In its ruling, the state Supreme Court also declined to follow the lead of the Pennsylvania Legislature, which recently enacted a new law for juvenile murderers in response to the federal decision. ... The state Supreme Court's decision, which affects..…
Newseum Displays Sculpture of Alice Allison Dunnigan, First African American Woman to Cover White House and Congress. ..…
Ayefele had filed suit against the government before State High Court, sitting Ibadan and presided over by Justice Iyabo Yerima.. ..…
Overt bias by Judge Albert Sabo during that appeal hearing prompted even anti-Mumia press pundits in Philadelphia to harshly criticize both Sabo’s antics and the state Supreme Court for refusing to remove Sabo from presiding despite Sabo’s 1982 trial bias being an appeal issue...…
Elsewhere in the state, the Plymouth County Board of Supervisors has publicly stated that it will also abide by the state Supreme Court order, noting it will likely take a legal battle to ultimately resolve the issue. . . . . ..…
Just listen to Jim Jones, State Supreme Court justice and former Idaho attorney general. ..…
“For eight years, Justice Christopher Dietzen has served the people of Minnesota on our state’s Supreme Court with honor and distinction” said a statement from Dayton. ..…
The state supreme court rejected those claims, saying that the denial of tuition aid 'requires no one to choose between following the precepts of his or her religion and forfeiting benefits that would otherwise be available from the government.' . ..…
Yesterday's decision ended the legal challenges to last November's 4-3 decision by the state Supreme Court in Massachusetts, which gave gay couples the right to marry. ..…
New Jersey's state supreme court, June, said Constitution requires neither the standard of proof nor that the task be given to jury. ..…
We learned this morning that the Ten Commandments statue on the Oklahoma Capitol Grounds was declared unconstitutional by the state’s Supreme Court. . ..…
Ultimately, however, whether or not that option would have been desirable, it was unavailable under Florida’s law according to the state’s supreme court. . ... Typically, after identifying an error of federal constitutional law committed by a state supreme..…
A challenge based on that action is pending before the state Supreme Court. . ..…
The state Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday on whether Russell Peeler Jr., convicted of ordering the 1999 killings of Karen Clarke and her 8-year-old son Leroy 'B.J.' ... The state Supreme Court agreed to take up the prospective issue in the case..…
Governors have cited a state Supreme Court ruling to argue that they, too, are exempt, though chief executives often comply with requests anyway. ..…
One advocate calls Wisconsin the ‘darkest of dark money states’ as millions in secret spending flows into races for governor, Legislature and state Supreme Court . ... One advocate calls Wisconsin the ‘darkest of dark money states’ as millions in secret spending flows into..…
The death penalty for a killer is debated in state Supreme Court . . . ..…
From 2000 to 2009, retention elections accounted for about 1 percent of campaign spending on all state Supreme Court elections, Washington, D.C...…
The point is illustrated by the recent decision of the Iowa electorate to remove state supreme court justices who had concluded that a state statute prohibiting same-sex marriage violated the state constitution.3 Disciplining judges for making an unpopular decision can only..…
Same sex marriage became legal in Iowa two years ago when the state’s supreme court unanimously ruled not allowing it would be discriminatory. ..…
Whatever the lower courts decide, however, these cases ultimately are almost certain to be appealed to the state’s Supreme Court. . ..…
State Farm agreed to a $250 million settlement last week for $4 million in contributions it allegedly steered through conduits to Illinois State Supreme Court candidate Lloyd Karmeier. ..…
Department of Public Health, that denying marriage to same-sex couples violated that state’s constitution, marking the first time a state supreme court recognized the right of same-sex couples to marry.1 The decision touched off a widespread backlash; in 2004, eleven states passed..…
And on another church-state issue that has generated considerable controversy the effort by Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore to display monument to Ten Commandments in State Supreme Court building majority of the public believes that it's proper to display the in public..…
But the state Supreme Court in a 3-2 decision vacated the conviction last year, stating the court should have allowed the jury to consider convicting him on a reckless homicide charge rather than murder. . . . ..…