Much of the business world has long since given up on the idea of fax machines. Those old, clunky, and noisy things that transmit images of documents oh-so-slowly. But can we, as attorneys, really give up this technological relic in the name of efficiency? The Traditional...
Rare bipartisan consensus around legislation to improve the national background check system for gun purchases is in jeopardy after House Republicans linked the measure to a bill allowing gun owners to carry concealed weapons across state lines, the Washington Post reports. The House is expected...
An Oklahoma City police officer “crossed the line” when he shot an unarmed suicidal man last month, says Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater, The Oklahoman reports. Sgt. Keith Patrick Sweeney, 32, is charged with second-degree murder. Prosecutors allege the shooting was unreasonable and unjustified....
Aristotle writes that while “property should be in some way communal, in general it should be private.” His argument for private property is the obvious one, he provides an incentives-based/social optima argument, that private property leads “to greater care being given [to the property], as each...
Medical and law enforcement experts gathered before the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) on Thursday to testify on the nation’s growing fentanyl epidemic, in what was the third hearing on synthetic drugs held by the Commission this year. Over the course of the morning, a group...
Editor’s note: This is the last post in a series (I and II) by Theodore Dalrymple on Zimbabwe and the fall of Robert Mugabe. It was a humbling experience to read what Pierre Ryckmans, later to be famous as the sinologist Simon Leys, wrote when he...
Philadelphia will pay $250,000 to two people who claimed that police officers violated their First Amendment rights by blocking them from taking photos of police activity, Philly.com reports. The settlements ended years of legal wrangling over civil suits by activist Amanda Geraci and former Temple...
Some Mayer Brown LLP colleagues of mine — Michael Scodro, Geoffrey Pipoly, Linda Shi and Christopher Ferro — and I have filed a cert. petition in Recycle for Change v. City of Oakland. I thought some of our readers would find it interesting. Many cities throughout...
When Leandra English, former chief of staff to the former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, asked a federal judge to block President Trump’s appointment of Mick Mulvaney to replace her departing boss Richard Cordray, and to install her as the CFPB’s rightful leader,...
Two months after a shooter in Las Vegas killed 58 people and injured hundreds more, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has just started reviewing whether it has the authority to ban bump stocks, used by the shooter to make his guns behave...