A sweeping gun trace report in Chicago showed nearly one quarter of guns recovered at crime scenes over a four-year period came from just 10 area businesses, the Chicago Tribune reports. Suburban Sporting Goods made a startling leap into the top 10 list, said the...
Two weeks ago, Justice Elena Kagan called Justice Thurgood Marshall “the greatest lawyer of the 20th century.” Here’s another one for the folks at Guinness: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the “most important woman lawyer in the history of the republic,” doing for women’s rights what...
Declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency, President Trump said: “Nobody has seen anything like what’s going on now.” He was both right and wrong, the Associated Press reports. This is the most widespread and deadly drug crisis in the nation’s history, but...
This morning the Supreme Court issued orders from its conference last Friday, but the justices did not add any new cases to their merits docket for the term. The justices declined to take up the property-rights question presented by a California case, 616 Croft Avenue v....
An average of nearly 500 calls a day rang into Cincinnati’s Center for Addiction Treatment (CAT) in September. The website caught 1,100 visits a day. The problem is that immediate treatment is hard to get, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. “We are not close to treatment-on-demand...
Recently, Justice Gorsuch has continued his attack on Chevron deference by writing a statement accompanying the denial of certiorari, joined by Roberts and Alito, that raised serious questions about the decisions of some lower courts to extend Chevron deference to contracts entered into with administrative...
Vermont has a relatively new addiction treatment program, which is unique in its comprehensiveness, reports Vox. The is to focus on the science and research, with a desire to get even patients who can prove to be very difficult in treatment to save their lives....
Here’s a question to our readers who are reporters or editors. Let’s say that someone e-mails you with something like the following message: I was convicted [X] years ago of a crime [e.g., theft, DUI, or even teacher-student sex with a 17-year-old student]. I have served...
How can the research on gang-leaving improve gang intervention and help practitioners? With over 30,000 gangs in the U.S. and over 800,000 members, gangs represent a serious concern for schools, families, cities, and the nation. Gang membership clearly enhances criminal involvement, increasing both the frequency and...
I wanted to add my voice to that of my colleague, John McGinnis, who has posted on Law and Liberty about legal education, and, in particular, the one-size-fits-all approach to training lawyers on the part of the Association of American Law Schools. As John noted: Lawyers...