Does your business or publication link or embed copyrighted content on your website or social media? If you routinely do the latter, a recent decision in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York suggests that the tide is turning to the...
Setting the stage The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 created a bounty system designed to reward those who provide information to the Securities and Exchange Commission when that information leads to monetary penalties. The term “whistleblower” appeared multiple times throughout the...
Why didn’t someone say something?” “It’s been going on for so long!” At one point or another, those two sentences become part of the debate following every high-profile case dealing with child sexual abuse. Put another way, they incorporate two difficult questions that together pose a dilemma...
New provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that drug overdose deaths declined in 14 states during the 12-month period that ended July 2017, a potentially hopeful sign that policies aimed at curbing the death toll may be working, Stateline...
Filled with fury and impatient for change, thousands of Florida high school students and protesters rallied Wednesday at the state Capitol to demand action in the final weeks of the legislative session to curb the sale of assault-style rifles, the Washington Post reports. “Thoughts and...
It hardly takes a criminologist to recognize that 2017 was an especially tragic year when it comes to deadly mass shootings. With 58 killed at a Las Vegas music festival, 25 gunned down during a church service outside of San Antonio, and eight people fatally...