In a decision released late Tuesday night, a federal judge ruled that up to 29 million Facebook users whose personal info was stolen in a September 2018 data breach are not entitled to sue Facebook as a group for damages -- but the users may be entitled to demand better personal data security ... A federal court ruled today that an atheist gentleman from Kentucky should be permitted to get a personalized license plate from the state with the phrase “IM ***” on it. The man is committed to his cause -- this only took three years of legal fighting. Here is the legal opinion from a U.S. ... A man so vexed District Court Judge Marilyn Castle in Lafayette that she ordered his mouth taped shut. The Advocate reports that Michael C. Duhon, already found guilty of theft, repeatedly interrupted his sentencing hearing. Katie Gagliano reports how Castle lost control of her courtroom: According to court minutes, Duhon objected when the judge ... Julian Assange, imprisoned at Belmarsh on a 50-week sentence for jumping bail, was said by his lawyer to be too ill to appear by video link at a court hearing Thursday. The WikiLeaks founder is fighting extradition to the United States over the site's publication of classified U.S. government information. According to WikiLeaks, Assange has ... The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against Apple on Monday on a case involving whether or not a group of iPhone users will be allowed to bring an antitrust lawsuit against the company regarding its App Store practices. The iPhone owners allege that Apple’s 30 percent commission on App Store sales is passed along to ...
Starting in 1974, illustrator Marilyn Church has spent her workdays in court. Church is a courtroom artist who masterfully captures the intensity, drama, and strangeness of high profile proceedings involving John Gotti, Martha Stewart, OJ Simpson, David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz, and even Donald Trump. From an interview with Church in Topic:
How and when ...
In Comal County, Texas, judge Jack Robison, presiding over the trial of accused *** trafficker Gloria Romero Perez, walked into the jury room after the jurors landed on a guilty verdict and urged them to reverse their decision because *** says she's innocent. Unswayed, the jurors stuck to their guilty verdict. Another judge later ruled ...
On Friday, an appeals court judge in Camden County, New Jersey tossed out a verdict against Dr. Abbas Husain who in 2011 a jury found guilty of having sexually harassed an office employee. It came out later that one of the jurors was "very passionate" and concerned that Husain, who is Hindu, hadn't put his ...
I guess it's kind of like yelling fire in a crowded theater: Jacob Maldonado of Honolulu, Hawaii had been called as a possible juror in a misdemeanor assault trial but really didn't want to serve on the jury. So just before the selection process began, Maldonado yelled “He is guilty! He is guilty!” outside the ...
This spring, HBO will air a new documentary about Adnan Syed, the subject of the first season of the Serial podcast. The four-part series is directed by Amy Berg ("Deliver Us from Evil"). From the Baltimore Sun:
Syed, the subject of the wildly popular “Serial” podcast, was convicted in 2000 of killing his former ...
Posts Tagged ‘courts’
Judge says Facebook users entitled to better security but not $ damages
Kentucky atheist can get ‘IM ***’ license plate, US court rules
Judge orders man’s mouth taped shut in court, then orders video of it destroyed
Assange “too ill” for court hearing, says lawyer
Supreme Court rules against Apple, allows an App Store antitrust case to proceed
This talented courtroom artist has drawn the trials of John Gotti, Martha Stewart, and Donald Trump
Judge tells jury to acquit accused *** trafficker because *** said she’s innocent
Juror’s concern that man on trial didn’t swear on the bible results in the verdict getting tossed
Man who yelled “guilty!” to get out of jury duty was promptly arrested
New documentary about Adnan Syed from the “Serial” podcast