Calls to the National Domestic Violence Hotline involving firearms were up more than 75 percent last year, reports USA Today. The surge, after a year that had a 50 percent increase in gun-related domestic violence reports, is attributed to increased publicity about mass shootings. Nearly...
Do you know specifically what you want to get out of your firm? How much money you want to take home, how many hours you want to work (including vacations), the kind of work you want to be doing, and the impact (if any) that...
They are the “good guys with guns” the National Rifle Association says are needed to protect students from shooters: a school police officer, a teacher who moonlights in law enforcement, a veteran sheriff. But in a span of 48 hours in March, the three were responsible...
The Drug Enforcement Administration has suspended opioid sales by a wholesale distributor, accusing a Louisiana company of failing to report unusually large shipments of narcotics to independent drugstores “with questionable need for the drugs,” the Washington Post reports. It was the first time the agency...
By Katie Bies The Virginia Supreme Court held that license plate images taken by law enforcement agencies constitute “personal information,” reviving a challenge to the police storage of license plate data. Automatic license plate readers (“ALPRs”) are used by police departments across the country to take thousands...
This week, we come to you from Bank of America’s Legal Round Table conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. After sitting on a panel, we recruited two guest hosts for this episode: Roman Martinez of Latham & Watkins, and Willy Jay of Goodwin Procter. The Supreme Court...
Urged by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to punish offenders as harshly and as quickly as possible, federal prosecutors have increasingly pursued low-level gun possession cases, the New York Times reports. Is Sessions making the nation safer from violent crime or devoting resources to prosecutions that...
They are the “good guys with guns” the National Rifle Association says are needed to protect students from shooters: a school police officer, a teacher who moonlights in law enforcement, a veteran sheriff. In a span of 48 hours in March, the three were responsible...
The democratic hero: modest but dogged General Grant, with his homespun manners, who seemed just another face in the crowd....
In the 1980s, Congress countered the widespread use of crack cocaine with tougher sentencing guidelines. Three decades later, the emphasis on opioid abuse is on funding research into a public-health crisis and enabling states to deal with its consequences. Lawmakers haven’t reached a consensus on...