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Costa M. Pleicones, former chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, will join the Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd law firm's Columbia office as special counsel. He will advise clients on complex litigation and appellate issues, in addition to providing mediation and arbitration services. Pleicones served as ...

As Meek Mill sits in jail on parole violation charges related to a case he caught when he was just 19 years old, his mother is appealing to the newly elected district attorney in Philadelphia to help her son get the justice she feels he deserves. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that during a brief news ...

(Geneva) – North Korean escapees and criminal justice experts will offer a rare view of pervasive human rights violations in everyday life in North Korea during a side event at the United Nations Human Rights Council session this week, Human Rights Watch said today. These abuses against children, ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. investigators of war atrocities in South Sudan urged the African Union (AU) on Tuesday to make a final push to secure justice for millions of victims. Oil-rich South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 but slid into civil war in December 2013, with President Salva Kiir's ...

The Department of Justice is targeting a problem identified in investigations by KING 5 and public radio's Northwest News Network. Those reports showed that around 4,000 people in Washington fail criminal background checks each year when they try to purchase a firearm. In many cases, the purchaser ...

The U.S. Department of Justice and Oklahoma business, oil and gas interests are worried that a Native American death penalty case at the U.S. Supreme Court could “radically” upend state civil, regulatory and criminal jurisdiction in eastern Oklahoma, including the city of Tulsa. The case, Royal v. Murphy ...

The Philippines' chief justice has vowed to fight "until the end" the impeachment complaint against her, despite calls from allies of President Rodrigo Duterte for her to resign. In a speech on Monday, Lourdes Sereno said giving up her position will erode the independence of the country's highest court, and ...

That's what makes a new criminal justice reform bill now making its way to Florida governor Rick Scott's desk especially noteworthy. On Friday, the Florida Legislature approved a bill, introduced by Republican state representative Chris Sprowls, that requires every entity within the state's criminal justice ...

"That's the one where the Supreme Court decided that gay marriage was constitutionally protected." Letter also mentioned his work on the defense of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance act, though, he noted, "In the long run, that didn't work out so well." For the legal community and Justice Department ...