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9:30 a.m. | the supreme court issues orders and hears arguments in
cases involving the deferred action for childhood arrivals policy, as well as
in Hernandez v. Mesa, a case regarding the Fourth and Fifth amendments.
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[email protected].FloridaOkla. officer accused
of killing police chiefA small-town Oklahoma
police officer was charged with
killing his chief after what
authorities described as an
alcohol-fueled brawl in a Florida
Panhandle hotel room.
The two men had been staying
at the Hilton on Pensacola Beach
over the weekend for a law
enforcement conference, said
Amber Southard, an Escambia
County sheriff’s spokeswoman.
At some point Sunday
evening, hotel security was
called because the two men were
being disruptive, Southard said.
Later that evening, hotel staff
called the Sheriff’s Department
because the men were fighting.
“ An actual physical
altercation,” s he said.
When deputies arrived, they
found Chief Lucky Miller dead,
she said, and there was no
weapon. She added that alcohol
was involved and that an
autopsy was underway.
Michael Patrick Nealey, 49,
was arrested Monday morning
in connection with Miller’s
death, according to records.
Miller was the police chief in
Mannford, Okla., a small town
about 20 miles west of Tulsa. It
has a population of about 3,200.
Nealey was being held
without bond at the Escambia
County Jail. He’s charged with
homicide.
A lawyer for Nealey isn’t listed
in jail records.
Miller, 44, had been police
chief since 2007. He and his wife
had three children.
“ We are heartbroken by the
news,” Mannford Mayor Ty ler
Buttram said in the statement.
“Please keep both families in
your prayers as we work to move
forward.”
The town administrator has
appointed another officer as
interim police chief.
— Associated PressarizonaM ormon leader slams
adoption scandalA leader in the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
said he is “disgusted” by an
Arizona elected official accused
of running a multi-state
adoption scheme, marking the
first time a church official has
commented on the case.
“ We’re just as disgusted with it
as anybody,” Ronald Rasband, a
member of the Quorum of the
Twelve Apostles, told the
Arizona Republic when asked
about Maricopa County Assessor
Paul Petersen. “The details of
this case are sickening.”
The church also plans to
review Petersen’s membership
after his case is resolved, he said.
“ The fact that he’s a Latter-day
Saint does not exonerate him,”
Rasband said.
The Quorum is the church’s
highest governing body after the
president.
Prosecutors in Arizona, Utah
and Arkansas say Petersen
recruited women from the
Marshall Islands who were paid
up to $10,000 to come to the
United States. Upon arrival, they
were crammed into houses to
wait to give birth and provide
their babies for adoption. He is
accused of falsely registering the
women for state Medicaid and
then arranging adoptions with
American families for thousands
of dollars.
Authorities say he had been
operating the scheme since 2015
and exploited at least 70 women.
Since 2003, citizens of the
Marshall Islands have been
prohibited from traveling to the
United States for adoption
purposes.
Petersen is facing federal
charges in Arkansas and state
charges in Arizona and Utah. He
has pleaded not guilty in Arizona
and Arkansas. He is scheduled to
appear in a Utah court Friday.
— Associated PressarkansasLittle Rock teachers
to strike ThursdayLittle Rock teachers will go on
strike for one day this week over
a panel’s decision to strip their
collective bargaining power and
complaints about state control of
the 23,000-student district,
union officials said Monday.
The strike set for Thursday
will be only the second time
teachers have walked out of the
job in Little Rock history. The
Little Rock Education
Association’s announcement
came after the state Board of
Education voted to no longer
recognize the union when its
contract expired Oct. 31.
The union is calling on the
state to give back its bargaining
power. But its leaders said the
strike is more focused on
returning local control.
Arkansas has run Little Rock’s
schools since the state board
took over the district in 2015
because of low test scores. The
board voted to put the district
under a local panel to be elected
November 2020. The strike will
occur the day the panel is to vote
on establishing zones for the
new board.
— Associated PressLawsuit against flight school is
dismissed: A Connecticut judge
has dismissed a wrongful-death
lawsuit against a flight school
and its owner over a 2016 plane
crash that killed a student pilot.
Judge Matthew Budzik in
Hartford ruled in favor of Arian
Prevalla and his now-defunct
American Flight Academy on
Friday. Prevalla survived the
crash. He accused the student
pilot, Feras Freitekh, of
intentionally crashing. Freitekh’s
father denied the allegations and
filed a lawsuit alleging there was
a defect with the plane or
Prevalla failed to take control of
it before it crashed.
— From news servicesdigestBY SPENCER S. HSU
A federal judge in Washington
dismissed President Trump’s law-
suit seeking to block the House
Ways and Means Committee from
using a recently enacted New
York law to request his state tax
returns, saying that for now the
case belongs before a judge in
New York.
The decision by U.S. District
Judge Carl J. N ichols injected new
urgency into Trump’s effort to
shield his state tax records from
Congress.
The House panel, chaired by
Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.),
has not requested Trump’s state
returns. Trump’s attorneys filed
the lawsuit in July preemptively,
arguing that without an emergen-
cy c ourt order blocking a congres-
sional request, his New York re-
turns might be disclosed before
the president’s opposition could
be heard in court.
While the case was pending,
New York state tax officials agreed
not to turn over Trump’s records
any sooner than seven days after
Nichols ruled on whether the
Trump lawsuit should be heard
before him or before a federal
judge in New York.
On Monday, N ichols concluded
the latter, dismissing the New
York state defendants and giving
Trump the option of refiling his
lawsuit against them in his home
state, effectively setting the
s even-day clock running, if the
House were to ask for Trump’s
returns.
“Based on the current allega-
tions, Mr. Trump has not met his
burden of establishing [the
court’s] personal jurisdiction over
either of the New York Defen-
dants,” the state’s tax commis-
sioner and attorney general,
Nichols wrote in a 19-page opin-
ion.
Nichols withheld ruling on the
president’s argument but ac-
knowledged the New York state
officials’ position that Trump’s
lawsuit involves a New York state
law and “alleges no events or
omissions” in Washington by
state officials.
N ichols said the president also
could refile his case in Washing-
ton against the House committee,
if and when it makes a request.
“Mr. Trump may press his
claims against the New York De-
fendants in this Court should fu-
ture events support the exercise of
personal jurisdiction over them,
or he may opt to pursue those
claims in an appropriate forum,”
said Nichols, a Trump appointee
who joined the bench in July.
New York’s Trust Act, signed by
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) and
enacted July 7, allows New York
tax officials to turn over Trump’s
state tax returns to three House
committees, provided the New
York officials receive requests “in
furtherance of a legitimate task of
Congress.
It was not immediately clear
what the next steps by Trump’s
attorneys would be, or those of
lawmakers.
The House committee has ex-
pressed no interest in Trump’s
New York returns but has categor-
ically opposed any attempt by the
president or the courts to pre-
empt such a request in the future,
seeking to leave its options open.
House general counsel Douglas
N. Letter had urged Nichols to
reject Trump’s lawsuit, saying the
committee's decision whether to
use the new state law is “absolute-
ly immune” from court review
under the Constitution’s grant of
legislative powers to Congress.
Barring lawmakers from even
requesting Trump’s state returns
would appear to mark the first
time any court overrode Con-
gress’s freedom to conduct legis-
lative work, before lawmakers
have taken any action, Letter said.
Such a decision now could rest
with a judge in New York if
Trump’s attorneys refile their
claim in federal court there. Alter-
natively, the president’s team
could attack the legality of the
New York law, o r wait to bring the
case again in Washington if the
House committee shifts course
and decides to request Trump’s
state returns.
Trump attorney Patrick Straw-
bridge had argued that the presi-
dent does not intend to bring a
second suit in New York, citing
resources, but instead said it
would ask Nichols again to enter
an emergency order to tie the
House committee’s hands.
Nichols’s opinion came amid a
wave of litigation over the presi-
dent’s attempts to shield his per-
sonal finances from investigators,
including congressional Demo-
crats, state lawmakers and regula-
tors.
[email protected]Trump suit
to shield
taxes faces
setback
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