It’s the first opinion day of June in this very busy term. The court has 29 argued cases to finish, many of which are in the blockbuster category. Both the bar section and the public gallery are full. As it turns out, some general-public seats are...
The Atlanta Police Department has mostly recovered from a March ransomware attack that crippled computer systems across the city, but the outage compromised years of dashcam videos, Chief Erika Shields told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News. Shields said her department has not...
A Miami-Dade County jury returned a verdict against Royal Caribbean Cruises of more than $20,000,000 on behalf of an officer who was injured on the Voyager of the Seas during an accident in 2008. Royal Caribbean officer Lisa Spearman was seriously and permanently injured when a...
We answer many pressing questions in this week’s episode: Is the curtilage legally a part of someone’s home? Is it better to be right or to have fun? As a clerk, how badly do you have to mess up to get dunked on in a judicial opinion? What’s the...
Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz may become a decisive voice in the partisan controversies over the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state, and its subsequent probe of the Trump campaign and Russia, the...
The justices handed the federal government a partial victory today in Azar v. Garza, in which it had asked them to nullify a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that cleared the way for a pregnant teenager to...
A Florida judge has denied a request from a former police officer who fatally shot a driver to have criminal charges against him thrown out under the state’s Stand Your Ground law, calling his testimony “unreliable and not credible,” reports the New York Times. Officer...
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation recently went into effect. This regulation addresses the protection, consent and notification of visitors whose personal data are collected by websites. Because we receive traffic from the EU, this regulation applies to us. This post provides an overview...
The legal battle over a New York City police officer’s disciplinary records after the chokehold death of Eric Garner in 2014 cast a little-known law into the spotlight. The city’s explanation that it could not disclose the disciplinary history of officer Daniel Pantaleo because the...
Things are getting virtual these days. From remote work teams to crowdsourced marketing tasks, companies have been able to shift a large amount of their workload to decentralized locations. For companies handling large amounts of confidential or third party information, managing this data is no exception...