(Retired football star, husband, and father of four Steve McNair was murdered on July 4th, 2009, by his 20-year old girlfriend who then shot herself.)
It was always easy to root for Steve McNair.
A Mississippi boy who played college ball for a historically black college many football fans had never heard of – Alcorn State. A calm-headed leader…
A massive new report by the Irish Commision To Inquire into Child Abuse has uncovered enough malfeasance and coverups in Catholic reform schools for a dozen Charles Dickens novels, a month of Oprah’s and a Dan Brown prequel.
Rape, humiliation, ritual abuse, it’s all there. The nine-year investigation, conducted only after a decade of lobbying by abuse survivors, uncovered…
Last month we wrote about a Judge in Saudi Arabia who refused (twice!) to annul a wedding between an 8-year old girl and a 47-year old man. Well times change quickly sometimes. First, the groom himself agreed to divorce his child bride. So the little girl may get a childhood after all. Yay!
More surprisingly, the Kingdom may be deciding…
In my first year of law school we studied the Kitty Genovese murder. In 1964 a young woman in Queens, New York, was stalked and stabbed, then stalked and stabbed, repeatedly, over almost an hour, outside her apartment complex, as her cries for help were heard but ignored by no less than 38 of her neighbors. It was a…
CNN reports that a Saudi judge in the town of Onaiza has refused (a second time, this time on reconsideration) to annul the marriage between an 8-year old girl and a 47-year old man:
The girl’s father, according to the attorney, arranged the marriage in order to settle his debts with the man, who is “a close friend” of his.
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It’s usually hard to tell how a court’s going to rule after reading just the first three sentences of an opinion. But not always.
A 2/18/09 Washington Court of Appeals (Div. II) opinion on a nasty custody fight begins:
“When Anthony Meredith was about 37 years old and a Virginia Assistant Attorney General [an AAG, a state prosecutor], he…
