The Maryland State Board of Education upheld Frederick County Public Schools’ decision to fire a former employee, who has filed a federal lawsuit against the district, due to an “unprecedented backlog” of work — including over 500 unprocessed teacher certifications. Sarah Ianacone, a former personnel officer for FCPS from 2013 to 2021, filed a federal […]
Justices with the 7th Court of Appeals Texas have upheld a Lubbock jury’s highly debated 70-year sentence handed in April 2023 to a violent repeat offender who spat on police officers arresting him in connection with a domestic assault investigation. The opinion was issued May 15 and was one of two Lubbock County cases involving […]
Jun. 6—GRAND FORKS — North Dakota Supreme Court Justice Jerod Tufte filed an opinion Thursday, June 6, affirming the criminal judgment against U.S. House candidate Roland Riemers. Riemers was found guilty of Class B misdemeanor disorderly conduct on Oct. 10, after a one-day jury trial. One year earlier, Riemers blocked a BNSF railway train, stating […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Flavored tobacco sales will remain banned in the city of Columbus and several other Franklin County cities. A Columbus judge ruled Friday that a state law prohibiting cities like Columbus from banning tobacco sales is unconstitutional. A group of around a dozen cities including Columbus, Cleveland, Bexley, Grandview Heights, and Dublin […]
A federal appeals court has upheld Steve Bannon‘s conviction for defying a Jan. 6 House committee subpoena. In a 20-page ruling Friday, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed each of Bannon’s four challenges to his conviction as without merit. Judge Bradley Garcia wrote in the ruling: Bannon, a Trump White […]
Juan Lerma’s conviction in the death of his 8-year-old daughter was upheld by the New Mexico Supreme Court, maintaining his life sentence in prison for child abuse. Lerma was convicted Nov. 18, 2022 after a jury trial in Fifth Judicial District Court on a single count of intentional child abuse resulting in death of a […]
ADRIAN — A former Tecumseh man’s conviction for murdering his wife at their home in 2018 has been affirmed by a Michigan Court of Appeals panel. James David Allan, 41, was convicted in September 2021 of second-degree murder in the death of Amy Allan. He was arrested in November 2020 after a two-year investigation by […]
Mar. 27—The 55-year sentence given to a Kokomo man guilty of child molesting was upheld by the Indiana Appeals Court. The court ruled this month that former Howard County Superior Court 2 Judge Brant Parry did not err in sentencing Wayne Jewell to almost the maximum allowed. In March 2023, a jury found Jewell, 55, […]
More people could have access to solar power in New Mexico after a lawsuit filed against the state by a group of utility providers was thrown out this this week by the state Supreme Court. The New Mexico Supreme Court issued its ruling in the case brought by Southwestern Public Service Company against the State […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Texas on Friday upheld a key piece of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy that allows a limited number of migrants from four countries to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds, dismissing a challenge from Republican-led states that said the program created an economic burden on them. U.S. District […]
Irish cycling hero Stephen Roche’s appeal against a damning court ruling following the collapse of his Spanish firm has been partially upheld. The 1987 Tour de France winner was ordered to repay nearly €750,000 in April 2022 after a judge blasted him for “knowingly and negligently” bankrupting his Majorca-based cycling tourism business by plundering it […]
An appeals court in Paris on Wednesday upheld a guilty verdict against former French president Nicolas Sarkozy for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid. Sarkozy was convicted in a lower court in September 2021 and sentenced to a year of house arrest for illegal campaign financing. The court said Sarkozy would be […]