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Ex-Morgan Stanley advisors are fighting the bank for deferred compensation. One case has opened the floodgates to more suits across Wall Street.

A North Carolina statute, G.S. § 163-274(a)(9) (the Act), may be unconstitutional because it outlaws any derogatory comment “made in reckless disregard of its truth or falsity.” Such a comment may be true, and the First Amendment does not permit outlawing truthful speech. Moreover, under the Act, speakers may lie with impunity about others but ...

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow execution of Lisa Montgomery Ann E. Marimow and Robert Barnes, The Washington Post Jan. 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday night began to clear the way for the execution of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection - the first woman to face the federal death penalty in nearly seven decades. The court granted a request from the Justice Department to vacate a divided federal appeals court that would have delayed her execution until after President Donald Trump leaves office next week. The c...

Anti-death penalty activists on Tuesday launched last-minute bids to push back three scheduled federal executions until President-elect Joseph R. Biden takes over, hoping he will spare their lives.

Lisa Montgomery appears in a 2004 booking photo. Image: Wyandotte County Sheriff's Department via Getty Images Lisa Marie Montgomery said she was interested in purchasing a puppy. But once the Kansas woman arrived at Bobbie Jo Stinnett's Missouri home in 2004, she attacked the pregnant 23-year-old, using a rope to strangle her until she lost consciousness. With a kitchen knife, Montgomery cut the 8-month-old fetus out of Stinnett's womb, taking it to raise as her own. Stinnett was found later by her mother, dead in a pool of blood. Montgomery confessed to the killing, and the baby — who sur...