U.S. Supreme Court throws out death sentence from all-white jury
By Mark Sherman, The Associated Press From Daily Report WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled decisively in favor of a death-row inmate in Georgia on Monday, chastising state prosecutors for improperly keeping African-Americans off the jury that convicted him…
Black & Undocumented: Caribbean Immigrant’s Long Fight for Citizenship
By Melissa Noel From NBC News WASHINGTON — When Shariece Wright immigrated to the United States from the Bahamas in 1985 she was just 4-years-old. Her mother put her on a plane to Florida and told her that she would…
Bahamas government foots bill to finish Baha Mar convention centre
By Krystel Rolle-Brown Nassau Guardian Staff Reporter From Caribbean News Now NASSAU, Bahamas — The Bahamas government assumed the cost to finish the Baha Mar Convention Centre ahead of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) annual general meetings this week, government…
Chinese fast-tracking megaresort sale, says Bahamas PM
By Krystel Rolle-Brown Nassau Guardian Staff Reporter From Caribbean News Now NASSAU, Bahamas — Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie on Friday revealed that the China Export-Import (EXIM) Bank is fast-tracking its process to find a buyer for the troubled multibillion…
U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear case of Yale’s controversial van Gogh painting
By MEGAN SPICER, From The Connecticut Law Tribune A Vincent van Gogh painting will continue to hang on the walls of the Yale University Art Gallery after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to not hear an appeal from a man…
Supreme Court to Review Apple-Samsung Patent Damages
By Scott Graham, From The Recorder For the first time in 130 years, the U.S. Supreme Court is going to weigh in on design patent damages. The timing couldn’t be worse for Apple Inc. The high court agreed Monday to…
US: Juror who showed up drunk in court wins appeal of jail term
By Joe Reedy, Associated Press, From Daily Business Review A Florida man who showed up drunk for jury selection shouldn’t have been sent to jail for it, the state’s supreme court ruled. The Florida Supreme Court on March 17 found…
D.C. Circuit Judge Merrick Garland to be Nominated to Supreme Court
By Zoe Tillman, From The National Law Journal Obama picks longtime judge, former prosecutor to fill Scalia vacancy. Merrick Garland, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and a former U.S. Justice Department lawyer…
Growing trend of marriage equality in West
From The Royal Gazette Where in the world can a same-sex couple get married? Not in Bermuda — yet. But elsewhere in plenty of places in the West, same-sex marriage is already on the statute books and many other countries…
Deep divisions over abortion as US Justices hear Texas case
By Tony Mauro, From The National Law Journal The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a contentious abortion rights case from Texas, toggling between technical issues and deep disagreements over the basic right of women to choose abortions. The case,…
