President Trump has launched by executive order the Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry. The president enacted the council with the aim of reducing crime while looking for ways to “provide those who have engaged in criminal activity with greater opportunities to...
A meeting called by President Trump on Thursday about the interplay between video games and real-world violence will revisit territory already well-trodden by politicians over decades, including Hillary Clinton, Politico reports. Trump is trying to focus attention on mental health after last month’s mass shooting...
While the US imposes an age of majority on youthful offenders at the age of 18, many other nations rely on higher ages such as 20 or 21 to demarcate the separation of juvenile offenders and juvenile correctional systems from their adult counterparts. In recent years,...
Briefly: At Supreme Court Brief (subscription required), Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle report that according to Steven Anderson of the Pacific Legal Foundation, the PLF’s “formula” for a successful cert petition, like the one in property-rights case Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania, which the court...
A reader of Cruise Law News informs us that the Carnival Glory became stuck near the port of San Juan, Puerto Rico this afternoon after the cruise ship dropped several hundred feet of anchor chain and an anchor after the ship left Old San Juan....
The insurance coverage litigation arising from the settlement of the shareholder claims filed in connection with the Dole Food Company’s November 2013 “going private” transaction continues to grind on. In the latest development in the coverage dispute, a Delaware Superior Court judge has entered a...