Angel LaCourt was 22 years old when he was released from the Ray Brook Federal Correctional Institution in New York and moved back to Boston, MA. But not long after his release he went back to selling drugs—the very crime he was incarcerated for—to pay...
In a development in an enforcement action that is the first of its kind, the SEC has levied a $35 million penalty against Altaba, Inc. as successor in interest to Yahoo, for Yahoo’s two-year delay in reporting the massive data breach the company experienced in...
The 2010 census brought good news for Texas. In the 10 years since the last census, it had gained nearly four million residents, which translated into four more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Those changes would require the state’s Republican-controlled legislature to draw...
The petitions of the day are: Findlay v. Federal Housing Finance Agency 17-1300 Issues: (1) Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a claim under Section 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act to be tried by a jury when petitioners did not sell the relevant securities and never possessed any proceeds...
Nearly seven years ago, the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether corporations can be sued under the Alien Tort Statute, an 18th-century law that allows foreigners to bring lawsuits in U.S. courts for serious violations of international human-rights laws. The justices ultimately did not resolve...
This morning brought decisions in both of the patent cases argued in November, with the government prevailing on the constitutional question raised in Oil States Energy Services v. Greene’s Energy Group, but losing on the statutory question presented in SAS Institute v. Iancu. Both cases...