By Katheryn Tucker | January 11, 2018
The underground commercial sex economy has surpassed the illegal gun trade as the second largest black market in the country, second only to drugs.
By R. Robin McDonald | January 11, 2018
U.S. District Senior Judge Charles Pannell Jr. said the 2014 warrantless, no-knock raid of a venue that Fulton County Deputy Devon Brown had rented in a south Atlanta strip mall for meetings of his motorcycle club “was unlawful from the start.” The judge also sanctioned the city and said Brown could seek punitive damages.
By Kristie Rearick | January 11, 2018
In 2013, plaintiff Justina Bogaski began working as a laborer for the North Park facility of Allegheny County's Public Works Department, in Pittsburgh.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Stephen A. Miller and Leigh Ann Benson | January 11, 2018
The Supreme Court has again been asked to resolve a closely watched dispute involving discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The court heard oral argument in December in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which, unlike prior challenges in this area, involves the First Amendment.
By Mike Scarcella | January 11, 2018
Marcia Coyle, chief Washington correspondent at The National Law Journal, appears on PBS NewsHour to review the U.S. Supreme Court's arguments over the merits of Ohio's process to purge state voter rolls.
By Cogan Schneier | January 10, 2018
Senators repeatedly asked U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt about his decisions tossing several sexual harassment cases.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Sid Steinberg | January 10, 2018
“He said, she said” is one of the clearest paths to trial for a plaintiff claiming workplace harassment or discrimination. This is particularly so when the statements in question are explosive. A clear example of this conundrum for employers was addressed in the recent decision of El v. Advance Stores, No. 17-2345, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 211887 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 27, 2017).
By Ross Todd | January 10, 2018
U.S. District Judge William Alsup found the decision to roll back the Obama-era program was based on a faulty conclusion that the prior administration exceeded its statutory and constitutional authority.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. Dannunzio | January 9, 2018
A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed by a woman who broke her wrist during a car accident and was later arrested can sue the city for the permanent disfigurement of her wrist due to an alleged lack of appropriate medical care.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Norman Siegel | January 9, 2018
Following Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2017 approximately 30 major federal lawsuits were filed against the president and his administration. These lawsuits have produced approximately 38 major court decisions and the administration has prevailed in only one.
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