The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether an employee of the U.S. Postal Service was wrongfully punished for refusing to work on Sundays for religious reasons.
The man who represented Northeast Philadelphia for more than a decade on City Council will serve out his prison term at a minimum-security camp in Fort Dix, N.J.
Dougherty’s new lawyers argue that the defense provided to him by Center City law firm Ballard Spahr was compromised due to conflicts of interests with the firm’s other clients, including Comcast.