Tag: Law

Law enforcement has offered no indication as to whether or not the statue would be put back up. (Casey Toth/The Herald-Sun via AP)

North Carolina sheriff pursuing felony charges over toppled Confederate statue

Sean Langille · August 15, 2017 8:53 pm

Tech giants said they want the court "to ensure that the law realistically engages with Internet-based technologies and with people's expectations of privacy in their digital data." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Apple, Facebook, others urge Supreme Court to change Fourth Amendment privacy doctrines

Ryan Lovelace · August 15, 2017 6:47 pm

Former Alabama Chief Justice and Senate candidate Roy Moore rides in on a horse named "Sassy" to vote a the Gallant Volunteer Fire Department, during the Alabama Senate race. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore rides a horse to the polls

Caitlin Yilek · August 15, 2017 5:21 pm

Former Obama attorney Neal Katyal asks the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the death penalty and whether capital punishment in Arizona, in particular, violates the Eighth Amendment. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Former Obama attorney asks Supreme Court to hear new death penalty challenge

Ryan Lovelace · August 15, 2017 3:36 pm

South Carolina is suing the maker of popular painkiller Oxycontin for deceptively marketing the addictive opioid. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

South Carolina sues Oxycontin maker

Robert King · August 15, 2017 3:31 pm

A complaint, filed with the Office for Civil Rights at the HHS, accuses Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of violating medical privacy laws and of keeping people with hemophilia from receiving care. (Wikipedia)

Hemophilia groups file civil rights complaint against Wellmark for Obamacare discrimination

Kimberly Leonard · August 15, 2017 3:05 pm

Pennsylvania's taxpayer dollars went to a few kids and their parents who are trying to impose gender entitlements of the minority onto the majority, and they're literally making Pennsylvanians pay for it. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Beltway Confidential

Your tax dollars are paying for high-schoolers who demand gender entitlement

Nicole Russell · August 15, 2017 2:50 pm

David Clarke, who oversees the jail, is one of 29 defendants named in the federal civil rights lawsuit by the family of Terrill Thomas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sheriff David Clarke named in lawsuit over death of jail inmate

Daniel Chaitin · August 15, 2017 2:42 pm

Police responded to Hellerâs office on the morning of July 16 and found a threatening note left near the door of the office criticizing Heller, R-Nev., for his vote on a bill repealing and replacing Obamacare. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Police arrest man in connection to threatening note left at Sen. Dean Heller’s office

Melissa Quinn · August 15, 2017 2:19 pm

Martin Shkreli, the drug CEO, said Tuesday that he was told that he was targeted by government authorities because he was too "flamboyant." (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Martin Shkreli: I was targeted for being ‘flamboyant and personable’

Pete Kasperowicz · August 15, 2017 1:06 pm

Food marketing class actions increased from less than 20 in 2008 to nearly 100 in federal courts in 2015. The most recent example is a lawsuit slapped on Pret A Manger for "slack-filling" their sandwiches. The reason most of these slack-fill cases are dismissed early on is that they are full of baloney. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

How lawmakers can prevent abusive ‘slack-fill’ lawsuits

Sherman Joyce · August 15, 2017 4:01 am

The first failing was that of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer, and the police in failing to separate the Nazis from the counter-protesters who showed up to meet them. (Graeme Jennings/ Washington Examiner)

A government failure in Charlottesville

Washington Examiner · August 14, 2017 8:40 pm