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About 10,000 children each year suffer the horrors of commercial sexual exploitation in the U.S. reports the Indianapolis Star. Globally, according to the International Labour Organization, buyers pay to abuse more than 1 million children a year. The buyers are seldom held accountable. Most leave...
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After a dramatic drop early last year, the number of Central American children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally has been rising sharply since April, Stateline reports. Advocates say the increase is being driven by fears of gang violence at home — fears that outweigh heightened...
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New scrutiny is being given to Geoffrey Berman, the New York lawyer who’s emerging as President Trump’s choice to be the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, the office that would likely lead any investigation into Trump’s business practices, the Hill reports. Attorney General Jeff Sessions named...
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By Dan Cooper, Joseph Jones, and Ruth Scoles Mitchell
On January 25, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) handed down a ruling permitting consumer privacy actions to be brought in the consumer’s home jurisdiction — as opposed to the jurisdiction in which...
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The practice of law is time-consuming but never more than the time required managing your firm’s finances by hand. Although few of us would consider going back to the days of typewriters and carbon paper, a surprising number attempt to manage their law firm’s bank...
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A new team of federal drug agents, computer experts and analysts will combat worldwide online opioid trafficking, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in Pittsburgh Monday. Speaking at the federal courthouse as part of his nationwide tour of U.S. attorney’s offices, Sessions said the Joint Criminal...