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Now that the arguments are complete, the justices will cast tentative votes at a private conference in the coming days. The senior justice in the majority will then assign the majority opinion to a colleague or, just as likely, keep it. Draft opinions, almost certainly including concurrences and dissents, will …

LITTLETON, Colo. — Ten years ago, a Colorado baker named Jack Phillips turned away a gay couple who had asked him for a wedding cake, saying that a state law forbidding discrimination based on sexual orientation must yield to his faith. The dispute, a white-hot flash point in the culture …

Advertisement The crisis rocking the Labour Party (LP) has taken a different dimension as the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Aboyemi Arabambi has laid an allegation of forgery on the leadership of the party. According to him, the party leadership allegedly forged the signatures of the Appeal Court judge to insert …

Advertisement Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, to obey the ruling of the High Court that sentenced him tothree months imprisonment. Naija News reports that HURIWA applauded the court’s ruling, saying it means the justice system in the …

Advertisement Embattled Lagos medical practitioner, Olufemi Olaleye, has been remanded over alleged defilement of his wife’s niece. An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Wednesday, ruled on the case and ordered that the 57-year-old medical doctor of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, should be remanded. The court remanded him …

The Nigeria Police Force has reacted to the judgment delivered today November 29 by Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja sentencing the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba to three months in prison for disobeying a court order.   Olajuwon issued the ruling following a suit filed by …

Advertisement The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba on Tuesday was sentenced to three months in prison for disobeying a court order. Naija News gathered that the ruling was passed at a Federal High Court in Abuja. The presiding judge, Mobalaji Olajuwon passed the judgement on Tuesday following a suit …

The senatorial primary election for Adamawa Central Senatorial District, conducted by the Peoples Democratic Party, which was won by the Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, Aminu Iya-Abbas, has been nullified by Federal High Court I, sitting in Yola.   The judgment was given in a lawsuit filed by Mohammed …

Most people know, but for those that don’t, federal appeals, whether before a three-judge panel or the Supreme Court, involve nothing more than extensive briefs and then a hearing where lawyers attempt to sway things to their strengths, with the judges always free to ask questions to challenge the attorneys. …

A South African woman, Palesa Ya Seponono, has reacted after a court granted bail to her baby daddy who she accused of assaulting her.    LIB earlier reported that Seponono had to get stitches on her face after the suspect, Thabo Lietsoso Sempe, allegedly attacked her with a broken bottle.    It …