A jury was selected Tuesday for a federal copyright trial over Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.” Guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant, long hair pulled back and dressed in dark gray suits and white shirts, watched as eight jurors were ...
Read More »Congress sends Obama bill to ease access to gov’t records
Congress on Monday sent President Barack Obama legislation making it easier for Americans to obtain government records. The bipartisan bill would require federal agencies to consider release of government information under a “presumption of openness” as opposed to a presumption ...
Read More »Court upholds net neutrality rules on equal internet access
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the government’s “net neutrality” rules that require internet providers to treat all web traffic equally. The 2-1 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is a win for ...
Read More »Juror in Stanford sex assault case appalled by sentence
A juror who helped convict a former Stanford University student-athlete of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman thinks the “ridiculously lenient” six-month jail sentence imposed by the presiding judge has made a mockery of the jury’s verdict, a newspaper reported Monday. ...
Read More »Student sues Harris-Stowe State over drug accusation
A women’s basketball player at Harris-Stowe University in St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against the school, saying she was wrongly accused of drug possession and suspended for a year after denying a dean’s sexual advances. The suit filed by ...
Read More »Some on terror list can buy guns, and Dems try to capitalize
Senate Democrats hope to use the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history to force Republicans to either curb gun sales to known or suspected terrorists or take what could be politically damaging votes in an election year. Surprisingly to ...
Read More »Judge bars public release of Clinton aide’s immunity deal
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that he will not publicly disclose details of an immunity agreement between a former aide to Hillary Clinton and Justice Department prosecutors that had been sought by a conservative legal advocacy group in a lawsuit ...
Read More »Court vacates $1.8M Ventura award in ‘American Sniper’ case
A federal appeals court on Monday threw out a $1.8 million judgment awarded to former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who says he was defamed in the late author Chris Kyle’s bestselling book “American Sniper.” The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
Read More »Court upholds law aimed at domestic violence on tribal lands
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a federal law and its stiff prison terms aimed at people who have been convicted of repeated acts of domestic violence on Indian lands. The justices said in a unanimous decision that the law ...
Read More »Missouri attorney accused of withholding witness information
A St. Louis public defender is accusing a circuit attorney of violating Missouri Supreme Court rules by withholding information about crime victims and witnesses. Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce’s office and her prosecutors have stripped the telephone numbers, Social Security numbers, ...
Read More »High court rules against Puerto Rico in debt case
Puerto Rico can’t use a local law to restructure the debt of its financially ailing public utilities as it tries to overcome a decade-long economic crisis, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The 5-2 ruling said that federal bankruptcy law bars ...
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