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One of Arizona's Independent Redistricting commissioners says the contract with the group's mapping firm is .
Richard Stertz, one of the commission's appointed Republicans, said Wednesday that the IRC never gave authorization to its executive director to actually execute the contract, only to negotiate it.
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A defendant was entitled to an expanded hearing to determine the reliability of the eyewitness identification used to convict him of manslaughter, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled.
An eyewitness identified the defendant as an accomplice in a fatal shooting. The identification occurred when the witness selected the defendant's photograph from an array presented by detectives.
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A postnuptial agreement that would have made Frank McCourt the sole owner of the Dodgers was ruled invalid Tuesday, bolstering ex- wife Jamie McCourt's claim to half of their property and ensuring their divorce will continue to hang over Dodger Stadium next season.
In a 100-page ruling, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott M. Gordon said the agreement was unenforceable because the couple had different understandings of the documents they signed after they purchased the Dodgers in early 2004.
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Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued its much-awaited decision in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. The Court unanimously he...
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Judgment date: 20 February 2012
McGlen-McLeod v Galloway (No.2) [2012] NSWDC 11
District Court of New South Wales1
In Brief
An offer of compro...
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WASHINGTON - A Nigerian man boarded a Virgin America airplane last week with an invalid boarding pass - making it through a federal security checkpoint where travelers must show identification and their boarding passes.
After the man, Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, got through security, the airline let him onto the plane even though his boarding pass was for a flight the day before, according to the FBI.
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VATICAN CITY - The pope's envoy running the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order says the 1,000-plus rules governing the cult- like life of some of its members are invalid and will be whittled down to a core set of norms.
The rules that the Legion's consecrated women and men live under cover everything from how to eat a piece of bread (tear off bite- size pieces, don't bite into it) to what they can watch on television to how they interact with outsiders and family members.
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Taxpayers often make an election to adjust the basis of partnership property under Sec. 754 whenever a positive basis adjustment would result from suc...
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