206 ABA Journal 8th Circuit Court articles.
The policy-making arm of the nation’s federal courts voted today to make it easier for both lawyers and the public to access court materials.
For lawyers, the big news is…
Sep 18, 2007 7:01 PM CDT
An alleged acquaintance-rape victim has sued the Nebraska judge who banned her from using the word “rape” in testimony, in what her lawyer describes as a troubling trend.
A federal…
Sep 10, 2007 4:39 PM CDT
In an acerbic opinion, a federal bankruptcy judge has ordered an Iowa lawyer who submitted a largely plagiarized brief to return to law school and take a legal ethics course.
…Sep 7, 2007 8:46 PM CDT
A federal judge may have been too lenient in sentencing a former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executive to five years of probation (including about two years of home confinement) in a…
Aug 28, 2007 4:27 PM CDT
A federal judge has barred enforcement of a Missouri law requiring abortion clinics to upgrade their surgery facilities.
U.S. District Judge Ortrie Smith issued a temporary restraining order and scheduled…
Aug 28, 2007 2:57 PM CDT
A federal appeals court has refused to grant a rehearing in a case challenging Missouri’s lethal injection procedure.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to review a panel…
Aug 9, 2007 3:16 PM CDT
More than a dozen federal lawsuits claim insurers are misleading elderly consumers with sales pitches for equity-indexed annuities that track the stock market.
The largest case is a class action…
Aug 8, 2007 3:36 PM CDT
Anti-abortion groups are pursuing a strategy that focuses on the consequences for women who undergo abortion.
An example is the law passed by South Dakota, Adam Liptak writes in his…
Aug 6, 2007 1:55 PM CDT
Several state laws shield the identities of medical personnel administering lethal cocktails to condemned inmates, even as lawsuits claim botched executions.
A federal judge barred a Missouri doctor from participating…
Jul 30, 2007 3:33 PM CDT
One date that’s on almost every federal judge’s calendar this summer is the meeting of his or her circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, at which trial and appellate…
Jul 1, 2007 7:04 PM CDT
A federal appeals court has upheld Missouri’s lethal injection procedure.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in St. Louis said yesterday that the three-drug cocktail did not violate…
Jun 5, 2007 5:09 PM CDT
A lawyer for abortion opponents told a federal appeals court yesterday than an injunction blocking an abortion warning law is interfering with the rights of pregnant women in South Dakota.
…Apr 12, 2007 3:45 PM CDT
A federal appeals court will sit en banc today to reconsider an injunction blocking a South Dakota abortion law from taking effect.
The 2005 law requires abortion providers to tell…
Apr 11, 2007 1:33 PM CDT
