court cases

There's a particular topic in a recent appeal in the state of PA that interests me: https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=5482 I'm looking to untangle this because I feel strongly that lawsuits about the rules of an election should occur before the election and I'm getting hit back...

The common belief is that Trump will be facing multiple legal battles in multiple jurisdictions the moment he leaves office. Defamation, tax fraud, insurance fraud, perjury, obstruction of justice are just a few. So how soon can we expect the first subpoena being issued, if ever?

After pleading guilty, the Dept. of Justice (read that "Barr") has dropped charges against Michael Flynn. This is an unprecedented move. After months of Trump railing against how Flynn was railroaded, etc. Anyone else smell something rotten here...

Heard this story on Snap Judgment the other night; which to be fair isn't precisely a credible news source. Nevertheless, pretty disgusting and presumably unlawful end to a child custody battle. Biohacker Rich Lee's ex-wife freaks out after he elects to implant rods in his shins and tries to...

Linky. At least we are hearing about the cases because the appeals courts overturned them.

Australian ugg boot maker Eddie Oyger has been ordered by a Chicago court to pay Deckers Outdoor Corporation US$450,000 for selling 12 ugg boots in the US. Deckers is the legal copyright holder of the "ugg" brand and has been selling them as "Ugg Australia" up until 2017. And how did this...

Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, other federal prosecutors violated the rights of Jeffrey Epstein's sex-crime victims, judge rules

A court in Pakistan upheld the acquittal of a woman accused of blasphemy. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/pakistan-court-upholds-aasia-bibi-blasphemy-acquittal-190129080432309.html Lynchings. When a group of people decide that someone does not deserve to live because their behavior is...

Wasn't sure what topic this fit into best, but figured this would do. Interesting times in Canada with a woman being charged with "Pretending to practice witchcraft", a law that will be removed from the criminal code later this week...

Silly GOP made maps time has been ruled against, so now its time for the stalling tactics and general whining. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pa-supreme-court-strikes-down-congressional-map-as-unconstitutional-orders-change-before-may-primary-20180122.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/08/india-to-rethink-colonial-era-law-criminalising-gay-sex If you were largely indifferent towards LGBT rights you might ask why, if most people who were charged with and convicted of this offence had committed "sex offences against children, would it...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/10/04/a-mother-refused-to-follow-a-court-order-to-vaccinate-her-son-now-shes-going-to-jail/?utm_term=.c9206e7b01e7 My sympathy for the mom is below the zero level....

Federal Judge James L. Robart ruled in my favor against ‘psychic’ Noreen Renier in the U.S. District Court in Seattle on April 5, 2007, stating that she breached an earlier Florida state settlement agreement. His ruling ordered Renier (who described herself as a psychic to the court) to...

Democratic Senator (NJ) Menendez lost his attempt in the Court of Appeals to have charges of bribery and corruption dropped. For those not following, they were trying to hide behind Senatorial privilege, essentially denying the charges without offering any evidence and saying "... but it...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/supreme-court-denies-north-carolina-request-to-enforce-votin It was a 4-4 ruling. One guess as to which Justices voted which way. Good thing that piece of crap Antonin Scalia is dead!

No surprise, bleeding heart liberals will probably cheer this: Oddly enough, I tend to agree with them on the case at hand: In this case, it's such a minor offense and the bail is so ridiculously low that it's hard to argue that the threat of its forfeiture would be sufficient to ensure...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37098751 Anjem Choudary, one of the most controversial radical clerics in the UK, has been convicted of inviting others to support the so-called Islamic State group.

Just heard about this today... A couple has gone free after a judge ruled that John Nuttall and Amanada Korody were entrapped by RCMP. The sting, dubbed Project Souvenir, cost $900k in police overtime alone. A few words from the judge: “This was not a situation in which the police were...

An absolutely disgusting development: I'm not sure what personal rights can exist at all when a person can be prosecuted for insulting a politician. This is reminiscent of the DDR. What next for Germany, bringing back the Stasi? If Europe once again descends into fascism and/or...

http://macaudailytimes.com.mo/day-history-1977-roman-polanski-charged-rape.html "In August 1977 Roman Polanski pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with the 13-year-old girl. In December of that year he went into prison for a 90-day psychiatric study but was released after 42 days. Knowing...

Not sure if this belongs here or in Trials and Errors. A woman has been found guilty of both harming a foetus by having an abortion and of killing a baby (the same child); which is bizarre, as well as the issue of whether she should have been found guilty of either charge. Is the American...

You know the format by now. No googling. If you already know the outcomes, please use spoilers if you want to discuss the sentences. Case A Two greedy RBS bankers used their jobs to run £3million property fraud. Andrew Ratnage, 50, and his boss Raymond Pask, 54, guilty of scam Pair set...

Case A What do you think of this one reported by the Daily Mail Anybody want to guess this sentence? The victim's hand looked like this Answer: Case B Just to have a second case to talk about, there is also this one in the Mail Comparator - a solicitor I know got 4 1/2 years for...

Two cases for forum members to pass sentence on. This one is not for Brits unless by some chance you missed the headlines. Case A - 71 year old, very successful and well-known PR man and publicist convicted on 8 counts of sexual assault committed between 1966 and the early 80s. Youngest...

The British court system has said that Wakefield's co-author is to be exonerated from all defamation due to the actions of the GMC in striking his medical standing. There is no practical conclusion, as Walker-Smith retired in 2001, but the news article suggests that this may have a great...

UK's first female genital mutilation prosecutions announced Innocent until proved guilty of course, but it's a start.

In brief: During WWII Japan forced many women sexually service Japanese service men; they were/are called comfort women. The city of Glendale, California has erected a memorial to them in a public park. A federal lawsuit is seeking to have the memorial removed, mainly on the grounds that it...

Three new cases on which to decide the sentence. All come from today's paper. Please guess before googling and please also refrain from publishing the actual outcomes for a page or two: Case A Graffiti - respectable 30 something surveyor convicted of an extended campaign of defacing...

As suggested by Darat, I'm starting this thread to cover the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Travyon Martin. Currently, the trial is scheduled to begin June 10. The plan is to keep the focus of this thread to the trial only. Witnesses, testimony, phone records, emails...

A rare piece of good news from Tory Apocalypse UK: Back-to-work scheme breached laws, says Court of Appeal