Florida circuit Judge Marc Lubet has ruled that some of the most damaging evidence against former astronaut Lisa Nowak is inadmissible due as unlawfully obtained. For the full story, click here
Category: Justice
One of my former students, Courtney Stark Vail, is an international environmental activist and sent this additional video of the dolphin massacre conducted each year in Japan. These videos are efforts to educate the world as to the sheer brutality and senselessness of this tradition. For the video, click here
The state bar association has criticized has criticized a judge for dismissing sexual assault charges in a gang rape case because she considered the case “theft of services.” Continue reading “Judge Says Gang Rape of Prostitute Was Merely Theft”
Today President Bush called for the confirmation of Michael Mukasey as opposition continued to mount. Continue reading “Bush Calls for Mukasey’s Confirmation Without Confirmation of Waterboarding Stance”
The tort system may achieve what the state legislatures could not with the hate-based Westboro Baptist Church. Continue reading “Hate-Based Church Ordered to Pay Millions to Grieving Father of Dead Soldier”
In what may be a disappointment for many, the Senate leadership has scheduled a vote on Mukasey for next Tuesday despite his refusal to recognize that waterboarding is torture. Continue reading “Senate Schedules Mukasey Vote for Next Tuesday — Despite Refusal to Recognize Waterboarding as Torture”
For many liberals and civil libertarians, the Senate Democrats have long been the political equivalent of the Italian army: They are best seen on parade. Continue reading “Senate Democrats Have One Last Chance To Address Torture”
For years, it has been rumored that the FBI used mob muscle to coerce information from a Klansman to locate the bodies of civil rights workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, Continue reading “Witness Testifies that FBI Used Mob to Coerce Information in Famous Civil Rights Case”
The White House continues to try to spin the presumptively false testimony of Michael Mukasey before the Senate. Continue reading “New Spins on Mukasey Testimony”
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will again enter the debate over curbing Internet porn. Continue reading “Supreme Court Takes Up Pornography Case”
It appears that even being a government minister is not enough to protect you from being pulled aside for ‘flying while Muslim.” Continue reading “U.S. Holds Britain’s First Muslim Minister at Dulles on Suspicion in Major Diplomatic Flap”
The American Bar Association has called for a freeze on executions across the country. Continue reading “ABA Calls for Freeze on Executions”
One of the concerns about closing the Cuba facilities for detainees is that it would only lead to detainees disappearing into unknown facilities. That concern seems to have been realized with regard to the CIA secret prisons. Continue reading “CIA Secret Prisons Emptied: Prisoners Disappear”
In an unexpected move, the U.S. Army is close to overturning the convictions of 63 black soldiers 63 years ago in Seattle after rioting of POWs at Fort Lawton. Continue reading “Convictions of Black Soldiers Overturned — 63 Years Later”
A trial is on the way to determine whether privacy or free speech will prevail in a torts actions against the Westboro Baptist church of Topeka, Kansas, whose members have taunted the families of dead soldiers at their funerals with signs like “Thank God for dead soldiers.” Continue reading “Westboro Church Case Pits Privacy Against Free Speech”