Our team of experts at Page Vault hear this question almost daily: “Can social media be used as admissible evidence in a court of law?” Whether you’re a legal professional looking for answers on Facebook posts and comments, Instagram pictures, Twitter tweets or YouTube videos,...
Curtis Dawkins, a Michigan prisoner and publishing sensation, could be forced to repay the costs of his incarceration from the proceeds of his literary work, The Guardian reports. Dawkins is serving a life sentence for a 2004 crime spree on Halloween night that left one...
Louisiana’s parole board on Monday denied freedom to 71-year-old Henry Montgomery, a Baton Rouge man convicted of killing a sheriff’s deputy whose case was central in a U.S. Supreme Court decision that juvenile offenders be given a chance at release, The Advocate reports. A three-member...
The transcript in Currier v. Virginia is available on the Supreme Court’s website; the transcript in City of Hays v. Vogt is also available. The post Argument transcripts appeared first on SCOTUSblog....
New York City narcotics officers, moving in on a seeming crack deal, seized two packets, which turned out to contain little more than a residue of the drug. Two men were arrested, and the charges against one of them was dismissed. What the officers got...
House Republicans will begin hearings next week as the first step in an effort to pass bipartisan bills tackling the opioid crisis, the Wall Street Journal reports. A plan from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which will hold the first hearing Feb. 28, will...
Ohio v. American Express Co., which is set for argument on February 26, may simply reinforce the burden-shifting approach that has been developed and applied in civil antitrust cases, or it could announce a particular new approach defining markets and assessing competitive harm in multi-sided...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a request from gun rights activists to examine California’s 10-day waiting period for firearm sales, prompting Justice Clarence Thomas to say his colleagues are turning the Second Amendment into a “disfavored right,” the Washington Post reports. Thomas was...
The mayor of Dallas urged the National Rifle Association to find another city to host its annual convention, taking a stand against gun violence after last week’s deadly mass shooting in Florida, ABC News reports. Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway said that the NRA...
Until FBI Director Christopher Wray acknowledged that the bureau’s tip-line had failed to act on crucial information about Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz more than a month before last week’s massacre, the call center had been operating in near-anonymity from rural West Virginia, USA Today...