Posted by Archie Parsons on July 1, 2011
Madison - In the wake of a physical altercation between two state Supreme Court justices, several of the judges discussed whether a planned photo session for the court should take priority over a meeting with the Capitol police chief.
The email exchange among all the justices came late in the afternoon on June 14, one day after the incident between Justices Ann Walsh Bradley and David Prosser.
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Posted by Cameron Heron on July 1, 2011
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court rejected a call Monday from Virginia’s attorney general to depart from its usual practice and put review of the health care law on a fast track. Instead, judicial review of President Barack Obama’s signature legislation will continue in federal appeals courts.
The justices turned down a request by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a leading opponent of the law, to resolve questions about its constitutionality quickly. The Obama administration opposed Cuccinelli’s plea.
Only rarely, in wartime or a constitutional crisis, does the court step into a legal fight before the issues are aired in appellate courts.
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Posted by Rose Giorza on July 1, 2011
Maggie the cattle dog, run over during a livestock drive in Sierra County, is getting better but probably still needs another week in the veterinary hospital.
Maggie, an 8-year-old border collie, was injured when an impatient driver in a Jeep veered into cattle being driven to summer pasture on June 19.
“She still needs another week or so of therapy so that the pin they put in her leg will work properly,” said dog owner and cattleman John Reader.
Reader visits his best cattle dog in the Loomis Basin Veterinary Emergency Hospital where surgery was performed.
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Posted by Cameron Heron on June 30, 2011
On this blog we wrote about how lawyers are using information on Facebook to build effective cases for divorce court. But the power of social media can also do a great deal of damage, spreading misleading information and creating celebrity that can make an already complicated situation incredibly difficult for all involved. That appears to be the case with Alaina Giordano and Kane Snyder.
Alaina Giordano is the mother whose losing child custody case became an Internet sensation when she created a blog in which she blamed the judge’s decision on her breast cancer. The gross unfairness of such a legal decision spurred the creation of a Facebook page on her behalf, which has more than 21,000 members, and an online petition with more than 100,000 signatures.
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Posted by Archie Parsons on June 30, 2011
By Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times
June 18, 2011, 7:28 p.m.
The roof on the three-bedroom Pasadena rental where Don Jones used to live seems unremarkable until he hands over the invoice showing what it cost: $103,443. Fortunately for Jones, he didn’t have to pay that. His landlords, California taxpayers, footed the bill. The state Department of Transportation, which bought the houses on Jones’ block decades ago to bulldoze for an extension of the 710 Freeway, also spent $103,472 to replace a roof across the street and $80,606 to install the one next-door, agency records show. Read full article…