Judge speaks about moment her son was shot dead by disgruntled anti-feminist lawyer Click to expand UP NEXT The federal judge targeted by an anti-feminist lawyer has spoken of the moment she watched her son die in the doorway of her family home. As her husband keeled over with a […]
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High profile lawyer Monferrier Dorval shot dead in Haiti
A high-profile lawyer, constitutional scholar and head of the Port-au-Prince bar was gunned down Friday night in Haiti. Just hours before, he called for “another kind of country, another state” during a radio interview in which he addressed several controversial topics including constitutional reform, elections and the breakdown of Haitian […]
heroic South African human rights lawyer with a macabre duty to represent the dead
Advocate George Bizos, who has died at the age of 92, stands in the pantheon of South African human rights lawyers and anti-apartheid activists. Throughout his lengthy lifetime, he doggedly used the courts as his chosen terrain to fight back against a police state that blatantly violated the rule of […]
Charles Manson’s defense lawyer, Irving Kanarek, dead at 100
The defense attorney who represented Charles Manson in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders and continued to maintain Manson’s innocence after his conviction reportedly died last week at age 100. Irving Kanarek was known as loud and combative in the courtroom – by the third day of testimony in the Manson murder […]
‘Heartwrenching’: at least 40 dolphins dead near Mauritius oil spill
(Reuters) – At least 40 dolphins have mysteriously died in an area of Mauritius affected by an oil spill from a Japanese boat, officials and witnesses said on Friday, as witnesses described the deaths of one mother dolphin and her baby. Environmentalists have demanded an investigation into whether the dolphins […]
The traditional political convention is dead. Long live the virtual one
The question of how to formally nominate a president and vice president during a pandemic has been answered. © Provided by The LA Times Former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, at right, wave to supporters onscreen along with Sen. Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, […]