In Tuesday’s Maryland school shooting, the gunfire was over and done with in less than a minute. The shooter, a 17-year-old student, was killed. Authorities said a 16-year-old girl who had some type of relationship with the shooter was critically wounded, and a 14-year-old boy...
The oral argument in Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund was notable for the repeated expression by the justices of frustration at the “gibberish” Congress provided in the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998. I suggested in my post about the argument...
An expert committee organized by the National Academy of Sciences called Wednesday for placing a central federal agency or agencies in control of collecting crime statistics as part of an overhaul of the nation’s crime-data collection system. Such an overhaul, which would fill in gaps on...
Most North Carolina prison inmates are there for the most serious types of felony convictions, such as violent criminals, sex offenders and big-time drug dealers. The correctional officers in charge of watching over those inmates often lack backup; none has panic alarms worn on their...
Nothing that former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor encountered or did justified his decision to kill Justine Ruszczyk Damond last July, according to charges accusing him of murder, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. Noor turned himself in Tuesday. Noor, 32, shot Damond after she...
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government proposed legislation on Tuesday to restore record-keeping requirements for some rifle and shotgun sales in Canada and to expand background checks for all gun owners in the country, the New York Times reports. “Hard evidence shows a gun violence...
Thousands of law firms are still using legacy practice management applications that have been around since the advent of the Etch A Sketch. These are typically Windows programs that require a local server installation. While decades of updates have sharpened their feature-sets and made them...
On a warm early morning in 2007, police officer Mark Dibona was sitting in his cruiser in front of a fire station in Sanford, Florida. Dibona was taking notes in his police logbook when a woman carrying an unconscious infant approached him, frantically asking for help. “My...
The execution of drug smugglers that President Trump advocates as part of his plan to combat the opioid crisis is already legal under a 1994 law passed at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, Politico reports. Federal prosecutors have never used it. The 1994...