Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals News

A federal appeals panel on Tuesday denied a request for a new trial by a man sentenced to die for the slaying of an 82-year-old man on a trail at Hot Springs National Park.

A federal appeals panel has upheld a 20-year prison sentence for a 73-year-old man convicted of producing child pornography, despite his argument that the sentence was unreasonable.

Two women who say they were switched at birth have lost an attempt to collect damages from the hospital where they were born almost 62 years ago.

As in other fraternities, most chapters of Lambda Chi Alpha had their beginnings in a local organization, an interest group, or a "picked delegation." The chapter at Harvard University, however, is unique in ...

COMMENT By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, July 20, 2008; Page A03 CHICAGO -- In a victory for antiabortion forces, doctors in South Dakota are now required to tell a woman seeking an ...

A federal appeals court says the head of Arkansas' state prison system and a guard did not violate a pregnant inmate's constitutional rights by shackling her during childbirth.

A federal appeals panel ruled Thursday that a judge was correct to allow prosecutors to ask a woman charged an accessory to a Marion bank robbery about three other robberies an accomplice confessed to before he ...

Missouri’s newly implemented lethal-injection plan and the team assembled to carry it out are a step closer to their first test.A federal judge late Tuesday dismissed a challenge to Missouri’s ...

A federal appeals court has dismissed the remaining portions of a lawsuit filed by a Nebraska crop insurance company against the Federal Crop Insurance Corp.

Frederick Keiser Jr., of Minot, had sued his former attorneys and North Dakota's chief federal prosecutor.

Mrs. Kendall called the police, and a bomb squad arrived at the Kendall home to dismantle the devices in the briefcase... Today's THV, AR - Ashley Blackstone Jul 11, 2008 A former Little Rock police officer ...

The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals today gave the Mulberry cops free rein to arrest and search speeders on Interstate 40, even though Arkansas State Police had been unwilling to give the local cops power to ...

A federal appeals court has vacated most of a nearly $6 million jury award against First National Bank of Holdrege for defrauding customers.

The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction and sentencing of Brian Street, who was accused of sexually abusing his teenage stepdaughter.

A federal judge has reversed the illegal gambling convictions of two former officials of a Fargo-based simulcast horse betting company.

It turns out that Judge Janice Rogers Brown is far from the only one concerned provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act violates the non-delegation doctrine.

A federal appeals court says that a Mulberry city police officer did not violate a motorist's constitutional rights by arresting the driver on Interstate 40, outside the officer's jurisdiction.

South Dakota may enforce a law that requires doctors to provide pregnant women with a written statement saying, "the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being," a federal ...

Are abortion supporters more supportive of abortion -- or of women? That may not be the legal issue in the case of South Dakota's disputed "informed consent" law, but it certainly is the central question.

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