As I have previously noted (for example here), a number of reports have analyzed the 2017 approved securities class action lawsuit settlements in statistical and numeric terms, such as the aggregate, average, and mean settlement amounts. But what do the 2017 securities suit settlements look...
The scandal at Louisiana’s Union Parish Detention Center began with the routine medical screening of a 17-year-old bi-polar female inmate detoxing from methamphetamine in an isolation cell. A nurse asked the girl, booked on burglary counts, whether she ever had been the victim of sexual...
On Friday the justices will meet for their April 13 conference; our “petitions to watch” for that conference will be available soon. The calendar for the April sitting, which will begin on April 16, is available on the Supreme Court’s website. The post This week at the...
Most states compensate people who were wrongfully imprisoned in amounts that can reach millions of dollars. Exonerees can also win settlements from police agencies, and both kinds of awards can attract predators, reports The Marshall Project in the New York Times. North Carolina paid $750,000...
Newspapers in the U.K. are reporting that a cruise ship passenger, who used a cruise in the Caribbean last fall as a cover to smuggle cocaine, has been jailed. The cruise in question occurred last October (of 2017) and apparently involved the P&O Arcadia. BBC News reports...
Michael Lacey, a founder of the New Times tabloid, has been charged in Phoenix in the apparent culmination of a federal human-trafficking investigation, the Arizona Republic reports. Authorities had been probing whether Backpage, the classified advertising website he co-founded, served as a willing participant in...