The FTC seeks to combat deceptive practices in the United States generally, but often it pays particularly close attention to the elderly, which it views as a vulnerable demographic. Last year for example, the FTC testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Aging that it’s...
In Tuesday’s Maryland school shooting, the gunfire was over and done with in less than a minute. The shooter, a 17-year-old student, was killed. Authorities said a 16-year-old girl who had some type of relationship with the shooter was critically wounded, and a 14-year-old boy...
The oral argument in Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund was notable for the repeated expression by the justices of frustration at the “gibberish” Congress provided in the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998. I suggested in my post about the argument...
An expert committee organized by the National Academy of Sciences called Wednesday for placing a central federal agency or agencies in control of collecting crime statistics as part of an overhaul of the nation’s crime-data collection system. Such an overhaul, which would fill in gaps on...
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for the second time in four years to a Missouri inmate who has a rare medical condition that he says could cause blood-filled tumors to burst inside his head during the lethal injection, the Associated Press...
Nothing that former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor encountered or did justified his decision to kill Justine Ruszczyk Damond last July, according to charges accusing him of murder, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. Noor turned himself in Tuesday. Noor, 32, shot Damond after she...