Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse – “Prosecutions for domestic terrorism outnumber those for acts of international terrorism by 2-to-1. The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during the first ten months of FY 2019 the government reported 204 terrorism-related prosecutions had been filed. Of these 71 or one in three were for acts… Continue Reading
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Republican senators just sent the US Supreme Court a strange letter
Quartz: “US senators are weighing in on a gun-rights case under review in the Supreme Court. Democrats filed an amicus brief that caused an uproar earlier this month and Republicans responded in a letter to the court this week. The missive, sent by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, reminds the justices that the judiciary is… Continue Reading
Quickly and easily search case citations using your camera
Your Legal Helper powered by Google Scholar – Why Opinion Minion: Speed – In a time-pressed court room, you don’t have time to go to the internet and type in a case citation. Opinion Minion takes you right to the case you need! Text-Recognition – Opinion Minion utilizes text-recognition software and a custom algorithm to… Continue Reading
Research Guides In Focus – How to Find Free Case Law Online
In Custodia Legis – The following is a guest post by Anna Price, a legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress. We are back again to focus on the Law Library’s Research Guides. This time we are discussing another popular guide, How to Find Free Case Law Online. Until a few years ago,… Continue Reading
New laws give victims more time to report rape or sexual assault – even Jeffrey Epstein’s
Via LLRX – New laws give victims more time to report rape or sexual assault – even Jeffrey Epstein’s – Jane E. Palmer is a scholar of gender-based violence currently studying the legal needs of survivors of sexual assault. In this article Palmer examines why someone might wait decades to report a sexual assault, why… Continue Reading
New laws give victims more time to report rape or sexual assault – even Jeffrey Epstein’s
Via LLRX– New laws give victims more time to report rape or sexual assault – even Jeffrey Epstein’s – Jane E. Palmer is a scholar of gender-based violence currently studying the legal needs of survivors of sexual assault. In this article Palmer examines why someone might wait decades to report a sexual assault, why sexual offenders… Continue Reading
Capital One hacker took data from more than 30 companies, new court docs reveal
ZDNet: “Paige A. Thompson, the hacker accused of breaching US bank Capital One, is also believed to have stolen data from more than 30 other companies, US prosecutors said in new court documents filed today and obtained by ZDNet. “The government’s investigation over the last two weeks has revealed that Thompson’s theft of Capital One’s… Continue Reading
Few Federal Hate Crime Referrals Result in Prosecution
“The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (18 USC 249) was passed by Congress in 2009. Despite around 50 criminal referrals each year to federal prosecutors for these hate crimes, few have resulted in actual charges filed in federal court. During the Trump Administration, the number of federal prosecutions under this… Continue Reading
How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment
Polico Magazine – Michael Waldman is president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. He is the author of The Second Amendment: A Biography. -“A fraud on the American public.” That’s how former Chief Justice Warren Burger described the idea that the Second Amendment gives an unfettered individual right to a… Continue Reading
Originalism and Stare Decisis in the Lower Courts
Blackman, Josh, Originalism and Stare Decisis in the Lower Courts (July 22, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3424348 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3424348 “The tension between originalism and stare decisis is well known. Many of the Supreme Court’s most significant constitutional decisions are completely unmoored from the original public understanding of the Constitution. A Supreme Court Justice may recognize… Continue Reading
California privacy act interpretation could make common newsgathering practice unlawful
Reporters Committee for Freedom of Information – ” The California court of appeal is considering an expansive interpretation of state privacy law — in a pending lawsuit pending involving Yelp — that would make it unlawful to take notes during telephone conversations. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a coalition of 17… Continue Reading
Federal Preemption: A Legal Primer
EveryCRSReport.com: Federal Preemption: A Legal Primer July 23, 2019 R45825 – “The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause provides that federal law is “the supreme Law of the Land” notwithstanding any state law to the contrary. This language is the foundation for the doctrine of federal preemption, according to which federal law supersedes conflicting state laws. The Supreme Court… Continue Reading
