Rachel Brand, the number three official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job, the New York Times reports. Brand’s profile had risen because she is next in the line of succession behind the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein,...
The petition of the day is: Jam v. International Finance Corp. 17-1011 Issues: (1) Whether the International Organizations Immunities Act—which affords international organizations the “same immunity” from suit that foreign governments have, 22 U.S.C. § 288a(b)—confers the same immunity on such organizations as foreign governments have under the...
The U.S. Embassy in Nassau, Bahamas issued a new crime warning for the city following the assault of a U.S. citizen during the early evening hours of February 6, 2018, while jogging on West Bay Street just west of Goodman’s Bay Park. This is an area...
San Diego’s CityBeat reported that between 2007 and 2012, 60 inmates died in the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department’s five-jail detention system, nearly half in suicides, homicides and accidents. Prisoners kept dying, including a man who killed himself in yet anther suicide. His widow is...
New York City’s Department of Investigtion found serious security lapses at jails in Manhattan and Brooklyn when an undercover agent was able to smuggle drugs and makeshift weapons into the facilities, the Wall Street Journal reports. The findings come as officials seek to close the...
Andrew Pincus is a partner in Mayer Brown LLP and filed an amicus brief in support of Microsoft on behalf of 12 business and consumer organizations. The views expressed are his and not those of his clients. Consider this scenario: An officer of Sledkom, the national law-enforcement...