President Trump tweeted that Florida neighbors and classmates should have reported 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz to authorities after he first exhibited disturbing behavior. Many had done that — over and over and over again, Politico reports. Cruz, who has confessed to mowing down 17 people at...
In the following guest post, Syed Ahmad, Brittany Davidson, and Andrea DeField of Hunton & Williams LLP take a look at a very interesting New York trial court decision relating to D&O insurers’ duty to advance defense costs. I would like to thank the authors...
The petition of the day is: Colorado v. Fuentes-Espinoza 17-1084 Issue: Whether, under principles of implied pre-emption, the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1101, et seq., forbids states from enacting legislation to prohibit human smuggling. The post Petition of the day appeared first on SCOTUSblog....
Flagler County, Fl., Sheriff Rick Staly has regularly referred to the county jail as the “Green Roof Inn” and now has posted three “motel” signs at the corrections complex in Bunnell, the Daytona Beach, Fl., News-Journal reports. The most eye-catching sign features a retro-neon blinking...
A New York state commission that oversees New York City’s jail system may move to close the troubled complex at Rikers Island ahead of the city’s 10-year timeline to do so, citing the city’s inability to correct longstanding problems there, the New York Times reports....
There are two primary biographies of Justice Abe Fortas — Bruce Allen Murphy’s 1988 “Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice” and Laura Kalman’s 1992 “Abe Fortas: A Biography.” Neither of these works devotes much attention to Fortas’ life in his hometown...