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249 entries in 'Hot News Topics' |
2024/04/19
Court makes it easier to sue for job discrimination over forced transfers
2024/04/11
Top Europe rights court condemns Switzerland in landmark climate ruling
2024/04/08
Elon Musk will be investigated over fake news and obstruction in Brazil
2024/04/04
Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has memoir coming
2024/03/25
Former Georgia insurance commissioner John Oxendine pleads guilty
2024/03/19
A Supreme Court ruling in a social media case could set standards
2024/02/23
Dani Alves found guilty of rape, sentenced to four and a half years in prison
2024/02/13
Trump arrives in federal court in Florida for classified docs case
2024/02/05
Samsung chief is acquitted of financial crimes related to 2015 merger
2024/01/20
Pita Limjaroenrat: Thailand court to decide if politician will lose his seat
2024/01/17
Court in Thailand acquits protesters who occupied Bangkok airports in 2008
2023/12/29
Pierce Brosnan accused of trespassing in a Yellowstone thermal area
2023/12/08
Hunter Biden is indicted on 9 tax charges in a special counsel investigation
2023/11/30
Panama’s high court declared a mining contract unconstitutional
2023/11/02
Donald Trump Jr. takes the witness stand in fraud trial
2023/10/27
Sen. Menendez enters not guilty plea to a new conspiracy charge
2023/10/20
Federal Judge rules California assault weapons ban unconstitutional
2023/08/24
Some states reject federal money to replace dangerous lead pipes
2023/07/17
Diversify or die: San Francisco’s downtown is a wake-up call for other cities
2023/06/23
Native American tribes say Supreme Court challenge was never just about foster kids
2023/05/22
Russia indicts ICC prosecutor, judge who issued war crimes
2023/04/26
German court: naked landlord doesn’t justify lower rent
2023/03/01
Mexican president lashes out at Supreme Court chief justice
2022/11/11
Montana vote adds to win streak for abortion rights backers
2022/10/27
Same-sex marriage is now legal in all of Mexico’s states
2022/10/24
Idaho Supreme Court won’t weigh legality of child marriage
2022/10/17
Court rejects appeal to give American Samoans citizenship
2022/09/28
Appeals ruling leaves Trump fate in defamation suit in flux
2022/08/29
Pa. man who attacked police on Jan. 6 gets 46-month sentence
2022/08/02
Family loses Supreme Court bid to extend boy’s life support
2022/06/24
States brace for fight over gun laws after high court ruling
2022/04/16
AG wants death-row prisoner’s mental fitness exam called off
2022/04/09
2nd defendant pleads guilty in 2018 hate crime in Washington
2022/03/20
9 apply for open West Virginia Supreme Court seat
2022/03/02
Israel high court suspends Palestinians’ evictions for now
2021/08/22
Judge tells prison to seize Nassar’s money for victims
2021/05/26
Justices signal they could limit Indian Country ruling
2021/03/27
Governor swears in newest Rhode Island state court judge
2021/03/23
Philippine Supreme Court slams killings of lawyers, judges
2021/03/15
Colorado court: Speed-reading bills violates constitution
2021/03/11
Drug trafficker says he bribed Honduras president
2021/01/18
SKorean court gives Samsung scion prison term over bribery
2020/12/21
Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pa. election results
2020/12/17
Senate confirms Barrett replacement on federal appeals court
2020/12/14
Georgia high court rejects latest Trump election appeal
2020/12/06
High court to decide whether Nazi art case stays in US court
2020/11/26
High court blocks NY virus limits on houses of worship
2020/11/07
Trump faces tough road in getting Supreme Court to intervene
2020/10/17
Pennsylvania high court to settle voter signatures fight
2020/10/12
Texas AG taps investigator tied to donor’s defense attorney
2020/10/05
High Court Won't Take up Ex-Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis' Case
2020/10/01
Court OK’s $800M settlement for MGM Resorts, Vegas victims
2020/09/27
Court allows public nuisance suits against 3 Alabama casinos
2020/09/20
Biden to focus on health care in Supreme Court debate
2020/09/05
Alaska Supreme Court rules bonding plan is unconstitutional
2020/08/19
Colombia warlord asks US court to force deportation to Italy
2020/08/15
9th Circuit ends California ban on high-capacity magazines
2020/07/27
Japan court recognizes atomic bomb 'black rain' victims
2020/07/09
Wisconsin Supreme Court OKs GOP-authored lame-duck laws
2020/06/28
Courts straining to balance public health with public access
2020/06/20
What Supreme Court? Trump's HHS pushes LGBT health rollback
2020/06/17
Court rejects Trump bid to end young immigrants’ protections
2020/06/10
International Criminal Court condemns US sanctions order
2020/06/05
Immigrants anxious as they await Supreme Court DACA decision
2020/05/27
Texas court: Virus fear alone not enough for mail balloting
2020/05/19
Judge blocks St. Louis prosecutor from law firm payments
2020/05/15
Louisiana Senate targets lawyer ads promising big payouts
2020/05/10
Catholic schools, ex-teachers clash in Supreme Court case
2020/04/23
Meghan's privacy case against tabloid heard at UK Court
2020/04/07
Poland chamber penalizing judges must be suspended
2020/03/17
Australian highest court to rule on Cardinal’s appeal later
2020/03/14
International court approves Afghanistan investigation
2020/02/09
Court fight over lost dog survives after dog's owner dies
2020/01/27
Man Stirs the Pot by Lighting Joint in Court
2020/01/04
President, Supreme Court top Wisconsin races in 2020
2019/11/23
Hong Kong court reinstates mask ban ahead of elections
2019/11/19
Supreme Court steps into Google-Oracle copyright fight
2019/09/08
Attorneys: Court seat puts Montgomery in far different role
2019/08/12
Cosby lawyers ask appeals court to toss #MeToo conviction
2019/06/16
Oregon city stops jailing poor who can't pay court debts
2019/04/12
Texas’ high court keeps execution drug supplier secret
2019/04/10
Media lawyers in Australian court over Cardinal gag order
2019/03/24
After shocking NY arrest, Avenatti faces court in California
2019/03/16
Veterans court may be collateral damage in immigration fight
2019/02/25
Governor says 'no executions' without court-backed drugs
2019/02/21
High court rules for retired US marshal in W.Va. tax dispute
2019/02/08
Opera singer, husband appear in court on sex assault charge
2019/02/02
NC high court sidesteps decision on tracking sex offenders
2019/01/15
Family's fight for liquor license leads to Supreme Court
2018/12/30
Missouri death row inmate asks US Supreme Court to intervene
2018/12/22
Colorado baker returns to court over 2nd LGBT bias allegation
2018/12/21
New voter ID law immediately challenged in N Carolina court
2018/12/15
Colorado baker returns to court over 2nd LGBT bias allegation
2018/12/11
Man accused of killing tourist appears in New Zealand court
2018/12/10
Chinese executive facing US extradition appears in court
2018/12/06
Supreme Court to hear closely watched double jeopardy case
2018/12/03
Indian court orders Briton held during copter bribery probe
2018/11/15
Mexico's high court tosses law on policing by military
2018/11/10
Trump moves to limit asylum; new rules challenged in court
2018/11/08
Ginsburg, 85, hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall
2018/11/04
Supreme Court agrees to hear Maryland cross memorial case
2018/11/01
S. Korea court upholds conscientious objection to military
2018/10/08
Kavanaugh to attend White House event, as elections loom
2018/10/06
Texas Supreme Court to hear sex offender law challenge
2018/09/21
Trump picks combat over caution in court fight
2018/09/13
The Latest: International court 'undeterred' by Bolton
2018/09/11
India’s Supreme Court strikes down law that punished gay sex
2018/09/01
High court pick Kavanaugh and his carefully constructed life
2018/08/28
Austrian court's approval for spy agency raid was illegal
2018/08/28
Kavanaugh's support for surveilling Americans raises concern
2018/08/25
In Veterans Court, former service members fight new battle
2018/08/23
North Carolina newspaper asks court to unseal lawsuit
2018/08/21
German court rules in broadcaster Nazi camp spat with Poland
2018/08/10
N Carolina Supreme Court race lawsuit returning to court
2018/08/01
Sex predator law challenged by Cosby to get court review
2018/07/31
Court: Mud buggy race operators weren't negligent in crash
2018/07/28
US Supreme Court ruling in union dues impacts case in Oregon
2018/07/26
High court gives mixed verdict on Burgum-Legislature spat
2018/07/21
Kavanaugh: Watergate tapes decision may have been wrong
2018/07/12
Conservatives close in on dream: Tipping court right
2018/07/02
Schumer rallies opposition to Trump anti-abortion court pick
2018/06/30
Abortion rights supporters decry court ruling
2018/06/10
Egypt refers 28 to criminal court for forming illegal group
2018/06/05
Detroit-area couple in court over control of frozen embryos
2018/05/31
Romania: Court tells president to fire anti-graft prosecutor
2018/05/30
Spanish court nixes terrorism accusation in Basque incident
2018/05/28
Supreme Court allows Arkansas to enforce abortion restrictions
2018/05/09
Czech court: Attacker on Petra Kvitova taken into custody
2018/04/06
Brazil's top court: Lula can be jailed for upheld conviction
2018/04/05
Supreme Court rejects appeal from Middle East attack victims
2018/04/02
Trump administration backs PLO in victims' high court appeal
2018/03/17
USCIS will reject any petition that includes an incorrect fee payment
2018/03/13
Kosovo special court issues lawyers' list, no cases yet
2018/03/10
TransCanada doesn't have to pay landowner attorneys
2018/03/06
Court: Nike logo of Michael Jordan didn't violate copyright
2018/03/03
High court: Held immigrants can't get periodic bond hearings
2018/02/26
Supreme Court declines to take up 'Dreamers' case for now
2018/02/16
GOP to take new congressional map to court
2018/02/05
Court: Lawsuit alleging coerced confessions can go to trial
2018/02/01
Court error unmasks person of interest in Las Vegas massacre
2018/02/01
Kenya's High Court orders government's TV shutdown to end
2018/01/26
Officials ask court to send Kennedy cousin back to prison
2018/01/20
Analysis: Outside groups may factor in Arkansas court race
2017/11/17
Steve Mostyn, Houston attorney and major Dem donor, dies
2017/11/14
Free Speech Is Starting to Dominate the US Supreme Court's Agenda
2017/10/30
Indonesia court upholds seizure of illegal fishing vessel
2017/10/20
Court, for now, blocks immigrant teen's access to abortion
2017/10/18
Lawyers want Supreme Court to block Texas from executing man
2017/10/10
Supreme Court to consider American Express fee dispute
2017/09/25
Australia's High Court to consider fate of 7 lawmakers
2017/09/20
Kenya Supreme Court says why it annulled presidential poll
2017/09/01
Indiana high court hearing appeal in children's fire deaths
2017/08/31
Court: Cherokee Freedmen have right to tribal citizenship
2017/08/29
Israeli protesters erect golden statue of High Court chief
2017/08/23
Otter appoints new justice to Idaho Supreme Court
2017/07/19
Idaho Supreme Court upholds grocery tax veto
2017/07/14
Federal court's agenda has topics that draw Trump's ire
2017/07/13
Man charged with killing Maine couple on Christmas in court
2017/06/13
Groups sue seeking court oversight of Chicago police reforms
2017/06/10
With court victory, hand of Brazil's president strengthened
2017/06/08
The Latest: Suspect in 36 fire deaths appears in court
2017/06/05
High court limits seizure of assets from drug conspiracies
2017/06/03
Court filing questions innocence panel insistence on secrecy
2017/06/02
Court sides with towns over utilities in tax dispute
2017/06/02
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch: Rule of law 'a blessing'
2017/06/01
In one state, abused animals get a legal voice in court
2017/05/24
Playboy model who shot nude of unwitting woman due in court
2017/05/20
Court delay sought in $7B Obamacare subsidy case
2017/05/18
Supreme Court strikes down 2 NC congressional districts
2017/05/14
South Dakota and Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe clash in court
2017/05/09
Trump tabs Minnesota Justice Stras for federal appeals court
2017/05/05
Court revives black TV network's discrimination lawsuit
2017/05/02
Top Kansas Court to Revisit Death Penalty in Wichita Murders
2017/05/01
Court: Gay couple's suit against Kentucky clerk can proceed
2017/04/21
White officer headed to court ahead of civil rights trial
2017/04/18
Not guilty pleas entered for accused in Canada polygamy case
2017/04/14
High Court Struggles Over Hospital Pension Dispute
2017/04/03
Donnelly facing doubts from Indiana liberals over court vote
2017/04/01
High Court Struggles Over Hospital Pension Dispute
2017/04/01
Political fights over Supreme Court seats nothing new
2017/03/26
International court orders reparations for Congo attack
2017/03/22
Turkish protesters denounce alleged coup plotters at court
2017/03/22
Dems force 1-week delay on panel vote on Supreme Court pick
2017/03/07
Raw power in North Carolina: governor, legislature in court
2017/03/04
California court expands endangered-species removal powers
2017/02/18
Trial court election changes considered by North Carolina House
2017/02/15
Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear open meetings case
2017/02/13
Court: Police executing 'no-knock' warrant before shooting
2017/02/12
Partisan struggle over NC governor's authority back in court
2017/02/11
Kenya court blocks closing of world's biggest refugee camp
2017/01/27
Competing bills target, affirm high court water decision
2017/01/24
Top court reviews free speech case of man's anti-police rap
2017/01/23
Ethics measure backers ask high court to let them join case
2017/01/15
Supreme Court considers suit over 2001 detention of Muslims
2016/12/08
Muslim cleric is in US court fighting against deportation
2016/12/04
Lawyers for Egypt's Islamists see high court as last refuge
2016/11/22
ICC prosecutor: African states leaving court is 'regression'
2016/11/18
Nevada high court considering email public records question
2016/11/12
ICC prosecutors: US forces may have committed war crimes
2016/09/21
Pakistan court adjourns case of British woman's murder
2016/08/27
Egypt court releases lawyer who defied president
2016/08/21
2 teens killed in Atlanta suburb: Man accused due in court
2016/08/04
Turkish court issues arrest warrant for Muslim cleric
2016/07/23
Appeals court delay requested in ex-Virginia governor's case
2016/07/01
Court orders release of Chicago police disciplinary records
2016/06/11
High Court won't hear dispute over birthright citizenship
2016/06/10
Bollywood filmmaker challenges censoring of drug-abuse film
2016/06/10
Bollywood filmmaker challenges censoring of drug-abuse film
2016/06/06
Missouri Appeals Court to decide fight over frozen embryos
2016/05/10
Court: Slipknot bassist's child born after he died can sue
2016/05/09
El Salvador court takes up case on ex-president's finances
2016/05/05
Florida's high court urged to throw out death sentences
2016/04/16
Court sides with Argentina, speeding along bond settlements
2016/04/13
Supreme Court to swear in large group of deaf lawyers
2016/03/28
Court papers: Woman to plead guilty to terrorism charge
2016/02/09
Court rejects AG Kane's request to reinstate law license
2016/02/08
Plagued by delays, California high-speed rail heads back to court
2015/12/02
2 charged in pastor's wife killing say little in court
2015/11/14
Kansas court's approval of death sentence not seen as shift
2015/10/17
Court records: Ohio man on electronic monitor raped teen
2015/10/16
Thousands turn up at court to support Catalan leader
2015/10/10
Connecticut court stands by decision eliminating execution
2015/09/16
Idaho high court upholds law banning horse racing terminals
2015/09/12
Religious clerks in Kentucky follow law, but see conflict
2015/09/03
Court: Transgender asylum seekers can't be equated with gays
2015/07/20
Court suspends ex-Chad dictator trial to ready new lawyers
2015/07/06
Doctor with hundreds of fraud victims faces sentencing
2015/07/06
Michael Jackson’s doctor pleads not guilty
2015/06/16
Texas turns away from criminal truancy courts for students
2015/03/23
Judge ends Chris Brown's court saga over Rihanna attack
2014/10/20
Courts reject another Arizona immigration law
2014/07/30
Federal court: Virginia marriage is for all
2014/03/07
Fla. high court: Immigrant can't get law license
2014/02/28
Supreme Court allows Stanford Ponzi scheme suits
2014/02/24
High court climate case looks at EPA's power
2014/02/10
Farmer pleads guilty in pot growing scheme
2014/01/30
Teen charged in Mass. teacher killing due in court
2013/12/05
Court hears discrimination case over wedding cake
2013/11/29
Supreme Court Will Take up New Health Law Dispute
2013/10/14
Justice's wheels slowed as shutdown hits courts
2012/01/08
Justices criticize EPA's dealings with homeowners
2011/11/04
Court tosses $43M award against Ford in crash case
2011/10/24
Scott+Scott LLP Announces Securities Class Action Lawsuit
2010/09/22
Penny Stock Risks – Caveat Emptor
2008/12/17
Ill. gov's legal woes worsen as fundraisers defect
2008/10/29
DA: Criminal charges possible in boy's Uzi death
2008/03/06
High Profile Local Law Firms Merge
2008/03/06
Kimkins Diet Scandal - John E. Tiedt Interview
2008/03/05
Civil Rights & the Hawthorne Police Dept & The LAPD
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Court makes it easier to sue for job discrimination over forced transfers
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2024/04/19 13:38
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it easier for workers who are transferred from one job to another against their will to pursue job discrimination claims under federal civil rights law, even when they are not demoted or docked pay.
Workers only have to show that the transfer resulted in some, but not necessarily significant, harm to prove their claims, Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court.
The justices unanimously revived a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by a St. Louis police sergeant after she was forcibly transferred, but retained her rank and pay.
Sgt. Jaytonya Muldrow had worked for nine years in a plainclothes position in the department’s intelligence division before a new commander reassigned her to a uniformed position in which she supervised patrol officers. The new commander wanted a male officer in the intelligence job and sometimes called Muldrow “Mrs.” instead of “sergeant,” Kagan wrote.
Muldrow sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion and national origin. Lower courts had dismissed Muldrow’s claim, concluding that she had not suffered a significant job disadvantage.
“Today, we disapprove that approach,” Kagan wrote. “Although an employee must show some harm from a forced transfer to prevail in a Title VII suit, she need not show that the injury satisfies a significance test.”
Kagan noted that many cases will come out differently under the lower bar the Supreme Court adopted Wednesday. She pointed to cases in which people lost discrimination suits, including those of an engineer whose new job site was a 14-by-22-foot wind tunnel, a shipping worker reassigned to exclusively nighttime work and a school principal who was forced into a new administrative role that was not based in a school.
Although the outcome was unanimous, Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas each wrote separate opinions noting some level of disagreement with the majority’s rationale in ruling for Muldrow.
Madeline Meth, a lawyer for Muldrow, said her client will be thrilled with the outcome. Meth, who teaches at Boston University’s law school, said the decision is a big win for workers because the court made “clear that employers can’t decide the who, what, when, where and why of a job based on race and gender.”
The decision revives Muldrow’s lawsuit, which now returns to lower courts. Muldrow contends that, because of sex discrimination, she was moved to a less prestigious job, which was primarily administrative and often required weekend work, and she lost her take-home city car. |
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Top Europe rights court condemns Switzerland in landmark climate ruling
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2024/04/11 15:11
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Europe’s highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that countries must better protect their people from the consequences of climate change, siding with a group of older Swiss women against their government in a landmark ruling that could have implications across the continent.
The European Court of Human Rights rejected two other, similar cases on procedural grounds — a high-profile one brought by Portuguese young people and another by a French mayor that sought to force governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
But the Swiss case, nonetheless, sets a legal precedent in the Council of Europe’s 46 member states against which future lawsuits will be judged.
“This is a turning point,” said Corina Heri, an expert in climate change litigation at the University of Zurich.
Although activists have had success with lawsuits in domestic proceedings, this was the first time an international court ruled on climate change — and the first decision confirming that countries have an obligation to protect people from its effects, according to Heri.
She said it would open the door to more legal challenges in the countries that are members of the Council of Europe, which includes the 27 EU nations as well as many others from Britain to Turkey.
The Swiss ruling softened the blow for those who lost Tuesday.
“The most important thing is that the court has said in the Swiss women’s case that governments must cut their emissions more to protect human rights,” said 19-year-od Sofia Oliveira, one of the Portuguese plaintiffs. “Their win is a win for us, too, and a win for everyone!”
The court — which is unrelated to the European Union — ruled that Switzerland “had failed to comply with its duties” to combat climate change and meet emissions targets. |
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Elon Musk will be investigated over fake news and obstruction in Brazil
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2024/04/08 16:06
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A crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice included Elon Musk as a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news and opened a separate investigation late Sunday into the executive for alleged obstruction.
In his decision, Justice Alexandre de Moraes noted that Musk on Saturday began waging a public “disinformation campaign” regarding the top court’s actions, and that Musk continued the following day — most notably with comments that his social media company X would cease to comply with the court’s orders to block certain accounts.
“The flagrant conduct of obstruction of Brazilian justice, incitement of crime, the public threat of disobedience of court orders and future lack of cooperation from the platform are facts that disrespect the sovereignty of Brazil,” de Moraes wrote.
Musk will be investigated for alleged intentional criminal instrumentalization of X as part of an investigation into a network of people known as digital militias who allegedly spread defamatory fake news and threats against Supreme Court justices, according to the text of the decision. The new investigation will look into whether Musk engaged in obstruction, criminal organization and incitement.
Musk has not commented on X about the latest development as of late Sunday.
Brazil’s political right has long characterized de Moraes as overstepping his bounds to clamp down on free speech and engage in political persecution. In the digital militias investigation, lawmakers from former President Jair Bolsonaro’s circle have been imprisoned and his supporters’ homes raided. Bolsonaro himself became a target of the investigation in 2021.
De Moraes’ defenders have said his decisions, although extraordinary, are legally sound and necessary to purge social media of fake news as well as extinguish threats to Brazilian democracy — notoriously underscored by the Jan. 8, 2023, uprising in Brazil’s capital that resembled the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection in the U.S. Capitol.
On Saturday, Musk — a self-declared free speech absolutist — wrote on X that the platform would lift all restrictions on blocked accounts and predicted that the move was likely to dry up revenue in Brazil and force the company to shutter its local office.
“But principles matter more than profit,” he wrote.
He later instructed users in Brazil to download a VPN to retain access if X was shut down and wrote that X would publish all of de Moraes’ demands, claiming they violate Brazilian law. Musk had not published de Moraes’ demands as of late Sunday and prominent blocked accounts remained so, indicating X had yet to act based on Musk’s previous pledges. |
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has memoir coming
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2024/04/04 16:02
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has a two-volume memoir coming out this fall, tracking his life from growing up in California to his 30 years on the court, when he cast key votes on landmark cases ranging from abortion to gay marriage to campaign finance.
Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday that Kennedy’s “Life and Law: The Early Years” and “Life and Law: The Court Years” will be published Oct. 1, as a boxed set and in individual editions, each around 320 pages. Kennedy was widely regarded as a moderate conservative who wrote the majority opinion on such closely divided cases as Obergefell v. Hodges, which found a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which allowed corporations and other outside entities to spend unlimited money on election campaigns.
“In ‘Life and Law,’ he explains the why’s and how’s of judging,” Simon & Schuster’s announcement reads in part.
“The second volume is filled with moving portraits of Justices O’Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia and Ginsburg that go along with the account of how Kennedy decided his views in the landmark cases. But it is the first volume about his youth in Sacramento and his decade as a practicing lawyer that explains the judicial giant. Readers will see the child who turns into the man, who shaped America as much as any Washington figure in the 21st century.”
Kennedy, 87, noted in the preface to the first volume that his memoirs proved more expansive than originally planned.
“It was my intent (my right hand is raised to swear it so) to recount my earlier years in a summary way. But something happened on the way to the pencil,” he wrote. “More and more of my recollections turned to how our society and its mindset changed in fascinating ways from the ’40s and ’50s to the ’60s and then again in the ’70s. This seemed relevant to the dynamics that influenced me and our larger society.”
“As each day passes, we should strive to learn more about who we are and whom we should strive to become,” he added. “Writing a memoir is a formal way to do this.”
Kennedy was an associate justice from 1988-2018 and his arrival and departure proved equally newsworthy.
He was appointed to the court by President Ronald Reagan, but only after the Senate had voted down Reagan’s first choice, Robert Bork, and after the second choice, Douglas Ginsburg, withdrew amid reports he had smoked marijuana. When Kennedy announced in 2018 that he was stepping down, President Donald Trump nominated a former Kennedy law clerk, Brett Kavanaugh, who was narrowly approved by the Senate after contentious confirmation hearings that included allegations Kavanaugh had assaulted a high school acquaintance, Christine Blasey Ford.
Kennedy’s book will arrive soon after Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s memoir “Lovely One,” which comes out Sept. 3. |
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Former Georgia insurance commissioner John Oxendine pleads guilty
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2024/03/25 12:23
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A former Georgia insurance commissioner who made a failed Republican run for governor has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud.
John W. Oxendine of Johns Creek entered the guilty plea Friday in federal court in Atlanta. The 61-year-old had been indicted in May 2022 on charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The crime is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, but Oxendine is likely to be sentenced to less. Federal sentencing guidelines discussed in the plea agreement suggest prosecutors will recommend Oxendine be imprisoned between 4 years, 3 months, and 5 years, 3 months, depending on what U.S. District Judge Steve Jones decides at a sentencing hearing set for July 12. Jones could also fine Oxendine and order him to serve supervised release.
Oxendine also agreed to pay nearly $700,000 in restitution to health insurers who lost money in the scheme, the plea document states. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss the money laundering charge as part of the plea.
“John Oxendine, as the former statewide insurance commissioner, knew the importance of honest dealings between doctors and insurance companies,” U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan said in a statement. “But for personal profit he willfully conspired with a physician to order hundreds of unnecessary lab tests, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Prosecutors say Oxendine conspired with Dr. Jeffrey Gallups to pressure other physicians who practiced with Gallups to order unnecessary medical tests from Next Health, a lab in Texas. Prosecutors said Oxendine pushed the plan in a September 2015 presentation to doctors who worked for Gallups’ practice.
The lab company, Oxendine and Gallups agreed the company would pay Gallups a kickback of 50% of the profit on the tests, Oxendine’s indictment said. Next Health paid $260,000 in kickbacks through Oxendine’s insurance consulting company, prosecutors said. Oxendine paid a $150,000 charitable contribution and $70,000 in attorney’s fees on Gallups,’ behalf, prosecutors said, keeping $40,000 for himself. Some patients were also charged, getting bills of up to $18,000 for the tests, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said Oxendine told Gallups to lie and say the payments from Oxendine were loans when a compliance officer at Gallups’ company asked about them. Oxendine told Gallups to repeat the same lie when questioned by federal agents, prosecutors said. And they said Oxendine falsely said he didn’t work with the lab company or get money from Next Health when interviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. |
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