The South Dakota Supreme Court issued a ruling on bigamy yesterday. Yes, bigamy! Michael Clements and Kristi Anderson got married in North Dakota in 2009. Anderson filed for divorce on April 15, 2011. Then 38-year-old Clements and 18-year-old (warning! warning!)…
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The South Dakota Supreme Court issued two rulings Wednesday hinging on the rules police must follow in traffic stops. In both cases, stops for minor violations of motor vehicle laws led to arrests for larger crimes, specifically illegal drug use…
In this week's dip from the scumbucket, the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled this week partially in favor of convicted child rapist and pornographer John A. Rolfe. Rolfe, who sits now in the State Penitentiary for drugging, sexually assualting, and…
Linda and Jimmy Krsnak have lost their court battle against the Brant Lake Sanitary District. The Chester-based CSA operators have been fighting the installation of a sewage lagoon within a quarter mile of their home and organic crops. Last spring,…
From the SCOTUS Blog's live coverage of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Chief Justice Roberts' vote saved the ACA. ObamaCare is pretty much constitutional, including Mitt Romney's major contribution, the individual mandate…
If lawyers do drink more than the general population, it may come from having to argue cases like State of South Dakota v. Leonard Alan Toohey. In 2011, a ten-year-old girl testified in court that when she was seven, Toohey,…
Montana is fighting the Supreme Court's logic-defying Citizens United in a lawsuit filed by a corporation, not a person, that wants to maintain its right to interfere in Montana state elections with unlimited and anonymous campaign donations. Twenty-two states have…