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With separate process, ICE arrests generate more scrutiny
Photograph by John Moore / Getty as reported by The New Yorker, 11/8/17. It’s increasingly likely that the U.S. Supreme Court will end up reviewing the procedures used by Immigration and Customs...
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Image of Congressman Ted Lieu as reported in City Watch LA Congressman Ted Lieu offers perspective on the Mueller investigation and multiple scandals that seem to engulf this current presidency in this...
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Many Catholic leaders object to revised sex-abuse statute of limitations laws
Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Photo credit: Mark Mulville as reported in The Buffalo News on 3/20/18. A push in some jurisdictions for a longer statute of limitations for child sex abuse cases has raised...
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Suit spurs $6.4 million ‘revenge porn’ judgment
Elisa D’Amico, a lawyer with the Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project, as reported in the New York Times, 4/11/18. Photo credit: Jake Naughton for The New York Times. In a relatively new area of law, a...
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If Supreme Court upholds President Trump’s travel ban, will it rein in...
Photo Credit: Evan Vucci / Associated Press as reported in Los Angeles Times, 4/25/18 A travel ban that limits immigration may secure a key legal victory at the U.S. Supreme Court, based on comments...
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New protocol dismisses civil rights cases before Education Department
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Photo Credit: Wikipedia Under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, hundreds of civil rights complaints before her department are being dismissed, based on a new protocol...
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EPA set to overturn Obama-era vehicle efficiency rules, California sues
Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Photo Credit: Wikipedia According to the Washington Post, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt will revisit Obama-era vehicle efficiency...
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Courts Monitor publisher Sara Corcoran tells the tale of legal enigma in her...
Debating the “nature of existence” is more the stuff of college dorms (and at least one recent documentary) than state appeals courts, so the legal team for a Texas journalist seeking to open a...
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California city uses GoFundMe.com for legal costs
The Go Fund Me page for the City of Los Alamitos legal defense. Help with paying a dog’s veterinary bills. Funds to stage a benefit for a peanut vendor. Aid to a family recovering from a house fire....
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Gynecological mesh is making legal headlines
Photo from CBS 60 Minutes story, 5/13/18. A strip of plastic called gynecological mesh is making legal headlines. According to CBS’ 60 Minutes, “The manufacturers and several medical societies say the...
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Internet freedom in peril from new anti-sex trafficking law
Photo credit: Vox online article, April 18, 2018, Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images A new law that combats sex trafficking could indanger Internet freedom, according to the online news...
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Sara Corcoran interviews Alan Lowenthal, United States Congressman for...
Courts Monitor publisher Sara Corcoran with Alan Lowenthal, United States Congressman for California’s 47thDistrict. Just published is Courts Monitor publisher Sara Corcoran’s interview with Alan...
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Bolivian ex-heads of state convicted in U.S. civil trial
Photo Credit: AP Photo / Dado Galdieri as reported by The Nation 4/27/18. An April 3 guilty verdict in a civil trial in Florida marked something unique in case law: “The case marks the first time that...
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Fusion GPS faces RICO lawsuit from human rights activist
Photo from the Human Rights Foundation as reported in The Daily Caller on 5/22/18 A self-described whistleblower is using a racketeering law, usually affiliated with prosecution of the Mafia, to sue...
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ACLU alleges abuse of children by Customs and Border Protection
Immigrant children who crossed the border suffered abuse and neglect from federal officials, according to a report released May 23 by the ACLU’s Border Litigation Project in partnership with the...
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Judge seeks funding information in opioid-manufacturer lawsuits
Photo Credit: By richiec from Chicago, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.A U.S. District judge wants information about the funders behind hundreds of lawsuits against manufacturers and...
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Iconic S.C. Judge, Odd Dateline Mark Milestone In Talc Cancer Litigation
Photo Credit: Tim Dominick | The State, as reported by The State, 12/5/15. by Sara Corcoran, Courts Monitor Publisher “So far, the story of the talc litigation has mostly been about two things—the...
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Judge: Florida’s ban on smokable medical marijuana is unconstitutional
Photo credit: Orlando Weekly, 5/2/18 A state-imposed ban on smokable medical marijuana is unconstitutional, a Florida judge has ruled. Leon County circuit court Judge Karen Gievers on June 5 upheld her...
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Alameda County court provides links — with redactions — to settlements
Justice Marsha Slough, Associate Justice of the California Fourth District Court of Appeal, led the workgroup tasked with amending the rules of court to clarify that any settlement agreements involving...
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Tar Heel State on Point to Tackle Asbestos Fraud
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis is among several senators pushing reform with the PROTECT Asbestos Victims Act. Photo credit: Wikipedia. by Sara Corcoran, Courts Monitor Publisher North Carolina, long famous for...
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