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March 11, 2021
On Wednesday, Judge Stephanie Gallagher of the Maryland District Court denied four motions to dismiss filed by poultry companies in a class-action antitrust lawsuit, ruling that the Second Amended Complaint filed by employees who worked with the poultry companies should continue to be heard in the court.
The employees filed an opposition to all four of the motions, which the defendants later replied to. The plaintiffs, including five named individuals and a putative class of former and current employees at poultry processing companies, argued in their second amended complaint that the defendants violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act by engaging in a conspiracy to “fix and depress poultry workers’ compensation” and exchanged data about the compensation illegally. –
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Easy the appeal process in death penalty cases can be easily bogged down by the way the Department of Justice responds to defense efforts to derail the carrying out of death sentences. These are sentences imposed by federal district court judges, with the responsibility for carrying out the sentences placed in the hands of the federal Bureau of Prisons which is part of DOJ. As a result, the Executive Branch is not able to simply cancel the carrying out of such sentences which are authorized by Congress and affirmed by the Supreme Court to not violate the Eighth Amendment. So a liberal Presidential administration that disapproves of the death penalty can only interfere with the process, it cannot prevent the process from going forward unless the President chooses to commute the sentence to something other than the “death penalty.”
Dustin Higgs, Poughkeepsie native, becomes 13th Trump execution after Supreme Court ruling Heather Yakin, Poughkeepsie Journal
A Poughkeepsie native became the 13th and final person to be executed under President Donald Trump early Saturday morning.
Dustin Higgs, convicted in the 1996 murders of three women in Maryland, was pronounced dead at 1:23 a.m., just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay issued Wednesday by a federal appeals court.
The Supreme Court voted, 6-3, to vacate the stay issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
The 48-year-old became the third person to receive a lethal injection this week at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. In his final statement, Higgs was calm but defiant, mentioning the victims by name.
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Drivers charged for DUI were less likely to receive jail sentences in Prince George’s County than in neighboring counties, according to an investigation by the News-4 I-Team.
Safety advocates and relatives of victims impacted by such cases worry the county is sending the wrong public message about the severity and danger of driving under the influence. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
Using the Freedom of Information Act, the I-Team obtained lists of people arrested by Prince George’s County Police for driving under the influence between January 2019 and August 2020 on Indian Head Highway (Maryland Route 210). The I-Team then crossed checked each case in the Maryland court system.