The Wyoming Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the state’s near-total abortion ban and a first-of-its-kind prohibition on abortion pills, saying that the laws violated the state constitution.
Gerry Spence, a Wyoming lawyer with a string of high-profile courtroom wins and a dramatic flair, died on Wednesday at his home in Montecito, California, surrounded by family, according to news accounts. He was 96.
Updated: Lawyers from plaintiffs law firm Morgan & Morgan have been sanctioned for a motion that cited eight nonexistent cases, at least some of which were apparently generated by artificial intelligence.
A former Laramie County, Wyoming, district attorney has been disbarred following her “mass dismissal” of about 400 cases, including a case in which a defendant was already serving his sentence and another case in which a defendant was awaiting sentencing after entering a guilty plea.
Less than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, more than a dozen states have already or plan to soon ban abortion in most cases. Here’s what we know so far about where abortion bans stand in these 13 states and in other states that have laws targeting the procedure.
Arizona officials have “gone to considerable lengths to revive the state’s mothballed gas chamber,” according to a recently released report by the Guardian.
Husband of appeals judge goes to prison Suspended lawyer Charles McCullough, the husband of a Pennsylvania appeals judge, reported to prison Tuesday after he was convicted of stealing $50,000 from an elderly widow. McCullough is married to Patricia McCullough, who is running for a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.…
Several states stop jury trials A surge in COVID-19 cases has led several states to suspend jury trials. They include New York, Maryland, Texas, New Mexico and Wyoming. (The Daily Docket) Suit accuses Texas AG of abusing his office A Nov. 12 lawsuit accuses Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch joined with four liberal justices on Monday in a ruling for a member of the Crow Tribe who was arrested for offseason hunting. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Crow Tribe’s hunting rights, established in an 1868 treaty, did not expire when…
The number of people in U.S. prisons fell to a nine-year low of just under 1.5 million last year, a 1.3 percent decrease, according to a report released recently by the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has blocked new oil and gas drilling on public land in Wyoming because the federal government failed to sufficiently consider the cumulative impact on climate change. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled in a March 19 opinion that the Department of the Interior’s Bureau…
Wyoming enacted bills to entice the blockchain industry, while Vermont created favorable laws that attempt to clear up legal ambiguity surrounding distributed ledger technology.
