A man who recounted his longtime girlfriend’s arrest in a Seattle Times story about ramped-up immigration enforcement in Pacific County last month says Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested him because he appeared in the news story, the Times reports. Baltazar “Rosas” Aburto Gutierrez,...
This past April, we reported on a recent Ninth Circuit ruling which upheld a 2011 Department of Labor (“DOL”) rule that prohibits restaurants from instituting tip-pooling arrangements that include both front-of-house staff that are customarily and regularly tipped (such as waiters, waitresses, bellhops, and service...
The Senate confirmed Kirstjen Nielsen as the secretary of homeland security by a 62 to 37 vote, elevating a top White House aide and former agency official to oversee the department central to President Trump’s plan to crack down on illegal immigration and beef up...
A suicide attack at a concert given by pop star Ariana Grande in Manchester, England, in May might have been foiled had British investigators grasped the importance of “highly relevant” intelligence that reached their desks, says a new government-commissioned report quoted by the Washington Post....
The undocumented immigrant who fatally shot Kate Steinle at a popular San Francisco tourist spot two years ago has been indicted on two federal charges in connection with the controversial case, CNN reports. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, who was acquitted last week of state murder...
In its conference of December 8, 2017, the court will consider petitions involving issues such as whether the death penalty in and of itself violates the Eighth Amendment, in light of contemporary standards of decency; whether a court’s exercise of in rem jurisdiction overcomes the...
Two days after 26 people were massacred in a Texas church, one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history had nearly vanished from the major cable news networks, The Trace reports. The sharp drop-off in the number of mentions of the Sutherland Springs shooting...
Military law enforcement officials failed to submit fingerprint reports to the FBI in one out of four cases over a two-year period in which troops had been convicted of serious crimes, potentially allowing them to purchase weapons illegally, says the Pentagon Inspector General, USA Today...
Today at 11 a.m. (available by live stream), the Heritage Foundation will review yesterday’s oral argument in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Speakers will include one of the oral advocates, Kristen Waggoner, and two authors of amicus briefs in the case, Ilya...
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...