A fiery motion to dismiss filed in the Lacey/Larkin case on May 1 in federal court in Phoenix accuses the U.S. Department of Justice of “outrageous government misconduct,” claiming federal pettifoggers and government agents repeatedly trampled upon the defendants’ attorney-client…
On May 4 in Phoenix, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich nixed a defense motion to dismiss the indictment of veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, rejecting the motion’s argument that the prosecution had improperly charged the one-time alt-media…
Before they were newspapermen, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin were young iconoclasts, fed up with the Vietnam War, the Nixon administration and the Kent State Massacre. But as they both explain in recent interviews for the paper they founded 50…
On March 30, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dealt federal prosecutors yet another setback in the government’s two-year-long quest to hold onto millions of dollars in publishing assets belonging to veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, former owners…
U.S. public servants are on a COVID-19-fueled power trip, taking a meat cleaver to Americans’ civil liberties with more impunity than at any time since WWII. Under the banner of public safety, state and local officials have issued emergency decrees…
On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich in Phoenix disappointed prosecutors in the Lacey/Larkin case by granting a defense motion to continue the trial’s start date, resetting it from May 5 to August 17. Citing the “expansive scope” of…
Judging from the epic case of mass psychosis that has swept over the Sunshine State as a result of the nation’s annual bout of Super Bowl sex-trafficking hysteria, Floridians could easily give the Flat Earth Society a run for its…
Last week, on Jan. 9, federal Judge Susan Brnovich in Phoenix spiked a defense motion in the Lacey and Larkin case that accused attorneys for the U.S. Justice Department of having “grossly abused the grand jury process” by misleading jurors…
On January 7, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich, the trial judge in the ongoing criminal case against award-winning newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, denied a defense motion challenging the adequacy of computer server evidence, which the government claims…
In a 12-page decision issued on December 20 from his chambers in Los Angeles, U.S. District Court Judge R. Gary Klausner brushed aside a First Amendment challenge to the federal government’s seizure of millions in publishing proceeds as part of…
