Alanna Mayham

Jun 7, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Alanna Mayham

Seattle Pacific University can now continue some claims against Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson after his office began investigating the school’s ban on hiring LGBTQ+ staff. SEATTLE (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel cut Seattle Pacific University a break Friday morning by partially reviving its First Amendment challenge against Washington state’s investigation of the religious school’s homophobic hiring practices.

Jun 2, 2024 | savingseafood.org | Alanna Mayham

June 2, 2024 — Environmental groups sued the federal government on Thursday for concluding that an 807-mile pipeline project across Alaska would not harm imperiled polar bears and Arctic whale species. The Ninth Circuit complaint filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club challenges two biological opinions by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service for a new liquified natural gas project called the Alaska LNG Project.

May 30, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Alanna Mayham

It only took six hours for an Idaho jury to decide that doomsday author Chad Daybell was guilty of murdering his previous wife and the two youngest children of his mistress, Lori Vallow Daybell. (CN) — A 12-person jury convicted doomsday author Chad Daybell of eight felonies on Thursday, including those involving the first-degree murders of his previous wife and the two youngest children of his mistress, Lori Vallow Daybell.

May 30, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Alanna Mayham

(CN) — Environmental groups sued the federal government on Thursday for concluding that an 807-mile pipeline project across Alaska would not harm imperiled polar bears and Arctic whale species. The Ninth Circuit complaint filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club challenges two biological opinions by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service for a new liquified natural gas project called the Alaska LNG Project.

May 29, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Alanna Mayham

(CN) — The theme of “money, sex and power” was ever-present Wednesday as prosecuting attorneys made closing arguments at end of a two-month murder trial of doomsday author Chad Daybell in Boise, Idaho. “Three dead bodies on the defendant Chad Daybell’s property and or in the residence. Two of them children. His mistress’ kids,” said Fremont County Prosecuting Attorney Lindsey Blake at the beginning of a lengthy closing argument at the Ada County Courthouse.