Former Miss California Carrie Prejean filed a lawsuit Mondayagainst Miss California USA officials accusing them of religious discrimination. The suit filed in Los Angeles Superior court against Miss California USA officials, – K2 Productions (the company that operates the Miss California Organization) as well as co-executive directors Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler and publicist Roger [...]
A Saudi lawyer wants a public apology from several Danish newspapers that reprinted a cartoon of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed in February 2008, but the papers say no apology will be coming. Attorney Faisal A.Z. Yamani says he has been contacted by ‘several thousand descendants of the Prophet’ is thus he is demanding a front [...]
The Times Publishing Co., parent company of the St. Petersburg Times was hit with a libel judgment in a defamation suit of more than $10 million on Friday, but their defense was hampered by the death of their reporter. The Florida jury of four woman and two men awarded $5.1 million in compensatory damages and [...]
A conservative professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University who was denied communion for supporting pro-abortion Barack Obama during the presidential campaign, was awarded with a new job as ambassador to Malta. On Aug. 7, Professor Douglas Kmiec, who was legal counsel to Ronald Reagan, the former dean of Catholic University of America law school [...]
When some thought the bleeding would stop by now, Baker Botts law firm sacked 19 associates from its Houston and Washington, D.C. offices, according to Above the Law. If these numbers are true, the Baker Botts Washington D.C. office alone has laid off around 10% – or 7 associates out of the 65 associates as [...]
Law firms are taking much longer to make job offers this year than previous year, according to a career officials, and that’s not the news law students were hoping for. Melissa Lennon, Temple University’s Beasley law school’s assistant dean for career planning told the Legal Intelligencer that the 20 firms she has been tracking in [...]
A Texas Criminal Court-at-Law Judge is accused of soliciting a defendant in a driving-while-intoxicated (DWI) case for sexual favors. The indictment accuses, Judge Donald W. Jackson, 59, offered to get a 27-year-old woman “a different attorney to get her case dismissed if she would be interested in the defendant and enter into a relationship with [...]
The Colorado valedictorian who was denied her diploma until she wrote a an apology for mentioning Jesus in her graduation speech is asking the United States Supreme Court to hear her case. Liberty Council, has filed a Petition for Writ Certiorari at the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Erica Corder, a high school [...]
A New Hampshire 10-year-old home-schooled Christian girl is ordered to be educated in a government-run public school, despite testimony that shows she does well socially and academically. On Monday, Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) allied attorney John Anthony Simmons, filed motions and supporting brief with the Family Division of the Judicial Court for Belknap County in [...]
The 3rd Circuit Court ruled that abortion protesters can’t use the handicapped entrance ramp to a Planned Parenthood clinic as the protesters would block access to the ramp. The three-judge panel in Philadelphia rejected the First Amendment claims of four Christians who said police silenced them by threatening arrest if they spoke from the handicap [...]
