In 2011, a national heroin epidemic was the equivalent of dry tinder, lacking only a match. Florida lit it up, the Palm Beach Post reports. Purdue Pharma and El Chapo had provided kindling: The company’s unprecedented marketing campaign for its blockbuster OxyContin painkiller did not...
States can now require internet retailers to collect sales taxes even if the retailer has no physical presence in the state. In South Dakota v. Wayfair, the Supreme Court overturned its 1992 decision in Quill Corporation v. North Dakota, which limited a state’s ability to impose...
The nascent liberal crusade to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency claimed modest victories this week, but the movement has a long way to go before ICE is put on ice, reports USA Today. On Monday, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) said he would introduce...
The U.S. Justice Department has begun distributing nearly $200 million in anticrime grants to states and localities as a result of a federal appeals court decision lifting a national injunction relating to sanctuary cities. As reported earlier by Politico, the U.S. Court of Appeals for...
The impending retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has raised hopes of conservatives that the Court will cement the gradual shift to conservative interpretations of the Constitution that began with the vacancies filled by the Trump administration “Without any question, this is the biggest moment...
The Legal Technology Resource Center’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. This initiative launched in 2015 with a list of innovators and leaders in legal technology and with this year’s additions, that list now includes...