By Josefa Velasquez | October 2, 2017
A pilot program for centralized off-hours arraignments is scheduled to begin this month in four upstate New York counties, Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks announced Monday.
By Karen Sloan | October 2, 2017
Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky appears to have averted yet another free speech controversy on the Bay Area campus by inviting retired Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz to speak this month.
By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
C.A. 4th; D071752 The Fourth Appellate District granted a petition for writ of mandate. The court held that the federal Constitution’s full faith…
By R. Robin McDonald | September 29, 2017
In tandem with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Georgetown Law School lecture chastising the nation's college campuses for inhibiting free speech, the U.S. Justice Department waded this week into a First Amendment lawsuit against a metro Atlanta community college. o behalf of a Christian evangelical student.
By Michael Booth | September 29, 2017
As New Jersey's new bail system continues to get a shakeout, a state appeals court ruled Friday that a defendant's pregnancy cannot be the overriding factor in deciding whether to release her pending trial.
By Ed Silverstein | September 29, 2017
The European Commission recently released guidelines for online platforms aimed to prevent, detect and remove content that incites hatred, violence and terrorism online.
By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
The district court erred in granting plaintiff's motion for summary judgment in her §1983 action where the record failed to demonstrate that state actors were responsible for her dismissal from a nursing program jointly operated by a private hospital and a public university. The court reversed and remanded for the entry of judgment for defendants.
By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
Trial court properly denied appellant's assertion that 'Birchfield v. North Dakota', 136, S.CT. 2160, made Pennsylvania's implied consent law unconstitutional and a violation of the Fourth Amendment because that case applied to a criminal penalty, not a civil one, and the implied consent law did not impose an unconstitutional condition on driving privileges. Affirmed.
By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
Court granted pipeline company's motions for summary judgment and preliminary injunction in action for the taking of property for the construction of an interstate natural gas pipeline because FERC had issued a certificate of public convenience, landowners' due process challenges were attacks on the FERC order disguised as constitutional claims, the court lacked jurisdiction to address a challenge to the FERC order, the filing of a request for a rehearing did not operate as a stay of a certificate order, due process did not require an in-person evidentiary hearing, and the FERC order was not a "conditional order" because the NGA did not contain a requirement that the holder of a FERC certificate satisfy all conditions of the certificate prior to the exercise of eminent domain. Motions granted.
By R. Robin McDonald | September 29, 2017
A federal judge in Atlanta has refused to dismiss a lawsuit by a Roswell police officer fired for flying a Confederate flag in her front yard…
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