Minority victims of sexual assault by law enforcement have often been ignored by reformers seeking to improve police-community relations, says attorney Andrea Ritchie. In a conversation with TCR, Ritchie, who assembled a database of 300 such cases, including transgendered, lesbian or gay victims, argues the...
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a target of President Trump’s ire dating to the 2016 election, has stepped down as he nears the date in March when he can retire with full pension benefits. He is expected to be succeeded by David Bowdich, who led...
Many readers may have noted SEC Jay Clayton’s January 22, 2018 speech about his agency’s scrutiny of cryptocurrencies, as well as the January 24, 2018 opinion piece Clayton wrote in the Wall Street Journal along with his counterpart from the CFTC, J. Christopher Giancarlo. In...
The petition of the day is: Nicholson v. Thrifty Payless, Inc. 17-772 Issue: Whether a debtor who has inadvertently failed to disclose the existence of a potential claim in a bankruptcy petition should be estopped from litigating that claim because she is attributed a presumption of deceit where...
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a target of President Trump’s ire dating to the 2016 election, has stepped down as he nears the date in March when he can retire with full pension benefits. He is expected to be succeeded by David Bowdich, who led...
Civil liberties groups in at least eight states are suing to get more inmates treated with new-generation hepatitis C drugs that are highly effective but also costly, reports KCUR in Kansas City. In 2013, Gilead Sciences introduced Sovaldi, the first of a new generation of...