The Sacramento Bee reports: A black firefighter’s dog food harassment lawsuit could cost the city more than $7 million, legal experts warned the City Council. Tennie Pierce filed the racial […]
The Sacramento Bee reports: Should a California man who poses little threat to his neighbors remain behind bars because of his alleged ties to a terrorist group that threatens lives […]
The Sacramento Bee reports: A California man convicted of attending an al-Qaida camp in Pakistan was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison Monday for supporting terrorists, concluding a case […]
Reuters reports: An Arizona police department had the right to fire a police officer who made and sold “vulgar and indecent” sex videos in which he performs with his wife, […]
The Sacramento Bee reports: Authorities arrested a 7-Eleven clerk after a man accused of her pocketing his winning lottery ticket worth $555,000, then handing him a $4 “prize” instead. Rajinder […]
ABC News reports: Portage County Judge John Plough had assistant public defender Brian Jones arrested for contempt of court last week after Jones refused to begin a misdemeanor assault trial […]
The North Country Gazette reports: Judges don’t like being criticized and it would seem to be a given that other judges would stand in support of their colleagues who felt […]
TBO.com reports: Kevin Alderman thinks of himself as “the Hugh Hefner of the digital millennium.” He’s built a virtual adult entertainment empire, making and selling cyber sex toys in a […]
Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy reports: No Fourth Amendment Protection in E-Mail Addresses, IP Addresses, Ninth Circuit Holds: Commentators and Congress have long assumed that government surveillance of non-content […]
Via LawGeek comes this amusing order from the Seventh Circuit denying Southwest’s Airline‘s petition for rehearing: PER CURIAM. Southwest Airlines’ petition for rehearing asserts that it presented an argument that […]
CNN reports: A federal appeals court Friday ordered the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit challenging President Bush’s domestic surveillance program. President Bush secretly instituted the National Security Agency’s domestic spying […]
Alan Dershowitz on the Libby sentence: The outcry against President Bush’s decision to commute Scooter Libby’s sentence is misplaced. President Bush acted hours after the U.S. Court of Appeals denied […]