For USA Today, Richard Wolf reports that President Donald Trump was “without a Supreme Court quorum” in the audience for last night’s State of the Union address, and that “[t]he four justices who [were] in attendance — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Stephen Breyer,...
Prison companies that backed President Trump’s campaign and gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to his inaugural committee got another boost from his administration. The Bureau of Prisons will transfer more inmates from government lockups to private facilities as the agency prepares to cut federal...
The petition of the day is: Nordyke v. Howmedica Osteonics Corp. 17-972 Issue: Whether the Supreme Court’s decision in Atlantic Marine Construction Corp. v. United States District Court supplants the traditional transfer of venue analysis under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) where some, but not all, parties to a...
For the second straight year, securities class action lawsuit filings reached record levels in 2017, according to the January 30, 2018 report from Cornerstone Research. According to the report, entitled “Securities Class Action Filings: 2017 Year in Review” (here), securities suit filings during the year...
A Phoenix police internal investigation found officers could have better communicated with protesters at an August rally for President Trump, an event that ended in police deploying pepper spray and non-lethal projectiles against a crowd of thousands, reports the Arizona Republic. In a memo to...
Michigan State University officials, who are under heavy fire for their handling of the Larry Nassar sex harassment case, frustrated ESPN for more than three years by refusing to turn over records in other sex abuse cases, ESPN’s Paula Lavigne tells the Poynter Institute. The...