An American judge known for his harsh and autocratic courtroom manner was jailed for 28 years for conspiring with private prisons to hand young offenders maximum sentences in return for kickbacks amounting to millions of dollars. Original post on independent.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Disgraced Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for conspiring with private prisons to sentence juvenile offenders to m Original post on examiner.com Comments on reddit.com
Accused of perpetrating a “profound evil,” former Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for illegally accepting money from a juvenile-prison developer while he spent years incarcerating thousands of youn… Original post on allgov.com Comments on reddit.com
Judge describes ‘wicked and selfish’ motive of using daughter to provide parent with a fourth child Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
From Yahoo! News: TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Police in Tacoma could soon be in real trouble over pot. Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
Pursuing criminal hacking groups is high on the FBI’s list of priorities—but the bureau is adopting some hacking techniques of its own. And a Texas judge isn’t happy about it. On Monday, a judge denied an FBI request to install a spy Trojan on a computer in an unknown location… Original post on slate.com Comments on reddit.com
A Michigan judge whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own court has held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction. Original post on telegraph.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
A Michigan judge whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own courtroom has held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction. Original post on foxnews.com Comments on reddit.com
IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own courtroom has held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction.Judge Raymond Voet has a posted policy at Ionia County 64A District Court stating that electronic devices causing a disturbance during court sessions will result in the owner being cited with contempt, the Sentinel-Standard of Ionia and MLive.com reported.On Friday afternoon, during a prosecutor’s closing argument as part of a jury trial, Voet’s new smartphone began to emit sounds requesting phone voice commands. Voet said he thinks he bumped the phone, and the embarrassment likely left his face red. Original post on ap.org Comments on reddit.com
A federal judge’s ruling, the latest turn in a decade-long fight, lifts the requirement for girls 16 and under to obtain a prescription for Plan B One-Step, the most common morning-after pill. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Those in attendance describe Judge Otis Wright as Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
A federal judge has thrown out a patent claim against Rackspace, ruling that mathematical algorithms can’t be patented. The ruling in the Eastern Disric.. Original post on techcrunch.com Comments on reddit.com
A federal judge has ruled that National Security Letters — orders from the FBI or other agencies that demand information from companies without a court order and forbid them to talk about the… Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
They are used by the FBI to bypass courts and conduct secret surveillance. But now, in what could prove to be a major blow to the Department of Justice, a federal court has found that National Security Letters are unconstitutional. In a ruling released today, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston… Original post on slate.com Comments on reddit.com
A federal judge overturns an Arizona woman’s murder verdict and death sentence after noting a police detective’s history of Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling ruled Monday that the city may not enforce the new regulation, which would have put a 16-ounce limit on sugary drinks — both bottled and fountain. Original post on cbslocal.com Comments on reddit.com
A state judge stopped the Bloomberg administration from banning the sale of large sugary drinks at restaurants and other venues, a major defeat for the mayor. Original post on wsj.com Comments on reddit.com
ELMWOOD PLACE, Ohio — In a scathing ruling, a Hamilton County judge ruled that an ordinance allowing this village of 2,000 to install speed cameras is invalid and unenforceable. Critics have said those Original post on usatoday.com Comments on reddit.com
A judge rules that Chris Bucchere, 36, should face the felony charge in the death of Sutchi Hui, 71, who was struck down in a San Francisco intersection. Original post on latimes.com Comments on reddit.com
A York County public defender is calling the November use of a stun gun by Rock Hill police officers on a 62-year-old homeless man outrageous and characterizing it as police brutality. Original post on heraldonline.com Comments on reddit.com
Exploiting generous benefits and loopholes, some public sector employees are earning more than $260,000 in a year. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
It looks as if Judge Otis Wright is about done humoring Brett Gibbs and Prenda Law/AF Holdings/Ingenuity 13 LLC’s continued legal asshattery. In a lengthy order that reads more like a smackdown, Wright attacks Gibb’s abuse of the legal… Original post on techdirt.com Comments on reddit.com
Stoking controversy, a former Kerala high court judge today defended his judgment acquitting 35 accused in the Suryanelli gangrape case, in which Rajya Sabha deputy chairman PJ Kurien was allegedly involved. Original post on indiatimes.com Comments on reddit.com
What began as a young South Florida woman’s defiant profanity and waving of the middle finger to a judge earlier this week turned into an etiquette lesson Friday — when the tearful woman publicly apologized for her behavior. Penelope Soto’s flipping the bird at … Original post on nbcnews.com Comments on reddit.com
Apple and Samsung have been at odds in court over design and utility patents covering the iPhone and iPad, as well as its user interface. Photo: Jon Snyde Original post on wired.com Comments on reddit.com
A federal judge in San Francisco has indignantly rejected an attempt by the Obama administration to use secret evidence to derail a former Stanford student’s challenge to her apparent inclusion on the government’s no-fly list. According to the judge’s description of the phone call, the agent would then retrieve the evidence and take it back to headquarters while Alsup wrote his ruling, all without notice to Ibrahim’s lawyers. Alsup, who had dismissed the suit twice before and had been overruled both times by a federal appeals court, said the government’s actions this time were Original post on sfgate.com Comments on reddit.com
A military judge on Tuesday reduced the potential sentence for an Army private accused of sending reams of classified documents to the WikiLeaks website. Original post on foxnews.com Comments on reddit.com
From Yahoo! News: LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court overturned the rape conviction of a man who authorities say pretended to be a sleeping woman’s boyfriend before initiating intercourse, ruling that an arcane law from 1872 doesn’t protect unmarried women in such cases. Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
Documentary proof exists that France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy took more than €50m from the late Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, a French judge has been told. Original post on independent.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
