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The 11-year-old Port Orange girl accused of sending fake 911 texts claiming her friend was abducted by an armed kidnapper will not be charged as an adult, a State Attorney’s Office spokesman ...
Prior to certifying Jones' case, the Supreme Court had been considering the case of Mathena v. Malvo (Docket 18-217), a similar case from Virginia involving Lee Boyd Malvo that raised the question if courts must determine if a juvenile is deemed incorrigible before passing a life sentence.
Refusing to issue warrants and dismissing runaway cases from official court oversight is a miscarriage of justice, and a misunderstanding of the role of the court in protecting the safety of our ...
An Alabama district judge who presides over cases in juvenile court, often involving child abuse or neglect, has been suspended after a state-led investigation that looked at hundreds of cases and ...
For example, an attempt to sue public utilities for greenhouse gas emissions under a "public nuisance" theory invoking the federal common law of nuisance was unanimously rejected by the Court in 2011 in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, 564 U.S. 410 (2011), reversing a lower court decision in a case that also found an evenly divided ...
Prior to becoming involved in the juvenile justice system, there is evidence that girls experience higher rates of trauma and sexual abuse than system-involved boys. [7] For example, in a study of 64,329 juvenile offenders in Florida, Baglivio et al. found that these offenders had experienced high numbers of "adverse childhood experiences". [11]
A proposal to require some 16- and 17-year-olds to be tried initially as adults in NC’s courts took a step forward on Tuesday, despite concerns by some that it rolls back youth protections.
Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020), is a landmark [1] United States Supreme Court civil rights decision in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination because of sexuality or gender identity.