95 ABA Journal Alaska articles.
A judge in Barrow, Alaska, is trying to make courtroom proceedings easier to understand for defendants who suffer brain damage caused by their mothers’ drinking during pregnancy.
Judge Michael Jeffery…
Jun 4, 2014 11:00 AM CDT
The inspector general for an economic development commission in Alaska has a money saving idea: His agency, he tells Congress, should be defunded.
Mike Marsh, the inspector general for the…
Sep 30, 2013 11:25 AM CDT
A former Pennsylvania court judge has been charged on multiple counts of theft and drug possession.
The charges against retired Washington County Common Pleas judge Paul Pozonsky, who stepped down…
May 23, 2013 7:54 PM CDT
A couple who were active in the sovereign citizens movement have pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill a federal judge who presided in a tax case that cost them their…
Aug 28, 2012 11:29 AM CDT
A law office worker who felt threatened by a lawyer who lunged, cursed and raised his fist can file a lawsuit, according to a newspaper columnist who owns a management…
Jul 30, 2012 1:15 PM CDT
Sarah Palin complained about “frivolous suits” and mounting legal bills in the months before she resigned from her position as Alaska’s governor in July 2009, according to emails released on…
Feb 24, 2012 1:02 PM CST
An Anchorage, Alaska, mom who punished her adopted son with hot sauce and a cold shower has been convicted of misdemeanor child abuse.
Sentencing for Jessica Beagley is scheduled for…
Aug 24, 2011 12:13 PM CDT
An Alaska woman and her police officer husband intended to help two Russian orphans by adopting the twin boys, her lawyer told a jury.
But after she sent a video…
Aug 17, 2011 11:58 PM CDT
A piece of the moon presented to the state of Alaska in 1969 by President Richard M. Nixon was missing for almost 37 years.
But it surfaced against last year,…
Jul 12, 2011 9:21 PM CDT
Dozens of reporters flooded a state office building in Juneau today to cart away banker’s boxes stuffed with nearly 24,000 pages of emails released by Alaska state officials from former…
Jun 10, 2011 8:51 PM CDT
Two confidential informants helped the FBI bring a criminal case against defendants accused of plotting together to kill the top federal judge in Alaska.
Both informants were paid for their…
Mar 29, 2011 5:59 PM CDT
Developing: New charges in a case against five defendants accused of crimes related to an alleged conspiracy to kill the top federal judge in Alaska and his wife describe an…
Mar 18, 2011 5:58 PM CDT
Authorities have arrested an Alaska couple and claimed members of a group called the Sovereign Citizens Movement over an alleged plot to kill a federal judge and his family.
Lonnie…
Mar 11, 2011 10:20 PM CST
An Alaska mother who sought help from a national television show in disciplining a difficult child has now been charged with abusing a 7-year-old boy she and her husband adopted…
Feb 4, 2011 9:40 PM CST
The only state without a law school, Alaska needs one to help make legal services more available and affordable, a lawmaker contends.
Rep. Scott Kawasaki is calling for both a…
Dec 28, 2010 4:18 PM CST
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