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- 1From:The Economist (Vol. 427, Issue 9088)The racist origin of two states' laws on juries may help bring about change TWO of the jurors who sat in judgment at Willie Dunn junior's murder trial in 2011 thought he had a plausible claim to self-defence, and...
- 2From:MEED Middle East Economic Digest (Vol. 50, Issue 40)Officials say the verdict in the first trial of Saddam Hussain will be delayed. A judgement was due on 16 October when the court reconvenes, but it is now likely that the session will be used to review evidence. Saddam...
- 3From:The Humanist (Vol. 74, Issue 4)The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on May 5, 2014, that local governments can, under certain conditions, open their meetings with prayers--even if those supplications to the deity are Christian most of the time. I can't...
- 4From:New York Times Upfront (Vol. 142, Issue 6)Twelve Angry Men, a play that's performed in hundreds of high schools across the country, might have been much shorter had it been set in Oregon. instead of letting Juror No. 8, played by Henry Fonda in the movie...
- 5From:New Statesman (Vol. 141, Issue 5089)In a court of law - say, at a murder trial - a jury is asked to decide, beyond reasonable doubt, whether a person is guilty or not guilty. In several jurisdictions, including 34 states of the US, a guilty verdict may...
- 6From:Medical Law's Regan Report (Vol. 41, Issue 6)CASE FACTS: Lisa Biello alleged that she sustained a circular thermal burn on her right calf while Dr. David Dixon was performing surgery on her right ankle at Albany Memorial Hospital. The condition of her calf injury...
- 7From:Wisconsin Law JournalByline: Danielle Ulman A former senior manager of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission won a $637,000 verdict against his old employer in Prince GeorgeAEs County Circuit Court last week. The discrimination...
- 8From:New Statesman (Vol. 143, Issue 5209)Saeed Youssef, nicknamed "the Butcher", has broken world records: in just four weeks this judge has sent 720 people to their deaths in two separate mass verdicts passed in his courtroom in Minya, Upper Egypt. Most...
- 9From:Maclean's (Vol. 108, Issue 42)The O.J. Simpson verdict has polarized American blacks and whites and also the rich and the poor. The broadcast of the verdict was a moment that many will long remember. However, it is doubtful that the US legal system...
- 10From:USA Today (Vol. 126, Issue 2630)A hanging jury is not just more likely to hang, it's more likely to convict, suggests Brian Bornstein, assistant professor of psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. "Research also shows that jurors who are...
- 11From:Wisconsin Law JournalByline: David Ziemer The Seventh Circuit on Sept. 7 issued a revision of a recently withdrawn decision, but its holding was the same - the rebuttable presumption that a guideline sentence is reasonable applies in the...
- 12From:OBG Management (Vol. 23, Issue 8)1 Severe birth asphyxia: cerebral palsy and seizures AFTER A NORMAL PREGNANCY, a woman went to the hospital in labor. Her ObGyn, Dr. A, went off duty at 4 PM and was replaced by Dr. B, a practice partner who...
- 13From:Ebony (Vol. 63, Issue 12)About 10 years ago I met a girl I'll call Amina. At 12, she was kindhearted and intelligent. She took pride in her skill at weaving intricate cornrow patterns when she braided her friends' hair and she spoke fluent...
- 14From:Chain Drug Review (Vol. 30, Issue 11)Appellate courts in New Jersey and in Texas have overturned verdicts against Merck & Co. In New Jersey a court voided $9 million of $13.9 million awarded to a man who claimed his use of Merck's Vioxx caused him to...
- 15From:Best's Review (Vol. 103, Issue 3)A nationwide survey of jury cases found that plaintiffs won cases more frequently than the defense in 2000, and the median compensatory awards have risen steadily since 1994 in premises liability, product liability and...
- 16From:The Economist (Vol. 403, Issue 8788)A court verdict and election wobbles are giving everyone the jitters "WE WISH to inform our dear viewers that we don't understand what is happening either, that nobody knows what is going on, and nobody has a clue...
- 17From:Wisconsin Law JournalByline: David Ziemer In the Wisconsin Supreme Court's 2004-05 term, Justice N. Patrick Crooks clearly emerged as the key swing vote, and the justice most frequently in the majority, while Justice Jon P. Wilcox was...
- 18From:Global AgendaThe jury trying Richard Scrushy in connection with financial fraud has found the former HealthSouth boss not guilty. The verdict surprised many observers but can be explained by both the quality of the evidence against...
- 19From:Maclean's (Vol. 126, Issue 29)"THEM MOTHERF--KERS," SAID the staggeringly beautiful African-American woman, a bit of Iman before David Bowie, circling the visitors' waiting room of a Florida federal prison. "Them mothers kept me out again," with...
- 20From:Insight on the News (Vol. 18, Issue 29)Mississippi, renowned for its majestic antebellum homes, flowering magnolias and fried catfish, also is known as the "Lawsuit Capital of the World"--the state where businesses fear to tread and where many doctors can't...