There are specific requirements for proving that an oil and gas lease has survived past its primary term. Fail to hit them all when the lease is challenged at the courthouse, wand disappointment will be order of the day. The heart of the dispute in J&L...
Is the House Judiciary Committee the place where “bills go to die”? So reports Politico, quoting several congressional sources. One example: In late February, Speaker Paul Ryan and his went to committee chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) with a request. With a White House deadline approaching...
Fix the Court analyzes records it obtained from the U.S. Marshals Service documenting the security provided for the justices when they travel, suggesting that “the justices may not have adequate coverage at a time when threats against public figures are on the rise and when,...
The FBI’s employee discipline office recommended firing Andrew McCabe, the bureau’s former deputy director, over allegations that he authorized the disclosure of sensitive information to a reporter and misled investigators when asked about it, the Washington Post reports. Attorney General Jeff Sessions must decide whether...
The petition of the day is: Okechuku v. United States 17-1130 Issues: Whether, and under what circumstances, the erroneous submission of a deliberate-ignorance instruction is harmless error. The post Petition of the day appeared first on SCOTUSblog....
Douglas County, Co., Sheriff Tony Spurlock posted on his department’s social media accounts a carefully edited video of the events that led to 29-year-old deputy Zack Parrish”s Dec. 31 death in an apartment complex south of Denver. There’s nothing wrong with police communicating through social...
Etowah County, Al., Sheriff Todd Entrekin and his wife Karen purchased a four-bedroom house with an in-ground pool and canal access in an upscale area for $740,000 in September. Entrekin got a $592,000 mortgage from Peoples Bank of Alabama. The home is one of several...
The justices will get a chance to review first principles of sovereign immunity next week when they hear oral argument in Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v Lundgren. The case presents yet another chapter in the long saga of the Supreme Court’s stance as a mediator...
In the past five years, 49 federal district court judges each sentenced more than one thousand defendants who appeared before them. All but two of these judges were located in courthouses along the southwest border with Mexico, reports TRAC at Syracuse University. Most federal judges...
Due to the volume of smaller settlements and the absence of any jumbo settlements, the aggregate amount of securities class action lawsuit settlements declined “dramatically” in 2017 compared to the prior year, according to the latest securities suit settlement study from Cornerstone Research. According to...