California crime victims and law enforcement leaders are urging urged voters to support a ballot initiative that would roll back parts of 2014 and 2016 measures that critics say impede investigations and free violent offenders too soon, the Associated Press reports. Crime Victims United of...
The White House said Tuesday that President Trump believes he has the authority to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, the Wall Street Journal reports. Lawmakers from both parties warned against doing so, after the FBI raided properties tied to the president’s longtime lawyer. Senate Majority...
In the upper room of an old bar in Brooklyn, a 66-year-old African-American man who has been in and out of the criminal justice system his entire life sits across from a young public defender in New York City, just starting out in her career....
At Law360 (subscription required), Jimmy Hoover reports that “[i]n his first year on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch has staked out a position in the court’s far right camp, but the junior justice has yet to face the most controversial decisions.” At...
The petition of the day is: Multnomah County, Oregon v. Updike 17-1222 Issues: (1) Whether the level of discriminatory intent required to award compensatory damages under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12132, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794, is “discriminatory...
Among the many innovations we have had to confront in a world characterized by rapid technological change is the advent of cryptocurrency, as a social and financial phenomenon. As I have previously noted, the current cryptocurrency craze has also become a legal phenomenon as well,...