The FTC is no stranger to cracking down on businesses offering so-called “free” products, only to charge the consumer for them later on. It wasn’t long ago that we wrote about that exact issue. But a recent FTC complaint shows that the FTC is not...
A Cook County special grand jury has been disbanded without charging any additional Chicago police officers, including department supervisors, for their handling of Laquan McDonald’s controversial fatal shooting by an officer, says the Chicago Tribune. At a hearing Tuesday, special prosecutor Patricia Brown Holmes said...
Connecticut Supreme Court justices spent more than 90 minutes Tuesday peppering attorneys for Remington and victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre with questions about the merits of a lawsuit filed by the families seeking to hold the gun manufacturer liable for Adam Lanza’s...
Did the Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Montgomery v. Louisiana implicitly hold that some prisoners have a constitutional right to post-conviction habeas review? In a recent article in the Virginia Law Review, Professor Carlos Vázquez and Professor Stephen Vladeck argue that this “seemingly innocuous” decision...
Most police departments across the United States have taken few new steps to ensure the footage they collect from body cameras will further transparency and accountability, according to a study released Tuesday by civil rights groups. Government Technology says the Leadership Conference on Civil and...
As the 2017 holiday season nears, consumers are getting ready to open their wallets and retailers are hoping their promotions will attract those consumers. Generation Z (“Gen Z”), which includes young people born in the mid-1990s to mid-2000s, is an important but often forgotten portion...