Nearly two years after hearing arguments in a family dispute, the Court of Appeals has concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to hear a woman's appeal of an order that she provide an accounting of the trust her late husband left for her and his son. The question of jurisdiction first arose during oral argument on Jan. 8, 2010, when the court asked whether the order was a final judgment that could be appealed. The woman's stepson, who sought the accounting, had never raised the question and the Court of Special Appeals had not addressed it in upholding the Calvert County Circuit Court order.
If attorney Carl E. Smith's disbarment has offered a modicum of peace to Missouri's so-called "Fighting 44th" judicial circuit, it's hard to tell. The attorneys and judges at the center of Smith's two-year string of court filings, packed with lurid tales of judicial bribery, cocaine and meth use and even sex at a blues festival, have in the past articulated clear disdain for the Douglas County attorney, disbarred Oct. 4.
In the Medellin v. Dretke case, the US Supreme Court squarely considered the domestic judicial enforceability of a judgment by the International Court of Justice for the first time. Although the Court ultimately dismissed the case due to George W. Bush's intervention, the issue that won the Court's attention - the domestic legal status of international tribunal judgments - will almost certain return to the Court in the near future. When it does, the Court will be faced with calls from leading scholars to enforce the judgments of international courts and tribunals as part of a new world court order, characterized by cooperation between international and domestic courts. The first comprehensive constitutional critique of judicial enforcement of international tribunal judgments is laid out...
A Town of Hartland man, free on bail while awaiting sentencing in a rape case, found himself back behind bars this week after he allegedly bought two firearms from a Town of Lockport resident in violation of a court order. Harold G. Case, 50, of Carmen Road, had been free on $100,000 bail until state police arrested him Monday in Lockport on a second-degree criminal contempt charge, as well as a bench warrant issued by Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III revoking Case's bail in the rape case.
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