A federal judge refused the Trump administration’s request to change a longstanding settlement so that officials could detain asylum-seeking families together during lengthy immigration proceedings, the Wall Street Journal reports. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles complicates the administration’s efforts...
President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court presents government archivists and White House officials with a herculean task: wading through millions of pages of records to produce what senators demand to prepare for confirmation hearings certain to be highly contentious, Politico reports....
On June 27, 2018, China’s Ministry of Public Security (“MPS”) released for public comment a draft of the Regulations on Cybersecurity Multi-level Protection Scheme (“the Draft Regulation”). The highly anticipated Draft Regulation sets out the details of an updated Multi-level Protection Scheme, whereby network operators...
Earlier this year, after Facebook was sued in a securities class action after news that it had given access to personal user information to Cambridge Analytica, I questioned whether privacy issues might represent the next big corporate liability exposure. Among other things, in making this...
Federal prosecutors are dropping all 38 remaining cases stemming from the Inauguration Day demonstrations in Washington, D.C., last year, NPR reports. A protest turned confrontational when a small number of black-clad protesters broke windows and police responded with pepper spray and a concussive device. The...
A Lancaster, Pa., police officer who was recorded using a Taser on an unarmed black man in a widely shared video will not be fired or suspended, the New York Times reports. Mayor Danene Sorace acknowledged that some members of the community would find the...