An acute staffing shortage of customs officers at the border has gotten so dire that the government is pulling screeners from airports and reassigning them to southern Arizona on an emergency basis, the Washington Post reports. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has deployed 175...
Oyez has posted audio and transcripts from this week’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court. The court heard argument this week in: Hall v. Hall Dalmazzi v. United States Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro McCoy v. Louisiana The post This week’s oral argument audio now available on Oyez appeared first...
Congressional passage of a long-fought surveillance bill is the first big legislative win in nearly five years for the national security community, which has faced restrictions since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked details about the government’s most secret spying programs, reports Politico. Republican hawks...
Phoenix detectives were assembling a jigsaw puzzle of sorts in the past month, piecing together witness statements and physical evidence to mount a nine-victim homicide case against 35-year-old Cleophus Cooksey Jr., the Arizona Republic reports. Key information was gleaned two days after Cooksey’s Dec. 17...
Two computer scientists have cast more doubt on the accuracy of risk assessment tools. After comparing predictions made by a group of untrained adults to those of the risk assessment software COMPAS, authors found that the software “is no more accurate or fair than predictions made...
Legal teams can play a major role in helping clients reduce vulnerabilities, minimize consequences, and hasten responses to cyber attacks, but doing so requires a focus around the changing nature of the underlying risk. Let’s take three areas where lawyers play crucial counseling roles: liability...