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RICHMOND, Va. A ban on bare-chested women at the beach in Ocean City, Maryland, violates the Constitution s guarantee of equal protection and should be overturned, advocates argued to a federal appeals court.
The Washington Post reports that the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is reviewing a ruling last year that upheld Ocean City s ordinance barring women, but not men, from going topless at the beach to protect public sensibilities.
During oral arguments Wednesday, Chief Judge Roger Gregory expressed skepticism about Ocean City s rationale for the measure. Gregory asked how many calls town officials received complaining about the possibility of women going topless, and noted that the ordinance was passed after an inquiry to police about what would happen if women exp
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A former West Virginia chief justice says a juror in his 2018 fraud trial defied an order to stay off social media and followed reporters who tweeted about the case.
Former West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry, right, emerges from the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse with his lawyer after his sentencing in Charleston, W.Va. on Feb. 13, 2019. (AP Photo, File)
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) The en banc Fourth Circuit seemed unlikely Monday to side with a disgraced former member of the West Virginia Supreme Court who claims a juror’s use of Twitter impacted his 2018 trial on fraud charges.
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Tomorrow the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing for several of President Biden’s first batch of judicial nominees, including two circuit nominees: Ketanji Brown Jackson for the D.C. Circuit and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi for the Seventh Circuit. I previously covered Ketanji Brown Jackson here.
Originally from Virginia, Jackson-Akiwumi graduated with honors from Princeton in 2000 and then went on to Yale Law School, from which she graduated in 2005. While at law school, she was a senior editor and served on the admissions committee of the
Yale Law Journal besides being an NAACP LDF Earl Warren Scholar. After graduating, she clerked for Judge David Coar of the Northern District of Illinois and Judge Roger Gregory of the Fourth Circuit.