Legal Docket

Legal Docket

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Mayhem at the Marathon

A jury convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of perpetuating the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and imposed the death sentence. Tsarnaev argued the trial court judge made two legal errors. The first during the jury selection process and the second when it excluded mitigating evidence in the ...  Show more

Bitter Pills

America is in the midst of an opioid crisis. In this case, the government brought criminal charges against two physicians accused of running “pill mills.” The criminal charges arise under the Controlled Substances Act, a federal narcotics statute aimed at combatting drug abuse. T ...  Show more

Overruling Roe - Part II

The only abortion provider in Mississippi sued the state over passage of the Gestational Age Act that prohibited abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation. Pro-life and pro-choice forces battled it out through friend of the court briefs, media appearances, and oral argument at the high ...  Show more

Overruling Roe - Part I

A coalition of pro-lifers strategized and worked together to bring a direct challenge to Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey, the decisions that resulted in over 63 million abortions across fifty states. Long-term planning and also the hand of Providence worked together to ...  Show more

Freedom Fighter

Virginia Prodan lived and worked in communist Romania. When she defended Christians against unjust persecution, dictator Nicolae Ceausescu declared her actions treasonous and ordered her assassination. Just seconds away from being shot, Prodan spoke to her assassin of God’s love ...  Show more