The Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association says 1,300 people have been in local jails for four years waiting for their trials, and 70 people have been held for five years without having their case heard, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. “I think the number is actually higher,”...
In 1986, when Justice Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court, the bench looked quite different than it does today. In fact, none of the justices on that court still sits on the Supreme Court bench. In 1986 the court was composed of five justices who...
After the Parkland, Fl. massacre galvanized gun politics in the U.S., gun support has been on a steady decline. A striking number of Democratic candidates in midterm elections, from congressional contests in the Rocky Mountains to governor’s races in the Deep South, are disparaging the National...
While doctors are prescribing fewer opioids, criminal organizations have been capitalizing on the nation’s rising opioid dependency by producing and distributing an abundant supply of illicit and lethal drugs, says a new study. The research, published by the American Action Forum, found that fatalities from heroin...
The first round of the inaugural Global Legal Hackathon took place in 40 cities across 20 countries in February, bringing together representatives of law schools, law firms, in-house law departments, legal tech companies, government entities and services providers with a common purpose of speeding the...
For at least a year, the biggest page on Facebook purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement was a scam with ties to a middle-aged white man in Australia, a review of the page and associated accounts and websites conducted by CNN...