that protest organizers can be held financially responsible for attendees'...
Stuart Gilhooly says today’s decision leaves no doubt that the compensation system needs to be tackled once and for all.
On a December morning in 2019, Caroline Flack made a tearful phone call to a friend from a North London police station. She had just been told she was to be charged with assault after hitting her boyfriend.
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...
In a session presided over by Judge P. Randall Knece at the Court of Common Pleas, several individuals faced charges ranging from theft to felony fleeing and eluding. Here are the details of the cases: All pretrial hearings are scheduled for 1:00 p.m. For individuals like Johnson and Turner, their fates have been sealed with […]
Meta's oversight board said Tuesday it is scrutinizing the social media titan's deepfake porn policies, through the lens of two cases. The move by what is referred to as a Meta "supreme court" for content moderation disputes comes just months after the widespread sharing of lewd AI-generated images of megastar
The fate of hundreds of indefinitely detained immigrants hinges on a landmark legal challenge before the High Court. Hearings will begin in Canberra on Wednesday into the case of a detained Iranian immigrant making a legal bid for freedom. His case springs from an earlier High Court ruling, which found it was unlawful to indefinitely […]
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...
CIRCLEVILLE – Valvoline is set to lead the way in the upcoming development of a gateway project in Circleville, which is anticipated to house multiple retail establishments. The project site, situated on South Court and US-23 Connector Road just north of McDonald’s, is slated for development after the demolition of a former school and firehouse. […]
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Students rallied next to USC's Tommy Trojan on Thursday to protest the university's decision to ban this year's valedictorian from delivering her commencement speech."One of the most gifted girls I have ever met," student Kaiser Kuresi said. "This university is trying to silence her."Earlier this week, USC decided to bar the biomedical engineering major Asna Tabassum, who is Muslim, from speaking because of security concerns. In letter sent to college administrators, critics accused her of...