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Former Vancouver Police Officer Keith Kircher ... He was originally charged with two counts of first-degree perjury. Judge Robert Lewis agreed Wednesday to let Kircher complete his community ...

A lawyer for actor Blake Lively asked a federal judge Thursday to impose strict rules to prevent anyone associated with ...

Jauffret-Roustide is an Awardee of the 2019 French Scholar Lecture Series, Peter Wall Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada ... Her areas of expertise include juries, judges, ...

Theodis "Ted" Lewis, the first Black judge to be appointed to the Seventh Judicial Circuit, died at his home in Chatham on Feb. 17. He was 77. A native of Little Rock, Ark., who attended Illinois ...

Theodis Lewis was in private law practice and an assistant public defender before becoming a judge. He was last recommended for reappointment in 2007, months before his retirement. Theodis "Ted ...

Ben Lewis, recently retired, has been assigned as the judge to oversee the Mischelle Lawless murder case against Leon Lamb. The order came from the Missouri Supreme Court. Lewis, 69, was a ...

Two Tacoma residents were involved in a rollover crash Saturday evening, according to the Washington State Patrol. The ...

The holding company that owns Victoria area’s Six Mile Pub has been ordered by a judge to liquidate its assets and repay the family of a now-deceased part-owner, who mortgaged his house to ...

Judge Lewis J Liman ruled that NYT's motion to dismiss is likely to succeed. Baldoni's claims involve allegations of collaboration with actress Blake Lively on a controversial article. NYT's ...

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has quashed sanctions imposed on the Quesnel mayor by city council over the mayor’s involvement with a controversial book about Canada’s residential school legacy.

Judge Lewis J. Liman granted the paper’s request for stay of discovery Tuesday, Deadline reports. “The Wayfarer Parties are unlikely to be unfairly prejudiced by a stay while the Court decides ...