Lawsuits around US seek to block Trump’s public charge rule

NEW YORK (AP) — The scene is playing out in courtrooms from coast to coast — federal judges being asked to block a new Trump administration policy scheduled to take effect next week that would deny legal permanent residency to many immigrants over the use of public benefits. Almost a dozen lawsuits have been filed... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

October 9, 2019

Lawyers want Nevada to ban executions of mentally ill

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The American Bar Association wants the Nevada Supreme Court to rule that people suffering from severe mental illness should be ineligible for the death penalty. The national group of lawyers and legal scholars made the argument in joining an appeal challenging the death sentence of a man it says was mentally... Read More

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Execution, Nevada

October 9, 2019

Arizona now has misgivings about Purdue opioid settlement

Arizona’s attorney general is having misgivings about agreeing to Purdue Pharma’s proposal to settle litigation over the opioid crisis. Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican, said in a court filing late Monday that the OxyContin maker has “sought to undermine material terms of the deal.” He did not specify how he alleges the company has... Read More

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Purdue Pharma

October 9, 2019

Johnson & Johnson, Risperdal maker hit with $8B verdict

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia jury on Tuesday awarded $8 billion in punitive damages against Johnson & Johnson and one if its subsidiaries over a drug the companies made that the plaintiff’s attorneys say is linked to the abnormal growth of female breast tissue in boys. Johnson and Johnson immediately denounced the award after the... Read More

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Johnson & Johnson

October 9, 2019

Trafficker: Honduran president sought money for campaign

NEW YORK (AP) — A Honduran former drug trafficker and mayor testified Tuesday that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández wanted thousands of dollars in bribes from him for his re-election campaign in 2017. On the witness stand on the fifth day of the drug trial against Hernández’s brother Tony Hernández, Amílcar Alexander Ardón said that... Read More

Criminal Justice News, International Justice Watch, News

Juan Orlando Hernández

October 9, 2019

9-year-old charged with murder in 5 Illinois fire deaths

CHICAGO (AP) — A 9-year-old child accused of causing a mobile home fire that killed three children and two adults in central Illinois has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder. The juvenile also was charged with two counts of arson and one count of aggravated arson, the (Peoria) Journal Star reported. The April... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

October 9, 2019

Alaska Supreme Court to hear youths’ climate change lawsuit

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that claims state policy on fossil fuels is harming the constitutional right of young Alaskans to a safe climate. Sixteen Alaska youths in 2017 sued the state, claiming that human-caused greenhouse gas emission leading to climate change is creating long-term,... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Environment, News

Climate Change

October 9, 2019

Louisiana becomes new hub in immigrant detention under Trump

WINNFIELD, La. (AP) — Tucked away in the dense forest of rural Louisiana is a barbed wire-ringed prison that has quickly grown into a major detention center for immigrants detained at the border. The Winn Correctional Center is one of eight Louisiana jails that have started housing asylum seekers and other migrants over the past... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration

October 9, 2019

Search ongoing for 3rd suspect in cop trial witness slaying

DALLAS (AP) — Police in Dallas continue to search for a third suspect in the killing of a witness who testified at the murder trial of a former Dallas police officer. Investigators say 22-year-old Thaddeous Green remains at large Wednesday following the shooting death last week of Joshua Brown in what police say was a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, Law Enforcement, News

Amber Guyger, Thaddeous Green

October 8, 2019

Accomplice in killing of North Dakota woman gets 20 years

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A man whose life sentence was overturned in the death of a North Dakota woman whose baby was cut from her womb was re-sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison after he apologized and pleaded for leniency in front of a nearly empty courtroom. There were no apologies from East Central... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

October 8, 2019

Police: Kansas bar gunman caused disturbance before shooting

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — One of two suspects in the fatal shooting of four people in a Kansas bar caused a disturbance two hours earlier that brought officers to the scene, but they couldn’t find him in the area, the interim police chief said Monday. Michael York said Kansas City, Kansas, police were still... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

Hugo Villanueva-Morales

October 8, 2019

Jurors at impasse in trial of ex-cop who shot naked man

ATLANTA (AP) — Jurors in an Atlanta-area community say they are deadlocked on some of the charges against a former police officer who fatally shot an unarmed, naked black man. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports jurors in DeKalb County sent the judge a note Monday saying they have decided some charges but deadlocked on others. Superior... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, Law Enforcement, News

Robert “Chip” Olsen

October 8, 2019

Lawyer: Other shooting left slain Dallas witness fearful

DALLAS (AP) — A man who was slain after testifying in the murder trial of a former Dallas police officer had feared being a witness because of another incident in which he was shot and wounded outside a nightclub, an attorney for his family said Monday. Police said Monday that detectives were continuing to investigate... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, Law Enforcement, News

Amber Guyger, Joshua Brown

October 8, 2019

Southwest pilots’ union sues Boeing over grounding of plane

DALLAS (AP) — The union representing Southwest Airlines pilots is suing Boeing, saying its pilots are losing money because the company rushed an unsafe plane into service only to have the 737 Max grounded after two deadly crashes. The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association said in the lawsuit filed Monday that Boeing misled pilots and airlines... Read More

Business, Criminal Justice News, News

Boeing, Southwest Airlines

Lawsuits around US seek to block Trump’s public charge rule

Lawyers want Nevada to ban executions of mentally ill

Arizona now has misgivings about Purdue opioid settlement

Johnson & Johnson, Risperdal maker hit with $8B verdict

Trafficker: Honduran president sought money for campaign

9-year-old charged with murder in 5 Illinois fire deaths

Alaska Supreme Court to hear youths’ climate change lawsuit

Louisiana becomes new hub in immigrant detention under Trump

Search ongoing for 3rd suspect in cop trial witness slaying

Accomplice in killing of North Dakota woman gets 20 years

Police: Kansas bar gunman caused disturbance before shooting

Jurors at impasse in trial of ex-cop who shot naked man

Lawyer: Other shooting left slain Dallas witness fearful

Southwest pilots’ union sues Boeing over grounding of plane

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