Ronnie Lee Gardner execution by firing squad is set for minutes after 12:00 a.m. on Friday, June 16, 2010. The U.S. Supreme Court and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver have petitioned Governor Gary Herbert for a temporary stay. Gardner is an inmate in a Utah State prison....
Anna Nicole Smith's estate will get nothing from the fifteen year long battle. The former sex symbol, model, and television personality filed suit in 2001 in a Texas courtroom over her $300 million dollar piece of J. Howard Marshall's $1.6 billion dollar estate. Marshall was 90 years old at the...
The Westboro Baptist Church causes outrage after judges rule that Albert Snyder, father of a fallen Marine, pay $16,510.80 in court costs to church member Fred Phelps. Members of the church, located in Topeka, Kansas, picketed Snyder's late son's funeral - all because Snyder's son was gay. On...
Stare decisis is a Latin term that literally means “maintain what has been decided and do not alter that which has been established.” Specifically, this is legal principle that judges should always consider and that require them to follow whatever agreement they have agreed upon. On the other...
Dean Boland, an Ohio attorney, is facing a child porn lawsuit after he photoshopped kids pictures. Among Boland's list of offenses is "transforming a picture of a 5 year old girl eating a doughnut into one of her having oral sex." Boland allegedly purchased photos of four very young girls from...
According to the Associated Press, John Allen Muhammad's execution date is set. Muhammad is better known as the DC Sniper, who partnered with teen accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo and committed terror in the DC region by murdering 10+ innocent people over the course of 3 weeks. "A Virginia judge on...
