Although he argued his actions were justified to save the lives of unborn children, the jury Friday swiftly convicted an abortion opponent of premeditated first-degree murder for shooting to death a late-term abortionist. The jury only deliberated for 37 minutes before finding Scott Roeder, 51, guilty of killing Dr. George Tiller on May 31. Guilty [...]
The dean of California’s Chapman University School of Law says he is stepping down to seek the Republican nomination for state Attorney General. To date, only one candidate, state Sen. Tom Harman is seeking the GOP nomination to succeed Democrat Jerry Brown, as the Golden State’s chief legal officer. John Eastman, who teaches Constitutional Law, [...]
The online dating site eHarmony settled a lawsuit Tuesday in California by agreeing to be more inclusive with gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders, who are looking for love. In 2005, Eric McKinley, a gay man from New Jersey filed suit against eHarmony for not offering matchmaking for gays and lesbians. eHarmony agreed to a settlement [...]
A group of North Carolina lawyers plead guilty to running a scheme to “make drunken driving cases disappear.” Four Johnston County defense attorneys and a former court clerk pleaded guilty Monday to illegally dismissing traffic cases, including citations for driving while impaired. The lawyers, Chad Lee, 33, and Lee Hatch, 41, plead guilty to 10 counts of altering official [...]
A disbarred Florida lawyer pleaded guilty in Miami federal court Wednesday to orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that scammed clients out of more than $1 billion. Scott Rothstein, 47, was a founder and the managing partner of the law firm of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler PA, who fled to Morocco in late October but returned to Florida in early [...]
In an 8-1 vote last week, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an order preventing the Secretary of State from releasing the contact and personal information of over 138,000 individuals that signed a referendum petition that seeks to protect traditional marriage in Washington. The order will prevent several groups from making this personal [...]
The Democrats’ 60-vote Senate super-majority went up in flames Tuesday night in Massachusetts, sending party leaders in a headless scramble of blaming each other for the landslide loss and putting their scheme of health care reform in jeopardy. “Tonight, the independent voice of Massachusetts has spoken,” Scott Brown said. “This Senate seat belongs to no [...]
A court dismissed criminal charges of New Jersey man who was arrested after he shared the Gospel on a sidewalk outside a public high school after the school day had ended. In May 2009, Robert Parker began sharing the Gospel from a public sidewalk outside after Edison High School students were dismissed for the day, [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday rejected – at least temporarily – California’s challenge to a preliminary court order that would force the state to reduce its prison population. In the one-paragraph decision, the high court justices said they will not consider a tentative ruling issued by a special judicial panel back in August. The Supreme [...]
As the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in the United States addresses the first case of “sexting,” the Chinese government pressured one of their telecommunications companies to monitor and report any text transmissions that contain “lewd” and “illegal” content. Last year, the Chinese government pledged to silence pornography on the internet, and now it appears [...]