John Elwood reviews Tuesday’s relists. True to form for the second conference in January, last week’s 18 new relists yielded 12 new cases and 11 hours of oral argument. (Texas’ two state-on-top appeals concerning its congressional and statehouse voting districts were consolidated.) An already blockbuster term...
Gun deaths in the U.S. have increased 17 percent since the 2008 decision in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there is a right to keep a handgun in the home for self-defense, according to a new analysis by the Violence Policy Center (VPC)...
California this month became the first state to eliminate court costs, fees and fines for young offenders, Stateline reports. Court officials and legislators wary of forfeiting a key source of revenue have raised roadblocks in states and localities that have tried to do the same....
The implications of a data breach can impact a company or law firm for years as I discussed in Part I. Consumer trust and firm reputation are at stake, not to mention potential consumer class action suits and business partner litigation, 20 years of monitoring...
Yesterday, the Jamaican police reportedly seized a pound of cocaine and arrested a man at the cruise port in Falmouth, Jamaica, according to the Jamaican Observer newspaper. The Observer reported that around 4:30 on Monday, January 15, 2018, "security checks were being conducted on passengers...
When Kristina Davis walked into her daughter’s parent-teacher conference high on heroin, it was a moment of truth. She knew things had to change. The 31-year-old had tried to get sober before, but nothing stuck. So on Wednesday, she tried something new. Sleepy-eyed but hopeful, Davis arrived...
For many families, a loved one’s cancer becomes more real when physical symptoms appear. Patients may lose their appetites and rarely feel hungry. Others struggle with oral lesions that make eating painful and undesirable. Collectively, these eating problems lead to weight loss. It is essential for patients and...
New economic research ties Medicaid expansion to lower crime rates and billions of dollars in “crime reduction benefits,” adding to the small body of empirical evidence on the effect of health care on criminal behavior. Using state- and county-level data from FBI Uniform Crime Reports between...
January is “Human Trafficking Awareness” month, but for many Americans the term is likely to call to mind Hollywood scenarios, with Albanian Mafiosos kidnapping fresh-faced college students, vile foreign millionaires in the shadows bidding on scantily clad girls quaking on auction blocks, while a hero...
The Trump administration conceded that its terrorism report issued Tuesday aimed at bolstering its push for stricter limits on legal immigration to the U.S. is incomplete and needs more details to paint the full picture of the threats posed by foreign-born terrorists, USA Today reports....