| Father convicted in son's attempted murder eligible under three ... | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 12:45:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | (01-04) 16:41 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- A man who tried to burn his 6-year-old son to death in 1983 is eligible for a life sentence under the three-strikes law for two weapons convictions in San Francisco, a state appeals court ruled today. The First District Court of Appeal stopped short of ordering a sentence of 25 years to life for Charley Charles and instead left that decision up to a Superior Court judge. But the court agreed with San Francisco prosecutors that the judge was wrong when she ruled last year that she had no authority to sentence Charles as a third-striker. Charles was known as Charles Rothenberg when, after a custody dispute with his wife, he took his son to an Orange County motel, gave him at least one sleeping pill, doused him with kerosene and set him on fire.... | |
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| | | Appeals court upholds one abortion law provision, strikes down another | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:45:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | CINCINNATI A federal appeals court has upheld one Ohio abortion law and has struck down another. The court in Cincinnati says minors should get more than one chance during a pregnancy to try to bypass a parental-consent requirement. The court says the limitation amounts to a substantial obstacle to the right to an abortion and violates the Constitution. But it has agreed that women must get in-person counseling with a doctor at least 24 hours before an abortion. Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro praised the court's decision on the in-person ruling and said that the rejection of the law involving a minor's petition to bypass a parental-consent requirement would have little practical effect. He said the initial requests by minors are rarely denied. Copyright 2006 Associated Press.... | |
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| | | Court of Appeals rejects groups' challenge to prescription law | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 2:46:08 AM by Blog57 Team | | ALBANY, N.Y. The state's highest court has rejected a constitutional challenge by Roman Catholic groups to a New York law requiring employers to offer prescription contraceptives. That ruling was made today by the court of Appeals. The law enacted more than three years ago requires employers offering prescription drug plans to provide coverage for contraceptives. Groups affiliated with the Catholic Church lost a lawsuit in state Supreme Court claiming the law intruded on the rights of some religious organizations. The New York law does exempt some entities from having to comply with the prescription drug-coverage mandate. The include churches, seminaries and other institutions with a mainly religious mission. But groups such as Catholic Charities of Albany, which sought to overturn the law, weren't exempted because their missions weren't deemed to be religious.... | |
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| | | Nigeria: Court Asked to Void Telecoms Regulatory Law | | Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:45:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has been asked to declare as unconstitutional, null and void, the Lagos State Infrastructure Maintenance and Regulatory Agency law which authorises the agency to regulate telecommunication operations. Specifically, the law, which was passed on July 2, 2004, authorises any officer of the agency to dismantle communication structures, inspect any infrastructure for the purpose of determining whether it complies with the provisions of the said law and the regulations, and prescribe fees to be paid to the agency by any telecommunication company. .... | |
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| | | Will Fayose, Dariye Survive the Impeachment Gale? | | Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:45:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | The commencement of impeachment proceedings against the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayo Fayose and his deputy, Mrs Abiodun Olujimi has compelled us again to examine a number of issues relating to that mode of removing certain public officials. The issues include, among others, the nature of impeachment proceedings, obligations of the legislature in impeachment proceedings, the role or proper role of the court in impeachment proceedings, effect of undue influence on legislators or panellists, impeachable offences or conduct and public participation or observation of impeachment proceeding. However, before discussing these salient issues it is necessary to set out in detail the provisions of section 188 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 that deal with the impeachment of Governors and their deputies.... | |
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| | | High court starts its new term, ignoring appeal of sex-toys ban | | Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 10:45:34 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court yesterday began a new term in which it will rule on landmark social cases, and it rejected about 1,900 appeals that piled up during its summer recess, including a constitutional challenge to a Texas law that bans the sale of sex toys. The nation's high court re turned to the bench, reconvening on the required first Monday in October, and Chief Justice John Roberts announced the official opening of the term that lasts through June. The session lasted about 10 minutes. Because of the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur, the Supreme Court did not hear any oral arguments. The court's two Jewish members, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, did not attend the session. During its new term, the Supreme Court has agreed to rule on potential landmark cases on abortion rights, the environment and racial diversity in schools -- some of the country's most contentious social issues.... | |
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| | | DCCI and Law Group receive Chairman of International Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 10:45:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | Abdul Rahman Ghanem Al Mutaiwee, Director General of Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI), received Professor Pierre Tercier, Chairman of the International Court of Arbitration at the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), accompanied with Sami Houerbi, Director of ICC for Middle East and Africa, and Kifaya Hamami, General Coordinator at the UAE National Committee of ICC. .... | |
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| | | Girl's Jailing Likely Breaks Federal Law, Judge Says | | Posted Saturday, September 16, 2006 10:46:04 AM by Blog57 Team | | A D.C. Superior Court judge said yesterday that the city is probably violating federal law by housing a 16-year-old girl in an adult wing of the D.C. jail. "Quite frankly, I think it's barbaric. . . . I think it's barbaric to keep someone in that kind of condition, given her age," Judge Wendell P. Gardner Jr. said. .... | |
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| | | Court upholds law banning convicted molester from park | | Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 4:45:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | INDIANAPOLIS - A convicted child molester has no fundamental right to visit a public park, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The decision by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upholds a ruling by a federal judge in Hammond, who found a Michigan City ordinance banning Robert E. Brown from city parks did not violate his constitutional rights. City officials adopted the ban in 2002 after they said Brown visited Washington Park almost daily, staring at children through binoculars and taking photographs from his van. Brown denied the allegations. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana represented Brown in the lawsuit, arguing that the law deprived him of his 14th Amendment due process rights. When the federal judge ruled against him, Brown appealed to the 7th Circuit.... | |
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| | | Federal Appeals Court Affirms Trademark Verdict Secured by Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione for R.J. Reynolds | | Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:45:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | Brinks Hofer Gilson and Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the U.S., recently announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago has affirmed a jury verdict secured by the firm on behalf of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR). In May 2004, after a two-week trial, a federal court jury in Chicago returned a verdict finding that discount retailer, Cigarettes Cheaper!, committed trademark infringement and willful trademark dilution. It had sold RJR's CAMEL, WINSTON and SALEM brand cigarettes domestically that had been intended for sale outside the United States. The cigarettes sold by Cigarettes Cheaper! were "gray market" because they bore U.S. trademarks, but differed materially from U.S. cigarettes in several respects, causing consumer confusion.... | |
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