U.S./World News

‘My Parents Taught Me I Could Be Anything I Wanted to Be’

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 12:00am

U.S. District Judge Barbara Brandriff Crabb of the Western District of Wisconsin had a potential head start on a legal career. 

Her father, grandfather and uncle all had law degrees, and she said that, as a child, “my parents taught me I could be anything I wanted to be.”

Concert Supports Traveling Photo Exibit

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Fri, 10/11/2019 - 12:00am

Patriotic Productions is holding a fundraiser today in Fremont to support Remembering Our Fallen, a national traveling memorial of photos showing fallen U.S. service members since 9/11.

The fundraiser will include a performance by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.

Dorothy Wright Nelson’s Instinct Led to Appeals Court

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Mon, 10/07/2019 - 12:00am
Hon. Dorothy Wright Nelson

Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson was a legal pioneer long before 1979, when she joined a historic class of women judges who reshaped the federal Judiciary, and she already had an uncanny knack for finding justice in non-confrontive ways.

Creighton Forum Highlights Immigrants’ Struggles

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Mon, 09/30/2019 - 12:00am

The uncertainty regarding the status of immigrants and asylum seekers at the federal level has resulted in accusations of confusion and indecision by state officials charged with renewing driver’s licenses.

Perseverance Made a Childhood Dream Come True

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Mon, 09/30/2019 - 12:00am
Judge Sylvia H. Rambo was an avid horse rider for many years. In this 1980 photo, taken at her farm in Pennsylvania, she removes a saddle from her horse, Joy. (Courtesy Sylvia Rambo via U.S. Courts)

Long before she joined a historic class of women judges in 1979, District Judge Sylvia H. Rambo’s professional future began with a childhood vision.

‘Gravely Disabled’ Homeless Forced Into Mental Health Care

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Thu, 09/26/2019 - 12:00am

Often, when she got high on meth, “Melanie,” who suffers from schizophrenia, would strip naked and run screaming straight into San Francisco traffic. Invariably, police would bring her to the hospital, where she’d undergo treatment. There, her psychotic symptoms would quickly subside.

Clean Water Repeal Will Swamp Trump Administration

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Thu, 09/26/2019 - 12:00am

The Conversation

Balloons Key Part of Celebrations, Awful for Environment

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Wed, 09/25/2019 - 10:15am

A colorful balloon floating over the wetlands might look pretty to some visitors, but it upsets Virginia Rettig when she spots one from her office window at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge about 5 miles north of Atlantic City, New Jersey. To her, it looks like litter.

Judiciary Doubles Waiver For Access to Court Records

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Wed, 09/25/2019 - 12:00am

More than three-fourths of the people who access federal court records will no longer be asked to pay for the service.

Law Dean: ‘You’ll Change Your Mind,’ Black Proved Him Wrong

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Mon, 09/23/2019 - 12:00am
Judge Susan H. Black is shown at her 1979 investiture in the Middle District of Florida. (Courtesy Susan Black via U.S. Courts)

Like many of the 23 women judges who transformed the Federal Judiciary in 1979, Susan Harrell Black was initially encouraged by her father to have professional aspirations – but for a darkly practical reason.

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