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WBBJ TV February 22, 2021 An interesting report came from the Madison County Finance Department Monday morning. “Unfortunately we have noticed with the payouts we’ve been doing, when an employee leaves or retires, that the Sheriff’s Department has been accumulating holiday pay,” said Madison County Finance Director Karen Bell. This has been showing up on the monthly budget requests from the sheriff. Instead of paying employees for working on holidays during that year, the sheriff’s office is waiting to pay until the employee leaves or retires, letting them cash out on their most rec...

Published: February 3, 2021 at 9:47 AM The Supreme Court. Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News The Supreme Court. Francis Chung/E&E News The Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on whether a private company can use eminent domain to seize state-owned land to build a natural gas pipeline between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. PennEast Pipeline Co. LLC has asked the high court to overturn the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' finding that suing New Jersey to take its land without its consent violated the Garden State's sovereign immunity under the 11th Amendment to the Constitution. The compan...

Supreme Court deals setback to Holocaust victims in art disputes The court said lawyers for the victims had not reached the necessary bar to prove their claim falls under an exception to a federal law that generally provides immunity to foreign states from suit in US courts. The justices sent the cases back to the lower courts to allow victims to press other arguments in their favor. In the case concerning Germany, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a unanimous court, said: “As a Nation, we would be surprised — and might even initiate reciprocal action — if a court in Germany adjud...

Supreme Court denies NY Democrat Sheldon Silver’s appeal of bribery conviction The Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal by former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for his bribery conviction. It is the latest case in which the nine justices have considered exploring the reach of federal prosecutors when it comes to policing public officials. Silver’s petition had been pending before the justices for several weeks and they discussed it most recently at their private conference last Friday. In advising the justices to deny the appeal from Silver, a Democrat, former Acting S...

Anti-death penalty activist: 'US needs restorative justice' 09:39 (CNN)As the country focused on the aftermath of riots in the US Capitol and the unprecedented second impeachment of President Donald Trump, the liberal justices of the Supreme Court spent Trump's last full week in office battling his administration's long-term objective to execute 13 federal death row inmates in six months. Late Friday night, over the fiery objection of two Supreme Court justices, Dustin John Higgs became the 13th federal inmate to be put to death. It marked the last federal execution to take place under the T...