(Carson City, Nevada) – Last month attorneys for Kirstin Blaise Lobato presented oral arguments before the Nevada Supreme Court in the appeal of her 2006 conviction for the 2001 killing of a homeless man in Las Vegas. Lobato has now spent over 12 years in prison for a crime that virtually all close observers of […]
S.C. Supreme Court hears stimulus funding dispute
The South Carolina Supreme Court today waded into the debate over who has the authority to request over $700 million in disputed federal stimulus funding and who will determine —if the money is requested, — how it will ultimately be spent. Gov. Mark Sanford refused to request the funding, which is intended to pay for […]
Educators in S.C. asked federal court to throw out governor’s lawsuit
School administrators and principals from across South Carolina have asked the U.S. District Court in Columbia to throw out a lawsuit filed by Gov. Mark Sanford last week involving $700 million in federal stimulus funds that he does not want to accept. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday the South Carolina Association of School Administrators […]
In Gitmo Opinion, Two Versions of Reality
This story was co-published with The National Law Journal and ProPublica. When Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. ordered the release of a Guantánamo Bay detainee last spring, the case appeared to be a routine setback for an Obama administration that has lost a string of such cases. But there turns out to be nothing ordinary about the […]
Internal BP Probes Warned of Accidents – For Years
by Abrahm Lustgarten and Ryan Knutson A series of internal investigations over the past decade warned senior BP managers that the company repeatedly disregarded safety and environmental rules and risked a serious accident if it did not change its ways. The confidential inquiries, which have not previously been made public, focused on a rash of […]
Madoff’s Inner Circle: Who Knew What?
When Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty to running the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, he insisted he was the lone perpetrator, asserting that no one – not his family, not his colleagues, not his friends – knew of the fraud. But an alternate narrative is emerging from the pile of Madoff-related civil suits and court motions […]
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