Bobby Shepherd News Today

PITTSBURGH – A legal news organization which monitors court case filings has reiterated its claims that the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas’ “no-access-before-process” policy restricts the rights of both it and the public under the U.S. Constitution.

PITTSBURGH – The Clerk of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas has motioned to have dismissed a lawsuit from a legal news organization which monitors court case filings, which claimed that the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas’ “no-access-before-process” policy restricts the rights of both it and the public under the U.S. Constitution.

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals denied without comment this week a petition to rehear the case of a Benton teen shot and killed by a Benton police officer in 2016, following an en banc hearing by all 11 judges in the circuit.

PITTSBURGH – A legal news organization which monitors court case filings claims that the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas’ “no-access-before-process” policy restricts the rights of both it and the public under the U.S. Constitution.

A Pulaski County man accused of firebombing police cars as a protest of the murder of a Black man at police hands in Minnesota got a shot of good news from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a three-judge panel affirmed a lower court ruling dismissing the three most serious charges against him.

FORT SMITH -- The former sheriff of Franklin County will remain in federal prison for physically abusing jail detainees after an unsuccessful attempt to appeal his conviction and sentence.

FORT SMITH -- The former sheriff of Franklin County is set to remain in federal prison for physically abusing jail detainees after an unsuccessful attempt to appeal his conviction and sentence.

The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against WinRed in its effort to block subpoenas from Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellisons office in an investigation into whether the GOP

A federal appeals court on Thursday heard oral arguments in the second appeal of a lawsuit filed in 2017 against Benton police by the parents of a suicidal 17-year-old boy who was shot and killed while complying with an officers order to move a gun away from his head.

Arkansas 94th General Assembly kicked off its regular session Monday with the House of Representatives electing House Speaker Matthew Shepherd, R-El Dorado, to an unprecedented third term leading the chamber and the Senate reaffirming its vote in November to elect Sen. Bart Hester, R-Cave Springs, as the Senate president pro tempore.