Legal protections that shield internet platforms from being sued for alleged harmful content posted by third parties could be affected by the Supreme Court in an upcoming hearing.
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A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from a Black Texas death row inmate who argued he didn't get a fair trial because jurors who convicted him objected to interracial marriage. The court’s three liberal justices dissented from the court’s order turning away the appeal from inmate Andre Thomas. He was sentenced to death for killing his estranged wife, who was white, and two children in 2004.
"No jury deciding whether to recommend a death sentence should be tainted by potential racial biases that could infect its deliberations or decision, particularly where the case involved an interracial crime," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote. Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined Sotomayor's opinion. On the all-white jury were three people who expressed their disapproval of interracial marriage, including one who wrote on a questionnaire "I think we should stay with our Blood Line." Thomas' trial lawyer did not seek to prevent the three people from serving on the jury, and didn't even question two of the three about their views, Sotomayor wrote.
One juror said he could be fair in spite of his views. A divided Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Andre Thomas, above, who argued he didn’t get a fair trial because jurors who convicted him objected to interracial marriage. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP, File) Sotomayor wrote that Thomas' conviction and death sentence should be overturned.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had earlier rejected Thomas' claim that his lawyer failed to provide competent representation. Courts had earlier rejected appeals from Thomas' lawyers that Thomas should not be executed because he is mentally ill.
Legal protections that shield internet platforms from being sued for alleged harmful content posted by third parties could be affected by the Supreme Court in an upcoming hearing.
Determined to expunge almost any mention of Scientology from Danny Masterson’s rape trial, defense attorney Phillip Cohen told the jury from the beginning that consistency would be core of his client’s case. That vow was very much on display Thursday as the lawyer sought to spotlight the supposed inconsistencies in the testimony of Jane Doe #3.
One Ranger is non-stop action and it’s so much fun watching Thomas Jane being dropped into the center of London as a Texas Ranger, having to face the likes of John Malkovich and his MI6 team.”“One Ranger” is produced by Corey Large and Bernie Gewissler. Thomas Jane and Courtney Lauren Penn are executive producers on behalf of Renegade Entertainment.Jane most recently appeared in the Amazon FreeVee drama series “Troppo,” which he also executive produced through his Renegade Entertainment banner.
EXCLUSIVE: We have learned that Lionsgate has acquired the upcoming action-thriller One Ranger, which stars Thomas Jane and John Malkovich.
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Rooster Teeth, a gaming-oriented digital content creator and fan community owned by Warner Bros Discovery, has apologized for “hate and mistreatment” after complaints were lodged by a former staffer.
Accused serial killer Billy Chemirmir, who has been convicted of the murders of two elderly women and charged in nearly two dozen others, listened in court this week as the families members of his victims gave impact statements. Chemirmir was convicted last week in the death of 87-year-old Mary Brooks, who he followed home from a Dallas-area Walmart in January 2018 and murdered. He had already been convicted in the murder of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris. Chemirmir automatically received sentences of life without parole for both murders. FILE: Accused serial killer Billy Chemirmir looks back during his retrial on April 25, 2022, at Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas. (Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via AP) Prosecutors detailed at trial how Chemirmir would pose as a maintenance worker to get access to seniors' homes at independent living facilities, then smother them and steal their valuables. Karen Nelson described her mother, 81-year-old Mirriam Nelson, as a "healthy and vibrant" woman who loved life. "I've spent countless hours reliving what her last moments must have been.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas waved away criticism from lawmakers calling for his impeachment on Friday, saying that his critics' rhetoric about the border being "open" was inspiring further illegal immigration. A group of Republican lawmakers — led by Sen.Ted Cruz of Texas — demanded Mayorkas resign after Fox News reported he was alerted to an article stating that no Haitian migrants were "whipped" by Border Patrol agents on Sept.
Burying the hatchet. The cast of Southern Charm didn’t hold back during part 1 and 2 of the season 8 reunion — but did anything actually get resolved?
Children who tell it like it is are judged more severely by adults than their soft-spoken counterparts, according to research.
oral arguments in a copyright case on Wednesday, setting up a hypothetical in which he was “a Prince fan, which I was in the ’80s.”That comment prompted liberal Justice Elena Kagan to interject, “No longer?”And Thomas responded to laughter: “So only on a Thursday night.” The case involves a photographer who is suing the Andy Warhol Foundation arguing that the artist, who died in 1987, breached her copyright by using her 1981 portrait of the pop star for a series of images Warhol created for Vanity Fair in 1984. (The magazine had paid photographer Lynn Goldsmith $400 to use her portrait as an “artist’s reference.”) The case could have big implications across media about the “fair use” of existing artistic images and works, and what might be owed to copyright owners from later artists who create follow-on works.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Right-wing conspiracy figure Alex Jones’ company has already filed for bankruptcy protection, and it’s not clear how much of the staggering $965 million verdict reached Tuesday he’ll actually wind up paying to the 15 plaintiffs in the defamation case about his lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. Jones plans to appeal the massive monetary damages that a Connecticut jury ordered him to pay, which comes after a judgment against him in August awarding $49.3 million to the family of a Sandy Hook victim in a separate case in Texas. But legal experts say Jones, founder of Infowars — which has been banned by all major internet services — is almost certainly ruined financially.
The Supreme Court heard a consequential copyright case on Wednesday, having to do with whether Andy Warhol’s estate owes a photographer a licensing fee for basing his portraits on Prince on one of her works.
Judges in the Supreme Court heard evidence for and against First Minster Nicola Sturgeon's plan to hold a second independence referendum for the second and final day today.
SNP ministers have been accused of "farming out" IndyRef2 legislation to the Supreme Court because they didn't like answers from their top law officer.
The head of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) claims that moves by Republican governors to transport illegal immigrants deeper into the interior are acting as a "pull factor" drawing more migrants to the border. Republican governors have been sending migrants north since April, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott started busing them to Washington, D.C.
The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a Democratic state legislative candidate to be listed on November ballots, after a tie had been broken against her by the state's Republican elections chief. In its 4-3 ruling, the high court found Republican Secretary Frank LaRose and the two GOP members of the Athens County Board of Elections who voted against placing Tanya Conrath on the Nov. 8 ballot "acted in clear disregard of applicable law." Conrath is challenging incumbent Republican Rep.
announced she's transgender and was ditching her famous last name in an effort to distance herself from her dad. After remaining mum about the change for months, Elon has now broken his silence.Vivian Jenna Wilson is being influenced by "neo-Marxists" at educational institutions, Elon told the Financial Times of his eldest child. "It's full-on communism and a general sentiment that if you're rich, you're evil," he added. While Elon admits that things between he and Vivian need repairing, he believes their relationship "may change" in the future. "I have very good relationships with all the others," he said of his other six children.
Ginni Thomas is once again at the center of controversy and accusations of conflict of interest after an analysis of the 74 amicus briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court aimed at overturning Roe v Wade found she was linked to just over half of the legal entreaties to end a woman’s right to choose.“A new analysis of the written legal arguments, or ‘amicus briefs,’ used to lobby the justices as they deliberated over abortion underlines the extent to which Clarence Thomas’s wife was intertwined with this vast pressure campaign,” The Guardian reports.