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...
Officials in Williamson County, Tx., near Austin, terminated a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain dozens of migrant mothers who had been arrested and separated from their children. Sacramento County, Ca., ended a multimillion-dollar deal with ICE to keep immigrants jailed while awaiting...
A rightward-leaning Supreme Court could shift the legal consensus established a decade ago by the District of Columbia v. Heller ruling and “imperil sensible gun laws that Americans need and broadly support,” a leading advocacy group warns. In a review of litigation since the 2008 High...
The Trump administration’s scramble to find detention space for thousands of undocumented immigrant families while parents await prosecution began well before images of young children in cages went viral last week, reports USA Today. This month, the administration took the extraordinary step of sending 1,600...
Bioaccumulation is a hazard with many toxic substances, but not so much with asbestos. Certain dangerous chemicals can make their way up the food chain and ultimately threaten human health. Fortunately, living things cannot absorb asbestos the way they can absorb DDT or mercury. But many...