The U.S. Supreme Court is about to decide whether a private company can own a piece of our bodies in a pending case entitled Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics. Right now, a company called Myriad Genetics has a patent on two genes both closely associated with breast and ovarian cancer. The gene patents […]
The jury has found Jodi Arias guilty of murdering her one-time boyfriend in Arizona after a lengthy trial which began on January 2, 2013. Arias, 32, was charged with first-degree murder in the 2008 death of Travis Alexander but could have been found guilty of second-degree murder if the jury didn’t believe she planned the […]
A California woman is speaking out after being forced to pay spousal support to her ex-husband who was convicted of raping her daughter for over 16 years. Carol Abar told Los Angeles CBS2 that “Every time I wrote that check, I cried because I felt like I was paying the man that raped my daughter.” […]
Fifty years after the Supreme Court’s Gideon vs. Wainwright ruling, many legal advocates contend that the justice system is still failing the poor. In the video below, public defenders and legal advocates discuss ways to solve the nation’s public defense crisis, 50 years after the Gideon decision and you can find some amazing charts on […]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, told Fox News Sunday that prosecutors should seek the death penalty for Boston Marathon suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. “It should likely be a death penalty case under federal law,” she said yesterday. Prosecution is expected to happen at the federal level and the most serious charge […]