Individuals arrested in Los Angeles, most of them from the city’s poorest neighborhoods, paid nearly $194 million in nonrefundable bail bond deposits and more than $17.5 million in cash between 2012-2016, according to a study of the impact of the money bail system in America’s...
In the past few years, we have seen the advancement of cloud computing to levels we could not have possibly fathomed two decades ago. There are so many benefits to be reaped from its rise, and different industries are rushing to do so. There are numerous...
A few years ago, a significant snowfall left my family without power and with a limited supply of food. My husband was without his diabetes medication for several days. Some people might welcome the serenity of a beautiful blanket of fresh snow, but a caregiver without access...
Commentators (including me) have long speculated about the possible future direction of data breach-related litigation. There have of course been a number of very high profile data breach-related consumer class action suits, but so far relatively few data breach related D&O lawsuits. Of course, more...
The petition of the day is: Stone v. Montana 17-670 Issue: Whether the Fifth Amendment’s protection from double jeopardy attaches when the court accepts a defendant’s guilty plea. The post Petition of the day appeared first on SCOTUSblog....
There are a number of skeptics in the legal world who question the effectiveness of newsletters. Whenever an attorney comes to me and tells me that they’ve sent a newsletter in the past, but found it to be ineffective, I know they did something wrong. Here...
State and local officials in places that recently legalized marijuana are bracing for the arrival of a sector that largely runs on cash. They’re envisioning burglars targeting dispensaries and business owners showing up at tax offices with duffel bags full of money, Stateline reports. The...
By Joseph Jones and Ruth Scoles Mitchell On December 1, 2017, the High Court of England and Wales found the fourth-largest supermarket chain in the UK, Wm Morrisons (“Morrisons”), vicariously liable for a data breach caused by the intentional criminal actions of one of its employees,...
The transcript in Murphy v. Smith is available on the Supreme Court’s website; the transcript in Marinello v. United States is also available. The post Argument transcripts appeared first on SCOTUSblog....
A man who recounted his longtime girlfriend’s arrest in a Seattle Times story about ramped-up immigration enforcement in Pacific County last month says Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested him because he appeared in the news story, the Times reports. Baltazar “Rosas” Aburto Gutierrez,...