47 ABA Journal Wyoming articles.
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.
Apr 6, 2023 8:36 AM CDT
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.
Jun 30, 2022 2:52 PM CDT
Jun 7, 2021 9:02 AM CDT
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…
Apr 8, 2021 4:45 PM CDT 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 Dec 19, 2019 6:30 AM CST 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. May 20, 2019 11:40 AM CDTAfternoon Briefs: Several states pause jury trials; suit accuses Texas AG of whistleblower retaliation
First Amendment defense claims could threaten ‘revenge pornography’ statutes
Gorsuch joins with liberal justices in Supreme Court ruling for Indian tribe’s hunting rights
Number of prisoners hits 9-year low, but some states are resisting the trend
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.
Apr 26, 2019 2:36 PM CDT
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…
Mar 21, 2019 9:19 AM CDT
Wyoming enacted bills to entice the blockchain industry, while Vermont created favorable laws that attempt to clear up legal ambiguity surrounding distributed ledger technology.
Mar 1, 2019 1:10 AM CST
Mar 29, 2018 8:00 AM CDT
In 2010, Cindy Stubbs was nearing the end of a 14-year sentence in a South Carolina prison, determined never to return. A mother of four, locked up on gun and…
Jan 18, 2018 1:25 PM CST
A private company has proposed to build an immigration detention center outside Evanston, Wyoming—a town that reportedly has no immigration lawyers and is more than an hour away from the…
Jan 9, 2018 11:42 AM CST
Officials at the University of Wyoming College of Law had asked students to be on the lookout for one of its graduates, Matthew Riehl, less than two months before he…
Jan 3, 2018 1:07 PM CST
Early last year, two suicidal patients showed up at a hospital emergency room in Pierre, South Dakota, seeking help. Although the incidents happened weeks apart, both patients ended up in…
Sep 25, 2017 7:00 AM CDT
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