The number of U.S. deaths at work from drug and alcohol overdoses jumped more than 30 percent last year, showing that the nation’s struggle with a deadly opioid epidemic is migrating to the workplace, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ National...
Globalization and its impact on America divides the political right. What do I mean by globalization? One definition might be to identify it with decreasing costs to capital and labor mobility. Mobility across, but also within, national borders. A related definition, but one with a...
Citing two years of surging violence in Charlotte, Attorney General Jeff Sessions came to North Carolina’s largest city to announce a new partnership between federal, state and local law enforcement groups to better coordinate crime-fighting efforts, the Charlotte Observer reports. Sessions said the new violent...
Can we instill classical liberal principles in administrative law?...
Since 2012, lawyers and technologists have written much about the duty of technology competence. However, the promulgation and nationwide adoption of revised Model Rule 1.1 was not the end goal—the purpose was to encourage lawyers to actually become technologically competent. To date, authors have focused...
As the criminal justice system comes to rely increasingly on computer analytics, so-called “big data” that captures and collates enormous amounts of information are being used in many cities to identify potential lawbreakers. But this form of predictive policing has also been criticized for its...
Briefly: At Balkinization, Marty Lederman explains why, in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, in which the court will decide whether the First Amendment bars Colorado from requiring a baker to create a cake for a same-sex wedding, “the ‘religious hostility’ theory of the case...
The overall crime rate in 28 of the 30 largest U.S. cities fell about 2.7 percent this year, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University estimated on Wednesday. The center said violent crime also dropped, but only by 1.1 percent. Assuming that the trend...
The petition of the day is: Quarles v. United States 17-778 Disclosure: Vinson & Elkins LLP, whose attorneys contribute to this blog in various capacities, is among the counsel to the petitioner in this case. Issue: Whether Taylor v. United States’ definition of generic burglary requires proof that intent...
Multiple news sources are reporting that at least twelve people died when a bus carrying twenty-seven cruise passengers on an excursion to Mayan ruins in eastern Mexico flipped over on a highway earlier today. Additional cruise passengers were also injured in the accident. The excursion...