The petition of the day is: Pioneer Centres Holding Company Stock Ownership Plan and Its Trustees v. Alerus Financial, N.A. 17-667 Issue: Whether a plaintiff bears the full burden of establishing loss causation under 29 U.S.C. § 1109(a), which allows an employee plan to recover for “any losses...
Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was sentenced on Monday to five years in federal prison for fraud and tax crimes that include raising about $800,000 for a sham charity, which the Florida Times-Union called “a remarkable defrocking of the once-powerful and garrulous Jacksonville Democrat who...
Facing pressure from New York City Council members, city officials defended their progress toward closing the Rikers Island jail complex, saying doing so isn’t merely a question of real estate but requires a sea change in how the criminal-justice system functions, the Wall Street Journal...
It’s the biggest case of the term, Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and the press is asked to arrive extra early at the Supreme Court this morning. We also are led up to the courtroom earlier than usual, about 9:15 a.m. It’s so...
Between 2010 and 2016, crime in Los Angeles County — including property and violent crime — rose by 5 percent even as overall crime in the rest of the state fell by the same rate, according to a report released Tuesday, says the Los Angeles...
A deeply flawed system for collecting hate crime data has left the U.S. with unreliable, incomplete official counts and little handle on the true scope of bias-motivated violence, ProPublica reports. Under a 1990 federal law, the FBI is required to track and tabulate crimes in...