We recently blogged about the possibility of courts limiting serial litigants’ standing under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) based on them not falling within the statute’s “zone of interest” and, thus, not having standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution. Nate Silver’s job...
The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on 19 Russians for alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. election, including 13 indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller, the Associated Press reports. The penalties include the first use of new powers that Congress passed last year to punish...
Ninety percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. More than 15.2 million text messages were sent every minute. Snapchat users posts close to 530,000 photos in that same minute. For lawyers, being able to find...
As Milwaukee homicides spiked in 2015, the director of the city’s Homicide Review Commission was removed from her office at police headquarters, ending a collaboration that had been the commission’s hallmark since its formation in 2005. For more than 10 years, police, prosecutors, judges and...
Oklahoma intends to use nitrogen gas to execute condemned inmates and could become the first state in the nation to do so, reports the Tulsa World. Officials on Wednesday announced plans to use inert gas inhalation after three years without an Oklahoma execution because of...
As he prepares to move on after eight years heading one of the nation’s largest police agencies, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck sits down with TCR’s West Coast bureau Chief Joe Domanick for a candid conversation about the challenges of being a big-city reform...
Ever since the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 and the resulting Black Lives Matter movement, police around the nation have found themselves consistently under fire for reasons ranging from alleged racism to unjustified use of force. Are the critics making...
Every year, the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center (LTRC) publishes TECHREPORT—a collection of easy-to-read breakouts of the annual ABA Legal Technology Survey Report, one of the leading surveys on how attorneys use technology. Practitioners, firms, and legal tech companies alike can use TECHREPORT to get...
Despite state public access laws, Colorado law enforcement agencies routinely refuse to release internal files related to police misconduct, according to a new report. Independent researchers Bridget DuPey, Margaret B. Kwoka and Christopher McMichael from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law tried to collect...
Forget the idea of raising the age limit for buying an assault weapon to 21. Not even the momentum from Wednesday’s school walkouts demonstrations that drew an estimated 1 million students, or an emotional congressional hearing on gun safety, were enough to ensure enough congressional...