Convicted domestic abusers in New York —even those found guilty of misdemeanor offenses–will be barred from owning all types of firearms under new legislation signed Tuesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Although the legislation had already become law several weeks earlier with the passage of the state’s...
The lack of balance in the legal academy is a serious problem, and is getting worse....
The petition of the day is: Johnson v. United States 17-1349 Issue: Whether the Fourth Amendment forbids a pretextual seizure of a motorist based solely on probable cause to suspect a civil parking infraction. The post Petition of the day appeared first on SCOTUSblog....
Maurice Pesso Greg Steinberg As I have frequently noted on this blog (for example, here), problems involving relatedness between claims present recurring coverage issues under D&O insurance policies. In the following guest post, Maurice Pesso and Greg M. Steinberg of the White and Williams LLP law firm...
An Atlanta jury’s decision to acquit attorney Claud “Tex” McIver of malice murder but convict him of felony murder has put Atlanta’s criminal defense bar on edge, reports Law.com.On Facebook and Twitter and in television appearances, criminal defense lawyers, civil litigators and former prosecutors decried...
Several years ago, the Supreme Court heard the case of Alonzo Jay King Jr. Arrested in an assault in Maryland, he ended up being charged and convicted in an unsolved rape case after a sample of his DNA returned a match in a statewide database....
Baltimore is poised to pay $9 million to a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 20 years in prison before DNA evidence cleared his name a decade ago, the Baltimore Sun reports. The amount would be the largest settlement from the city...
Speaking publicly for the first time, the jurors who convicted Bill Cosby said they were not swayed by celebrity, race, or the #MeToo movement in finding the comedy icon guilty of sexual assault charges, reports Philly.com. In a statement issued on behalf of all the...
U.S. border inspectors allowed some Central American asylum-seekers to enter the country for processing in California, ending a brief impasse over lack of space. But the migrants who crossed Mexico in a caravan may face a long legal path, the Associated Press reports. Caravan organizers...
Thomas Homan, the Trump administration’s top immigration enforcement official, plans to step down from his job, less than six months after Trump nominated him to be director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Washington Post reports. Homan was named ICE’s acting director soon after...