The St. Anthony, Mn., City Council, facing “threatened litigation,” has voted to pay Diamond Reynolds and her young daughter a $675,000 settlement in connection with the police shooting of Philando Castile, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Reynolds will receive another $125,000 from the League of...
New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex maintains a “culture of violence” among both inmates and staff, despite efforts to improve conditions at the storied correctional facility, says a court-mandated study reported by NPR. The report said staff on the island “relish confrontation” with inmates,...
The following is a series of questions on the occasion of the publication of Ronald Collins and David Skover’s “The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons” (Oxford University Press, 2017). Drawing from over 200 years of Supreme Court history, Collins and Skover offer 26 lessons – e.g.,...
The Virginia parole board is changing how it interprets the state’s three-strikes law in a way that could free hundreds of inmates – many of them nonviolent – who are serving prison terms significantly longer than the typical first-degree murderer, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot reports. The...
Ways to communicate now with clients and collegues have grown tremendously since the days of just using the telephone, faxing a letter and even Emailing. If Email no longer gets the job done, what are our alternatives? Our Panelists Dennis Kennedy (DK), Steve Embry (SE), William...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he is “dubious” of a 2016 law that effectively took away the Drug Enforcement Administration’s most potent weapons against distributors and manufacturers of prescription opioids, and that he would support new legislation to expand the agency’s arsenal, reports the Washington...