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Do Directors Face Potential Liability for Not Preventing Cyber Attacks?
In the past weeks, we’ve reported that while most companies are properly disclosing their exposure to cybersecurity threats, the increasing occurrence and severity of cyber attacks has the SEC...
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“Snowden on the Run”
The Wall Street Journal on June 24, 2013 released the following: By DEVLIN BARRETT in Washington, D.C., and TE-PING CHEN in Hong Kong “A global cat-and-mouse game involving the admitted leaker of...
View ArticleThree in custody for alleged Colorado drug crime
According to a report, three people were arrested earlier this month after a traffic stop allegedly revealed methamphetamine in their vehicles. Authorities say the people were driving from California...
View ArticleJames Gandolfini Remembered as an Advocate for Wrongfully Convicted Man
Following last weeks' news of the sudden death of Innocence Project Artists' Committee member James Gandolfini, New York exoneree Marty Tankleff recounts their friendship and how the late actor helped...
View ArticleA Shared Commitment to Women’s Equality and Student Safety
This post is courtesy of the Civil Rights Division. “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to...
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Andre Pablo Martinez, Daniel Lombana, and Juan Bazan of Miami-Dade County,...
Andre Pablo Martinez, Daniel Lombana, and Juan Bazan of Miami-Dade County, Florida were arrested Friday for allegedly operating an illegal slaughterhouse, news sources report. Martinez, Lombana, and...
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Admitting Portable Test Results from the Scene of a New York DWI Arrest to...
Not that you'll find many sympathetic ears to listen to this complaint, but if you are accused of or arrested for a New York DWI or DUI crime, things continue to lean in favor of local prosecutors....
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Tyler Magoon and Jake Holmes of Key Largo, Florida Arrested for False...
Tyler Magoon and Jake Holmes of Key Largo, Florida were arrested Thursday after they were accused of following two teenage girls home and scaring them with a mask, news sources report. Magoon, 20, was...
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Natalie Delgado of Pompano Beach, Florida Arrested for Underage DUI
Natalie Delgado of Pompano Beach, Florida was arrested Wednesday after she was accused of drunkenly driving on the wrong side of the road, news sources report. Delgado, 20, was booked into the Broward...
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Supreme Court Holds that Juries Must Decide Facts Which Increase Mandatory...
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision last week in Alleyne v. United States, which ruled that juries must decide any facts which could increase the minimum mandatory sentence for a defendant....
View ArticleWayland & O'Brien on Prejudicial Psychiatric Labels
Kathleen Wayland and Sean O'Brien (Habeas Corpus Resource Center and University of Missouri at Kansas City - School of Law) have posted Deconstructing Prejudicial Psychiatric Labels: A Guidelines-Based...
View ArticleCrash in Kimberly partially blocks the road for 2 hours.
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View Article60 Minutes Features Michael Morton
Sunday night's episode of 60 Minutes featured a segment on the case of Texas exoneree Michael Morton and the role of prosecutorial misconduct in his wrongful conviction. The segment first aired last...
View ArticleBloomberg News: U.S. Surveillance Is Not Aimed at Terrorists
Bloomberg News: U.S. Surveillance Is Not Aimed at Terrorists by Leonid Bershidsky: [...] Read more!
View ArticleNew York City Council Members Call for Forensic Oversight
Forensic Policy Advocate Sarah Chu testifies before New York City Council.At a New York City Council Committee hearing today, council members questioned representatives of the city's Office of the...
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Supreme decision is upheld
The defendant is appealing a judgment made by the Supreme Court in Albany County. The judgment convicted the defendant of murder in the second degree, conspiracy in the second degree, criminal...
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SEC Wins Some, Loses Some in Aggressive Insider Trading Case, SEC Doesn’t...
In a decision rendered from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, Judge Ronald Guzmán granted summary judgment on the SEC’s insider trading claims as...
View ArticleMetzger on Confrontation Control
Pamela Metzger (Tulane University - Law School) has posted Confrontation Control (45 Texas Tech Law Review 83 (2012)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: After Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 42...
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Kane County Fails to Report Thousands of DUI Convictions
According to an official at the Illinois Secretary of State's Office, the Kane County Clerk's Office failed to electronically report approximately 5,600 DUI cases from 2002 to 2008. Former Kane County...
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Nevada Assembly Bill Decriminalizing Marijuana Dies
Nevada Assembly Bill 402, which would have decriminalized possessing, using and cultivating pot under certain established regulations, died in committee. The bill would have established a minimum age...
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